Disney is officially making at least two more shows

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Disney is officially making at least two more shows

Posted: 1/13/08 at 9:20pm

I posted this in another thread, but it sort of got lost in the middle.

From the The Little Mermaid Playbill:
"Future projects in development include The Man in the Ceiling, featuring original book author Jules Feiffer and composer Andrew Lippa, and a stage adaption of Peter and the Starcatchers, a novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson."

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re: Disney is officially making at least two more shows

Posted: 1/13/08 at 9:58pm

Hasn't The Man in the Ceiling been known for a while?

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardid=1&boardname=bway&thread=903169

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Posted: 1/13/08 at 10:37pm

I'm pretty sure both of these have been known for awhile

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Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:02am

I recently heard a rumour that Aladdin was in development as I read on another post not long ago.

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Posted: 1/14/08 at 8:25am

I don't see either of those becoming the big extravaganzas like Mary Poppins/Lion King/Mermaid.

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Posted: 1/14/08 at 11:13am

I would love to see Disney do a stage adaption of Hercules or Aladdin. They are fantastic films. Who knows, maybe Jonathan Freeman could play Jafar again. =)

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Posted: 1/14/08 at 11:26am

^That would be much better than the nothing-of-a-role he has in TLM right now.

If I recall, they said in an article recently that the head of Disney Theatricals was here to stay, and also that there was another major musical they were working on that wasn't based on any Disney films (that's all that was said about it).

So that's 3.

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Posted: 1/14/08 at 11:32am

good for them...i may be in the minority here, but I thought Aida was there most successful venture into theater.

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Posted: 1/14/08 at 12:04pm

I think that Mulan would be an AMAZING broadway show. The story would be serious enough for parents to take seriously, and it has alot of depth and deals with rather heavey issues such as war, love, courage, etc. Plus visually I feel it would be extremely gorgeous if they did it the right way.

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Posted: 1/14/08 at 1:02pm

I think PETE'S DRAGON would be a great story to adapt for the stage.

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Posted: 1/14/08 at 2:36pm

<< good for them...i may be in the minority here, but I thought Aida was there most successful venture into theater.
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Agree. Add me to the minority.

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Posted: 1/16/08 at 2:26pm

my friend works at the lunt and she said they were giving out free tickets to cast a crew. papering the audience already. Is this a bad sign??

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Posted: 1/16/08 at 2:54pm

eisner was the reason for disneys early good fortune . shoe mocker is clueless. This is karma coming back to bite him on the a@# for the bad way he treated the final company of beauty and the beast.. He could not wait to put the final nail in that coffin cuz it was eisners baby.. So Tom my prediction for you and anything you bring to broadway . Flop flop and flop.

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Posted: 1/16/08 at 3:15pm

Disney is also working on TOY STORY THE MUSICAL.

Apparently it's being done on their cruise ships this summer.

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Posted: 1/16/08 at 5:08pm

Funny enough.

My teacher at my school is Eisner's cousin. He knows him really well.

He had told me that the reason why he got hired by disney is because he is goot at marketing the hell out of all thier movies and continued to do that with thier shows.

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Posted: 1/16/08 at 5:10pm

And I hear they are bringing back a sanitized version of RENT.

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