Except for The Power of Blast! (which was a condensed version of Blast!), I wouldn't count most of the Disney theme park shows being adaptations of the actual broadway musicals.
Most of the time, the Disney theme park shows predate the Broadway musical adaptation. Both Aladdin - A Musical Spectacular, Frozen - Live at the Hyperion (Disney California Adventure), and Frozen - A Musical Spectacular (Disney Cruise Line) predate the Broadway musical adaptations, and are staged and told differently (both the Frozen adaptation at DCA and DCL still have the trolls rather than the HIdden Folk on Broadway, Iago is a puppet controlled by a performer on stage in the Aladdin DCA musical rather than just a performer on Broadway, "To Be Free" from the Aladdin DCA musical never made it to Broadway, etc.) And Disney Cruise Line's Beauty and the Beast appears to be inspired more by the live action film than the Broadway musical.
Still, it's been cool to see more Broadway style shows at the Disney parks and cruises, even if they are different than the actual Broadway musical. Actually, one of the original Elsas (Chelsea Emma Franko) from the Frozen DCA production is now currently the Elphaba standby on the Wicked National Tour. Of course, Eden Espinosa (who performed in DCA's first musical production Steps in Time) was the original Broadway standby for Elphaba.
Updated On: 6/2/18 at 09:12 PM
