Overview
- The touring company added Christina Rose Hall as Mrs. Potts and Aaron Kaburick as Maurice, with both set to debut Tuesday, July 7, at the Civic Theatre in San Diego.
- Kyra Belle Johnson leads the cast as Belle and Fergie L. Philippe stars as the Beast, supported by named principals including Stephen Mark Lukas, Danny Gardner, Javier Ignacio, Harry Francis, and Holly Ann Butler.
- The new tour reunites key original Broadway creatives such as composer Alan Menken, lyricist Tim Rice, and book writer Linda Woolverton, while crediting a mix of legacy designers and new arrangers and production staff.
- The production will celebrate its first anniversary on July 10, marking the first Disney-produced North American tour of Beauty and the Beast in 25 years.
- The show builds on a long commercial legacy that includes a nearly eight-year Broadway run starting in 1994 and previous North American tours that reached millions of theatergoers.