Beauty and the Beast National Tour 2025/2026
Photo by Matthew Murphy There are different lenses through which I could review the anniversary tour of Disney's Beauty and the Beast : As family entertainment, as a Broadway revival (especially valid since there is talk of having this tour stop on Broadway in the same way The Wiz and Beetlejuice did (or, in this case, possibly longer than those offerings), or, simply from my personal point of view. As family entertainment it is fun and the kids will have a nice time. But I would feel remiss if that's all I focused on in this review, despite the fact that a family, and largely kid, audience is what the production is clearly aiming for. Compared with the wide array of family theater offerings it's obviously about as big a spectacle as you can get (though I sometimes prefer the more intimate pieces, as do many kids...), and it comes with an equivalent, if not outrageous, price tag. If you have kids who won't be scared by special effects and love the original animated ...