Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

#1

Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/23/08 at 6:09pm

Sadly we won't be able to hear the BBC Radio 2 concert on the 12/26 but a Disney magazine seems to have been given exclusive access to the rehearsals and the show itself.



BBC Radio 2 Celebrates the Music of Disney

#2

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/23/08 at 6:11pm

They also had three great pieces about The Lion King, High School Musical on Stage and Stephen Schwartz in their current issue.
Issue 13 Tales from the Laughing Place Magazine

#3

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/27/08 at 5:40am

Did anyone listen to the concert on the BBC iPlayer yesterday? I still can't seem to get it to work!


BBC Radio 2 Celebrates the Music of Disney

#4

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/27/08 at 9:25am

I did - great concert with some very talented performers.

---

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka

#5

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/27/08 at 10:55am

Wasn't there word that they were going to tour a few cities with this concert?

Great lineup !! Seeing Adam and Heather together again is always great !!

#6

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/29/08 at 6:27am

Sadly not - it was a one-night-only gig in London. I'm sure they will contemplate a similar show in NYC at some point - but this was to celebrate TLK's tenth anniversary in London (although I think that is actually in '09).

I was surprised to hear that they couldn't get Josh Strickland to appear. I would have thought he would have been happy for the attention.

It also made me realize that Kerry Butler should have been Ariel - she was amazing.

#7

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/29/08 at 7:31am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAXlmzhLW40

This is so pretty - there are a bunch more youtube videos (audio only) of the performance.

---

"This show had the WORST magnets on Broadway!"

#8

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/29/08 at 8:09am

Great stuff!!! Thank you for sharing

---

"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS

#9

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/29/08 at 4:20pm

Kerry Butler sounds gorgeous... but then again, when doesn't she?!

#10

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/29/08 at 4:32pm

There are moments when Kerry Butler sounds incredible, but then there are some moments during this when it sounds really pushed and nasally. But i still love her. I do not like Adam Pascal as Triton.

#11

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/29/08 at 4:32pm

There are moments when Kerry Butler sounds incredible, but then there are some moments during this when it sounds really pushed and nasally. But i still love her. I do not like Adam Pascal as Triton.

#12

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/29/08 at 4:35pm

I love Ashley Brown and Titus Burgess' "That's How You Know" from Enchanted.

---

::bust a move::

#13

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/29/08 at 6:41pm

"There are moments when Kerry Butler sounds incredible, but then there are some moments during this when it sounds really pushed and nasally."

I agree. Sometimes she sounds so so pretty and other times...not so much.

#14

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/29/08 at 8:23pm

That is pretty much how I feel about Kerry Butler all the time.

I really wish Adam Pascal would stick to singing this type of music. I think he sounds incredible here.

#15

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/29/08 at 8:27pm

Pascal SCORED on "A Whole New World".

---

"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid

#16

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:40am

People really think Kerry sounds great? She's all over the place in "If Only". Listen to "But time keeps racing forward and our moment's almost passed". Messy.

In other news, Drew is AMAZING, and his "Out There" is fantastic. Why is Hunchback not on Broadway yet?

#17

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/30/08 at 6:56am

I totally agree with trianaaron. I think Adam Pascal sounds great on this - this is the perfect type of music for him! I also thought Drew was wonderful.

---

"This show had the WORST magnets on Broadway!"

#18

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/30/08 at 7:20am

That show should be available on "Listen Again" at the link posted above until this coming Friday.

#19

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/30/08 at 3:38pm

I absolutely loved Pascal and Headley's "Can You Feel The Love Tonight." Absolutely beautiful.

---

And when the night has finally gone, and when we see the new day dawn, we wonder how we wandered for so long, so blind. The wasted world we thought we knew, the light will make it look brand new, so let it shine..." --ntn

#20

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/30/08 at 3:47pm

I'm not a Butler fan, but that was a great "Part of YOur World". I'm sure it helped that I've been hearing Sierra Bogus sleep her way through it throughout the last year.

#21

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/30/08 at 4:15pm

Ashely Brown is fantastic singing 2 songs from Enchanted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzFRfrRIkog&feature=channel_page

#22

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 12/30/08 at 11:55pm

I particularly loved Adam Pascal's "Strangers Like Me" but that could also be becuase I really liked the songs from Tarzan. I was afraid they weren't going to have Josh Groban sing. He sounded like a great host but that would have been such a waste!

#23

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 1/2/09 at 10:59pm

You don't think they will be really really nice and put this on a cd for us do you? Or even just itunes?

---

It really said US Navy, but hey, I worked with what they gave me ok.

#24

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 1/2/09 at 11:13pm

I loved Ashley's belting in That's How You Know and A Change In Me.

---

"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop

#25

re: Celebrate the Music of Disney: Josh Groban, Butler, Pascal & more!

Posted: 1/2/09 at 11:42pm

I hope they release a DVD or CD recording. Kerry Butler is an amazing performer and I know she was good in the workshop but I agree, she struggled in "Part Of Your World" and portions of "If Only". I noticed they lowered the key for Josh's "When You Wish Upon A Star" but was beautiful. Drew wasn't bad at all in "Out There". Yes, Adam was pretty good in "A Whole New World" and the other Disney songs. Imagine that, a rock singer can sing those songs. Overall, an excellent production.

PS. TimeSquare3, you're awesome! Thanks for the link.

---

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley

Updated On: 1/3/09 at 11:42 PM