Be Our Guest comes from Disney's 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast, with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman. In the film, Lumière, voiced by Jerry Orbach, leads the enchanted household objects in inviting Belle to dinner after she becomes a prisoner in the Beast's castle. The number became one of the movie's most quoted sequences and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Online, its welcoming lyric and fanfare are reused whenever someone wants to present something modest as a luxurious occasion.