What Disney films should become plays?

thoughts

StephieElise said: "While I know it’s politically and historically incorrect, I’d love to see Pocahontas.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (which is in the works).

Although personally I think I’d like a bio-musical of Walt Disney most of all! "

I won't mind Befknobs and Broomsticks

POLLYANNA......Wonderful to set in that Victorian era with those costumes. A great starring show case for young talented actress who'll play Pollyanna maybe Haley Mills could cameo as the mean old lady.

Oak2 said: "The Three Caballeros. It's Disney's end-goal for showboating - get such a firm, controlling grip on Broadway, shoo out all the non-Mouse-worshipping shows, and get the masses to obeying them and only them to the point that they can show off their stranglehold on the Big Apple by being able to go "Here you go, your new show: Donald Duck celebrating his birthday by going to South America and trying to have sex with human women. You're still going to see it." And laughing and laughing as people still go to see it and love it, because it's Disney. The Mouse is Love. The Mouse is Life. The people will have seen the light and turn their faith to the true Holy Trinity: The Mouse, the Duck, and the Holy Goof."

You have a future in satire. :)

To give a serious answer, Pete's Dragon; I've been arguing this for ages. It's not as though it's hard, and its flaws onscreen would be less noticeable on stage.

Between the unexpurgated film itself, and restoring additional sung segments from the soundtrack that had been deleted, the show is pretty much already there. If it seems low on score, call it a "play with music" instead of trying to expand it into a full score, which Disney has never managed to do particularly well with its stage transfers except for its first two ventures anyway. If it must be expanded into a full score, the remake introduced seven new songs on its soundtrack that could easily be orchestrated to match the Kasha / Hirschhorn originals and integrated into the plot at whatever points are deemed most appropriate.

As for Elliot, you do what the film initially planned until the animators got "live-action/animation integration" fever, and you leave the dragon invisible until its big reveal at the finale. In addition to being a big effect that children seeing it would remember for years like seeing Mary Martin take flight for the first time, it also creates (for more sophisticated audience members) room for doubt as to whether Pete actually sees a real live dragon, or it's all in his head and it's how he processes being an outcast in a new place among new people (remember, the town drunk and the shyster's assistant, equally outcasts, are the only other two who initially see it until the climactic storm sequence; that could be interpreted in a similar fashion).

Updated On: 5/14/18 at 05:16 PM