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Belle is an official member of the Disney Princess line-up, a marketing franchise aimed at young girls. The franchise covers a wide variety of merchandise, including magazines, toys, music and video compilations, video games, and clothing items.
Belle appears at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. She had her own meet and greet attraction at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom called Storytime with Belle, which ran from 1999 to 2010, where Belle and the park's guests would act out a popular story. In 2012, a new location at the Magic Kingdom called Be Our Guest Restaurant, which will include the castle from the film as well as her cottage, village, and Gaston's Tavern.
Belle was featured in the Broadway adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, which opened at the Palace Theatre on April 18, 1994 and closed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on July 19, 2007. The role was originated by American actress Susan Egan, who would later go on to voice Megara in Disney's 1997 animated feature film Hercules. A total of seventeen actresses portrayed Belle on Broadway, including recording artists Debbie Gibson and Toni Braxton, The Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn Sigler, and former Disney Channel actresses Christy Carlson Romano and Anneliese van der Pol.
Belle appeared as an animated character in the television series Disney's House of Mouse, and its direct-to-video films Snowed in at the House of Mouse and Mickey's House of Villains. She was one of the seven Princesses of Heart in the Kingdom Hearts video game series. A live-action version of Belle appears as a main character in the ABC television series Once Upon a Time, portrayed by Australian actress Emilie de Ravin.
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