Beauty and the Beast
Updated
Beauty and the Beast is a musical adaptation of the Disney animated film of the same.
Synopsis
Beauty and the Beast is a Broadway musical set in a French village, where Belle, a bright young woman, becomes prisoner in the castle of the Beast, a prince under a spell.
As they spend time together, Belle sees beyond the Beast’s appearance and discovers a kind heart.
In the village, Gaston, who wants to marry Belle, leads a mob to kill the Beast.
The Beast is wounded but transforms back into a prince when Belle declares her love, breaking the spell.
The musical ends with Belle and the prince reunited, and the castle’s enchanted inhabitants restored to their human forms.
About the show
- Written by: Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Linda Woolverton, Tim Rice
- Premiered: 1994
- Genres & themes: 1990s, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Two Act
- Setting: France
Songs from Beauty and the Beast
- Overture / Prologue
- Belle
- No Matter What
- No Matter What (Reprise) / Wolf Chase
- Me
- Belle (Reprise)
- Home
- Home (Reprise)
- Gaston
- Gaston (Reprise)
- How Long Must This Go On?
- Be Our Guest
- If I Can’t Love Her
- Entr’acte / Wolf Chase
- Something There
- Human Again
- Maison des Lunes
- Beauty and the Beast
- If I Can’t Love Her (Reprise)
- The Mob Song
- The Battle
- End Duet / Transformation
- Beauty and the Beast (Reprise)