It's time to break out the dancing silverware. The national tour of Beauty and the Beast begins performances in Calgary on December 27. The Disney musical will play the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium through January 1.

Beauty and the Beast tells the story of Belle, a young woman in a provincial French town, and the Beast, who is a ...

Age & Hometown: 24; Silver Lake, Indiana

Current Role: Belle, the brave, bibliophile who puts the “beauty” in the national tour of Beauty and the Beast.

Undecided Certainty: Despite taking the stage at an early age in a regional production of The King and I, small-town girl Behny wasn’t convinced performing was the right career path until halfway through college ...

Santa’s elves should take a lesson from this well-synchronized cast. The national tour company of Beauty and the Beast got together to film a holiday greeting, lip-synching to Mavis Staples’ “Christmas Vacation” (featured in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation). Click below to see stars Emily Behny, Michael Haller, Julia Louise Hosack and the cast sing, dance and spread joy ...

About the Author:
Julia Louise Hosack plays Mrs. Potts, mother to the loveable teacup Chip, in the national tour of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. She has previously appeared in regional productions of Oklahoma! and Fiddler on the Roof. Below, Hosack chronicles her rise from ensemble performer to top pot in the cupboard and the various Chips that have ...