A Beauty and a Beast, but This One’s for Adults. Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Fraser Reinvent a Fabled Coupl
Ben BrantleyMarch 18, 2014: Grown-ups of New York, are you ready to be told the best bedtime story you’ve heard since you were a credulous tyke? It’s called Beauty and the Beast. And yeah, I know what you’re thinking: You’ve heard that one before; your daughter made you watch the Disney movie with her like 28 times; and if you wanted something more sophisticated, you’d just slip on your digitally enhanced edition of Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et La Bête from 1946. But, honest, you’ve never met a Beauty and Beast like the couple delivering their idea of story hour — not to mention an impressive variety of sexual positions — at the Abrons Arts Center through March 30. Our immortal title characters are being portrayed by the performance artists Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Fraser, a husband and wife who met while working in a sideshow on Coney Island.
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