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Broadway names voicing Animated features
 Mar 9 2017, 12:14:13 PM

Disney has always used Broadway (and often opera) talent for animated films.

Lucilla La Verne (queen -Snow White) was a stage actress, and Billy Gilbert (Sneezy) was a Vaudevillian.  That's just the very first...


Advice on show
 Mar 9 2017, 12:02:53 PM

YOU HAVE TICKETS TO HANSEN?!  You dog!  

 

I have seen On Your Feet, Waitress, Fiddler.  All great productions.  Hamilton, of course, if you can get tix.  Sunset sounds amazing!  I just got an ad for someting by Josh Harmon, starring Barbara Barrie ( original cast of "Comoany", Mrs. Barney Miller, among MANY other roles).  I think it's not músical.  


re: Pirates of Penzance meets Thoroughly Modern Millie ?
 Mar 9 2017, 11:56:54 AM

The short answer to your question is:  not rare at all.  Use of other music and/or songs, as a joke, or an homage, is very common.  One needs only to look as recently as "Something Rotten", to see a show that is chock-full of musical references, or as long ago as "Kismet" to find a show that was entirely written to the music of a classical composer (Borodin).  In fact, the use of classical music in modern compositions is also very common...I can think o


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