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A real-life fairy tale

The lead actresses in LOGON’s latest production is playing out her own love story

Beauty and the Beast 521
Photo by: Courtesy of LOGAN
The haunting melody from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast sets the stage for the traditional fairy tale: Boy meets girl, they fall in love, they live happily ever after. But even in fairy tales, it’s never that simple. As the curtain goes up February 14 on the Light Opera Group of the Negev (LOGON)’s production of the famous Disney musical, any number of enchantments, magic spells and mystical transformations take place before the beautiful Belle finds her one true love.

Preparing for the group’s 32nd annual production, LOGON’s cast and crew relished watching a real-life romance coming into bloom, echoing elements of the musical taking place on stage. As a result, four days after the final LOGON performance, Rebecca Dekanu, who plays both Nicole and the Sorceress in the production, will marry her handsome prince, Robert Demdenski, who doesn’t perform but is involved behind the scenes, in a joyous ceremony attended by family flying in from all over the world. Since both Dekanu, who hails from Albany, Oregon, and Demdenski, a native of Germany, recently finished their IDF service as lone soldiers, the LOGON players came to view the young couple as family – two of their own, playing out a real-life fairy tale right alongside the stage play.

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