Angela Lansbury records “Be Our Guest“ (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, 1991)

In continuation of the celebrations for Dame Lansbury’s 95th birthday: Behind the scenes footage of the recording session on June 8, 1990, of Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Also seen is Jerry Orbach singing as a Maurice Chevalier-like candlestick named Lumiére. As Frank Rich said in The New York Times, the best Broadway musical of the 1991 season was Beauty and The Beast.