What will be the next big DISNEY musical
What will be the next big DISNEY musical
Howard Shore
Understudy Joined: 8/19/15
#1What will be the next big DISNEY musical
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 .
#2What will be the next big DISNEY musical
Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:32pm
Tar Baby!
With a brand new score by Prussian Blue.
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Updated On: 8/24/15 at 05:32 PM
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#3What will be the next big DISNEY musical
Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:39pm
Score by Sting.
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Updated On: 8/24/15 at 05:39 PM
#5What will be the next big DISNEY musical
Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:40pm
With a new score by Pitbull.
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jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#7What will be the next big DISNEY musical
Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:42pm
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Updated On: 8/24/15 at 05:42 PM
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#8What will be the next big DISNEY musical
Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:44pm
Score by John Tesh.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
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David2
Understudy Joined: 5/4/13
#10What will be the next big DISNEY musical
Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:47pm
Starring Bill Cosby once again as the Devil...just with more rape.
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#11What will be the next big DISNEY musical
Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:57pm
Score by R. Kelly.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
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#12What will be the next big DISNEY musical
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.
#13What will be the next big DISNEY musical
Posted: 8/24/15 at 8:24pm
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#14What will be the next big DISNEY musical
Posted: 8/24/15 at 8:25pm
^that actually doesn't sound too bad, but can Taynor not have masks??
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#15What will be the next big DISNEY musical
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
#16What will be the next big DISNEY musical
Posted: 8/24/15 at 11:30pm
Who the hell greenlit these movies???
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Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#17What will be the next big DISNEY musical
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.
#18What will be the next big DISNEY musical
Posted: 8/25/15 at 10:13am
....but the world goes 'round
#19What will be the next big DISNEY musical
Posted: 8/25/15 at 10:28am
Kris Jenner will be making her Broadway debut.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#20What will be the next big DISNEY musical
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
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/15
#21What will be the next big DISNEY musical
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
Understudy Joined: 8/19/15
#22What will be the next big DISNEY musical
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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#23What will be the next big DISNEY musical
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
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/15
#25What will be the next big DISNEY musical
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?
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