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Hercules is a musical based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios 1997 film of the same name, with music and lyrics by Alan Menken and David Zippel, and a book by Kristoffer Diaz, Robert Horn and Kwame Kwei-Armah. The production is also loosely based on the legendary hero of the same name, the son of Zeus, in Greek mythology.
The Walt Disney Company traces the Disney Music Group back to the founding of Disneyland Records on February 4, 1956. [5] In that year, the Walt Disney Music Company's Disneyland Records record company was founded on the strength of Fess Parker's 1954 hit recording of the "Ballad of Davy Crockett" using the Disneyland label, which was licensed to Columbia Records. [6]
The following is a list of highest-grossing musical film by year. Disney tops the list 29 times. All films in Saturday Night Fever , Beauty and the Beast , The Lion King , Rio and The Little Mermaid are on the list, along with Alvin and the Chipmunks franchises are the most represented franchises each have two films on the list.
Coinciding with the August 10, 2018 release of the Disney Theatrical Productions Disney Channel Original Movie adaptation, a one-act version of the stage musical (based on the adaptation) was made available for licensing. [15] [16] Disney Theatrical Productions' Newsies debuted in Australian and New Zealand cinemas on February 19, 2017. [17]
"Wish" self-consciously packs 85 years of animated magic into a portable Disney fable. Does that make it a summation or a pastiche? A movie marbled with pop history or overstuffed with Easter eggs?
Beauty and the Beast is Disney’s first stage musical, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, and a book by Linda Woolverton.Adapted from Walt Disney Pictures' animated film Beauty and the Beast – which in turn had been based on the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" by French author Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont – [1] Beauty and the Beast tells the story of ...
The musical opens Nov. 10 ... The MainStage Theater production continues Nov. 11-12 and 17-19. The all-ages comedic musical follows the story from the beloved 1972 novel and the two hit Disney ...
A Disney Channel and Disney Theatrical Productions television adaptation of the stage musical premiered on August 10, 2018. [20] Blickenstaff reprises her role as the mother, Katherine, while Cozi Zuehlsdorff stars as the daughter, Ellie. Carpenter adapted the musical as a teleplay, while Kitt and Yorkey oversaw the music and lyrics.