Tickets On Sale for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at the Aronoff Center in Cincinnati on Friday, October 23
Performances begin on February 16 and play for 2 weeks through February 28, 2027 at the Aronoff Center
(Cincinnati, OH) (October 22, 2026) – Disney Theatrical Group, under the direction of Andrew Flatt and Anne Quart, and First Financial Bank Broadway in Cincinnati presented by TriHealth announced today that tickets for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, the first North American touring production of the musical presented by Disney in over 25 years, will go on sale to the public on Friday, October 23 at 10am. The enchanting and timeless Broadway musical will begin performances in Cincinnati at the Aronoff Center on Tuesday, March 16, 2027 for a limited engagement of 2 weeks through Sunday, March 28, 2027.
Based on the 1991 Academy Award®-winning animated feature film, Beauty and the Beast premiered on Broadway in 1994 and still ranks as one of the longest-running shows 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.
In Cincinnati, Beauty and the Beast will play Tuesday through Friday at 7:30pm, Saturday at 2pm and 7:30pm and Sunday at 1pm and 6:30pm. Beginning Friday, October 23, tickets will be available at the Aronoff Center Box Office, and online at CincinnatiArts.org. To charge tickets, call the Cincinnati Arts Association at 513.621.2787 (10am-5pm, M-F). Orders for groups of 10 or more may be placed by calling 513.369.4363.
Ticket buyers are reminded that CincinnatiArts.org is the only official retail ticket outlet for all performances at the Aronoff Center. Ticket buyers who purchase tickets from a ticket broker or any third party should be aware that the Aronoff Center 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 and the Beast
Critics have raved about the show throughout its history, from its 1994 Broadway premiere to 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,” wrote the London Evening Standard. “Everything you could hope for: lovely music, dazzling costumes and standout choreography,” raved the Chicago Tribune of the current North American tour.
The structure and tone of the story and score made Disney history. It was just the second time that a Disney film had 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. David Andrews Rogers is music director.
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.
Previous Disney-produced North American Tours of Beauty and the Beast played for almost eight years, for a combined total of 2,893 performances.
For more information, visit www.beautyandthebeastthemusical.com, Instagram and Facebook.
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First Financial Bank Broadway in Cincinnati presented by TriHealth is committed to bringing the very best of Broadway to the Tri-State, presenting touring Broadway plays and musicals in Cincinnati since 1987. For over twenty years, Broadway in Cincinnati has presented all shows at the Aronoff Center. The Broadway in Cincinnati series brings more than 185,000 people downtown to the Aronoff Center each year and contributes an average of $30 million to the local economy each season. Broadway in Cincinnati is a member of the Greater Cincinnati Convention & Visitors Bureau, the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and The Broadway League.
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