Originally Posted By actingforanimators THE FROG PRINCESS "The Frog Princess" is an animated American fairy tale musical, set in New Orleans, in the 1920's Jazz Age. SINGING ROLES: [MADDY] A 19-year-old African American chambermaid. Bright, resourceful, ambitious, intense. A little too grown-up for her age. Dialect: Mild southern colloquial. [CHARLOTTE] 18 years old. A spoiled, southern debutante. A diva. Comic "steel magnolia". Bossy but insecure. Dialect: Southern belle. [DR. DUVALIER] A 30-40 year old Voodoo magician/fortune teller. African American. Charming, charismatic, smooth and a sinister bad guy. Theatrical and grandiose. Dialect: Elegant, possibly New Orleans Creole. [MAMA ODIE] An elderly, 200 year old Voodoo priestess/fairy god-mother. African American. Broad, comic, eccentric. Benevolent, wise and all knowing. A mixture of Moms Mabley & Yoda. Dialect: Southern colloquial. [RAY] A 25-35 year old lovesick Cajun firefly. Warm, friendly, laid back and easygoing. Comically obtuse. Missing front tooth, has a lisp and occasionally speaks in Cajun French. LOOKING FOR AUTHENTIC CAJUN ACTORS. [LOUIS] A 20-40 year old Jazz singer alligator. Comic, manic, high strung. Can be African American or white. Has extraordinary jazz singing voice since he, in effect, "sold his soul" to get it. Dialect: New Orleans hipster. NON-SINGING ROLES: [PRINCE HARRY] A gregarious, fun-loving European Prince, in his early twenties. A young Cary Grant. Charming, witty but irresponsible and immature. Loves jazz. Dialect: British upper-class. [LAWRENCE] Harry's pompous roly poly valet. In his forties. Stiff, snobbish and sarcastic. Secretly envious and resentful of Harry. Dialect: Overly affected British upper crust. [BIG DADDY LA BOUFF] Wealthy, Southern plantation landowner. Doting father of Charlotte La Bouff. A "good ol' boy." Warm, affable, courtly, imposing and powerful. Dialect: Thick southern drawl. [EUDORA] Maddy's mother. In her fifties. Eudora used to be Charlotte's nurse maid. Warm, homespun and nurturing. Overly fretful. [GEORGE] The cook for the La Bouff family. African American 50s-60s. Curmudgeonly. [YOUNG MADDY] Six years old, African American. [YOUNG CHARLOTTE] Six years old.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <[MADDY] A 19-year-old African American chambermaid. Bright, resourceful, ambitious, intense. A little too grown-up for her age. Dialect: Mild southern colloquial.> Beyonce anyone? Not that I'm a fan of hers, just sayin'...
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Yuck! After reading the description, this is sure one animated fairy tale that's being turned into a Scary tale! Thank you for the warning. Us Cauldron girls plan to skip this one. We would have preferred a more classical version of The Frog PRINCE--not some modern so-called frog 'princess'. Sometimes it seems Disney is afraid to do any more serious period pieces when it comes to Fairy tales.
Originally Posted By FoxHound Another website mentioned Raven Symone, who seems like the obvious and likely choice for the lead. I wonder if this will be like "The Swan Princess."
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle I think it actually sounds like fun! That could be because I love New Orleans and jazz, or it could just be because I'm pleased to hear there will actually BE singing parts. I hope Raven doesn't get the part, though, she irritates me with her over-acting.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy No produced variation of this story will ever beat The Muppets' " The Frog Prince" IMO.
Originally Posted By mawnck Errrrrrrrr, ummmmmm . . . Who said this had anything to do with The Frog Prince? Or any preexisting fairy tale for that matter? Seems to me some folks are leaping to conclusions here. Get it? Frogs? Leaping?
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle It certainly sounds absolutely nothing like the plot for The Frog Prince, so they've taken more than a few liberties if it's supposed to be based on that.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Well when you see "The Frog Princess", what're you supposed to think of? ;-) And that was just the thought when I saw the thread title.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle >>Well when you see "The Frog Princess", what're you supposed to think of? ;-)<< I totally agree, it was my first thought too - it just seems weird if that's what it's supposed to be. I guess we'll see!
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Probably isn't, but then I don't know why they'd call it that. lol (psst---LB, I put my ornaments on my tree about a week ago, and I thought of you when I put your Bashers' snowman ornament on ;-) )
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle lol yeah, they really should have gone for a different title if it's not actually a variation on the Frog Prince, just to avoid confusion. (Awww! That's sweet And now you can even tell me that without having to worry you're talking to the wrong Belle, lol!)
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror >>>We would have preferred a more classical version of The Frog PRINCE--not some modern so-called frog 'princess'. Sometimes it seems Disney is afraid to do any more serious period pieces when it comes to Fairy tales.<<< Don't be so hasty to judge, Ladies. There is a case of mistaken identity, both in your presumption and in the plot. You'll be pleased when the curtain parts. If you SEE it in a theater where the curtain parts, that is.
Originally Posted By koobar judging by the descriptions it also may have another interracial pairing (take that, pocahontas and john smith). i'm intrigued: [MADDY] A 19-year-old African American chambermaid. [PRINCE HARRY] A gregarious, fun-loving European Prince
Originally Posted By TheRedhead It's already been discussed here that "The Frog Princess" IS an existing fairy tale, different from "The Frog Prince" (and actually sounds much more interesting). It's not a matter of Shrek-ifying Frog Prince; it's just putting the Frog Princess in a different setting.
Originally Posted By BrnardM It just occurred to me that the jazz influenced soundtrack could be awesome!
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror >>>judging by the descriptions it also may have another interracial pairing (take that, pocahontas and john smith). i'm intrigued: [MADDY] A 19-year-old African American chambermaid. [PRINCE HARRY] A gregarious, fun-loving European Prince<<< Yup, they are paired together for the bulk of the movie. How it resolves...hmm. And the jazz is going to be OLD Jazz, Dixieland and all that, probably some spiritual influence as well (who knows at this point). But most of it will likely be period specific.
Originally Posted By BrnardM By the by, if we're talking casting, then Dr. Duvalier = Brian Stokes Mitchell.
Originally Posted By jasmine7 Oh, goodness, I couldn't agree more on the casting for Dr. Duvalier, Bernard. I've loved Brian Stokes Mitchell ever since I was introduced to him in Ragtime, and his voice is just aching to be in an animated film (apart from his wonderful singing of "Through Heaven's Eyes" in The Prince of Egypt). I'm really intrigued by this movie now since reading the cast breakdown. I really didn't care about it one way or another before, but it sounds like it could be an interesting journey.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: As we already said, Disney seems to be afraid of doing a serious fairytale these days. Instead they offer up distorted versions which are so different from the original titles they were based upon that they really should come up with something original of their own. Otherwise it verges on false advertising. ORWEN: Exactly! I mean, if I were a fan of the original Frog Princess Story, I'd expect to see a movie that was faithful to the time period and the setting, along with being faithful to the heart of the original story. If Disney wants to be create an original story, they really should create an original title to go along with it. That way they won't be inviting unfavorable comparisons.
