Disney will launch North American tour of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in 2025, Broadway stop next? — Page 2

The tour will be using the tier 3 touring contract. Disney could afford to tour this on the highest level contract, so I’m shocked equity approved this.

And a relatively unknown director. Seems like he's mostly worked at the parks. So I'm guessing we get a slightly stepped up version of that non-union show that was touring. 

I'd agree. I just mean we aren't getting an established director's new take on the material. We will probably just get a very safe, standard production. 

Call_me_jorge said: "The tour will be using the tier 3 touring contract. Disney could afford to tour this on the highest level contract, so I’m shocked equity approved this."

I feel like Equity has no real power over this. They can’t even stop tours from going non-union, so how would they control what tier a tour goes out on? The good news is, this tour should sell extremely well, so the cast will hopefully make a good amount of overages. I’ve heard that the BEETLEJUICE tour has been selling so well that the cast is actually making more than they would’ve on a full production contract due to the high overages.

KevinKlawitter said: "Kyra Belle Johnson and Fergie L. Philippe to star (video)

A leading actress with the middle name "Belle" is kind of delightful"

I love that and also they have wonderful chemistry- he's so attractive 

That current Australian production is a disgrace. Songs half performed, the production values woeful. How did Be Our Guest become a tap number, with 10 per cent of the lyrics gone. A major disappointment in every way

It's likely the same rethought production that recently debuted in the U.K.

Updated On: 2/13/25 at 04:00 PM

Call_me_jorge said: "The tour will be using the tier 3 touring contract. Disney could afford to tour this on the highest level contract, so I’m shocked equity approved this."

Equity allowed it because the tour met the qualifications to use that level. The contract lays out the level qualifiers, with the average weekly guarantee being the biggest factor. Producers don't get to just say "we're using this level." They have a lot of things they need to report to Equity before they get approved for the contract.

If that was an attempt at being funny you failed miserably

Anyone see this in upstate NY and can post a song list? Want to see if they are using the songs from the original or the live action movie

In Chicago, the first night, near-capacity audience on Wednesday, July 9 shared extended ovations after GASTON and BE OUR GUEST.

I got goosebumps listening to the brass arrangement beneath the Act One closer IF I CAN’T LOVE HER.

The show effectively uses LED, with scenes of the village, the countryside, the castle, and wolf attacks, but I wanted more oomph in the title song ballroom scene.

The stagewide LED screens are used both upstage and downstage.

The cast is great. There is magic shared between Belle and the Beast. Engaging work by Gaston, Lumiere, Cogsworth, and Mrs Potts.

Act 1 about 80 minutes. Act 2 about 45 minutes.

Very busy merch stand with a lot of choices, but I did not get close enough for details.

Shout out to the bubble gum pink curtain that appears at the start of BE OUR GUEST.

 

I'm so tired of LED walls. 

I've always liked No Matter What as a song but its placement in the show doesn't work very well. Having a slow ballad like that as the second song dulls early momentum. But it is nice for developing why Belle would go through all that to save her father.