Customer Reviews

Songs of Beauty And The Beast (Accompaniment 2-CD Set)

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Purchased this item to use as a rehearsal CD for our Community Theatre's production of Beauty and the Beast. It has all of the songs from the stage version of the show, and they are fully orchestrated. It is not a CD-G, so if you put it in your karaoke machine you will just hear the accompaniment without any words appearing on the screen.

The songs were decent renditions of the stage versions of the songs. They have all of the verses from the libretto. "Be Our Guest" is a little slow compared to what you may expect. The other songs are about at the tempo you would expect.

The set comes with two CDs, one with vocals, one without. The voice talent on the vocal CD is so-so. Gaston is strong. Lumiere is a little weak. Belle is good.

One note- if you are going to rip the files to your computer... each of the two CDs in the set has identical file names for the songs. It can take a while to manually sort out the vocal versions from the instrumental versions if you rip both CDs, plus there is a problem with overwriting files (the files have the same names and are exactly the same size). I takes a little mucking about to get everything into mp3 format if you want to put them on your mp3 player.

Not Karaoke despite the claim - of not NOWHERE on the disc does it even use the word. Amazon says it but it is not CDG and therefore useless in Karaoke machines. Which is dishonest from Amazon.

Beautiful music and voices, however, on the second cd, though it has great music, there are no back-up singers, nor lyrics for the karaoke machine, so unless you memorized every song and words, you should start learning.

WOW!!! I love this album! It's perfect for karaoke night! The actors are pretty good and even though it doesn't come with any lyrics, fortunately it's pretty easy to learn the songs just by listening to the tracks with vocals! The instrumentals, like in The Little Mermaid Accompaniment (another great Stage Stars album), feel like it was recorded in an auditorium instead of a studio, so if you like that "performing on the stage feel," 2 thumbs up! This album has been largely entertaining me and my friends ever since I bought it! 5-stars for perfection! (Yes I know all of my sentences ended in an exclamation mark, but I'm doing all I can here to also not write in all caps.)

If you are a huge fan of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and want to sing instrumental tracks from the show, this will do the trick. I bought this because I really needed an instrumental track of "If I Can't Love Her" and the version here, is beautiful! I do wish this CD had the reprise of "If I Can't Love Her" as well as others, but overall, it's really good. The instrumental tracks are great and vocalists, particularly the girl who does Belle is really good.

This CD says "complete tracks" however, cuts are made to many of the songs. "Be Our Guest" is cut by almost 2 minutes, and "Gaston" is cut by at least a minute or so. If you just want to sing for enjoyment it might be OK, although some of the music sounds like you are at the circus.
If you want to use this as a rehearsal recording for a musical performance, forget it!
It does not match the orginal score and many of the instrumental parts are cut out. The singing demos are pretty awful too!

This is my favorite musical -- it's great to be able to singalong with the songs from the Disney stage show. These accompaniment tracks are great.