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Step into the enchanted world of Broadway's modern classic, Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Based on the Academy Award winning animated feature, the stage version of Disney's Beauty and the Beast includes all of the wonderful songs from the film, written by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman, (the team responsible for Little Shop of Horrors), plus new songs written especially for the Broadway version by Mr. Menken and Tim Rice (Aladdin, Aida).

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Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens are showing off their fairy tale romance in the latest installment of a popular Disney ad campaign. The High School Musical costars (and real-life couple) posed for celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz in December, recreating the scene from Sleeping Beauty in which the princess is awakened by the kiss of her prince. The shot, titled "Where Romance Is Celebrated," will run as part of Disney's "What Will You Celebrate?" ad campaign. Efron, 21, and Hudgens, 20, aren't the first celebrities to portray iconic Disney characters for Leibovitz's lens. Tina Fey took the role of Tinker Bell in a Peter Pan-themed shoot.

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On the ABC half-hour special The Backlot Buzz, brand new footage from the upcoming Walt Disney Pictures film "The Princess and the Frog" was presented. The footage not only shows Disney's return to hand-drawn animation, but also the movie's villain, who is a witch doctor. The new movie is a musical set in New Orleans, the legendary birthplace of jazz. Audiences will be introduced to the newest Disney princess, Tiana (Anika Noni Rose), a young African-American girl living amid the charming elegance and grandeur of the fabled French Quarter. From the heart of Louisiana's mystical bayous and the banks of the mighty Mississippi comes an unforgettable tale of love, enchantment and discovery with a soulful singing crocodile, voodoo spells and Cajun charm at every turn. "Princess and the Frog" is directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, whose past work includes "The Little Mermaid," "Aladdin" and "Hercules." At this point,

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