The Next Disney Musicals.................- Page 2

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 6/29/03 at 8:18pm

... and Joe Machota as Hercules, whose stand-by would be Marc G Dalio who plays Gaston on the BATB tour.

[BillyLawlor]

Posted: 6/29/03 at 10:57pm

That cast for Hercules works,I think, very well. And for the third muse...I say Heather Headley!

[Phantom05]

Posted: 6/29/03 at 11:01pm

I really think that "Hercules" could work on Broadway!!!

See Ya!

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 6/30/03 at 1:03am

I agree about "The Prince of Egypt." I never thought of that one. That's a great movie (much shorter than the Ten Commandments..I can only handle that once a year) lol

I would love to see how they would part the red sea. That would be some great special effects.

[Victoria Grant]

Posted: 6/30/03 at 2:11am

I think Mary Poppins they should make into a Musical



Just a Spoonful of Sugar.......

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 6/30/03 at 7:47am

Mary Poppins is currently being adapted to the stage over in London. the team of Stiles and Drewe are doing the score.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 6/30/03 at 3:02pm

I can see the point about the "theme-parking" of Broadway, but...I do think Disney took a gamble with Julie Taymor (granted, I'm a big fan of hers, so I may not be objective) and the show itself is far from a literal adaptation of the cartoon, and is not remotely "mindless theater."

I also agree that MULAN would make an interesting cartoon-to-stage project and I like that score very much. I find some of the Disney toons to have deeper subject matter, and a few to be pretty much just entertainment. I think HERCULES would follow BEAUTY & THE BEAST in that vein, but MULAN and HUNCHBACK could follow AIDA and LION KING. I would want to see them helmed by a tyro talent like Taymor, though.

Along those lines: for a while I thought I heard that Matthew Bourne (of the male-swan-corps SWAN LAKE and also CAR MAN) was attached to MERMAID, but I think I read recently he had left that developing project for EDWARD SCISSORHANDS THE MUSICAL.

Updated On: 6/30/03 at 03:02 PM

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 6/30/03 at 3:04pm

Matthew Bourne left MERMAID due to "creative differences".
I want to see a restaging of the Berlin production Hunchback.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/2/03 at 2:23pm

Can I just put it out there that ANASTASIA is NOT a Disney production??????

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/2/03 at 2:25pm

And neither is THE PRINCE OF EGYPT! This was a DREAMWORKS production. GAH!

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 7/2/03 at 2:26pm

I have said that in about 10 previous threads about Disney shows and that movie was mentioned. It still kepps showing up so I just gave up a long time ago. LOL.

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 7/2/03 at 2:38pm

LOL Perhaps we should change the thread to "Animated movies to Broadway Shows."

I knew Anastasia wasn't Disney, but I didn't know The Prince of Egypt wasn't? Excuse me :P As far as I'm concerned, all animation is Disney (even if it's not). LOL It just all falls into the same category. I guess that's not right. That's like saying all white people are the same, or all gay people are the same, etc. I'll have to try and remember that.

Updated On: 7/2/03 at 02:38 PM

[dancindeeva]

Posted: 7/2/03 at 2:41pm

Thank you amneris4ever for pointing that out, it was killing me!!! I think however, that Anastasia would make a good musical. My vote for disney shows is The Little Mermaid, it's always been a fav. of mine, and Kerry would ROCK!!!

[WTripleThreat]

Posted: 7/2/03 at 3:00pm

the only problem with most disney shows is what you get. with the lion king and beauty and the beast, you pay $75-$100 to see a live version of the animated movie. if they were to come up with a new musical, i would like to see a fresh idea. something that they have never done. i do agree hercules would be good with the dreamgirls, but again, i'm not paying $75 to see a live version of the movie when i can get better seats, better food and a closer bathroom for like 14 bux at walmart. the reason AIDA was so great was because it was NEVER done as anything before (excluding the opera) and it was a fresh, new idea. i loved it! lion king had the "wow" factor. its opens, people go "wow" and that was it.

*gets off soapbox* i'm done. :)

[LifeOnStage]

Posted: 7/2/03 at 6:17pm

there are more broadway people for the muses of Hercules (from the animated movie):

La Chanze (she was the voice of Terpsichore the Muse of Dance, the frizzy-haired Muse in the short skirt)

Roz Ryan (she was the voice of Thalia the Muse of Comedy, the short, comedic, Muse)

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 7/2/03 at 6:21pm

::gasp:: I love LaChanze! She was great in Ragtime (she took over Sarah at one point -- I believe she was the second replacement.)

[LilFinley]

Posted: 7/2/03 at 7:57pm

It is official! My dad works for Disney Theatricals and they are bringin out"Aladdin","The Little Mermaid" ,"Hercules","Hunchback",and a new musical that is not a movie and is under wraps! I hope it is "Anastasia" too!

Updated On: 7/2/03 at 07:57 PM

[Butch2]

Posted: 7/2/03 at 8:09pm

Then your dad should know that Anastasia IS a movie, and not a Disney one either. And that "official" list has been floating around forever. It's a long trip from the list to the stage, and the good lord willing, Disney will opt to place all those shows in theme parks.

[Craig]

Posted: 7/2/03 at 8:11pm

Not to mention.. TARZAN was missing from that list.. which would be ahead of Aladdin, and perhaps some of the others as well..

[loretta]

Posted: 7/3/03 at 12:45pm

My personal choice would of course be The Nightmare Before Christmas. Of course, that is only if they cast Danny Elfman as Jack and use the original score from the film. Perhaps Tim Burton directing too? Just a thought.

[LAMANCHAFAN]

Posted: 7/3/03 at 8:23pm

<< Not to mention.. TARZAN was missing from that list.. which would be ahead of Aladdin, and perhaps some of the others as well.. >>

Speaking of which.... I believe that there was a NY reading for "Tarzan" recently. Adam Pascal was there, along with a list of others.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 7/3/03 at 8:27pm

Matt Morrison played Tarzan in the reading, with NINE's pint-sized William Ullrich providing Young Tarzan.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 7/3/03 at 11:27pm

How would Little Mermaid work? How Lion King works!

I'd want BATB to go.

Tarzan, Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins are all in the works. Of the three, I would want Poppins, then Mermaid, and Tarzan can stay animated.

Anastasia should come, as I said before.

If Hercules went on stage, it would bore the audience to death. It was great as a movie but if you bring it to a stage, Zzzzz.

Disney away from the theatre? Why so? It revived it, so to speak. Many people I know loved Lion King and when it went to Broadway, it brought hundreds of people in to see their favorite movie on stage. This sparked the interest of theatre in several of these people, because of Disney. And their shows are great, especially the original show, AIDA.

That's my twelve cents.

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 7/3/03 at 11:35pm

Mary Poppins is at the top of my wish list too........with (of course) Ruthie Henshall as Mary. But I'll settle for just the show if I have to.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 7/3/03 at 11:37pm

damn. and here I was hoping for harvey Fierstein to play Mary.