A departure from our regular Broadway fare this week! The musicals of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken take center stage: Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid...along with other Disney animated movie musicals. Some really gorgeous stuff, suitable for (if not already ON) Broadway. So I decided to get off my musical "high horse" and play everything from Hercules to The Lion King! Forgive me, Frank Loesser...
This period of the 80s and 90s represent a Golden Age for Disney musicals, mostly thanks to that Ashman/Menken creative team. They also did Little Shop of Horrors together, before the Disney-mobile was set in motion, so we'll sample a bit of that, too, which is easy cuz I adore that production.
We'll be back to un-animated Broadway next week, but meanwhile enjoy the Disney-ness!!!
Circle of Life (Tsidii Le Loka, Ensemble, The Lion King)
I Won't Say (Susan Egan, Hercules)
One Last Hope (Danny DeVito, Hercules)
Be Our Guest (Jerry Orbach, Ensemble, Beauty and the Beast)
Gaston (Richard White, Beauty and the Beast)
Under the Sea (Samuel E. Wright, Ensemble, The Little Mermaid)
Friend Like Me (Robin Williams, Aladdin)
Honor to Us All (Marni Nexon, Freda Fon Chen, Lea Salonga, Mulan)
A Girl Worth Fighting For (Harvey Fierstein, Jerry Tondo, Gedde Watanabe,
Mulan)
Somewhere That's Green (Ellen Greene, Little Shop of Horrors)
Feed Me (Ron Taylor, Little Shop of Horrors)
Just Around the River Bend (Judy Kuhn, Pocahontas)
I See the Light (Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Tangled)
Colors of the Wind (Judy Kuhn, Pocahontas)
Les Poissons (Rene Auberjonois, The Little Mermaid)
A Whole New World (Scott Weinger, Linda Larkin, Aladdin)
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