(Photo illustration: The LA Globe)

Forty dollars is the cheapest ticket price posted for Disney's Beauty and the Beast in Hollywood, and it is sold only at the box office. That figure comes from the venue's special-offers page, which sets a limited number of rush tickets at $40, released two hours before each performance. The same page limits buyers to two per valid ID and calls the seats subject to availability. The theater publishes no starting price and no price range for the run anywhere on the show's listing.

For a household weighing the trip, that is most of the calculus. Buy in advance at whatever the box office asks, or arrive early and gamble on seats being left.

What is on stage

Disney's Beauty and the Beast opens at the Hollywood Pantages on August 12, 2026, according to the theater's event listing. The run closes September 6. It is billed as a 30th-anniversary production and as Disney's first North American touring production of the musical in more than 25 years.

The creative team is largely the one that made the original: Alan Menken on music, Tim Rice on lyrics, Linda Woolverton on book, Matt West directing and choreographing, Stanley A. Meyer on sets, Ann Hould-Ward on costumes and Natasha Katz on lighting, per the listing.

The announced cast has Kyra Belle Johnson as Belle and Fergie L. Philippe as the Beast, with Stephen Mark Lukas as Gaston, Danny Gardner as Lumiere, Christina Rose Hall as Mrs. Potts, Javier Ignacio as Cogsworth, Harry Francis as Lefou and Aaron Kaburick as Maurice.

What the listing does not do is itemize the reimagining. It calls the production a 30th-anniversary staging without naming which scenic, costume or musical elements differ from the original — so a reader buying on the anniversary framing is buying on the word, not on a published list of changes.

The practical column

From the same event page:

• Run time is 2 hours 30 minutes. That includes one intermission.
• Recommended for ages 6 and up. Every guest needs a ticket, and anyone under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.
• An accessible performance is set for Sunday, August 30, 2026. It starts at 1:00 p.m., with ASL interpretation, audio description and closed captioning.
• The content advisory lists theatrical smoke, haze, fog, open flame, strobe effects and gun effects.

How the cheap seats actually work

Two routes are live for this run, and only one of them has a posted price. The $40 rush is in person at the box office, for that day's performances, two hours before curtain. The other is an official digital lottery through the Broadway in Hollywood app. Entries open at 11:00 a.m. two days before a performance. They close at 10:00 a.m. the day before, and winners may buy up to two tickets. The lottery price is not published.

The box office is at 6233 Hollywood Blvd., (323) 468-1770. Buying there in person avoids added fees, per the venue's how-to-buy page — which is the quiet arithmetic on a $40 rush ticket, since fees are the part of a ticket price nobody quotes in a headline.

After Hollywood, the tour's next Southern California stop is the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, beginning September 22, 2026. Nobody from this paper has seen the production, and nothing above is a verdict on it.

Source: broadwayinhollywood.com, retrieved August 26, 2026.