where: Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 of Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale
when: 8 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 7: 30 pm Sunday, 2 P.M. Wednesdays and Saturdays-Sundays, through November 27
Based on the animated smash 1991, stage version of the Beauty and the Beast is what got Disney to Broadway and into the business of legitimate Theatre in 1994. The story of the familiar dear, Belle and her nerdy Prince not so charming pays off big for Disney, running in New York until 2007, chalking up 5,464 performances on Broadway, more than 1.4 billion worldwide bestsellers.