Disney Theatricals have announced that a brand new production of Beauty and the Beast is in the works, which will tour the UK & Ireland in 2021.

Members of the original Broadway creative team have signed up to the project, which will launch with a five-week run at Curve Leicester in May 2021.

Rumours originally began about an international revival in 2019, promising new designs and choreography.

Beauty and the Beast marked the first production under the Disney Theatrical Productions blanket. It played on Broadway for 13 years and successfully performed in 37 countries across the world.

Based on the 1991 animated film that we all know and love, the musical has a book by Linda Woolverton, with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice.

Casting for the tour is underway and will be revealed in due course.