Will Disney wakeup and fix the costumes?? — Page 2

Or why don't they have Sherie as Vanessa and then during the wedding ship have a double onstage as Vanessa while Sherie is changing back to her Ursula costume and then when Ariel gets her voice back, have Sherie do the talking while the double is moving her lips and then when the line comes that goes "You're too late" have a puff of smoke or something and have Sherie as Ursula appear from the smoke..Kinda like what they did with Into The Woods how they had smoke and then she was beautiful again..

I think the problem is that they need her to sound just like Sierra/Ariel, and possibly were having trouble synching the voice to the actress.

Also, i'm assuming that since they didn't use a puppet for Ursula, and actually have Sherie as most of the character, they couldn't exactly turn her into the giant version from the movie realistically. Proportions would get in the way. She would have a GIGANTIC body, and a tiny little Sherie head on top. It would look ridiculous.

If anyone has the recent DVD release of Disney's "The Little Mermaid", pop in the 2nd disc, and watch the deleted scenes. The alternate finale seems feasible to be used in the stage production.

No giant Ursula, no ship crashing into anybody... it could work.

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They're rewriting a lot of the show. Mermaid was scheduled to record the official album in time to release towards/near the opening, but that studio time was cancelled because of the tons of rewrites they're doing. I thiiiiiiiink they're axeing the Contest subplot and re-doing it, but I'm not sure. All the bad feedback about it was taken into consideration though, from what I hear.

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Updated On: 10/12/07 at 09:51 PM

I hope you are right Billfinn. It doesn't need that much to change but for the sake of the shows reputation, it is worth a little inconvenience I hope. Sometimes being a little flexible means you are willing to work to make the show the best that it can be. Since the cashbox potential is awesome, why gamble with that over some mere technicalities?

Are the still doing all the underwater scenes on wheelies?