Beauty and the Beast is returning to Citrus College for the first time in nearly a decade.
The preliminary auditions brought in about 100 people hoping to have what it takes to be casted into the show. Talia Saldana and Wyatt Buckle were casted as the two main characters Belle and Beast.
“I was nervous [for the audition], very, very nervous, and I also had found some of the script online and I had gone through that and I had practiced with Wyatt actually before so it was really awesome that we got it,” Saldana (Belle) said.
With 15 actors and actresses as principals and 56 performers in the ensemble, the cast is larger than a typical musical cast.
Douglas Austin, one of the show’s directors, said his goals for the performances was for the “audience to leave with the spirit and the joy and the feeling that is meant to be felt when you experience Beauty and the Beast … I hope that each and every student has learned something and grown as a performer.”
“As far as preparing goes for the audition and the role now, I just watched a lot of the other interpretations of it, like the new Disney movie, the old cartoon. I tried to watch a few different stage versions of it and kind of picked what I liked from it,” Buckle (Beast) said.
The main cast is composed of Talia Saldana, Wyatt Buckle, Robert Meyer, Jackson Marcy, Anthony Lua, Mana Sakurai, Judah Lacy, Gabby Musquez, Matthew Noah, Christian Pineda, Israel Lacy, Lissette Garrido, Morghann Stevens, Karter Percival, and Domenique Dominguez.
The performances will take place on April 7, 8, 14, 15 at 2:00PM. Tickets at the door will be $30 and presale adult tickets will be $28. Student and Senior tickets will be $26 and for those 16 & under tickets will be $15. You must have your school ID to get the student price.
