As for the musical numbers: The three new songs, including a plodding ballad that the Beast sings while
brooding around his castle, are unfortunately forgettable.
In the summer of 2015, Cox showed me several hives that bore the standard signs: healthy
brood; good stores of pollen and nectar, or «bee food,» and little else; a few straggling workers, maybe 10 percent of the population he had last week; and a big queen, running
around her now - empty
castle like a mom, knowing that without her stable of workers she'll be unable to feed her babies.