Mandarin Production of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST to Debut in Shanghai

According to Shine.cn, Shanghai Disney Resort has announced that there will be a Mandarin production of the Broadway musical Beauty and the Beast premiering at the Walt Disney Grand Theatre in Disneytown this summer.

The show will premiere June 14, and open to the public the following day. Tickets will be available beginning May 24.

The original Broadway creative team, including director Rob Roth, have been in Shanghai working with the local cast and crew during rehearsals.

The resort's previous musical production, The Lion King, held its last performance in the 1,200-seat theater on October 8.

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Beauty and the Beast is a musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, and book by Linda Woolverton. Adapted from Walt Disney Pictures' Academy Award-winning 1991 animated musical film of the same name - which in turn had been based on the classic French fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont - Beauty and the Beast tells the story of a cold-blooded prince who has been magically transformed into an unsightly creature as punishment for his selfish ways. To revert into his true human form, the Beast must first earn the love of a bright, beautiful young woman whom he has imprisoned in his enchanted castle before it is too late.