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July 17-23, 2003 artpicks Beauty and the BeastNow that the Kimmel Center is presenting touring companies of Broadway shows at the Academy of Music, they are playing host to the final performances of the third national tour of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. For two weeks, audiences can see the aging (this stint ends an eight-year tour) but undeniably charming stage version of the singing-and-dancing-housewares-filled 1991 film. The show is just like a cartoon brought to life, from villainous Gaston's exaggerated muscles to the gymnastic antics of a very frisky area rug. It helps that the show has at its core the simple, compelling fairy tale, made popular by Charles Perrault in the late 1600s, of the lovely French maiden who finds true love with, well, a beast (or, a hot-but-mean prince with a spell cast on him, depending on how you look at it). Though Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman are nowhere to be found in this production, we defy even the most jaded theatergoer not to smile (a little) while watching this morality tale get Disney-fied live, especially when the charming Lumiere (the butler/candlestick) starts off the raucous production number, "Be Our Guest." And the treatment of the cloying title song is almost simple enough to make us forget Peabo Bryson or Angela Lansbury ever had their hands on it. Beauty and the Beast, July 23-Aug. 3, $27.50-$72.50, Academy of Music, Broad and Locust sts., 215-893-1999. 
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