Originally Posted By linklewtt Ya, so i'm sitting here listening to the soundtrack of The Nightmare Before Christmas and i was just wondering...would it not be totally cool for TNBC to go Broadway? I mean the story is good as well as the already written music...not to mention the legions and legions of fans both young and old...i think that if sone right, it would be the next Lion King...any thoughts??
Originally Posted By Jeffrey orl fla I recently saw Mary Poppins over in London, and the touring On the Record. The next shows in development, according to the program, are Tarzan and Little Mermaid.
Originally Posted By disneyfreaksk I would go see it. They would have to get a very thin person to play Jack!
Originally Posted By linklewtt lol he would have to be pretty thin huh. the biggest problem would probably be the part where Jack's flying in the real world, ya know? i don't know how they would acheive that. But also The Little Mermaid?? That one sounds strange because it would be soooo hard to do it without making it look silly. I mean how would they do the merpeople with the fins and stuff...i dunno, my biggest concern would be the look of it ya know. Tarzan could be cool, but i really want to see the Aladdin show over at DCA go Broadway...it'll be a smash if they add more length to fill up an hour or so, don't you think??
Originally Posted By disneyfreaksk LOVED Aladdin! I saw the Little Mermaid - Disney on Ice. It was spectacular!
Originally Posted By linklewtt how was that dfreak? did the merpeople costumes look weird with the fins and stuff or did they look pretty decent?
Originally Posted By disneyfreaksk Well, they had to have legs to skate of course. You just had to use your imagination that the fin wasn't split! The costume were neon colors and they used black lights. I remember one part where the skaters were dressed in black and carried long flag poles. At the top of the pole were colorful fish. So as the skaters skated around the rink, the fish on the end of the poles were "swimming". The lighting effects made the ice look like water. It was amazing the effects they created. But Disney has never let me down. I think they could produce an incredible NMBC show.
Originally Posted By gaterrun11 that would be cool, but a lot of stuff would be impossible (like Jack catching on fire at the beginning of the movie and Jack dodging the swords in Oogie Boogie's "casino"). there should totally be a "little mermaid" musical it would be so cool!!!!!!!! i just saw the movie (for the millionth time) and i love it even more
Originally Posted By linklewtt true some things would be impossible, but i mean that's the difference bewtween stage and film isn't it? the creators of the stage musical would have to adapt the movie for the stage, which unfortunately would mean the nixing of certain special effects...the oogie boogie sequence i think could be possible though, maybe not with swords, but i bet pretty sweet looking set could be created on stage, especially with up-to-the-date disney effects
Originally Posted By linklewtt you know disney could become even more lucrative if they made most, not all, of their classic movies into stage musicals...for example, i think that the Snow White Enchanting musical or whatever its called at DL is on to something...though i am not a fan of it because everything blows by so quickly, i'm sure it can be fashioned into an even better show on broadway where it can be expanded into 2 hours or so...what do you guys think?
Originally Posted By ToonKirby >there should totally be a "little mermaid" musical< They're working on that now.
Originally Posted By linklewtt lol i know...but seriously i've been in abunch of these forums you know and the ideas are insane...i mean some people are so creative and come up with such cool things...i swear if is i was a big executive at the Disney Company i'd definitely go in here and listen to these people and expand on their ideas...that said, ya i think i could do a pretty good job at organizing and coming up with plans and stuff if i had to lol
Originally Posted By 45YearsofMagic Here's the problem with doing a bazillion new Disney musicals. Oversaturation of the market. Not to mention the fact that Broadway has a finite number of theatres. I love Disney's Broadway shows (with the exception of the atrocious current Broadway production of B&B) but there need to be other shows on Broadway besides 10 Disney animated films turned into musicals. DCA's Aladdin is not now, nor has it ever been considered for Broadway. Nightmare has been tossed around and may one day come to fruition. But it will be years. Tarzan opens spring 2006 on Broadway, followed by Mary Poppins in 2007 and Little Mermaid in 2008. Anything beyond that is pure speculation, and since each of those shows will run at least 10 years, it could be a long time until we see another Disney movie-turned-musical on Broadway.
Originally Posted By gaterrun11 Why are they making a "Tarzan" musical? Is it, perhaps, because of the success of "Tarzan Rocks"?
Originally Posted By brer_rabbit91 I'm sure the LM musical will be very good. I loved "Voyage of the Little Mermaid" in Disney-MGM Studios, and it was probably inspired by its success.
