BEAUTY & the BEAST to return to Broadway?

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 10:20am

Maybe. For a limited holiday run. Possibly.

http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/archive/2008/06/03/high-school-musical-5-6-beauty-the-beast-headed-back-to-broadway.aspx

[shh282]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 10:22am

that'd be a treat [for me atleast], I never saw it before..

[Rotel1026]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 1:28pm

What theater would they take? Seems like it's getting awfully crowded with seasonal shows. Grinch sent out a survey that mentioned a 2008 run. White Christmas is rumored and we still have Cirque and the Rockettes. Seems like a lot of shows competing for money when the economy is not at it's best.

[JRybka]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 1:35pm

Maybe they will do the Beauty and The Beast: Enchanted Christmas for the holiday season.... And then we could get a slew of comments about who would be the best to belt out AS LONG AS THERE'S CHRISTMAS.... from the movie.

I say get Bernadette Peters back on Broadway where she belongs. LOL

[philly03]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 1:46pm

I'd see it! Beauty is the only Disney show I've liked (well I haven't seen Mermaid yet).

[jerseyboyschick2]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 2:02pm

Interesting. I'd go see this.
Guess we'll just have to see what happens with this.

[fnyboi88]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 2:12pm

I remember awhile ago saying if they did Enchanted Christmas that Bernadette Peters and Tim Curry should come back and recreate their roles for the stage version.

[fnyboi88]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 2:12pm

Updated On: 6/3/08 at 02:12 PM

[Trekkie2]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 2:20pm

"What theater would they take? Seems like it's getting awfully crowded with seasonal shows. Grinch sent out a survey that mentioned a 2008 run. White Christmas is rumored and we still have Cirque and the Rockettes."

Don't forget Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas. God help us all.

[Dyllun Von]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 2:24pm

Beauty & the Beast was one of the first shows I saw as a kid - my class went, haha. I'd love to relive my childhood :)

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 2:26pm

THAT would be wonderful!!!

Updated On: 6/3/08 at 02:26 PM

[JRybka]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 2:29pm

Why not do the Enchanted Christmas. It is a great story and it actually fits smoothly into the regular story. I think it would be really neat to see it onstage.

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 2:32pm

please tell me this is just a rumor.

[ElFantasma14]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 3:39pm

Enchanted Christmas could just use the regular BATB set too. I'd love to see Bernadette come back to Broadway!

[lola_actor22]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 3:58pm

I would love to see B&B again!!
Especially if it's the Christmas version!

[jagfkb]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 4:29pm

The Nederlander as a holiday house? Fix it up and open in Late November?

[achangeinme]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 7:52pm

While I LOVE B&TB, it seems a little silly to open it as a Holiday show when it just finished its run. In fact, a lot of the American public probably hasn't realized that B&THB has closed yet! If they are trying to bring in the dollar signs, I'd say to wait to do this until a couple years have passed and people are beginning to miss the show/realize its gone. That way the limited run would be even more of a treat and a bigger deal.

Haha, how does Enchanted Christmas fit smoothly into the storyline? I never got that. But...whatever, Bernie can read out of the phone book and I'd give her a standing ovation.

[misto625]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 8:07pm

I missed Beauty and the Beast ever since it closed, and reading the reviews of Little Mermaid, I miss the show even more.

[broadwayboy522]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 8:23pm

I'd rather them wait a little bit longer and bring it back for longer than a limited run! Then Disney could finally have four shows on Broadway at a time which is what they were wanting to do earlier when they opened Tarzan and Mary Poppins one after another.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 9:48pm

Among Disney circles, Jim Hill is known as a major rumor-monger. Much of what he reports turns out to be not true. I would completely doubt the credibility of this rumor at the moment.

[myshikobit]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 9:58pm

Following a successful version of BATB, my friends and I jokingly contemplated Enchanted Christmas.... we never thought anyone would be so stupid as to actually stage it. Sheesh, talk about a pipe dream...

[walkedthroughmany]

Posted: 6/4/08 at 2:50am

Isn't this the guy who reported Beyonce would be starring in the Aida movie?

[jackson992]

Posted: 6/4/08 at 2:52am

What a fun show. Just recently got to play D'Arque in this

[JillianMelko]

Posted: 6/4/08 at 3:30pm

I Would DIE if it came back...I cried when I first heard it was closing it is my all time favorite Broadway show/ Disney Movie ever and I would have to see it, if not audition for it!

[bwaybabe2]

Posted: 6/7/08 at 1:39am

so...rumor or reality...?
...hope is the second, because I'd love to catch it, this time around.