SHOWTIME IN SHANGHAI

A new Chinese-language production of hit Broadway and West End musical Beauty and the Beast has just opened at the Shanghai Grand Theatre, Zhang Kun reports.

Major production companies and established artists from Broadway and the West End have announced they will be collaborating on a slew of musical coproduction projects in China.

A new production of Beauty and the Beast in Chinese premiered at the Walt Disney Grand Theatre in Shanghai on June 14, led by the creative team behind the original Broadway show, including playwright Linda Woolverton, director Rob Roth and set designer Stanley Meyer.