Profile for Spayer

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...

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.

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 of a number of Rock songs taken from Tscaikov...