Tickets on sale for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis on Friday, March 21
Performances being on Tuesday, Aug. 5 and play for two weeks through Sunday, Aug. 17 at the Orpheum Theatre
TICKETS GO ON SALE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON FRIDAY, MARCH 21 AT 10 A.M.
MINNEAPOLIS (March 18, 2025) — Disney Theatrical Group, under the direction of Andrew Flatt, Anne Quart and Thomas Schumacher and Hennepin Arts announced today that tickets for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, the first North American production of the musical presented by Disney in over 25 years, returns to Minneapolis as part of the Bank of America Broadway on Hennepin. The enchanting and timeless Broadway musical will begin performances at the historic Orpheum Theatre (910 Hennepin Ave.) for a limited engagement of two weeks through Tuesday, Aug. 5 to Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025.
Tickets for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast go on sale at HennepinArts.org on Friday, March 21 at 10 a.m. For reservations for groups of 10 or more, please click to minneapolis.broadway.com/groups.Show dates are Tuesday, Aug. 5 to Sunday, Aug. 17 at the historic Orpheum Theatre. Performance times are Tuesday to Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 1 and 6:30 p.m., with an additional matinee performance on Thursday, Aug. 14 at 1 p.m.Performance schedule, prices and cast are subject to change without notice.
Based on the 1991 Academy Award®-winning animated feature film, Beauty and the Beast premiered on Broadway in 1994 and still ranks as the 10th longest-running show in the industry’s history. Nominated for nine Tony® Awards, winning for Best Costume Design, Beauty remains one of the highest-grossing Broadway shows of all time. The title’s visibility and success have expanded globally with productions of the stage show and the smash Oscar®-nominated 2017 live-action film, which grossed over $1B worldwide.
Ticket buyers are reminded that Hennepin Arts and Ticketmaster are the only official retail ticket outlets for all performances at the Orpheum Theatre. Ticket buyers who purchase tickets from a ticket broker or any third party should be aware that the Orpheum Theatre is unable to reprint or replace lost or stolen tickets and is unable to contact patrons with information regarding time changes or other pertinent updates regarding the performance.
About Disney’s Beauty & the Beast Critics have raved about the show throughout its history, from its 1994 Broadway premiere through the recent smash U.K. and Australian productions: “A delight! The astonishments rarely cease,” declared The New York Times in reviewing the original Broadway production. “A tale as old as time, but as exhilarating as ever,” raved the London Evening Standard. “Witty and exuberant with breathtaking choreography,” wrote the Sydney Morning Herald.
The structure and tone of the story and score made Disney history. Only once before – in Menken and Ashman’s previous film musical The Little Mermaid – had a Disney film been structured as a stage musical where the songs are integral to plot and characterization. This Menken/Ashman innovation is credited with the 1990’s Disney animation renaissance that went on to create such film classics as Aladdin, The Lion King and Hunchback of Notre Dame and helped re-introduce the book musical form to popular culture.
Beauty and the Beast, directed & choreographed by Matt West, features Alan Menken’s Academy Award®-winning score, songs by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman (including the Academy Award®-winning title song and the show-stopping “Be Our Guest”), plus songs written especially for the stage by Alan Menken and Tim Rice (including “If I Can’t Love Her” and “A Change In Me”). The production features a book by Linda Woolverton, author of the original screenplay. Sets are by Stanley A. Meyer, costumes by Ann Hould-Ward (Tony Award® winner for Beauty and the Beast) and lighting by Natasha Katz.
Longtime Menken collaborators Michael Kosarin and Danny Troob are music supervisor/arranger and orchestrator, respectively. New dance music arrangements are by David Chase.
Completing the design team, John Shivers is sound designer, Darrel Maloney is projection & video designer, and David H. Lawrence is hair & make-up designer. Jim Steinmeyer is the illusion designer, as he was on the original 1994 production. Jason Trubitt is the production supervisor and Myriah Bash is the general manager. Anne Quart serves as executive producer.
Previous Disney-produced North American Tours of Beauty and the Beast played for almost eight years, with the original tour launching in Minneapolis at the Orpheum Theatre in November 1995, and with subsequent tours running through August 2003, for a combined total of 2,893 performances to nearly 6 million audience members.
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Hennepin Arts drives cultural and economic vitality in Minnesota through leadership of the dynamic Hennepin Theatre District in downtown Minneapolis and educational programming that reaches every area of the state. Its historic theatres — Orpheum, State, Pantages and Dudley Riggs — and event center at 900 Hennepin Avenue light up Hennepin Avenue with top-tier entertainment, including the best of Broadway and a wide variety of arts programming. Hennepin Arts is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Learn more at HennepinArts.org.
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