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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:13 pm
by TsWade2
I hope Disney gets it's revenge since Newsies didn't get the tony award for Best Musical!
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:03 pm
by disneyprincess11
TsWade2 wrote:I hope Disney gets it's revenge since Newsies didn't get the tony award for Newsies!
I think Aladdin will win A LOT with Best Musical, Best Choreography (Friend Like Me/Prince Ali
), Best Score, Best Featured/Leading Actors (Genie and Jafar, for sure! Aladdin will at least get a nom), Best Lighting Design, Best Costume Design (No question), and Best Scenic Design (A Whole New World will be a showstopper).
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:40 pm
by Prince Edward
YES! If Disney hires Jonathan Freeman as Jafar and let him sing on the cast recording, I would be satisfied:D
Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin... Menken musicals left to adapt to Broadway: Pocahontas, Hunchback & Hercules...^^
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 6:27 pm
by disneyprincess11
^^And Tangled!
Am I the only one who can picture Wreck It Ralph as a musical?
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 7:44 pm
by DisneyJedi
I am happy for Aladdin to be coming to Broadway, but I'm still extremely torn that it has to replace Mary Poppins of all shows. And I kind of just realized something.
If Disney's going to bring a new show to the stage, let alone Broadway, why couldn't it have been Hunchback? We've been waiting forever for that ever since it ended its run in Berlin, damn it!
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 8:50 pm
by disneyprincess11
DisneyJedi wrote:If Disney's going to bring a new show to the stage, let alone Broadway, why couldn't it have been Hunchback? We've been waiting forever for that ever since it ended its run in Berlin, damn it!
Yeah. He said a couple of years ago that it was coming. But, it's 2013. And still nothing. :/ Maybe after Aladdin?
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 9:42 pm
by DisneyJedi
disneyprincess11 wrote:
Yeah. He said a couple of years ago that it was coming. But, it's 2013. And still nothing. :/ Maybe after Aladdin?
Yeah, they damn well better!
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:45 am
by PatrickvD
DisneyJedi wrote:Thanks, Disney. Way to give great news while ruining my life in the process...
Yes... and, you know, there are children starving in Africa.
Just sayin'...
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:13 am
by Atlantica
This could be fab on stage!
I hope they don't fiddle as much with the ending quarter of the show like they did to Mermaid. Which yes I still loved, but would have been nice to have more of a straight adaption.
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 8:01 am
by disneyprincess11
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2013 ... g/1818585/
But the New Amsterdam Theatre, Poppins' Broadway home, shouldn't be empty for long. A new production of another Disney property, Aladdin, is expected to arrive in the spring of 2014. An early version of Aladdin, based on the 1992 film, was introduced in Seattle in the summer of 2011, but it's expected that the Broadway model will be substantially revamped.
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:39 am
by DisneyJedi
atlanticaunderthesea wrote:This could be fab on stage!
I hope they don't fiddle as much with the ending quarter of the show like they did to Mermaid. Which yes I still loved, but would have been nice to have more of a straight adaption.
Mary Poppins wasn't a straight adaptation of the film and (most) people loved the stage version even more than the movie. If Disney's stage shows were straight adaptations of the movies they were based on, then there wouldn't be a point in seeing them now, would there?
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:08 am
by disneyprincess11
DisneyJedi-And speaking of the devil....
http://www.broadway.com/buzz/166538/wil ... -broadway/
Quasimodo may get to ring his bells on Broadway as Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame is eyeing a Rialto run after all, according to The New York Post. Peter Parnell (The Cider House Rules) will pen a new book for the musical, which premiered in Berlin in 1999. The musical will also feature new songs from Oscar and Tony winner Alan Menken (who scored the 1996 animated film) and Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz. No word yet on casting, further creative team members or a potential production timeline.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame premiered in Berlin under the name Der Glöckner von Notre Dame and featured direction and an original book by Tony winner James Lapine, music by Menken and lyrics by Schwartz. The musical is a darker take on Disney’s 1996 film and Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel about Quasimodo, a deformed bellringer at the Notre Dame catherdral, and his unlikely relationship with the gypsy Esmeralda.
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 3:50 pm
by PatrickvD
Please make Hunchback dark. It could be Broadway's Les Mis for the 21st Century.
But seeing as how Disney is allergic to anything even remotely dark I'm dreading life-size gargoyles and more showstoppers. I'm praying for this production. There is no middle ground here, it will either take out breath away or be another near-miss as Mermaid and Tarzan.
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 5:36 pm
by DisneyJedi
Kind of coincidental/ironic that you mention Hunchback being the Les Mis of the 21st century, Patrick, because thee original novels of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables were both penned by Victor Hugo.
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 6:19 pm
by TsWade2
disneyprincess11 wrote:DisneyJedi-And speaking of the devil....
http://www.broadway.com/buzz/166538/wil ... -broadway/
Quasimodo may get to ring his bells on Broadway as Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame is eyeing a Rialto run after all, according to The New York Post. Peter Parnell (The Cider House Rules) will pen a new book for the musical, which premiered in Berlin in 1999. The musical will also feature new songs from Oscar and Tony winner Alan Menken (who scored the 1996 animated film) and Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz. No word yet on casting, further creative team members or a potential production timeline.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame premiered in Berlin under the name Der Glöckner von Notre Dame and featured direction and an original book by Tony winner James Lapine, music by Menken and lyrics by Schwartz. The musical is a darker take on Disney’s 1996 film and Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel about Quasimodo, a deformed bellringer at the Notre Dame catherdral, and his unlikely relationship with the gypsy Esmeralda.
BOOYA BABY! Two revenge musicals, that's what I'm talking about!
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 7:07 pm
by disneyprincess11
Couldn't agreed more!
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:56 pm
by SWillie!
Definitely looking forward to that one. Whenever Menken and Schwartz have come together, it's magic in my book.
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:26 pm
by qindarka
SWillie! wrote:Definitely looking forward to that one. Whenever Menken and Schwartz have come together, it's magic in my book.
Wish they could work together on another Disney film someday.
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:37 pm
by SWillie!
qindarka wrote:SWillie! wrote:Definitely looking forward to that one. Whenever Menken and Schwartz have come together, it's magic in my book.
Wish they could work together on another Disney film someday.
Absolutely. Hopefully Frozen is very successful so that Disney doesn't shy away from musicals yet again.
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 11:24 pm
by DisneyJedi
SWillie! wrote:qindarka wrote:
Wish they could work together on another Disney film someday.
Absolutely. Hopefully Frozen is very successful so that Disney doesn't shy away from musicals yet again.
Didn't Tangled do well? That was a musical.
