Beauty and the Beast (1994)

Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Tim Rice and Howard Ashman
Directed by Robert Jess Roth
Cast: Susan Egan, Terrence Mann, Joan Barber, Roxane Barlow, Gary Beach, Harrison Beal, Tom Bosley, Michael-Demby Cain

"Beauty and the Beast" is a fairy tale written by the French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published anonymously in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins (The Young American and Marine Tales). Villeneuve's original story was abridged, revised, and published by French novelist Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756 in Magasin des enfants (Children's Collection) which became the most commonly retold version.

Theater

Palace Theatre · Broadway

Closed

July 29, 2007