Artist:Richard White
Song:The Mob Song
Album:Beauty and the Beast: Special Edition Soundtrack
Richard White is a stage performer who is best known as the voice of Gaston in the 1991 Disney animated musical Beauty and the Beast. He has performed mostly in regional theater. He was born Aug. 4, 1953 in Oak Ridge, TN. After graduating from high school, he moved to New York and started appearing in regional theater especially at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Milburn, NJ. He has played Gaylord Ravenal in Show Boat many times including in a 1989 episode of the PBS TV series Great Performances. His first starring role was in the 1980 off-Broadway musical Elizabeth and Essex. This only ran for two months. His other major roles include the operetta The New Moon and the 1985 revival of Carousel. I assume the Disney people saw him on Great Performances and cast him as Gaston in Beauty and the Beast. I guess he's the closest thing to a villain in the movie. Disney released the soundtrack of Beauty and the Beast with bonus tracks in 2001 and re-released it in 2017 with a new cover. White also voiced Gaston in the animated series The House of Mouse and the TV special Beauty and the Beast: a 30th Celebration. Here's Richard White performing The Mob Song on the 1991 film Beauty and the Beast.
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