Youngest 'Beast' in India for Beauty And The Beast

Edwin Joseph, who is 21 years old and an economics graduate from St Stephens college, Delhi will star in the Indian production of the Broadway classic, Beauty and the Beast, to premier this month, as the youngest actor to play the lead character.
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A trained Opera singer, his talent says the show's director is at par, as is that of the remaining core cast, with stage artists abroad.
The show in India has Disney fans excited. It also had an unprecedented audition from 8000 theatre artists who didn't want to miss a chance to be on theatre of a grand scale and had sent in video entries which the show's creative team whittled down to 1000 whose physical auditions were conducted. The applicants and aspirants were from across all major metros--Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad and elsewhere and finally the director Vikrant Pawar hand-picked 18 talented lead artists who can sing, dance and act, sometimes all at once for the epic Beauty and the Beast, which will premier in the city this month.
Mumbai is not the film capital for nothing. The cast is dominated by Mumbai's talent and boasts of giving the Beauty, Meher Mistry while Delhi delivers the equally and highly versatile Beast, Joseph. "Usually the role is essayed by older men, "said the excited actor.
The Indian performance, say it's makers, promises to be grand on many scales and will have the largest cast of 100 in an "immersive Broadway stage experience" with a magical village area capturing Belle’s house (with a telescope), Tavern, Clock tower and Beast’s castle area with Belle’s bedroom, Royal dining area, balcony. Those who grew up watching the Disney Classic can expect, what else, but magic says director Vikrant Pawar after a recent reading that had Bugs Bharghav and Brian Tellis throwing their voices and their might behind it.