"Belle" aka, Sara Grote Talks About Marion Palace Theatre Presentation of Disney's "Beauty and The Beast"

Disney's Beauty and The Beast is being presented at The Marion Palace Theatre July 8,9, 14, 15, and 16, 2023. "Belle" aka, Sara Grote joins the show to talk about the show, how awesome it is to play a Disney Princess and how your little princess' can join Brunch with Belle, too!
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Episode Transcript

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Joining me on the phone today isSarah Grody. Sarah Grody is with the
Marian Palace Theater and Sarah is bellin Beauty and the Beast. Sarah,
Welcome to the show. How areyou today, Good morning, Paul.
It's so great to talk to you. I'm glad to be here to talk
about this amazing show. You haveto be excited about the show. I
know that this is one of thosethings that when you start to plan your

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year and you start looking at thingsgoing, you had to be excited,
like, you know, I mightbe able to be bell in Beauty and
the Beast with Claire Cook as thedirector. That's just got to excite you,
right, I mean yeah, Imean what could be better? I
mean, every little girl wants togrow up and be a Disney princess,
So it's definitely a dream come truefor sure. Oh. Absolutely, So

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talk a little bit about the show, the cast, and how things are
going to prepare for the show.Oh, things are going so well.
We got we rented a set thisyear, so the stage has been transformed
into a larger than life castle.It's just unreal looking at it. It's
like you're really there. So that'sincredible and the costumes have all come in,

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you know, all the parts andpieces are coming together, the cast
and ensemble, everyone is. Thevocals are going to be just incredible.
Everyone is so fun to work with, and we all are you know,
we're just one big family and weare just having a ball and just cannot
wait to perform for everyone. Well, Sarah, that's one thing that I
have certainly found thirty years, thirtythree years now being in marian is that

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the people that are part of thePalace Theater really are family. The inner
workings of how things go is veryfamily. And let's put on a great
show for our community. Ready go. And I just think that's exciting,
absolutely, I mean, and itshows in the chemistry and how we work
together on stage, and I hopepeople see that. Last night we did

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a scene and two of my bestfriends are singing to me on either side
of me, and you know,in moments like that, you you just
feel so so blessed, like,wow, I get to do this.
Yeah, that's absolutely cool. Imean, it is the season of Enchantment,
the ninety fifth season, and Beautyand the Beast will be on stage
at the historic Marion Palace Theater comingup on July eighth and ninth, fourteenth,

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fifteenth, and sixteenth. You'll beable to see Friday and Saturday shows
at seven thirty, Sunday matinee attwo o'clock. And with that being said,
you've got some other things going on. To Sarah talk a little bit
about the Patron Party, this VIPexperience coming up on July eighth after the
show. Yeah, there are stillPatron tickets available and if you purchase the

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Patron tickets, then you get tocome to a VIP experience that is directly
right after our opening show on Julyeighth, and that's held in the May
Pavilion. There's or d'euvres, desserts, lots of snacks, and the whole
cast will be there. It's areally fun time. That's really cool,
and that's really kind of adult orientedif you will. But we're gonna swing

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a little bit and we're gonna dosomething this a little more kid and family
oriented, that being the Beauty andthe Brunch July sixteenth to twelve thirty,
that's just before closing show. Correct. Yeah, that is such a fun
opportunity for the kiddos to come.There's going to be a little brunch at
twelve thirty on July sixteenth, thatis before the final performance, and we're

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encouraging everyone to wear their favorite princesscostumes or dresses, and some of the
cast will be there in costume tomeet and sign autographs. So that should
be a lot of fun. Ohthat is so cool. And yeah,
you know that. I've known youfor a long time and your mom and
everything. It must must be somuch fun. You're going to be doing

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that when what several decades ago youwere doing the other You were the one
dressing up in costumes and mom wasgetting y'all so you could go out and
be a Disney princess when you wereeight or nine years old, right,
Yes, I know, and yeahyou know, like I said, every
little girl dreams of becoming a Disneyprincess. So to be on the flip
side of getting to be that,and then you know, see the look

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in little girl's eyes is a veryspecial thing. I gotta ask, and
you probably do or no, doyou know anyone who was really and truly
down in dead Disney being a princessfor one of their summers or off seasons
of school? I mean, doyou know somebody who did that. No,
I personally don't, but I canimagine that it's a very special thing.

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Yeah, yeah, fortunately I do. I do know one that was
and she was telling me the rulesand how it works, and it's just
it's amazing because what you really are, and you know that. I mean
when you're at that brunch and you'reup on stage, I mean you are
that Disney princess too. Every littlegirl that's in the audience and every other

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in the audience, that's just soexciting for you. It's an honor for
sure, no question about. I'lltell you. Exciting things are happening at
the Palace and I'm so happy thatthat you're part of it. I'm so
happy that we're able to be partof it to direct people there. So
one last please tell everybody why theyshould come see Beauty and the Beast at
the Palace Theater. Everyone should comejust to see the beautiful Palace Theater.

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It's such a special building. It'sa gem in our community. And to
support all of our community members.Um you know, we volunteer to put
this show together for the community,and so we would just love to see
a full house every night. Andbe able to share this special show and

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story and just all the magic ofthe costumes and the sets, and just
give everybody some entertainment, you know, a night off where they don't have
to worry about things going on intheir life. We'd just like to entertain
and take you to a magical place. I love that, said Sarah Grody.
Belle and Beauty and the Beast atthe historic Marion Palace Theater, Happening

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July eighth, ninth, fourteenth,fifteenth, and sixteenth of Friday and Saturday
performances at seven thirty. Sunday performancesat two. Buy your tickets now at
marian Palace dot org stop by thebox office. I would not wait.
I would get your tickets now becauseusually what happens is that first night,
everybody then goes out and says it'sthe greatest thing ever, and all the

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tickets go away. So buy yourtickets a sap and many people, as
you know, Sarah, we'll gothe first weekend and then turn around and
go again the next week because they'veenjoyed it so much. So it's for
tuning. Oh absolutely, Sarah,thank you for being on the radio with
me today. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me