FROM BELLE TO BROADWAY is a fast paced musical entertainment that's full of familiar favorites. Directed by Lee Roy Reams and backed by four on-stage musicians, this revue features Paige O'Hara and Michael Piontek, two exceptionally talented entertainers who's careers go from a diversity of roles in musical theater to the big screen. Husband and wife in real life, they flirt and jest their way through a varied program that includes ...

• Disney Classics
• A Salute to Judy Garland
• Rodgers & Hammerstein / Jerome Kern
• Broadway Medleys: South Pacific, Mack and Mabel, Evita, Phantom of the Opera
• Beauty and the Beast

PAIGE O'HARA, best known as the voice of Belle in the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast, has a career that spanned Broadway, opera and concert stages as well as recordings. Starring roles in Showboat, Les Miserables, Edwin Drood, Oklahoma, and South Pacific are but a few of her credits. She sang to millions on the Academy Awards telecast, performing the Oscar-nomimated song from Beauty and the Beast.

MICHAEL PIONTEK, for 3 years a favorite as Raoul, the romantic lead in the Los Angeles company of Phantom of the Opera. On Broadway he appeared in Grand Hotel, Into the Woods, and The 3-Penny Opera. A host of credits off-Broadway, in feature films, television, and recordings round out his list of impressive accomplishments. Michael is currently starring in a production of Mamma Mia which opened in February 2003 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

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