How exactly was Aladdin eligible for Best Original Score Written for the Theatre? It's main lyracist has been dead for over a decade. There are four new songs in the stage show, which means 2/3 of the score was written for the film. Just asking.
The qualification is something like more than 50% must be new. (ALthough one poster here said 60%). According to the other thread about this very subject, most posters claimed that Aladdin more than qualified.
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There are 4 new songs composed for the stage show, the rest were composed for the film (a few not used but composed for the film) they can be found on the The Music Behind a The Magic CDs of unreleased/used Disney musical material. I don't see how the Aladdin score could be deemed 50% new for eligibility. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I like the show, just trying to understand the rules.
I would assume that they are including the new music that takes its cue from previously written music as new. I wonder if they are even considering songs like Arabian Nights & Prince Ali new because they are quite different from the versions in the film?
Songs that are new for the show:
A Million Miles Away Somebody's Got Your Back These Palace Walls Diamond in the Rough Proud of Your Boy Reprise 1 + 2 Prince Ali Reprise 1 + 2 Finale Ultimo Act One Finale (Arabian Nights/Whole New World)
Songs from the film:
Arabian Nights One Jump Ahead Friend Like Me Prince Ali A Whole New World Prince Ali Reprise
Songs from concept/previously written music:
Proud Of Your Boy Babkak, Omar, Aladdin, Kassim High Adventure
I see four new songs 'Written For The Theatre' not reprises or song's written for the film. Reworked songs from the film for the stage seems like a stretch to qualify a score as 'Original'.
The "new" songs paled in comparison to the ones from the film anyway. In my mind, it shouldn't have been nominated for quality reasons, forget whether or not it's technically a "new score." And don't even get me started on that Best Book nomination...
Quality aside, it's that "technically' question I need answered as to how it could possibly be deemed a new score when 9 out of 13 songs were written for the film NOT the theatre!
Well I'm not sure any of us can definitively answer that without being on the nominating committee. I'm guessing the finale, the reprises, etc are also considered "new" as lampchop pointed out.
It's main lyracist has been dead for over a decade.
Try 23 years.
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I guess they were counting as new/original the songs that weren't actually in the film, even if they were written back then? Regardless, it's really unfair and I just hope that it doesn't win.
They wouldn't have to include those three songs for the new material to be the majority, though. All that would need to be included were the newly written reprises, which were written for the theater and not film and would, presumably, thus be considered eligible.
It would mean 10 songs were written for the show, 6 are from the film, 3 were written for the film but never used.
Because this nomination, on its face, seems so egregiously against the rules, that it seems unfair to those totally new scores who didn't get a nomination. This is the venue to discuss such things.
Ashman has been honored plenty of times for his work- and the work that has been honored is much stronger than Aladdin. And if this won, the subpar padding to the score would also be honored.
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