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Beauty and the Beast 
 
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Playing the Beast
 
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Essence of Beastliness
 
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Eating noisily
 
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Sound of the Beast
 
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Washing scene
 
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Audience reactions
 
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Beauty and the Beast Script
 

 
 

Elaine Claxton: Audience reactions

Actor Elaine Claxton who plays the narrator in this scene, observes that the audience tend to laugh, not just at the funny moments, but at the awful ones too. She feels that when the audience laughs at the Beast, it betrays their discomfort at his hideous appearance and predicament.

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