Pocahontas or Mulan-Which one would you prefer

[RW3]

Posted: 12/16/14 at 11:11pm

So, I was babysitting this week (like most college students) and the kids I watched viewed Pocahontas and Mulan. They are 8 and 9 and they know that I like Broadway and asked me which one I would want to come to Broadway. I told them I didn't have an answer. So, I impose this question onto you guys, if you had to choose between Pocahontas and Mulan (with obvious workings to both), which one would you like to come Broadway?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/16/14 at 11:13pm

Neither one. It is not necessary for every Disney animated movie to become a Broadway musical.

[Musical Master]

Posted: 12/16/14 at 11:14pm

I think MULAN has a stronger story and characters to be a Broadway musical but needs more stronger songs, whereas with POCAHONTAS the music is fit for the stage, but it needs some revising to ever pull it off without it seeming tired and cliched.

[Fantod]

Posted: 12/16/14 at 11:16pm

Neither are top-tier Disney. I would like to see Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, The Jungle Book, The Princess and the Frog, and Hercules before either of those.

[Musical Master]

Posted: 12/16/14 at 11:17pm

@Fantod, I would love and pay to see an ALICE IN WONDERLAND musical.

[JBakley]

Posted: 12/16/14 at 11:19pm

I love Pocahontas but really I want to see UP as a musical

[Fantod]

Posted: 12/16/14 at 11:19pm

I just want to see Michael Giacchino do a Broadway score.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 12/16/14 at 11:29pm

Isn't the Tim Burton AIW version suppose to be coming to Broadway?

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 12/16/14 at 11:29pm

Isn't the Tim Burton AIW version suppose to be coming to Broadway?

[wicked1492]

Posted: 12/17/14 at 12:53am

HERC

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 12/17/14 at 12:56am

I fear nothing more than the thought of a Tim Burton stage musical.

That being said, my dream is a musical of SLEEPING BEAUTY that fuses musical theatre with ballet. But, on topic between the two, I think POCAHONTAS would make a great musical.

[Jingjo2]

Posted: 12/17/14 at 1:31am

Would love to see them as 40-minute theme park shows rather than Broadway..

Although Pocahontas would be cool with a set like The Public's Into the woods

[Starship]

Posted: 12/17/14 at 1:43am

MULAN!!!

[The Josh]

Posted: 12/17/14 at 2:54am

I'd rather see Hercules before either.

[phantom phan2]

Posted: 12/17/14 at 5:24am

i think both films would make wonderful shows if put together well but I prefer mulan as a film and thus would prefer it as a musical on stage. I think it has a very strong story and some strong songs. The 'top-tier' shows like The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, the Little Mermaid and now Aladdin are on stage, Mulan is not as good [although i prefer it to Mermaid] but close enough. Sure there is not as many songs as shows like the Lion King but look at Aladdin! There is only 5 songs in the whole film surely more could be added to Mulan as well.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/17/14 at 11:40am

Of those two, I'd much rather see Mulan. But my first choice would be Hercules.

[SidebySidebyLogan]

Posted: 12/17/14 at 2:05pm

HERCULES!!!!!

[gleek4114]

Posted: 12/17/14 at 2:10pm

HOCUS POCUS! With music and lyrics by Alan Menken and book by Harvey Fierstein. But of those two? Mulan I guess...

[Pootie2]

Posted: 12/17/14 at 2:14pm

Neither, because both movies took too many liberties with the source material, but this is Disney we're talking about...

[SidebySidebyLogan]

Posted: 12/17/14 at 2:18pm

OMG! Harvey Fierstein MUST write the book to the Hocus Pocus musical! And I always wanted Patti- Winnie, Laura Benanti- Sarah, Mary Testa- Mary but I'll also take a reunion of Sherie Rene Scott and the Mennonettes. When I look at pictures of Everyday Rapture if you slap a red wig on Sherie Rene Scott they pretty much look ready to go.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 12/20/14 at 3:34am

I agree with those who've mentioned Hercules...I really think new songs added to the fantastic ones from the movie could really work, as long as it's David Zippel writing the lyrics and not Glenn Slater; my opinion on Slater is: I appreciate his original lyrics to a lot of Sister Act and Tangled, but I absolutely loathe his contributions to Mermaid - barring She's in Love. The thing about casting for the title character would probably be a little strange, because the character post-training with Phil is a bodybuilder physique, and I don't know of many professional singers roughly the size of a barge.
Any new music for the Muses and Meg, as well as ANY music for Hades and adult Hercules could all be wonderful contributions to my favorite post-Aladdin Disney scores, which I much prefer to most of Mulan and Pocahontas. Mulan's music is mostly mediocre, Pocahontas' is mostly filler, except Just Around the Riverbend (in my opinion, quite possibly Stephen Schwartz's best lyric ever), Colors of the Wind and If I Never Knew You.

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 12/20/14 at 4:12am

Mulan just because "Reflection" is my favorite disney song.