What will be the next big DISNEY musical

[Howard Shore]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:20pm

what are you most thinking about. As I am writing this  I am wondering why I am thinking snow .

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:32pm

Tar Baby!  

 

 

With a brand new score by Prussian Blue.

Updated On: 8/24/15 at 05:32 PM

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:39pm

Score by Sting.

Updated On: 8/24/15 at 05:39 PM

[haterobics]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:39pm

Star Wars.

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:40pm

With a new score by Pitbull.

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:41pm

I want Hercules or Pocahontas!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:42pm

Updated On: 8/24/15 at 05:42 PM

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:44pm

Score by John Tesh.

[David2]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:45pm

Frozen..... 

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:47pm

Starring Bill Cosby once again as the Devil...just with more rape.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:57pm

Score by R. Kelly.

[ILOHTFAHA (Aida Man)]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 8:19pm

Sleeping Beauty

With a book by Douglas Carter Beane, direction by Julie Taymor, and new songs by Stephen Schwartz.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 8:24pm

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 8:25pm

^that actually doesn't sound too bad, but can Taynor not have masks??

[ILOHTFAHA (Aida Man)]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 8:30pm

God I hope not! I just picked Taymor because of what she could actually do with the dragon. For costumes I'd pick Susan Hilferty. Maybe Bob Crowley or Catherine Zuber.

Updated On: 8/24/15 at 08:30 PM

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 11:30pm

Who the hell greenlit these movies???

[Vespertine1228]

Posted: 8/25/15 at 10:06am

Whatever happened to the Mary Zimmerman production of The Jungle Book that was in Boston? I thought that sounded intriguing.

[tazber]

Posted: 8/25/15 at 10:13am

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/25/15 at 10:28am

Kris Jenner will be making her Broadway debut.

 

[darquegk]

Posted: 8/25/15 at 4:20pm

Didn't Charles Strouse write an unproduced Star Wars musical in the 80s, which was killed by Lucasfilm? I would love to hear more of that score than "Han's Your Man," just for curiosity value. 

I think Disney will likely pursue a Star Wars stage show at some point, but I don't know what composer I would put on the project. Star Wars, the original trilogy in particular, is "a story that sings" in an obvious way. The plot is relatively simple and linear, but contains obvious moments of emotional and story highs, the characters are archetypes with some individuating personality, and for being some of the original "big action movies," the big action sequences are primarily only one or two per film, with character melodrama driving the rest of the story.

When you look at it that way, the Star Wars Trilogy feels like Wagnerian opera more than anything else. For a story like that, and a franchise like that, you want a creative team that understands both the mainstream appeal and the grandiose, slightly elevated tone of the material. Perhaps the person for the job would be Disney alum Stephen Schwartz: he's devoted the second half of his career to mixing a big, Wagnerian-operatic sound with more traditional musical theatre.

[BroadMagTech]

Posted: 8/25/15 at 5:47pm

Either the Disney - National Theater production of Pinnochio directed by John Tiffany, or Frozen. Pinnochio I have a feeling will be a overall more creative show but Frozen has brand name. I think they will both be hits but when it comes to the quality of the show and not just ticket sales, Frozen might surprise us.

[Howard Shore]

Posted: 8/25/15 at 5:52pm

BroadMagTech said: "Either the Disney - National Theater production of Pinnochio directed by John Tiffany, or Frozen. Pinnochio I have a feeling will be a overall more creative show but Frozen has brand name. I think they will both be hits but when it comes to the quality of the show and not just ticket sales, Frozen might surprise us.

 

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[ILOHTFAHA (Aida Man)]

Posted: 8/25/15 at 6:24pm

You may have a point there. Realistically though it's probably going to be Frozen, which I did hear that the creative team behind it was aiming for 2018 as the first bow. But I could be wrong.  I suggested Sleeping Beauty because of the fact that if the right script/book was written it could totally work....

Here's my full dream creative team for a potential production of Disney's Sleeping Beauty

Directed by Julie Taymor 

Book by Douglas Carter Beane 

Choreography by Matthew Bourne

Costume Design by Paloma Young 

Set Design by Alexander Dodge 

Dragon Puppet Design by Michael Curry 

New Songs by Stephen Schwartz in addition to the old songs

Updated On: 8/25/15 at 06:24 PM

[BroadMagTech]

Posted: 8/25/15 at 6:29pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3147816/BAZ-BAMIGBOYE-National-Theatre-brings-Pinocchio-life-stage.html

[JRybka]

Posted: 8/25/15 at 6:40pm

Why have we not brought Charlie and the Chocolate Factory yet? I know it isn't Disney but it has been in London how long?