Jake Lipson wrote:I'm guessing Proud of Your Boy was one of the last things they did at WDFA.) And for the record, as I've said before, every article and report I've read about the Aladdin DVD over the past two days (except IMDB's, which was so errorous I can't stand it) said that the sequence is there as a DELETED SCENE and WILL NOT be restored into the main feature itself. If they were to do that they'd have to create new character(s) and subplots - Aladdin's mother, at least, since he sings it to her, and maybe his brothers, too. Which seems like a bit much for Disney to do for the sake of having a new song in the movie. So I think it's just going to be an extra, like I'm Odd.
Also bear in mind we haven't had the official press release for the set yet, and Disney press releases are known to be off at the best of times. A pre-press release release (if you know what I mean) may not be that accurate either. I think all the reports we have seen have all been from the same source (The Hollywood Reporter) and the wording seems to be somewhat loose. They also got the number of Platinum releases wrong.
I find it hard to believe Disney would create and/or complete new animation for a deleted scene. They've never done it before, and didn't for the I'm Odd sequence in Alice (but we very keen to promote the "newly discovered" song).
I'm sure that they could do a little creative thinking and have Aladdin remembering the song and his mother in flashback? Or something similar? She doesn't have to "exist" in the film. It doesn't mean that a whole subplot will have to be created and resolved in the film.
Now, as well as Aladdin's mother, wasn't Jaffar supposed to sing an altered reprise of the song originally? Perhaps they're talking about this? And it could still be in the film with minimum changes? Of course, it doesn't exactly make much sense having a reprise without the original tune, but adding the Morning Report over some of the other songs dropped from The Lion King didn't make much sense either.
Besides, the Reuters report (
here) seems to lump the new song in with the movie and away from the other supplements listed.
Featuring a remixed 5.1 surround sound home theater track, the "Aladdin" double-disc DVD also will include a deleted song called "Proud of Your Boy" by Academy Award-winning songwriters Howard Ashman and Alan Menken. The film features the voices of Robin Williams, Scott Weinger, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman and Gilbert Gottfried.
"The song was edited out of the first version," Chapek said, "but we're planning to bring it back along with the original pencil test drawings of a scene featuring Aladdin's mother."
I find the words I've underlined interesting. "First Version." Surley there is no other version, as only one movie was made? Wouldn't "edited out during development" or something similar be more appropriate language to use? Could this mean the DVD will feature the "Second Version" including the song?
Like "Human Again", the song was intended to be included in the original film. So this "pencil test" mentioned probably, like the "Human Again" storyboards on disc 2 of Beauty and the Beast, something seperate than the "newly animated" sequence.
Disney obviously went to the expense of "redrawing" 20% of the film because at that time they thought it was going to appear on IMAX screens. Wouldn't they also have spent on expense of creating new animation to show it on IMAX screens too? A new song would have been one of the attractions to draw in the crowds.
Barbra Streisand was good in snow white cause it wasnt a huge difference from the original and it just fit in. why not get real people that can sing? Whole New World they could get some only like Toni Braxton or someone else to re-sing it, they make me mad! 
