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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Alice Saville

Beauty and the Beast at the London Palladium review: an extravagant, memorable update

Beauty and the Beast is a story with a dark and unsettling pedigree.

It originated as a 1740 French fairytale about a woman who must learn to love a hairy monster, one that was probably designed to get young girls used to the idea of arranged marriages.

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