I loved it so much I raced down to Borders to buy Skating Shoes (which is, fortunately, no longer out of print). Then, recently, I found a vintage edition of Theater Shoes on Etsy, and started reading it the day after it came in the mail. I found a copy of Dancing Shoes, under its original title of Wintle’s Wonders, for $1 at Brattle last fall, but had somehow never got around to reading it. (Then I saw the BBC film adaptation with Emma Watson, and loved it too.) It was several years before I picked up a used copy of Ballet Shoes in Oxford, and of course I loved it. I’d never heard of Streatfeild or the Shoe Books before I saw You’ve Got Mail (and watched poor Kathleen Kelly struggle to control her tears as she helped a bookseller at Fox Books find the right book for a customer). Although Skating Shoes is completely wonderful-but it’s out of print. I’d start with Ballet Shoes first it’s my favorite. Noel Streatfeild wrote Ballet Shoes and Skating Shoes and Theatre Shoes and Dancing Shoes.
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The 1991 animated film was adapted into a Broadway musical in 1994, with the role being originated by American actor Terrence Mann. In all animated film appearances, the Beast is voiced by American actor Robby Benson. All this must be done before the last petal falls from the enchanted rose on his twenty-first birthday. Based on the hero of the French fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, the Beast was created by screenwriter Linda Woolverton and animated by Glen Keane.Ī pampered prince transformed into a hideous beast as punishment for his cold-hearted and selfish ways, the Beast must, in order to return to his former self, earn the love of a beautiful young woman named Belle who he imprisons in his castle. The Beast is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Animation Studios' 30th animated feature film Beauty and the Beast (1991), as well as in the film's two direct-to-video followups Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas and Belle's Magical World. Robby Benson (1991 film and related project)ĭan Stevens (2017 live action film voice and motion capture) Steve Blanchard ( Beauty and the Beast played role for Broadway)Įarl Carpenter ( Beauty and the Beast played role for West End) Jeff Bridges ( Disney Dreams Portraits photographs)Ĭhuck Wagner ( Beauty and the Beast played role for Broadway) Terrence Mann ( Beauty and the Beast originated role for Broadway) If secularists fail to reclaim the republic from Hindu nationalists, Komireddi argues, India will become Pakistan by another name. In this blistering critique of India from Indira Gandhi to the present, Komireddi lays bare the cowardly concessions to the Hindu right, convenient distortions of India's past and demeaning bribes to minorities that led to Modi's decisive electoral victory. The Observer Written with passion and savagery, this is a polemical and highly readable short history of modern India from Indira Gandhi to Narendra Modi. 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