Preview: Broadway's new Beauty and the Beast shows more 'humanity' than past versions

Calgary Herald5 November 2026, 12:18 UTCCanada

When Broadway Across Canada’s production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast plays the Jubilee auditoriums in Alberta this month, the Beast will have a new look. When the 1991 animated film was turned into a stage musical three years later, and for 30 years afterwards, the actors playing the Beast wore prosthetics to make them […]

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