Broadway names voicing Animated features
Broadway names voicing Animated features
Theatrefanboy1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/15
#1Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 12:44am
Hello, I'm wondering there are stage names that people can think of that were primarily theatre performers but had famously done voicing in some feature. I was looking at the list of the original Beauty and the Beast and was surprised by the number of Broadway names that Disney has used in their animation:
Whoopi Goldberg: Lion King
Angela Lansbury: Beauty and the Beast
Jerry Orbach: Beauty and the Beast
Lea Salonga: Mulan and Aladdin
Glenn Close: Tarzan
Rosie O'Donnell: Tarzan
Nathan Lane: Lion King
Jodie Benson: Little Mermaid
Matthew Broderick: Lion King
James Earl Jones: Lion King
Idina Menzel: Frozen
Jonathan Groff: Frozen
Josh Gadd: Frozen
#2Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 12:48am
Judy Kuhn as Pocahontas
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Chorus Member Joined: 5/3/14
#3Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 1:13am
Two-times Tony winner Donna Murphy in Tangled
Tony winner Anika Noni Rose in The Princess and the Frog
Two times Tony nominee Eartha Kitt in The Emperor's New Groove
Fan123
Broadway Star Joined: 8/30/08
#4Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 1:29am
Although these aren't famous instances as such, there are often a few major Broadway names in the list of background singers and/or minor character voices for musical animated films. Makes for some fun little Easter Eggs for Broadway fans. A few examples: Andrew Lippa and Hugh Panaro (and... Scott Schwartz) in 'The Prince of Egypt'; Annaleigh Ashford and a couple of Book of Mormon alumni in 'Frozen'; and Andrea Martin, Jeff Blumenkrantz, Lillias White, and heaps others in 'Anastasia'.
#5Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 3:30am
Liz Callaway has done a lot, including singing for Anastasia in Anastasia, Odette in Swan Princess as well as the mother in Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars.
Oddly, the late Michelle Nicastro provided only the speaking voice for Odette, always wondered what was up with that.
Victoria Clark can be clearly heard in "A Rumor in St. Petersburg" in Anastasia as well.
Stanley Holloway (the voice of Winnie the Pooh) was a Broadway star waaaaaaaaay back.
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#7Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 6:47am
Kristin Chenoweth in Rio 2 (Has an hilarious song) and Fly Me to the Moon.
Santino Fontana in Frozen
Alan Tudyk is in A LOT of Disney movies today.
Carol Channing in Thumbelina
Jodi Benson is in a ton of animated projects. Two come to mind is Thumbelina and of course, Little Mermaid
#8Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 7:28am
Mr. Nowack said: "Stanley Holloway (the voice of Winnie the Pooh) was a Broadway star waaaaaaaaay back."
That's Sterling Holloway you're talking about.
froote
Broadway Star Joined: 2/14/17
#9Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 7:39am
Chris Jackson was the singing voice for Moana's dad.
Howard McGillin was Derek in The Swan Princess.
#10Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 8:46am
Richard White as Gaston in Beauty and the Beast
Emmaloucbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/11
#11Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 9:23am
Roger Bart as the singing voice of young Hercules in Disney's "Hercules."
#12Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 10:07am
Anyone who sneezed in a 10-foot radius of Bobby Lopez voiced something in Frozen.
Animated, but not featured: check out Andrew Rannells' animé resume.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=12007
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#13Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 10:13am
He was also in Pokémon live, so it's very fitting!
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ProducersFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/25/04
#14Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 10:29am
Has anyone mentioned Susan Egan? She's provided a few voices, notably Megara in Hercules.
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#15Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 10:40am
Aileen Quinn in the 1982 Wizard of Oz English dub:
http://oz.wikia.com/wiki/Aileen_Quinn
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JennH
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#16Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 12:05pm
Fan123 said: "Although these aren't famous instances as such, there are often a few major Broadway names in the list of background singers and/or minor character voices for musical animated films. Makes for some fun little Easter Eggs for Broadway fans. A few examples: Andrew Lippa and Hugh Panaro (and... Scott Schwartz) in 'The Prince of Egypt'; Annaleigh Ashford and a couple of Book of Mormon alumni in 'Frozen'; and Andrea Martin, Jeff Blumenkrantz, Lillias White, and heaps others in 'Anastasia'.
"
I know the PofE cast like the back of my hand almost...I'm pretty sure neither Lippa nor Panaro were in it, neither is it on their IMDB.
But yes, the ensemble singing in Anastasia is LITTERED with people we all know. Ernie Sabella (Pumbaa) also has been on Broadway on more than one occasion. Not only that, you'll notice that he and Nathan Lane have done a lot of projects together :)
Oh and Alan Tudyk was in another VERY famous Robin Williams film...not an animated one, but go see if you can find him 
EDIT- Yes Lippa was in PofE, I just didn't spot it at first. Obviously he's in the ensemble somewhere, because I know the principal cast for sure. I still can't find anything about Panaro in it however.
Spayer
Swing Joined: 3/9/17
#17Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 12:14pm
Disney has always used Broadway (and often opera) talent for animated films.
Lucilla La Verne (queen -Snow White) was a stage actress, and Billy Gilbert (Sneezy) was a Vaudevillian. That's just the very first...
#18Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 4:19pm
Jeffrey Karasarides, I most certainly do. The hazards of posting at 3:30 in the morning...
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#19Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/9/17 at 5:34pm
Paige O'Hara- Beauty and the Beast
Fan123
Broadway Star Joined: 8/30/08
#20Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/10/17 at 4:12am
JennH, I was referring to the Prince of Egypt soundtrack liner notes, which list Lippa, Panaro and [Scott] Schwartz under the heading 'Background Singers, New York'. Maybe their contribution was too minor for them to be listed in most other places. (Speaking of 'Anastasia', Dmitri's singing voice himself, Jonathan Dokuchitz, is also in the list.)
#21Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/10/17 at 7:20am
Speaking of Hercules, the Muses were all Broadway ladies: Lillias White, LaChanze, Roz Ryan, and Cheryl Freeman.
Carole Shelley also had a small role in that film.
#22Broadway names voicing Animated features
Posted: 3/10/17 at 8:15am
The Princess and the Frog also has Keith David, Jen Cody, Michael Leon-Wooley, Jenifer Lewis, Peter Bartlett, and Terrence Howard.
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