| Hidden queer message in Beauty and the Beast? | |
| Posted by: TheBroadwayMaven (DavidBenkof@gmail.com) 06:41 pm EST 12/12/22 | |
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| From this week's Broadway Maven Weekly Blast: LAST BLAST: There’s a fascinating lyric change that’s been barely remarked-upon in Beauty and the Beast. In Howard Ashman’s original lyrics to the prologue, captured on the motion picture soundtrack, the Beast’s curse requires him “to learn to love another, and earn their love in return.” But at the film’s release several months later the line was changed to “earn her love in return.” The openly gay Ashman died before the film’s release, and was unable to object when someone at Disney decided to clarify that a romance with Gaston, say, would not break the spell. By the time the 1994 Broadway musical debuted, the original line had been restored, and it remained in the 2017 live-action film. |
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