www.broadwayworld.com: The Museum of Broadway will launch an exclusive new exhibit that will celebrate 30 years of Disney on Broadway entitled: Disney on Broadway: 30 Years of Magic. The exhibit, presented in partnership with Disney Theatrical Group and created exclusively for The Museum of Broadway, will launch on October 26th, and run throughout the holiday season.
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I’m very happy to see that the Museum of Broadway is doing a Disney exhibit! Many people are against Disney shows on Broadway—there’s a school of thought that they are purely for the sake of making money and don’t contain the important, intellectual messages that a Broadway show ought to. I resent that notion. Firstly, Disney shows are marketed to children—for many performers and designs I know (especially young ones) their first experiences with theatre came from seeing a Disney show. They’re sort of a gateway drug into the world. The messages and themes seem simple because not every show is directed to a knowledgeable audience (AND THAT IS OKAY!). Beyond that, Disney shows have some of the highest budgets on Broadway and have been extremely important in keeping costume, lighting, and scenic studios open (especially post-pandemic). Disney’s relationship with Broadway is important and I’m glad to see an exhibit honoring that.
While I haven't personally been to the Museum of Broadway I would be very interested to see this exhibit and if it will bring in more patrons. I think that the average Broadway patron knows that Disney Theatricals is not the end all be all of Musical Theatre, but understand it's importance to the industry. I think to many people a show like Aladdin or The Lion King are easy gateway musicals, when people ask what shows they should see I always recommend those as easy watches with well known stories. These Disney musicals might be what got them in to Theatre. That also being said as someone who sees a lot of theatre I wouldn't classify any of the Disney shows I've seen as the best shows I've seen, but still important to my own love of theatre. I hope that to someone walking through the museum getting to the Disney exhibit they are also able to see the other important moments in theatre/Broadway history and might spark them to learn something new.
I got to go to the Museum of Broadway a couple years ago, not long after it first opened, and it was amazing! The permanent exhibits themselves are fantastic, thorough, and highly detailed, and it is so cool to hear that they are doing temporary exhibits as well. I’m sure the Disney on Broadway: 30 Years of Magic exhibit will be as good as the other exhibits, and there is so much material for the exhibit to work with. During Disney’s time on Broadway, they have created some truly wonderful shows and pushed forward so much theatrical technology. I wonder how they will pick what to include! I would love to find out about the behind the scenes of making these exhibits and what the process of design looks like. I wonder how similar it is to the design process of live theatre. I can’t wait for this exhibit and I sincerely hope that I will be able to find my way to New York in time to see it!
I have never actually been to the Museum of Broadway, but I have always wanted to go. I have also never seen the Lion King but I think but I have seen Frozen on Broadway before so I think that the idea of doing a Disney exhibit covering the past 30 years of Disney, including Newsies as well. I love Newsies and Jeremy Jordan. I saw him live. All of this celebration is due to Disney’s 30th anniversary on Broadway. This exhibit opens on October 26th, 2024, in New York City’s Time Square, and it ends on January 5th, 2025. When I go back home for winter break in the lovely New Jersey, I will definitely be checking this exhibit out. I also really need to see more Disney shows on Broadway, so maybe I should go see Aladdin and The Lion King. This exhibit, and the Museum in general look amazing so I definitely want to go and I recommend going.
I have never actually been to the Museum of Broadway, but I have always wanted to go. I have also never seen the Lion King but I think but I have seen Frozen on Broadway before so I think that the idea of doing a Disney exhibit covering the past 30 years of Disney, including Newsies as well. I love Newsies and Jeremy Jordan. I saw him live. All of this celebration is due to Disney’s 30th anniversary on Broadway. This exhibit opens on October 26th, 2024, in New York City’s Time Square, and it ends on January 5th, 2025. When I go back home for winter break in the lovely New Jersey, I will definitely be checking this exhibit out. I also really need to see more Disney shows on Broadway, so maybe I should go see Aladdin and The Lion King. This exhibit, and the Museum in general look amazing so I definitely want to go and I recommend going.
Ive always been curious about Disney’s run on broadway, they’ve made a lot of hits( and a lot of money) I didn’t know they ve been on broadway that long, 30 years is an incredible amount of time and I feel like they’ve contributed a lot to the theater industry especially the shows that are tied to their movies like the lion king and Aladdin. The museum of broadway has always been a place on my visit list, from what I’ve seen they’ve acquired tons of memorabilia and have interesting displays of past broadway shows( next time I’m in New York I’ll be sure to visit. Anniversary exhibits are especially grand, so some crazy set pieces and props must be shown for viewers in the exhibit, after reading this article I researched some images and they are incredible.( set pieces, costumes, props, puppets and more are being shown in the exhibit_
While people have many conflicting opinions of Disney and their presence on Broadway, there is no denying that the presence Disney has on Broadway has been instrumental in the shaping of both the modern Broadway theater scene and the theater industry across the country. From long-running Broadway shows that keep hundreds of artists employed in New York to the thousands of middle schools and high schools across the country that have done Beauty and the Beast or The Little Mermaid as their spring shows, almost everyone who does theater in any capacity can say they’ve at least had some interaction with Disney musicals. This huge impact that Disney has had on our industry definitely warrants an exhibit to showcase the history. I am interested to see what this exhibition comes out to look like and hope that one day I get the chance to see it and learn how some of the amazing Disney Broadway magic came to life.
I've never been to the museum of broadway, but this exhibit makes me want to go while I am home in Jersey. Disney and broadway have such a long history together they have developed a symbiotic relationship. Musicals like Newsies and the Lion King, even Finding Neverland, are staples within broadway history, and no theatre repertoire would be complete without them. I, personally, have been a part of crews for many disney shows, including Newsies, Beauty and the Beast, and The Little Mermaid, and every theatre kid doing school theatre has probably done at least one disney show during their time. They are such staples that there's no way to escape them. I think that, assuming the quality of this exhibit, it should become a permanent staple of the museum, as it is important to acknowledge the relationship between the company and theatre as a whole.
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