Next Disney Show — Page 5

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!

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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.

Anyone know the cast for the little mermaid yet?

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".

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

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

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.

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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.

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Finding Nemo or The Great Mouse Detective.

Or something really rediculous like Cars.

yeah...definetly.

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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. :)

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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.

Aida was based on the opera.