Stepping Into a Fairy Tale

Re the review of “Beauty and the Beast” (“It Sounds Like a ‘Beauty,’ ” April 14), I realize that Times theater critic Laurie Winer had to cover all aspects of the production, but I take exception to her criticism of the set.

As a primary-school teacher and mother of six, I have seen/read many fairy-tale books, and, from the “curtain up,” I felt I was being drawn into the pages of a beautiful fairy-tale book. Wasn’t that the intent of the designer?

KATHARINE FORRESTER

Anaheim