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re: Gaston,Beauty and...
Last Edit: Chromolume 05:47 pm EDT 07/06/17
Posted by: Chromolume 05:46 pm EDT 07/06/17
In reply to: Gaston,Beauty and... - bearcat 04:21 pm EDT 07/06/17

IMO - Gaston is no bully, just a buffoon - pretty comical in his puffed-up brainless vanity. Disney's version of Carl-Magnus, lol. Not a character that warrants booing. Even as things get darker in Act II, I don't see him as such a threatening character. Only perhaps in the fight with the Beast.

I know that Ismay got booed in the original production of Titanic - that makes more sense to me - if indeed booing a character is really something necessary at all, lol.
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re: Gaston,Beauty and...
Posted by: JohnPopa 03:24 pm EDT 07/07/17
In reply to: re: Gaston,Beauty and... - Chromolume 05:46 pm EDT 07/06/17

David Garrison seemed to relish those boo's as Ismay!
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re: Gaston,Beauty and...
Posted by: jo 10:10 pm EDT 07/06/17
In reply to: re: Gaston,Beauty and... - Chromolume 05:46 pm EDT 07/06/17

Hugh Jackman was Gaston in his first professional stage appearance in Australia. At the stage door, a little girl who had just seen the show handed him her book for his autograph. She did not recognize him (without the stage makeup) and asked : "Who are you?" HJ : "Gaston. "Little girl ( snatching back her autograph book) : "Nooo!!! You're bad!"

As narrated by Hugh.
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re: Gaston,Beauty and...
Posted by: Chromolume 11:02 pm EDT 07/06/17
In reply to: re: Gaston,Beauty and... - jo 10:10 pm EDT 07/06/17

Ha! I love that!

But I also have to say I wasn't thinking about young kids booing - more the reaction of an audience in general, with a sort of knowing wink to the fact that they're booking the character, not the actor. I have to say I'm not sure I want to encourage kids to boo at a curtain call - unless, again, they're savvy enough to be in on the convention. ;-)
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