Peaks and Pints Beauty and the Beer

Peaks & Pints will host “Beauty and the Beer,” a fundraiser for Hunt Middle School‘s Theater Department at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 8, as part of Tacoma Beer Week.

After New York Times critic Frank Rich called the 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast that year’s “best musical … in any format,” Michael Eisner (then at the peak of his power as Disney CEO) wasted little time turning this “tale as old as time” into the Mouse’s first Broadway blockbuster. Over the last two decades, the story has been staged almost nonstop in theme parks, touring houses, and middle schools around the world, including Hunt Middle School in Tacoma … hopefully. Hunt is worried it can’t pay the fee to let their student body perform and watch an arrogant nobleman turn into a beast and, to break the spell, try to win the love of the village girl, Belle.

Enter Peaks & Pints. We’ll donate a percentage of draft sales that night so the theater kids can present one of the most magical tales of all time. As a bonus, local middle school instructors and musicians Rafe Wadleigh and Erina McLaren will perform Disney songs live while craft beer enthusiasts shed tears of joy into their beers.

Will the Beast successfully woo Belle, the small-town girl living in Hunt Middle School’s lonely turret? Or will he instead succumb to his roguish tendencies and spend the rest of eternity alone as a bison wandering the streets of Tacoma? No pressure, Belle! NO PRESSURE, BEER DRINKERS!

PEAKS AND PINTS BEAUTY AND THE BEER, a Tacoma Beer Week event, 6 p.m., Monday, Aug. 8, 3816 N. 26^th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, 21 and older, no cover

LINK: Peaks & Pints cooler inventory

Original photo by Mooshuu from San Diego