Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Disney's musical 'Toy Story' takes to the stage
OrlandoSentinel.com: "The result, set to be announced today by Disney executives, is a multimillion-dollar musical version of Toy Story, the 1995 Disney-Pixar animated film that shrank moviegoers' perspective to the size of Mr. Potato Head and company."
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I think it's great for them as a group to experiment with different forms of live theatre and movie. As the reporter says, the space would have been the biggest issue for them as much as other obstacles that may have occurred in the process of the production. But as we know John Lasseter is a genius and we know what he can do with his multi-million dollars in Disney. I mean, it's going to be much safer to make it into a musical that's targeted for the Broadway, and I hope things go as smoothly as it did with Finding Nemo.
It is funny that he brings up space. The theaters Disney has in their cruise ships are essentially full-sized... just missing the fly gallery and maybe a little bit of wing space. As a designer, I'm already used to working with limited space, that's not a huge concern to me. The bigger concern would be how do you show that the toys are minuscule in a human-sized world. Holy Forced Perspective!
"And designer Michael Curry, the Tony-winning co-creator of the elaborate puppets for Broadway's The Lion King, developed the ground-breaking inflatable costumes."
As I was reading this article I was discussing with my non drama friend standing next to me how difficult the design for this show is. He was saying that due to the endless money, this show would be simple. I was trying to explain to him how I think it will be hard to create the characters of Toy Story without it looking cheesy and children's theatre.
And then I saw that, and my hopes and dreams died.
The moral of the story is, I hope they let Randy Newman write the songs.
"And designer Michael Curry, the Tony-winning co-creator of the elaborate puppets for Broadway's The Lion King, developed the ground-breaking inflatable costumes."
As I was reading this article I was discussing with my non drama friend standing next to me how difficult the design for this show is. He was saying that due to the endless money, this show would be simple. I was trying to explain to him how I think it will be hard to create the characters of Toy Story without it looking cheesy and children's theatre.
And then I saw that, and my hopes and dreams died.
The moral of the story is, I hope they let Randy Newman write the songs.
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