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Beauty and the Beast Jr.: A Community Production When the last petal falls, what remains is everything we created together.
Every theatre production begins with a script. But productions are not built from pages. They are built from people.
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Over the course of nearly seven months, more than 140 students from Grades 6–12 came together to create Concordian International School's production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast Jr. What began as auditions, leadership interviews, rehearsals, design meetings, choreography sessions, music rehearsals, construction workshops, and production planning slowly transformed into something much larger than a musical. It became a community.
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Audiences watched Belle (Riko G9) journey beyond her provincial town. They entered an enchanted castle, met talking clocks (Niji G11), teacups (Nara G6), and candlesticks (Sureen G9), laughed with Gaston (Ken G9), and witnessed the transformation of the Beast (Kenny G11). Yet behind every scene was a network of students, teachers, staff, parents, and community partners whose work stretched far beyond the spotlight.
For Student Director Imboon G11, the experience was transformative. Reflecting on the process, she wrote that the production "tested me beyond what I thought was possible." Months of artistic decisions, rehearsals, collaboration, and problemsolving ultimately led to the moment when the story came alive in front of an audience. The challenge was not simply directing a musical, but learning how to lead a team of peers while bringing a shared artistic vision to life. That same spirit could be found throughout every department. Production Designer Peach G11 described the challenge of transforming the Grand Theatre into the world of eighteenthcentury France as "hours of hard work, planning, and most importantly coming together as a team." From the first design sketches to the final set pieces, students worked alongside mentors to create a theatrical world capable of transporting audiences beyond the walls of the theatre.