This ‘Beauty' smoothes out the rough edges
Saying the current touring production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast is a stripped-down version of its long-running Broadway predecessor is a bit like saying Ke$ha is a stripped-down version of Madonna. It's true, of course. The knockoff becomes a bit messier, a bit less memorable, but their ambitions are the same: Take imagery everyone already knows, repackage it for mass consumption by smoothing out the edges and…