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 The show debuted on Broadway in 1994, three years after the release of the movie. It is currently the longest running American musical on Broadway, the sixth longest running show in Broadway history, and has played over 5,200 performances. The show's world premiere was at Houston's Theatre Under The Stars in November, 1993. The idea for the show came about from a particularly popular 25 minute-long Broadway-style performance of the film at Disneyland which opened in 1992 and a similar show at the Disney-MGM Studios theme park which opened concurrent to the film. The Broadway show features a new expanded script and brand new songs by Alan Menken and Tim Rice, who also wrote the lyrics for Disney's "The Lion King," and for two songs from "Aladdin." At the moment perfoming on Helsinki. The show has been performed on London's prestigious West End, as well as Melbourne, Sydney, Tokyo, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Seoul, Paris, São Paulo, Toronto, Stuttgart, Berlin, Vienna and Weston, MA. The show is currently touring through the UK and Netherlands and will soon premiere in Belgium, Germany and Israel, and reopen season in Mexico City. To make the characters of the Enchanted Objects believable on stage, their transformation storylines were changed. Instead of changing them immediately into objects, they are slowly but surely losing their humanity. If the spell is not broken before the last petal falls, they will fully become whatever object they are supposed to be. The feather duster and wardrobe characters of the film were given names and more fully developed characterizations. Linda Woolverton, who wrote the book of the musical as well as the film's screenplay, named the feather duster maid Babette and the wardrobe Madame de la Grande Bouche. It was the first time these supporting characters were ever named. In the past few years, Disney has begun to lease the rights for performing the show to traveling theatrical companies, and now the show is performed all over North America and Europe (although Disney will not allow the show to be performed within 50 miles of New York City). The first non-professional theatre in the world to perform the show was Theatre Cedar Rapids, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Subsequently Beauty and the Beast has become the most commonly performed show performed by community theatrical groups, in part because it can accommodate a large company and actors of all ages. Disney Channel star Christy Carlson Romano played Belle from January 2004 to September 2004. Another Disney Channel actress, Anneliese van der Pol, will be the final Broadway Belle, as her tenure will go from April 3, 2007 to the show's closure on July 29, 2007
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