Toy Story: The Musical

[goldenstate5]

Toy Story: The Musical#1

Posted: 4/16/08 at 1:25pm

Video and pictures of the new "Toy Story: The Musical" aboard the Disney Wonder cruise ship:
http://www.laughingplace.com/Lotion-View-631.asp

So, I don't care what anyone says about GrooveLily or it just being a cruise ship show, this both looks and sounds AWFUL...should've sticked with Randy Newman...

[Brave Sir Robin2]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#2

Posted: 4/16/08 at 2:13pm

What. Was. That?

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[DMsquared2]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#2

Posted: 4/16/08 at 2:44pm

It took me a good 5 seconds to figure out the red people are Monkeys-in-a-Barrel.

[LittlexFallxOfxRain]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#3

Posted: 4/16/08 at 2:46pm

???

[James885]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#4

Posted: 4/16/08 at 2:49pm

Wow that was deliciously awful! Those songs were terrible and Buzz Lightyear's breathing sounds like Darth Vader.

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[SirNotAppearing]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#5

Posted: 4/16/08 at 3:13pm

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Those giant toy puppets were kinda cool, though.

[CHGriffiths]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#6

Posted: 4/16/08 at 3:15pm

The annoying thing is, it looks like someone has put LOADS of hard work and ALOT of money into creating it, what a waste, I mean however bad it is, you have do admire the costumes, which are a perfect match, the set, which is wonderful, and SOME of the actors i.e. the dinosaur and mr potato head, who sound exactly the same as they do in the film, just a shame it looks rubbish!

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[bundy5000]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#7

Posted: 4/16/08 at 3:19pm

nice costumes, bad songs, terrible lyrics, Disney is beginning to look desperate with their movie musicals what's next? Fantasia 2000 The Musical?

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[TooDarnHot]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#8

Posted: 4/16/08 at 4:43pm

This is pretty bad but it's clearly a children's production. Not a Broadway Disney Musical.

just straight up kiddie fluff.

congrats to Groovelilly for getting their foot in the door. Hope to see more of their work (and the better stuff). Very talented group of musicians. Wish them the best!

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[suicidalmickeymouse]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#9

Posted: 4/16/08 at 6:14pm

Oh. My. God.

HAHA!

Hilarious.

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[BroadwayBaby21]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#10

Posted: 4/16/08 at 7:31pm

That was... um... interesting?

I'm going on the Wonder in June, so I guess I will see for myself what it's all about...

The costumes and set are awesome though!

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[Little-Lotte]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#11

Posted: 4/16/08 at 7:43pm

The costumes and sets are absolutely gorgeous!! For a cruise show they really spared no expense. Maybe Disney should have hired those people to design for Mermaid, little too late for that though!

[broadwayboy522]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#12

Posted: 4/16/08 at 9:24pm

I guess they were attempting to go for what they had with Finding Nemo The Musical at Animal Kingdom but it's looking like they didn't quite get that.

[scaryclowns223]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#13

Posted: 4/16/08 at 9:48pm

I have to say...

The costumes are brilliant.

However, the direction and choreography look abysmal, and the music is downright dull.

With a new score, this show could make a pretty cool children's show, especially with those costumes.

[dramarama2]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#14

Posted: 4/17/08 at 3:23am

Gee, I didn't think it was that bad. The first song was kinda catchy, if you ignore the awful lyrics, which due to the actors, were hard to hear anyway.

A little known fact is that in the original screenplay, Pan's Labyrinth was Pan's FLAByrinth. Hmmmmmmm...glad they changed it.

[emo_geek]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#15

Posted: 4/17/08 at 3:51am

Damn those costumes were AMAZING

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[Overkill]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#16

Posted: 9/24/10 at 6:19pm

I didn't think it was NEARLY as bad as everyone on here says. N, it's not great at all. But it isn't terrible. I enjoyed it for what it was, a kids show from Disney.

It was supposed to replace the Aladdin show in Disneyland, but people loved Aladdin too much. So now, I hear, that they're building a new theatre for it.

[dramamama611]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#17

Posted: 9/24/10 at 7:55pm

You do realize that this thread was over two years old....right?

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[Overkill]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#18

Posted: 9/24/10 at 9:12pm

Of course. But I was going to post a thread on it and decided to do a search instead. And does that mean these people's opinions have changed?

[millie_dillmount]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#19

Posted: 9/24/10 at 11:46pm

Well, bravo for using the search function, Overkill. Even though it was a random bump, you don't know how tiring it is to tell people to use the search function for the most obvious things. At least we know some people get the message.

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[Overkill]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#20

Posted: 9/25/10 at 2:29am

Well, thank you. :)

I'm a Disney whore, so I was watching it on YouTube and wanted to see what people thought. That's all. :)

[BwayBaby18]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#21

Posted: 9/25/10 at 3:28am

No matter how bad the material is i'd love to play Mr Potato Head

[dramamama611]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#22

Posted: 9/25/10 at 6:23am

Good point from Millie, indeed. (But we all know that the search feature here is awful -- so a feat truly.)

It's not necessarily that opinions have changed....but seeing how few responses were even posted -- not too many cared two years ago, either.

I'm not 'anti-Disney' per se, but have no interest in a theme park's prodcution. Particularly on a Broadway board.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[ACL2006]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#23

Posted: 9/25/10 at 1:01pm

Disney has three strong productions out there that should be expanded/workshopped for Broadway. 1. Aladdin(Disneyland) 2. Finding Nemo(DisneyWorld) 3. Hunchback(Germany '98-'02).

It's not like Disney doesn't have anything out there. All three could work very nicely on Broadway.

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[fnyboi88]

re: Toy Story: The Musical#24

Posted: 9/25/10 at 2:19pm

Disney is planning on keep Nemo at the park. There is no plans for it to go Broadway. They like the success it has with it's park guest. One of it's "educating" purposes is that of exposing young kids to musical theatre. Most families that come to the parks aren't ones to spend money to go to NYC just to see a show. So the show was partly meant to spark interest for musical theatre in young minds.

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