{"id":74024,"date":"2025-12-30T20:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/74024\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T20:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:42:07","slug":"beauty-and-the-beast-is-headed-to-philadelphia-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/74024\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Beauty and the Beast&#8217; is headed to Philadelphia in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-end=\"430\" data-start=\"121\">A Broadway favorite is heading back to Broad Street this winter. Disney\u2019s &#8220;<a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ensembleartsphilly.org\/series-and-subscriptions\/broadway-series\/disneys-beauty-and-the-beast\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beauty and the Beast<\/a>&#8221; will take over the Academy of Music for a two-week run from Feb. 11 through Feb. 22, 2026, , as part of the musical\u2019s first North American tour in more than 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>The show brings the familiar fairy tale back to the stage with large-scale sets, choreography and the songs many audiences grew up with, including \u201cBe Our Guest\u201d and the Oscar-winning title track. First opening on Broadway in 1994, &#8220;Beauty and the Beast&#8221; earned nine Tony nominations and went on to become one of the highest-grossing shows in Broadway history.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"792\" data-start=\"432\">Tickets are on sale now through <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ensembleartsphilly.org\/series-and-subscriptions\/broadway-series\/disneys-beauty-and-the-beast\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ensemble Arts Philly<\/a>, with prices and availability varying by date and seating section.<\/p>\n<p><a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ensembleartsphilly.org\/series-and-subscriptions\/broadway-series\/disneys-beauty-and-the-beast\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Beauty and the Beast&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-end=\"792\" data-start=\"432\">Runs Feb. 11-22, 2026<br \/>The Academy of Music<br \/>40 S Broad St.<br \/>Philadelphia, PA 19102<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"792\" data-start=\"432\">This content was generated by PhillyVoice Media Events, not by the editorial staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Broadway favorite is heading back to Broad Street this winter. Disney\u2019s &#8220;Beauty and the Beast&#8221; will take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8486,35443,27562,13517,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-74024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-academy-of-music","tag-disney","tag-musicals","tag-performances","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}