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[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 2:18am

Great business sense, close a show that's making bank.

[Juli]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 2:36am

It was just my own naive opinion, no need to kill me over it.

I do think they should at some point just close something. If they open something else kids are just going to stop going to one show. No kid can see them all, I've all seen BEauty and Lion King, and now i have to choose between tarzan and poppins, my fragile little mind might explode soon if I, a mere boy of a young age can't pick between two disney shows!

[Boq101]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 11:30am

Diva has a point. If they had to close a show I don't suppose they'd close their longest-running. In any case I think all of them are pretty amazing in terms of design and story.

I did hear however the Ursula in Mermaid is only going to be a puppet, and THAT scares the hell outta me.

[Jennifer Lynn]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 2:08pm

I'd like to see them take some non-musical properties and make musicals out of them...that way they wouldn't be accused of just taking an existing score and slapping it onstage.

For example...since Captain Nemo was my first literary crush, what about a musical of 20,000 Leagues? It would combine elements of the 1954 movie and the original novel (such as the fact that Nemo and the Nautilus *survived* the book.)

I can see Nemo (who would, of course, be a baritone...hell, he'd be Brian Stokes Mitchell) singing a rapturous aria about the wonders of the sea to his captives/guests. And later on, that tirade he gives in the book when he's about to ram the ship-- "I am the law! I am the judge!"--that seems like it could be quite Wagnerian. (And get this...it would be based on the same leitmotif as the "aria to the sea", just in a darker key.)

As I said, the ending would be closer to the book (also including the last words Arronax hears Nemo say, "Almighty God! Enough! Enough!"). As the three friends embrace on land once more, Arronax ponders the possibility that Nemo actually *let* them escape. They all agree that Nemo was a man to be admired and pitied, as well as feared. Nemo appears in a scrim upstage, singing a few lines from his aria to the sea. Arronax concludes by saying (adapted from the novel), "May hatred be quenched in his heart! May the sight of so many wonders extinguish the spirit of vengeance! May the judge disappear and the scientist and philospher remain to explore the sea! ... 'That which is far off and exceeding deep, who can find it out?' Two men alone can answer Ecclesiastes' question...Captain Nemo and myself!"

Nemo sings one last verse of his aria, and on his final ringing note, we black out.

I can CONCEIVE this stuff. I just can't write the MUSIC.

[LuPonatic]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 2:18pm

Disney doesn't need to close a show, they can just build another theatre. Maybe one suspended in the air above another theatre. OR maybe an underground theatre with an entrance in the subway! I'm sure they can afford it!

I heard they were trying to make Pocahontas into a Broadway show, but there were a couple of parts that were giving them trouble...probably just gossip though!

I think they have GOT to do Aladdin after The Little Mermaid! They already have a stage show that incorperates like 90% of the movie, so get going on it, Disney!

[Ready 2 Defy Gravity]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 3:16pm

Anyone know the cast for the little mermaid yet?

[AnythingCanHappen]

Posted: 11/21/06 at 3:09pm

Little Mermaid is 'scheduled to open' in Dever, summer of 07. 6 months away, so it would probably open right around sept/nov/december on Bway. I am sure Disney can buy another theatre and refurbish it. (I hate what was done to the Nederlander, and I know its terribly NOT boho of me... but Rent, I think, has had its run... Maybe Disney could make the theatre pretty again?)

[TheaterBoy7777]

Posted: 11/21/06 at 6:28pm

I heard an awful rumor that they would bring High School Musical to Broadway, lets hope this isnt so for the sanity of everyone in the world. Personally I would like to see Pocahontas, I think it would be great it has some nice music. I would love to see Eden Espinosa as Pocahontas after seeing a video of her on "the site whose name we do not mention".

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/21/06 at 6:31pm

They should consider

Pinocchio
Snow White
Hunchback

[Lizzya9]

Posted: 11/21/06 at 6:40pm

Yea they were thinking about Pocahontas but they said the scale of the beautiful setting and the transitional scenes in "colors of the wind" and "just around the riverbend" just wouldn't work on the stage. I think they could find a way, and incorporate "If I Never Knew You" back in, it really makes the movie better. I think if they had kept it is the movie would have been more successful. But a lot of people aren't fans of the film so I don't think it would sell. I agree Rent should close, I just read the grosses of the week and it is around the 250,000 range, which is pitiful. While all the Disney shows make more than twice that, so I think they should sack Rent and put in The Little Mermaid

[AlmostFamous2]

Posted: 11/21/06 at 8:55pm

I say out of all of the animated movies with music already I'd have to choose either The Little Mermaid or Pocahontas.

I think both of them would adapt to stage very well.

On another note, wouldn't a musical version is Pirates of the Caribbean (the 1st movie) be pretty neat? I think it would be cool because the movie is good, and since it isn't music based, they can get an awesome composer to do some amazing songs. It would be more of an unexpected show because we wouldn't know what the music would sound like.

[typecastme22]

Posted: 11/21/06 at 8:59pm

I heard the High School Musical rumor too. If I remember correctly, I believe some people have auditioned already.

[samcd3]

Posted: 11/21/06 at 9:32pm

What about Notre Dame De Paris, was on in west end with Tina Arena and later Dani Minogue. Its not what you would call disney but Im pretty sure they have something to do with it. Its got that song The refugees in it.... Dont really know much else about it

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 11/21/06 at 9:37pm

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL has no Broadway intentions right now. Disney has released the rights to a stage adaptation of the show to regional theatres and there is an upcoming production...but there are NO...I repeat...NO Broadway plans for HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL.

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 11/21/06 at 9:40pm

Its not what you would call disney but Im pretty sure they have something to do with it.

Disney has nothing to do with "Notre Dame de Paris." They don't own the rights to the story of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Disney did mount their own musical stage adaptation of Hunchback in Germany but there are no plans to bring it to Broadway at this time.

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[Raviolisun]

Posted: 11/21/06 at 9:51pm

I would absolutely love to see Hercules brought to stage. It's tied with The Lion King as my favorite Disney movie, and how cool would it be to have Susan Egan play Meg? Even if she is a bit old.

[bryan]

Posted: 11/21/06 at 11:21pm

i think they should do the lion king part 2.

[StarStruckGB]

Posted: 11/21/06 at 11:40pm

Finding Nemo or The Great Mouse Detective.

Or something really rediculous like Cars.

yeah...definetly.

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 11/21/06 at 11:46pm

Hercules would be awesome!

[My Strongest Suit]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 12:23am

I would LOVE to see Mulan or Hercules on Broadway!! And I know very few people who agree with me but I am looking forward to the Little Mermaid. :)

[AnythingCanHappen]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 1:52am

Thank you Strongest Suit. It's Alan Menken. Can anyone really hate it?

[bwaynut2]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 1:48pm

I would like to see them mount a totally original show, rather than taking one of their animated, or even live-action movies and turning it into a stage show. Almost everything on Broadway is based on something that has already been done, either in a movie, a book, or real life. It would be great to have the next great Broadway musical be something totally original. Disney has the money and the resources to do something like this. Plus, with all of the movie scripts that come through their doors, I would imagine that there's got to be a least one that might actually be better on stage. Instead of making the movie first and then turning it into a Broadway show several years later, why not mount a Broadway production first? Imagine if the executives at Disney read the screenplay of "The Prestige" and decided to make it a dramatic musical.

[Lizzya9]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 1:53pm

I'm pretty sure Aida was original, there was no movie of it.

[bwaynut2]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 1:58pm

Aida was based on the opera.

[AnythingCanHappen]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 2:49pm

Disney has good stuff sitting in its gigantic theatre's wings (that damned Disney Vault, really) They have so much to work with, and adapt (stuff which hasnt been touched in years, like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty would be good bets.)

Not to mention, they have already taken all of these fairytales/legends/myths and used them all for their movies already.

They know what will make them money, and if I were in the business for money, I would do what they are doing. Thankfully, their stories and budget are still making for good theatre.