Robert Jess Roth was a 27-year-old director of stage shows at Disneyland when he fantasized about much more than this provincial life. "I went to Michael Eisner with the idea of Disney doing Broadway in 1990," Roth, now 56, recalls of the inception of Disney's seminal stage musical, Beauty and the Beast. The company's first-ever Broadway adaptation just marked its 25th anniversary this past April, with news arriving…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 01:30PM on May 2, 2019