Disney Shows

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG is first. TARZAN is next for 2005. They also want that Disney Musical Revue, MARY POPPINS, and LITTLE MERMAID afterwards.

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snow white is actually a show done at the california aventures theme park.

Not that it matters, but Snow White is in Disneyland, not California Adventure. Aladdin is at California Adventure though.

On The Record already has it's pre-NYC run set in Cleveland at the Palace Theatre, Playhouse Square Center. There will be an 8 member cast. Here is the thread I made earlier...

Disney Theatrical Production's new show, "On The Record," a musical revue of 50 songs from Disney movies, will open in CLEVELAND, OH (sorry, some hometown excitement)!! It will leave town on November 21st and tour for about a year. During this time, producers will be decideing to make a NYC move. Here is the article

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Updated On: 3/14/04 at 08:58 PM

Pardon me, but how are they going to pull off Little Mermaid?

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Maybe they'll ask back Julie Taylor, and it'll all be puppets.

"But it's been a long time since Disney did anything original.... "

Aida was their last Broadway show and it was original, so I don't understand what you mean. Writing off The Little Mermaid based on your own concept of how you think they will stage the production seems to be jumping the gun quite a bit. It has had a couple of readings, but far from being produced at the moment with any concept tied to it. The only shows definitely moving into production are Mary Poppins in London and On the Record for a US national tour. Tarzan is in the works, but is still in very premilinary stages. The Lion King faced a huge amount of skepticism before it ever opened, but then surprised everyone including the critics. It's possible that it could happen again.

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"Aida was their last Broadway show and it was original."

Aida was an opera long before it was a musical. I don't call that original...

"oh catsnyrevival, will you be paying the bills for the thousands of people who will be put of work in nyc alone when you run these doggone awful producers out of the business"

I just think that there are quite a few shows out there that are much more deserving of a Broadway staging than 'The Little Mermaid'. The producers can produce whatever the hell they want, that doesn't mean that I have to like it....

You all know I'm dying to see Tarzan... I won't beat a dead horse.

As for The Little Mermaid, MyNameInLights - I agree with what Musetta said (except it's Julie TAYMOR, not Taylor... not a big deal, though). She did the puppets for The Lion King.

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I too would rather have Disney to do something original and not based on their movies. The act is getting a little old. To bad disney can't use their "disney on broadway" company for new stories and plots.

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When I mentioned Aida was original, I meant as a musical produced for the stage rather than a musical based on one of their films. Much the same that Rent is an original musical, though it too, is based on an opera. I didn't think it would take so much explanation. A truly original musical that is not based on a movie, novel, historical event, play, or biography with an original score is extremely rare, but it has happened. Disney has provided two of Broadway's long-running musicals and I'm sure Aida (though I don't care for the show) will continue to run a while as well. Families worldwide have enjoyed the shows for years. I still don't understand how this is such a terrible thing.

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I guess you forgot about Tony Kushner, Jason Robert Brown, Michael John LaChiusa, Richard Greenberg, August Wilson, Urinetown, Avenue Q, Movin' Out, Taboo, Caroline or Change, Bombay Dreams, Assassins and the fact that Edward Albee is still writing for the stage. How many "kiddie shows" (or more accurately, "child-friendly" shows) are currently on Broadway? Only two. It's not like there's some sort of kiddie-show domination going on. Even The Boy From Oz and Wicked are not based on films.

Where are the plays? Original plays? Do you mean:

Golda's Balcony
The Retreat From Moscow
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
The Violet Hour
Anna in the Tropics
The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
I Am My Own Wife
Drowning Crow

and upcoming:

Match
Sixteen Wounded
Sight Unseen

All of these plays are just from this season. They may or may not run long, just like the musicals, but you cannot say there has been a lack of original works opening on Broadway. Not to mention Off-Broadway. Broadway.....pathetic? I guess if you're not paying attention. Sounds a bit like bitterness unfounded.

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