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Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

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
Music: Alan MenkenLyrics: Howard Ashman and Tim Rice (asterisk designates lyrics by Rice)Book: Linda Wolverton

Licensing 3 entries

US Concord Theatricals Samuel French available
UK Concord Theatricals Samuel French available
US Music Theatre International Disney's Beauty and the Beast matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor Another house is also recorded for this work.

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In the literature58 passages

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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