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Disney’s Beauty and the Beast musical is coming to Manchester
The production will feature all the smash hit songs from the 1991 animation
The enchanting Beauty and the Beast musical production is coming to Manchester next year as a part of its recently announced UK and Ireland tour.
The Olivier Award-winning musical has been re-imagined and re-designed in a completely new production, with spectacular new designs and state-of-the-art technology fusing with the timeless romantic tale from all of our childhoods.
The production features the iconic songs from the smash-hit Disney animation, including ‘Be Our Guest’, ‘Belle’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’, whilst also uniting some members of its original Broadway team.
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Courtney Stapleton, from Dear Evan Hansen, Six, Les Misérables and Bat Out of Hell, and Emmanuel Kojo, from Oklahoma!, Girl from the North Country, Show Boat and The Scottsboro Boys, will be taking on the lead roles of Belle and the Beast, while Gavin Lee – Mary Poppins, SpongeBob SquarePants, the Broadway Musical, and Les Misérables – plays Lumiere and Tom Senior – The Pirates of Penzance and Eugenius! portrays the iconic villain, Gaston.
And among the many new features is an exuberant tap dance alongside Be Our Guest, created expressly for Gavin Lee, recognised as one of the great tappers on either side of the Atlantic.
The original West End production of Beauty and the Beast opened at the Dominion Theatre in April 1997, playing over 1100 performances to more than two million people – it went on to win the 1998 Olivier Award for Best Musical and enjoyed a hugely successful UK and Ireland tour in 2001.
The show also played for more than thirteen years on Broadway before closing in 2007. It remains to this day – twenty-six years after it opened – among the top ten longest running shows in Broadway history.
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The live-action retelling of the animated classic quickly became the highest grossing live action film musical of all time in 2017, a record only beaten by The Lion King live-action release in 2019.
Beauty and the Beast The Musical will be coming to Manchester’s Palace Theatre on Thursday March 31st, 2022, where it will hold a residency until Saturday June 4th, 2022.
Tickets go on sale next week on October 12th – get yours here.