www.broadwayworld.com: Disney has officially been making magic on Broadway for 25 years! As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Disney on Broadway is partnering with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS to put on a special benefit to celebrate the momentous occasion. We're getting in on the celebration by looking back at Disney's show-stopping productions, from classics like Beauty and the Beast and Newsies to current favorites like Aladdin and Frozen.
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It is cool to see all of Disney’s Broadway history laid out like this. I truly did not know that Peter and the Starcatcher was a Disney production and I had also forgotten that Aida was a Disney production as well. Seeing the production history makes me wonder what will be coming next from them. The article made references to revivals (looking at Aida, which, I am one hundred percent for!) but I also wonder what could possibly be up their sleeves for the future. I am sure that the Broadway team has concepts and ideas floating around. You could look at Auli’I Cravalho’s performance at the Oscars in 2017 and kind of gain idea that Disney is probably thinking about Moana moving into a theatrical sphere. No matter what they do, they definitely will make money off of it as they clearly have the past twenty-five years pumping out mega-musicals.
It’s mind-blowing to think that Broadway has been making “magic” on Broadway for twenty-five years. That’s seriously insane. While I do not always enjoy watching monopolized companies run the world, I do really appreciate the fact that Disney does try and do some form of philanthropy. Partnering with Broadway Cares and Equity Fights AIDS to host a benefit and celebrate their long reign in their four wall institution is good. I remember being a young kid and going to watch Beauty and the Beast on Broadway multiple times. Disney on Broadway was a large part of my childhood’s association of Broadway. I cannot believe that Beauty and the Beast is in the tenth longest-running show in Broadway history. Disney’s success knows no bounds sometimes. The Lion King is also another prominently acknowledged Disney success. The puppetry in that show was unlike anything else at the time, and still is. Disney has done some really great work, I just wish they were still creating original content.
Being only four years younger than the history of Disney Broadway productions, this article made me think over again how much Disney on Broadway affected my life. Beauty and the Beast was one of the very first shows that I watched, even before entering kindergarten. When my friend, or their parents asked me which Disney princess was my favorite, I always answered Bell, because she was the only one seemed alive for me. I have been watching THE LION KING more than six times now, each being about three years apart. It gives me different emotions every time, depending on which stage of life I am in. Tarzan was my first actual Broadway show in my life. (Others were Broadway shows imported to Japanese productions.) The show was suitable for me, an English beginner, since Tarzan used relatively easy English in order to express his uncivilized state. Mary Poppins, which I also watched in the actual Broadway, was the first show that I watched all alone. I was only seven years old, but my mother could not afford two tickets in a row, and so she decided to leave me alone in the orchestra seat. Ok, well, I do not think this comment is valuable for anyone in any term, so I will stop here. Just one more thing. AIDA is my most favorite musical. It needs to be revived. It really needs to be revived.
Disney has invaded so many circles that I am genuinely overwhelmed by it. I mean it is truly impressive that it has been so successful in all of these pursuits, and that is proof of all of the leg work they do before the project even becomes a whisper in the public circles. The first Broadway show I saw was actually The Lion King, and, despite the fact that I was approximately 7 years old for that, I recall being fully enraptured by the scale of what I was experiencing. I do have some questions about where we draw the line. I mean these productions hit a Broadway stage, and Disney’s work is so careful and well-funded and their brand has such an intense following that there is no way that whatever they put up won’t be a hit. That is really exciting, but we reach a point where the artistic value of the show diminishes because it is so done, but it carries on purely because it continues to spit out unholy net profits.
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