Sheilah belle sings little town

With my Birthday fast approaching, my hubby took me to the cinema to see the new live action Beauty and the Beast film as an early present. I loved the film and have been singing the songs ever since, so I created this page.

To represent the song lyrics and story, I stamped a Script stamp by Kaisercraft over the page using Rich Cocoa Memento Ink fading the image as it reached the bottom left hand corner by using secondary stamping. I then covered the whole page with a thin layer of white gesso to push the stamped image into the background. Choosing colours to depict the constant snowfall and candle glow from the castle scenes in the film, I diluted ink from a grey Faber-Castell Big Brush marker by scribbling it onto an acrylic block and spritzing it with water, I then pressed and dragged the block horizontally across the page. I repeated the same technique using Paris Dusk and Pottery Clay Memento Inks. Next I stencilled more diluted Pottery Clay ink with a blending tool using a Swoosh mask by Creative Expressions. I stamped tree branches and cogs on the top of the page using Docraft clear stamp sets and the Rich Cocoa ink, these link to the castle grounds and also to Cogsworth who is one of the enchanted characters. The cutlery, chains and other images are paper cut from a Vintage Classic Design Pad by The Works and I stuck them to the page using Liquitex Matte Gel Medium. I added some sparkly swirls, dots and flowers using gold Glitterations outline stickers. Using the same stickers, I outlined a picture which I cut from the Cinema booklet and my cinema ticket which I coloured using Spectrum Aqua markers and stuck them to the page using a UHU Stic.  To finish I fussy cut a rose that I had stamped on some of the same Vintage paper using Burgundy and Moss Spectrum Aqua markers and coloured the image further by pulling some of the colour from the stamp outline using a wet paintbrush. All of these elements remind me of the cutler

Notre Dame Catholic HS in Easton presented Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” as its annual musical for three showings this past weekend.

Based on the 1756 French fairytale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and famously adapted into a Disney animated feature in 1991, it’s a tale about respect.

There is a prince who is cast with a spell after disregarding a woman who comes to his door for help, and is subsequently turned into a Beast, and the castle servants are turned into ordinary household objects. In order to break the spell, the prince must prove he can love and is worthy to be loved in return. They live with this spell for 10 years and the Beast lives a desolate existence, angry and despondent.

He is able to fulfill the expectation when Belle comes to the castle to save her imprisoned father and reluctantly becomes a resident of the castle, never being allowed to leave. They come to an understanding after much strife and eventually, just in time, the spell is broken as each was able to declare their love separately.

In the castle library, Belle (Sheila Miller) reads a story to the Beast (Nathaniel Urquiza) after learning he is illiterate. She is fascinated by books and is often ridiculed by the people in her small village for loving to read.

Maurice (Dylan Stroppa) explains his invention, an automatic wood chopper, to his daughter Belle (Sheila Miller.) He hopes to win the competition to create a better life for them.

Inventor Maurice (Dylan Stroppa) got lost on the way to the fair and found refuge in a castle. Here, the servants, Cogsworth (David Stangl), Lumière (Keiran Lencheski) and Feather Duster Barnabé (Keegan Ramsay) nervously make their new visitor comfortable while knowing the Beast would be angry about an uninvited guest.

Press photos by Lori Patrick Blustery Gaston (Josh Hoffert) tells pal Lefou (Daniel Carroll) and the local villagers his scheme to win Belle's heart at any cost.

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1991 song by Paige O'Hara and Richard White

"Belle" is a song written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for Disney's animated film Beauty and the Beast (1991). Recorded by American actors Paige O'Hara and Richard White, "Belle" is a mid-tempo classical music-inspired song that borrows elements from Broadway and musical theatre. It was the first song Ashman and Menken wrote for Beauty and the Beast, which they feared Disney would reject due to its length and complexity, but the film's producers ultimately liked the song.

The film's first song and opening number, "Belle" appears during Beauty and the Beast as a bustling operetta-style musical number that introduces audiences to the film's heroine, Belle (O'Hara), and her arrogant suitor, Gaston (White). In addition to describing Belle's goals and aspirations, the song uses lyrics interspersed with spoken dialogue to reveal how the townsfolk feel about her and Gaston, positioning the former as an outcast due to her beauty and love of reading, and the latter as a hero despite his arrogance. Belle reprises the song later in the film after rejecting a marriage proposal from Gaston, declaring her deep longing for adventure.

"Belle" has received widespread acclaim from film and music critics, who praised its effectiveness as an opening number and likened it to songs from the musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965). "Belle" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 64th Academy Awards in 1992, but lost to the film's title song. "Belle" was similarly featured in the stage adaptation of the film, originally performed by actress Susan Egan on Broadway. Actors Emma Watson and Luke Evans performed the song in the 2017 live-action remake of the film.

Background and writing

In an effort to replicate the unprecedented success of The Little Mermaid (1989),Disney decided to adapt the fairy tale "Beauty a