
Beauty and the Beast
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Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, and Linda Woolverton’s 'Beauty and the Beast' made history as Disney’s monumental, epoch-defining inaugural foray into commercial theater, opening at the Palace Theatre in 1994 and running for an astonishing 5,461 performances before transferring to the Lunt-Fontanne. Translating the beloved 1991 animated film into a lavish, grand-scale spectacular, the musical expands the magical French fairytale of Belle, an independent, bookish young woman who is held captive inside an enchanted castle by a young prince transformed into a terrifying beast under a fairy's curse. Directed by Robert Jess Roth, this baseline property remains an absolute titan of family spectacle.

