This production starred Jennifer Shraeder as Belle and Roger Befeler as the Beast. The third national tour opened in 2001 and closed in 2003. The second national tour opened in 1999 with Susan Owen as Belle and Grant Norman as The Beast. It featured Kim Huber as Belle and Fred Inkley as the Beast. The first opened on Novemand closed in 1999. The show won the Olivier Award as Best New Musical for 1998. Notable replacements included Michelle Gayle and Annalene Beechey as Belle and John Barrowman and Earl Carpenter as the Beast, Alex Bourne as Gaston and Terry Doyle as Maurice. Featured were Julie Alanah Brighton as Belle, Alasdair Harvey as the Beast, Burke Moses reprising his role as Gaston, Derek Griffiths as Lumiere, Mary Millar as Mrs Potts, Norman Rossington as Maurice, Barry James as Cogsworth, Di Botcher as Madame De La Grande Bouche, Richard Gauntlett as Lefou and Rebecca Thornhill as Babette. The West End production opened at London's Dominion Theatre on Apand closed on December 11, 1999. It was reported that Disney Theatrical Productions planned to revive the show on Broadway for the 2008 holiday season, but Disney did not pursue this. At this point, Disney also had three other shows running at the same time: The Lion King, Tarzan, and Mary Poppins. Princesses on Broadway at the same time would divide audiences and cause competition between the two shows. With Disney set to open its Broadway version of The Little Mermaid on Novemat the time, it was believed that having two Disney film of the same style I.E. The Broadway production closed to make way for Disney's next musical venture, The Little Mermaid. Illusions were by Jim Steinmeyer and John Gaughan, and pyrotechnic design was by Tyler Wymer. Lawrence, and prosthetics were by John Dods. Richard Fitzgerald, hair designer David H. Orchestrations were by Danny Troob (after his score of the film), scenic designer was Stan Meyer, costume designer Ann Hould-Ward, lighting designer Natasha Katz, sound was by T. ĭirected by Robert Jess Roth with choreography by Matt West and assisted by Dan Mojica, the original Broadway cast included Susan Egan as Belle, Terrence Mann as the Beast, Burke Moses as Gaston, Gary Beach as Lumiere and Beth Fowler as Mrs Potts. The production holds the record of being the longest running production at both the Palace Theatre, where it opened, and the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, where it closed its Broadway run. The musical closed on Jafter 46 previews and 5,464 performances, and is Broadway's eighth-longest running production in history (as of 2011 ). The musical opened on Broadway at the Palace Theatre on Apand ran there until September 5, 1999, transferring to the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 11, 1999, with an official opening date of November 16, 1999. Not long after that, Disney's Don Frantz and Bettina Buckley contacted Young, and the partnership was under way." A stage condensation of the film, directed by Robert Jess Roth and choreographed by Matt West, both of whom moved on to the Broadway development, had already been presented at Disneyland at what was then called the Videopolis stage.īeauty and the Beast premiered in a joint production of Theatre Under The Stars and Disney Theatricals at the Music Hall, Houston, Texas, from November 28, 1993, through December 26, 1993. When they asked George Ives, the head of Actors Equity on the West Coast, which Los Angeles theater would be the best venue for launching a new musical, Ives said the best theater for that purpose would be TUTS. Nothing happened till the Disney execs started to pursue the project from their end. But Young couldn't seem to get in touch with the right person in the Disney empire. Theatre Under The Stars executive director Frank Young had been trying to get Disney interested in a stage version of Beauty about the same time Eisner and Katzenberg were mulling over Rich's column.
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