Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Sets New Box Office Record

By: Jan. 03, 2006
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Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST set a new box office record at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street) for the week of December 26-January 1. The production grossed $1,229,825 over nine performances.

 

Currently in its 12th year on Broadway, Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST features Steve Blanchard as the Beast, Ashley Brown as Belle, Grant Norman as Gaston, Peter Flynn as Lumiere, Jeanne Lehman as Mrs. Potts, Jeff Brooks as Cogsworth, Jamie Ross as Maurice, Meredith Inglesby as Babette, Mary Stout as Madame de la Grande Bouche and Mark Price as Lefou. Trevor Braun and Alexander Scheitinger alternate the role of Chip.

 

 

 

The production features Alan Menken's Academy Award-winning score, songs by the late Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (including the Academy Award-winning title song and the show-stopping "Be Our Guest"), plus songs written especially for the stage by Alan Menken and Tim Rice (including "If I Can't Love Her" and "A Change In Me"). Book is by Linda Woolverton, author of the original screenplay. Disney's Beauty and the Beast is choreographed by Matt West and directed by Robert Jess Roth. Sets are by Stan Meyer, costumes by Ann Hould-Ward, and lighting by Natasha Katz.

Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is the classic love story of Belle, a young woman in a small, provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a prince trapped in a spell placed on him by an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and to be loved, the spell will be broken and he will be transformed back to his former self. But time is running out, and if the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he will be doomed for all eternity.

The show opened on Broadway on April 18, 1994 at the Palace Theatre, where it played more than 2,250 performances, becoming the longest-running show ever to play the legendary theatre. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, now also the longest running tenant in the history of the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, is Broadway=s longest running American musical and the 6th longest running show of all time.

The performance schedule for Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street) is as follows: Tuesday at 7:00 PM, Wednesday at 2:00 PM, Thursday at 7:00 PM, Friday at 8:00 PM, Saturday at 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM, and Sunday at 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM. For tickets and information, please call Ticketmaster at (212) 307-4747.

Visit Disney Theatrical Productions online at www.disneyonbroadway.com

 

 

 


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