Starfish pooh peek a pooh8/17/2023 ![]() ![]() On Broadway, Doug Wright was tapped to tell the tail of Ariel, who cuts a deal with a sea witch to swap her fins for feet so she could live and love among humans. The Little Mermaid has grown exponentially with every media move - from four pages of Hans Christian Andersen to 83 minutes of film animation in 1989 to a two and a half hour musical extravaganza. Headed for Broadway are two more movies they've musicalized: Leap of Faith and Sister Act. He died of AIDS, at age 40, nine days before he was cited a second time - for "Beauty and the Beast." His writing partner, composer Alan Menken, went on to win eight Oscars and has expanded his original score with ten new songs, lyricked by Glenn Slater. "Under the Sea" was the one Oscar lyricist Howard Ashman personally received. The curtain rises on a 19th century whaling ship manned by a manly assortment of human hearties, and, after a boisterous opening number ("Fathoms Below"), the vessel sails away - not into the sunset but upwards into the rafters - and the sea level rises with it until the entire stage is engulfed in a watery wonderland, putting the audience (as the show's Oscar-winning song goes) "Under the Sea." You have magically arrived in Subterrania, where an aquacade of characters glides swimmingly across the stage on wheeled Heelys. Uncle Walt's elves - led by three brand-new recruits from the field of opera (director Francesca Zambello, set designer George Tsypin and costume designer Tatiana Noginova) - worked overtime to push the boundaries of the stage into a new dimension. "Disney-dust," explained one of the revelers. And, at party's end, even the reluctant drizzle had fizzled. But the waterworks were restricted to the stage of the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre where, for the fifth time, a Disney film - through some very expensive and industrious mouse-made magic - turned into a Broadway musical.Įven the promised downpour was reduced to a drizzle that lightly peppered the first-nighters - theatrical top-tier types and assorted stars, conspicuously - as they made their way five blocks up Broadway to the elaborate afterparty at Roseland.
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