The Little Mermaid Musical is Back on Track with New Book — Page 2

Does anyone know if Emily Skinner is still involved with the show! I hope so!!

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right emcee? that's exactly what i thought... he's great, but little mermaid?

i agree, but i would love to hear kerry butler singing 'part of your world'

I think Hercules would be AN AMAZING show for Broadway!!!

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I think they should go with a COMPLETE no name with no experience on Bway or professional theatre at all for the role of Ariel....


cough cough ME cough cough

<<-----I was BORN to play a disney character!

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sooo funny..i saw Doug Wright..and was like "I know that name..is that the I am my own wife guy?" they didn't seem to fit...but w/e!

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I don't think they should stage Tarzan... other than hiring the most perfectly-looking guy in Broadway for the audiences' sensual delight. Come to think of it, Joshua Logan would have KILLED to have directed this show, hehe. I wonder why he didn't do a Tarzan musical in his reign? I can, actually, really imagine it with a score by Lerner and Loewe or even Rodgers and Hammerstein. It would have been... interesting. But that is probably the most compelling reason to be interested in Tarzan, because I really can't imagine the music of Phil Collins playing on Broadway: because it's not slightly in a theatrical context. At least, with Jim Steinman, and some other people who emerged into Broadway (from the recording industry), they were very theatrical - and originally worked in the theatre. But, Phil Collins... no. I want to see The Little Mermaid much more than I want to see Tarzan. I have been sitting on this show for months and months and evenn years waiting for an update. I just really am quite looking forward to Little Mermaid. It saddnes me that David Ives is not really going to be involved anymore, because he was working with Steinman on Batman - and this would have been their card back to Broadway. You have no idea how much that has distressed me, because I care and want to see more of Steinman's impact on people. But, otherwise... it's a half-way homecoming for me. I'm still interested in LM, but not as much as I used to... partially because they dropped Ives, and the reading cast. And the new cast had better be bloody good or else

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I believe the new lyricist is Glenn Slater, who collaborated with Alan Menken on Home on the Range's songs. They had a playfulness when appropriate and were very touching ("Will the sun Ever Shine Again."). Good to see a new talent emerge. A friend of mine has the Demo Cd and I guess the new songs are on it. Hoping for a copy soon.
Again - I hope they rewrite nearly every line of dialogue from the movie (except maybe some classic Ursula lines) because, as I've said before, it's the dialogue that hurts the Disney shows for me.

I am still thinking about how great Cheyenne will be if he stays with this and is prince eric.

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"I'd like to see Ashley Brown. Or, even if she doesn't do it, she is on the On The Record CR singing 'Part of Your World', so its all good."

Ashley Brown is really good and the fact that i was lucky enough to get to talk to her for like an hour after On the Record is really cool. She did a really good job singing "Part of your world" and when i asked what was her favorite song to sing in the show she said "anything from the little mermaid"... and her favorite solo song was coincidentally "part of your world" even though i liked "reflections" better.

whoever said mulan would be a good show is 100% correct.