#DISNEY ON BROADWAY

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The Lion King: Animated (1994) v Live Action (2019)

You do not have to see both to vote, but it might have been helpful.

Feel free to share opinions or explanations with comments/tags/rbs

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My Roman Empire is the fact that in the Frozen Musical Elsa was legit suicidal

“Father you want what’s best for me, if I die will they be free”

“Mother what if after I’m gone, the cold gets colder and the storm rages on”

“Can’t live and I can’t die”

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Susan Egan and Terrence Mann in Beauty and the Beast. Posted by disneyonbroadway on Instagram for the musical’s 29th anniversary.

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Happy 30th Anniversary to Beauty and The Beast opening on Broadway

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I’ve been thinking about how it’s kinda cool that the moment Elsa and Anna reconnect after years has so many versions of it in existence. So…

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"It's a sad song, but we sing it anyway" Underrated Musical Theatre Tearjerkers Part 1

Welcome back to Memoirs of a Theatre Kid! Anyone who knows me know I am an easy crier, especially when musical theatre is involved. And lets be real, sometimes you just need a good cry because it actually does release endorphins. Crazy stuff, right? There are a lot of musicals and songs within that are notorious for making people tear up. Pretty much the entire score Les Miserables is coming…

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Launching in 2025: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST North American Tour

YES!  YES!  YES! IT’S FINALLY COMING BACK!!!!!

I haven’t seen this on stage since high school...

[grilledcheeseandguavajelly]

Sooo I saw Frozen the Musical last night (with THE Caroline Bowman), and when I tell you that it changed my life in profound and indescribable ways—

[carryingthebanner]

📰 Newsies Ask Game 📰

🏙 Brooklyn Newsies or Manhattan Newsies?

🎭 92sies, Bwaysies, Toursies, Livesies or West Endsies?

🏜 Santa Fe (Prologue) or Santa Fe?

🤝 Which Character Are You Most Like?

😬 Which Character Are You Least Like?

👴 Favorite Oldsie?

👑 Favorite Katherine Outfit?

👔 Favorite Newsies Outfit?

👗 Favorite Medda Outfit?

🗺 Would You Rather Visit The Movie Set or The Broadway Set?

💚 Favorite Background Newsie?

🌱 Act 1 Davey or Act 2 Davey?

🎶 Favorite Song?

🎤 Character You’d Like to Play?

🎵 Least Favorite Song?

👠 Favorite Girlsie?

🩸 Opinion on Blood Drips Heavily On Newsies Square?

❣️ Jarah or Jatherine?

❤️ Sprace or Javid?

🤍 The Character You Project Onto The Most?

💭 Any Headcanons?

🗯 Favorite Line/Lyric?

👀 Any Cut Songs That Deserved To Stay?

🗞️ Favorite Community/School/off-off Bway Production?

🎨 Favorite Fanwork(s)?

💘 I Never Planned On You or Something to Believe In?

🎀 High Times, Hard Times or That’s Rich?

🎟 Favorite Cast Member(s)?

🎆 How Long Have You Been a Fansie?

💜 Favorite Rarepair?

😈 Any Unpopular Opinions?

🕺 Favorite Dance Number?

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Just saying, if Disney ever wanted to make Encanto into a Broadway musical, We Don't Talk About Bruno is literally smack DAB in the middle of the story.

Let it become the epic Act 1 finale it can absolutely be. 👀

And they wouldn't have to do plot gymnastics to place it like they did with Let It Go in the Frozen musical lol.

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New Valentines Tournament!

Greetings! This is our mini-tournament for Valentines Day <3. Like the Halloween tournament it will be a 16 contestant competition with 24 hour rounds.

Everyone deserves a chance for their True Love to be celebrated! We are looking for nominations of romantic couples* who are not a major Disney couple/a major focus of the plot. This tournament needs 16 submissions to run. We accept canon, assumed, or even non-canon couples. Submitting pictures and a justification will improve their chances of getting into the tournament. Again this is open to animated and live action as well as theatrical releases and small screen favorites with everything in between.

Examples of those not acceptable: Mickey Mouse & Minnie Mouse, Troy & Gabriella, Luca & Alberto, Ariel & Eric, or anything like Mother Gothel and Rapunzel

Examples of those acceptable: Mr. & Mrs. Russo, Pacha & Chicha, Will Turner & Captain Jack Sparrow, Flower & Petunia

We will start the first round on February 7th. The submissions will close February 3rd (but may be subject to change)

And yes, This is a Disney Tournament blog so we are interested in only Disney matches

@tournament-announcer @kimpossible-polls @disneyparksattractionstournament @the-owl-house-blorbo-brawl @the-gay-disney-games @bestanimatedmovie @sleepyhead-poll

*we say "couple" but if you have an ot3 or other polyship that fits please submit those too (like Sleeping Beauty's fairies) Like Donald Jose and Ponchito

The couples pictured are Jerry and Thresa Russo (Wizards of Waverly Place), Flower and Petunia (Bambi), Bobble and Clank (Tinker Bell), Pacha and Chachi (The Emperor's New Groove), King Stephan and Queen Leah (Sleeping Beauty), Rita and Dodger (Oliver and Company), Captain Jack Sparrow and Will Turner (Pirates of the Caribbean)

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Bestie, as someone who has never seen newsies and only knows about it through your posts * Waves hand* rant? ramble? elaborate? summarize? whatever you want to call it! Imagine i had never seen Cats and you were about to change my life by telling me about it. Just absolutely go ham telling me literally everything about it. Literally anything. Which version should i watch first? Headcanons? Favorite scenes? Favorite characters? Favorite songs? Whatever! All of the above or another sixth thing i haven't thought of. I am curious about Newsies and i want to know more! Please Share! :D

YES YES YES THANK YOU BESTIE I'M SO EXCITED TO TALK ABOUT NEWSIES

okay so Newsies first started as a movie done by Disney, directed by Kenny Ortega (yes, THAT Kenny Ortega) and with music by Alan Menken, and it was released in 1992, starring Christian Bale as Jack Kelly!

the musical is based off of the 1899 New York Newsies strike, and focuses on the Manhattan borough, led by Jack Kelly, who strike against Joseph Pulitzer. David Jacobs and his younger brother, Les, join the strike, and the newsies work to bring in other boroughs and draw support from other kids working in the city.

now, the frustrating thing is that the stage musical deviates from the movie in a few points:

in the 1992 movie, there's a reporter named Denton, who offers to write about the strike. Also in the 1992 movie is David's sister, Sarah, who is Jack's love interest. the musical basically combines Denton and Sarah into Katherine, who is a writer for the Sun (like Denton) and who is Jack's main love interest.

the 1992 movie makes it VERY easy to figure out which newsie is which, and focuses on the newsies as a whole, and their relationships with each other. the musical is MUCH more centered around just Jack, as well as just his relationship with Katherine. In the 1992 movie, Jack and Sarah's relationship is more background.

i'd personally go with watching the 1992 movie first. it's the entire reason i fell in love with the show, and it's the version i honestly prefer. Christian Bale's Jack is SO soft and wonderful, and i love his interactions with the rest of the newsies. I'm not saying the Broadway version is bad, but it's different, so i'd say do the OG version first!

i honestly think the reason it was easy for me to come into the Cats fandom and start identifying the different cats was because of Newsies lmao. There are so many different background boys, but like i said, the 1992 movie makes it EXTREMELY easy to identify all of them. it's the stage version that makes it ridiculously hard to figure out who is who, which is why i suggest doing the original movie first, and learning the characters from that!

note: the Broadway version (specifically the U.S. tour) added a song for Crutchie called "Letter from the Refuge", which isn't included in the original cast recording, but the pro-shoot they did a few years ago has it in there!

ok so some of my favorite scenes from both the movie and stage show!!!!! (probably most of these will be from the movie lmao)

1992: Kloppman (the owner of the lodging house that the newsies stay in) wakes Jack up, and they have a very adorable father/son-type back and forth with each other

1992: where Racetrack (one of my favorite newsies) is asking for a towel, and Skittery (my other favorite newsie) says "for a buck i might" and the scene is just so PURE and brotherly like???? they're siblings?????

1992: "dear me, i fear the sewer may have backed up during the night" "or is it... the Delancey brothers!" they're little SHITS and i love them

1992: "baby born with three heads" "must be from brooklyn"

1992: gotta highlight @cutesiewooren's boy Blink here, his line "a saturday night with the mayer's daughter" gets me EVERY SINGLE TIME in "king of new york"

broadway: also speaking of "king of new york" it's impossible to talk about it without talking about the broadway line of "and when your famous... the woild... is yer erster!" "ya what?" "ya know, the fancy claim with the pearl inside?"

1992: "your honor, i object" "on what grounds" "on the grounds of Brooklyn" spot conlon my FUCKING beloved

broadway: any of the background dialogue during the "king of new york" tap scene, it's perfect

my favorite songs would probably have to be:

"Carrying the Banner"

"Seize the Day"

"Watch What Happens"

"High Times, Hard Times" (1992 movie)

"Something to Believe In"

"Once and For All"

now for favorite characters!! once again, because the 1992 movie does SUCH a better job at giving each newsie a unique personality and highlights them, it's mainly based off of those versions!

Mush... my love... my boy... my darling... my everything...

Racetrack... Racer... love...

(gotta include both max and ben's racers, they're iconic)

David!!! ofc!!!! my beloved!!!! he's just like me fr!!

spot conlon!!!!!

skittery!!!! i've done a whole appreciation post for him but he!!!!

literally i could name every single newsie bc i love all of them. jack is a given, but i specifically love 1992 Jack. I've been meaning to make a whole analysis post on it, but Christian Bale just really plays such a heartwarming and soft Jack. His interactions with the rest of the newsies, with Sarah, with the adults, you can just feel how much he cares about everyone around him.

a little fun fact about the 1992 movie:

while in production, the newsie boys basically shot a mini-horror movie called "Blood Drips Heavily on Newsies Square" that is the FUNNIEST fucking thing i've ever watched in my life

like it features all of the cast + a lot of the crew, and you can absolutely tell this was made by a bunch of teenage boys who had way too much time on their hands in between filming

you can probably find the whole thing on youtube, and i 100% recommend watching it

and a few cast crossover facts bc i can't resist:

Jess LeProtto (2016 revival Mungojerrie) was Jojo in the original Broadway cast!

Mukeni Nel (who was part of the 2019 international tour as Bill Bailey + Mistoffelees cover, as well as the 2020 Asia tour as Carbucketty) is currently playing Jojo in the UK Tour of Newsies!

Giuseppe Bausilio (2016 revival Carbucketty) was also in the original Broadway cast, and I believe later performed as Racetrack!

Mike Faist (who was a Delancey brother/ensemble member in the original Broadway cast) was the original Connor Murphy in Dear Evan Hansen

quite a few of the OBC newsie actors (Including Jess and Mike) were part of the 2021 West Side Story film!

Jeremy Jordan (OBC Jack Kelly) has done SO much but my favorite fact is that he voices Varian in the Tangled animated series!

also i saw Kara Lindsay (OBC Katherine) as Glinda in Wicked back in 2015 or 2016, and she was absolutely INCREDIBLE

and finally, a few hcs:

Jack is unofficially adopted by the Jacobs family as soon as they meet him, they see this scruffy jaded boy and immediately go "he's ours"

Katherine's newsie name is "Scribble", and ONLY Jack is allowed to call her "Ace"

Sarah's is "Mama Bear" because she can and will go absolutely feral if she sees any of her boys getting hurt

Spot can't swim (idk why, i just think it's funny if he lives near the docks and can't swim to save his life)

no one's actually sure if Specs needs glasses, or if they're fake. at this point, they're too afraid to ask, and Specs just thinks it's absolutely hilarious that they're trying to figure it out.

Patrick's mother (who's shown at the beginning of the movie during "Carrying the Banner") never finds her son, but she, like Mrs. Jacobs and Medda, becomes a type of surrogate mother for a lot of the newsies.

that's all i can think about right now lmao, but i love getting to rant and ramble about one of my absolute favorite musicals of ALL time!!! and you know i'm always down to answer asks about newsies any time, bestie!!

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aca-Disney mashup — VoicePlay music video

When the folks who produce Disney's stage adaptations wanted to celebrate their 20th anniversary, they approached VoicePlay — a group of experienced theme park performers who grew up during the 90s Disney renaissance and are also huge musical theater nerds. Not to mention talented singers and arrangers. The guys created this enormously fun a cappella mashup of songs from the theater shows and contemporary hits.

Details:

title: aca-Disney – VoicePlay & Disney on Broadway

original songs / performers: "Kiss the Girl" by Titus Burgess as Sebastian in The Little Mermaid (2008); "All About That Bass" by Meghan Trainor; [0:50] "A Whole New World" by Adam Jacobs & Courtney Reed as Aladdin & Jasmine in Aladdin (2014); "Rude" by Magic!; [1:20] "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" by Scott Irby-Ranniar, Geoff Hoyle, & Kajuana Shuford as Simba, Zazu, & Nala in The Lion King (1997); "Trumpets" by Jason Derulo; [2:00] "Seize the Day" by the cast of Newsies (2012); [2:06] "Arabian Nights" by James Monroe Iglehart as the Genie and the cast of Aladdin (2014); "Fireball" by Pitbull, featuring John Ryan

written by: "Kiss the Girl" by Howard Ashman & Alan Menken; "All About That Bass" by Meghan Trainor & Kevin Kadish; "A Whole New World" by Alan Menken & Tim Rice; "Rude" by Magic!, Adam "Messy" Messinger, & Alex Tanas; "I Just Can't Wait to be King" by Elton John & Tim Rice; "Trumpets" by Jason Derulo & Jon Bellion; "Seize the Day" by Alan Menken & Jack Feldman; "Arabian Nights" by Alan Menken & Tim Rice; "Fireball" by Armando "Pitbull" Perez, "John the Blind" Ryan, Andreas Schuller, Ricky Reed, Joe Spargur, Tom Peyton, & Ilsey Juber

arranged by: VoicePlay

release date: 10 December 2014

(h/t to popappella for the secondary song IDs)

My favorite bits:

Eli's smooth lead on "Kiss the GIrl"

the synchronized nods accompanying ♫ "uh huh" ♫

Tony's exhuberant tone during "A Whole New World"

the slight audio tweaking on Earl's "Roar!" to make him sound even more like young Simba

Layne slipping a little Roger Rabbit into his percussion, as a reference to the Pitbull video

using the instrumental line from "Trumpets" as a royal fanfare for the king of beasts

the crunchy chord transitions in "Seize the Day"

Eli's sultry riff and impressive long belt in "Arabian Nights"

Layne cleverly turning Pitbull's rapid-fire stuttering repetition of "baby" into "Arabian"

that big finish

Trivia:

Because the video is on the Disney On Broadway channel on YouTube, Earl and Layne made a typically silly promo video for their own channel that included a way for fans to win the posters from the backdrop.

The guys also teased the premiere with a series of countdown posts on social media.

This video garnered a very nice article on Broadway World.

VoicePlay had previously recorded excerpts from "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" and "A Whole New World" as parts of movie-specific medleys on their 2012 album of Disney music, "Once Upon an Ever After".

They had included "Rude" in their "Aca Top 10 — Summer Hits 2014" countdown video.

A full arrangement of "Seize the Day" was part of VoicePlay's "Disney Playlist Sessions" collaboration with the Broadway cast of Newsies a few months later.

"I Just Can't Wait to Be King" was later included in their "Aca Top 10 — Disney Heroes" countdown.

They also recorded a quieter version of "Kiss the Girl" as part of their "Little Mermaid medley".

Another production for the Disney On Broadway anniversary was "Backstage with Disney on Broadway: Celebrating 20 Years" hosted by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, which aired on ABC. It's currently only available through iTunes.

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I know which Disney movie needs to make its Broadway debut next

I bet you weren’t expecting this!

So a few nights ago, I had a dream that I was auditioning to play Yzma in The Emperors New Groove on Broadway. The conflict of the dream where I forgot the words to her song is irrelevant though, because I NEED this to happen now.

Yzma never got to perform her song in the film because it wasn’t relevant enough to the main plot but I would love to see ‘Snuff Out the Light’ performed on stage, even if our beloved Eartha Kitt can’t perform it for us.

Give me a musical number with Kronk and his shoulder angel and devil singing about his conflicting feelings where the angel and devil tango. Give me a musical number with llamas kicking their legs like Rockettes with Patcha in the middle. Give me a musical number with Kronk singing in squirrel. And then of course, give me musical numbers with Kuzko that highlight his character development from “Everything’s about me” to “Ok, so not everything’s about me I guess”

The Tom Jones track stays obviously.

Imagine how GOLD the set for the palace would be 🤩 And Kuzko and Yzmas costumes!? So much ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Elsa would be envious.

Musical theater Tumblr, if you’re seeing this and you feel inspired to write some songs or sketch some costumes, hit me up with your ideas!

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Tarzan the musical Dutch cast album

I got this at a Red Een Kind thrift store close to where I live on 20 July 2023 for €1,=.

It includes a booklet with lyrics.

The cover folds open twice to reveal the CD and a DVD with the Making Of.

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The Emperor’s New Groove the Broadway musical when