Puppetworks "Beauty and the Beast"

PUPPETWORKS is pleased to announce the Spring presentation in its Jersey City Theatre: Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve’s 1740 French Fantasy “Beauty & the Beast,” told with Marionettes.

Adapted by Nicolas Coppola, PUPPETWORKS’ Artistic Director, “Beauty & the Beast” features a cast of hand-carved, wooden marionettes in costumes and settings typical of 15th-Century French design. The production features a “live” actor as the Beast, and includes special effects such as animated vines that capture the Prince in the Enchanted Wood during a spectacular thunderstorm, and the miraculous transformation of the Beast back to the Prince. The play is accompanied by music from French composer Jules Massenet.