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Disney Princess My favorite Broadway Belle vs my LEAST favorite Broadway Belle! Which do you AGREE with more? (There are links to both performing as Belle in the comments)
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Anneliese van der Pol
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Toni Braxton
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Toni Braxton: First of all, I want to make one thing PERFECTLY CLEAR! There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with hiring a black woman to play Belle in a Broadway show. I mean, Broadway does that a lot because the stage can be more forgiving with race bending. Besides, the story is about a prince that turns into a beast and magical talking objects. I don’t see how having a black woman as Belle would be a problem. However, Toni Braxton was a terrible choice for Belle! I mean, her voice is beautiful but it doesn’t suit the style of the music or Belle’s voice. Her voice is more suited for pop and jazz, not traditional Broadway music. They even had to change the style of the music arrangement just so it would suit her voice. If you have to change it that much, that should tell you that you hired the wrong actress. Her diction is also very poor. Her acting is definitely what kills this casting the most because she doesn’t try to channel Belle. It’s just Toni playing Toni. She’s singing it like she would with one of her own songs and wasn’t doing any real acting at all. They should’ve cast Audra McDonald instead of Toni in my opinion.
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