Byline: MICHAEL KUCHWARA Associated Press
NEW YORK What hath Mickey wrought on Broadway? An overstuffed mouse, I'm afraid.
``Beauty and the Beast,'' the fabled Walt Disney animated film, has made a disappointing transition to the stage.
Punctuated by a series of spectacular special effects that make ``Cats,'' ``Les Miserables,'' ``The Phantom of the Opera'' and ``Miss Saigon'' look like chamber musicals, the show that opened Monday at the Palace Theater is still a cartoon.
A lavish cartoon, but a cartoon nonetheless, that now seems musically undernourished, only fitfully entertaining and, most damaging of all, emotionally barren.
As a theater musical, ``Beauty and the Beast'' leaves nothing to the imagination. What you see is what you get: a big bazooka of a show. At a cost of reportedly $12 …
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