Shows · Beauty and the Beast
The story of the wicked witch turning a prince into a beast (and his staff into household objects) who can only be returned to his princely state by learning to love and be loved has been with us since the eighteenth century. Beauty and the Beast is the stage version of the Walt Disney animated film with five new songs by Menken and Tim Rice. Howard Ashman (Little Shop of Horrors), who had written the lyrics for the…
- Opened
- 1994
- Performances
- 5,461
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Productions2 on Broadway
| 1994 | Palace Theatre Original. April 18, 1994 · Robert Jess Roth | 5,461 performances |
| 2022 | London Palladium Transfer. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
58 passages naming Beauty and the Beast, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Beauty and the Beast, 319, 399 book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p617
Beauty and the Beast, 261 book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p337
despite the fact that Beauty and the Beast (1994) and the still-running The Lion King (1997), directed and designed by Julie Taymor, currently stand as the fifth and eighth most popular Broadway musicals of all time. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p15
Beauty and the Beast is listed as one of the longest-running shows, currently at number 5 in the Top Forty Greatest Hit Musicals from 1920 to 2008. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p23
Beauty and the Beast is one of the longest-running shows, currently ranked at number 5 in the Top Forty Greatest Hit Musicals from 1920 to 2008. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-uni#p23
Beauty and the Beast, Disney’s first foray into the Broadway musical, opens at the Palace Theater for a long run. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p32
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