(2023)

*East Van Panto: Beauty and the Beast*. Photo by Emily Cooper.

Bright, business-minded Belle has always been different from other kids growing up on the Drive. Her nose is always stuck in a book — a general ledger book that is!

Everything changes when she’s separated from her free-spirited dad Maurice and becomes imprisoned in an enchanted specialty grocery store by a strangely familiar Beast who seems very set in his ways. Time is running out and Belle and her new friends Miso Potts, little Tofu and their Bento Buds must do everything they can to flip the perspective of Belle’s captor and break the curse before the last cherry blossom falls!

Cast: Steffanie Davis, Jason Sakaki, Munish Sharma, Mark Chavez, Maiko Yamamoto
Ensemble: L Danger, Hikari Terasawa, Emma Abbott (Studio 58 Students)

Panto Kids: Greta Flinn, Mia Lin, Noa Lin, Scout Lobo, Hayden Mangan, Jude Mangan, Loa Martin, Bryony Martyn, Cluny Martyn, Marika MacRae, Marlowe B. Petten, Tasio Pietropaolo, Jasper Podbrey, Ida Roeliani, Max Tyler-Hite.

Playwrights: Jivesh Parasram & Christine Quintana

Director: Anita Rochon

Music & Lyrics: Veda Hille

Orchestra: Veda Hille, June Mirochnick & Mishelle Cuttler

Choreographer: Amanda Testini

Stage Manager: Emma Hammond

Assistant Stage Manager: Jenny Kim

Set & Properties Design: Lauchlin Johnston

Costume Designer: Alaia Hamer

Lighting Designer: Sophie Tang

Scenic Illustrator: Cindy Mochizuki

Props Master: Heidi Wilkinson/Flying Fox Prop Shop

Sound FX and Design: Brad Danyluk

Assistant Music Director: Mishelle Cuttler

Assistant Director: Howard Dai

Assistant Set Designer: Jennifer Stewart

Assistant Choreographer: Julian Lokash

Head of Wardrobe Theatre Replacement: Alaia Hamer

Head of Wardrobe The Cultch: Florence Barrett

Production Manager & Technical Director: Daniel O’Shea

Technical Director, The Cultch & The York: Cody Biles

Production Manager, Theatre Replacement: Jennifer Stewart

Production Manager, The Cultch & The York: Andrew McCaw

Head Electrician: Jude Meismiller

Head Fly/Carpenter: Darren (DJ) Miller

Head Audio: Neal Miskin

Apprentice Stage Manager: Caroline Tang

Emergency Covers: Amanda Sum & Dawn Petten

Production Assistants & Kid Wranglers: Sam Levy & Ethan Dehoog

Producer: Jamie King (JK)

Photos by Emily Cooper

Beauty and the Beast

The Little Mermaid