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Disney's Divinity wrote:I expect Ursula to have less screentime than the original, not more.

Which, depending on who they officially cast and how they decide to portray the character, could be a good or bad thing. The fact that they were thinking of Gaga at one time tells me they were looking for someone like Sherie Rene Scott ( ) rather than someone like the character as she appears in the animated film / Pat Carroll, which already spells the worst, imo. They probably won’t even include Vanessa, instead choosing to de-bone Ursula and turn her into a more passive character.

If that's the direction they go, I'll be glad to have as little of that kind of Ursula as possible, personally.

I disagree it's STILL Ursula. So i want as MUCH of her as i can get !!!

Give like 30 minutes of just her !

Sotiris wrote:Ursula doesn't need a second song either but a reprise of Poor Unfortunate Souls would be nice.

Sotiris wrote:Ursula doesn't need a second song either but a reprise of Poor Unfortunate Souls would be nice.

UmbrellaFish wrote:If you were writing a new song for Ariel, a solo not a duet, were would you place it? I’ve never liked “The World Above” and it’s placement before “Part of Your World” in the Broadway musical. It’s an “I want” song before the “I want” song and thus lessens the impact of “Part of Your World.” I think The Little Mermaid is paced pretty beautifully in the beginning and Ariel doesn’t need much more to sing than “Part of Your World” and its reprise.

Conversely, I’ve always loved “Beyond My Wildest Dreams” and its inclusion in the musical as an opportunity to hear Ariel’s perspective after she’s lost her voice and while Ariel and Eric are touring his kingdom. I think that type of song would work especially well in the film medium were it could be used in voice-over.

Finally, I think I could also picture Ariel getting her own “Speechless”-esque power ballad (but, uh, better and doesn’t stop the motion of the movie dead in its tracks) in the finale if the creative team decides to give Ariel a more active role in the finale, which I feel they should.

Sotiris wrote:Ursula doesn't need a second song either but a reprise of Poor Unfortunate Souls would be nice.

Sotiris wrote:I meant aside from the one she sings as Vanessa. I think a good placement for another reprise would be after Ursula gets the trident. Expanding Vanessa's part would be nice too. I always found it way too short.

DisneyFan97 wrote:Would be nice if the Electric eels got a solo number !

Sean Bailey wrote:With Halle Bailey, that’s just sort of a case of, for us, we looked for the very best Ariel. I remember specifically all of us sat in the room and heard her sing and saw her perform and we thought, that’s her. And we heard some criticism. And I heard things like, when the announcement went out, some friends of mine who were at the Essence event in Atlanta described it — they didn’t know why, a cheer went up through the hall. I heard all sides of it. And for us it was just as simple as I say, talent wins.

The original Little Mermaid was also considered problematic on the gender front. Because Ariel, in order to get her man, has to give up her voice, her most magical and distinctive quality. You can see why this might fly in 19th-century Denmark, when Hans Christian Andersen wrote the Little Mermaid fairy tale. But in 21st-century, anywhere: the idea of a woman literally silencing herself in the pursuit of romance feels—well, pretty 19th-century. The new Little Mermaid is scheduled to come out next year, and we asked Sean Bailey about that.

"Well, I don’t want to say too much about it because they do involve some, sort of, plot changes. It’s something we’ve talked a lot about. And we are definitely working to still sort of deliver the beautiful foundations of that story while being cognizant of the times we find ourselves in.

I will say, on a more personal front, I have a daughter. I took this job around 10 years ago. She was around seven-years-old. And I watched, as I was preparing to take the job, a lot of the old animated pictures. And while they’re wonderful in many, many ways, I was watching them with my daughter and thought if—if we’re going to tell them now, there’s a lot of things we should probably do for little girls who are going to watch these versions. And for young men, by the way, as well. So what’s the world that we want to reflect, while respecting what is clearly timeless about the stories?"

Sean Bailey wrote:With Halle Bailey, that’s just sort of a case of, for us, we looked for the very best Ariel. And for us it was just as simple as I say, talent wins.

Sotiris wrote:That's such a lie. We know they only considered Black actresses for the role from the start. So this was clearly not a case where they looked at actresses of every race and ethnicity and the best just happened to be Black.

rodrigo_ca wrote:Just a reminder that I Want the Good Times Back is no longer used on productions of the show, being replaced by Daddy's Little Angel and Human Stuff was just simply replaced by a short dialogue.

D82 wrote: I don't understand why they have to lie in this case. They don't need to be ashamed of deciding to cast a black actress in the role from the beginning.