Ashley Brown and Josh Strickland performing Let it Go from Frozen.
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Watch – Disney on Broadway at Epcot Singing – ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ from Mary Poppins
Ashley Brown and Josh Strickland performing ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ from Mary Poppins.
Watch – Disney on Broadway at Epcot Singing – ‘Part of Your World’ – The Little Mermaid
Ashley Brown – Disney on Broadway at Epcot Singing – ‘Part of Your World’ – The Little Mermaid.
Lin-Manuel Miranda Talks Writing Disney’s Most Unusual Ballad
In musical theater, it’s called the “I Want” song. Typically a ballad found within a musical’s first few scenes, the tune is an opportunity for composers to put into words the leading character’s desires and motivations so that the audience can have a clear sense of where the story is going.
Seize the Day! Disney’s NEWSIES Breaks Records, Will Encore in Cinemas Next Month
“Disney’s Newsies: The Broadway Musical!” three-day cinema event broke ticketing records to become the highest-grossing Broadway event to date from Fathom Events.
Disney on Broadway Launches New Podcast Series With Newsies
Disney Theatrical Productions is getting into the podcast business. The company has released the first episode of The Official Disney on Broadway Podcast, a six-episode pilot series that will include interviews and behind-the-scenes stories of Disney’s stage musicals.
Tickets for ‘Disney’s Newsies: The Broadway Musical!’ Now on Sale as the Smash-Hit Comes to Cinemas Nationwide February 16, 18 & 22
Audiences have a final chance to “Seize the Day!” – tickets are now available for “Disney’s Newsies: The Broadway Musical!,” playing in U.S. movie theaters for three days only on Thursday, February 16 at 7:00 p.m., Saturday, February 18 at 12:55 p.m. and Wednesday, February 22 at 7:00 p.m. (all local times). Captured live at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre earlier this year, the event features Jeremy Jordan, who currently stars in the television series “Supergirl,” reprising the role he created as “Jack Kelly.” Fathom Events partners with Disney Theatrical Productions to bring this spectacular stage show to the big screen, including special behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the cast and creators.
Joining Jordan are original Broadway cast members Kara Lindsay as “Katherine,” Ben Fankhauser as “Davey” and Andrew Keenan-Bolger as “Crutchie,” and NEWSIES North American Tour stars Steve Blanchard as “Joseph Pulitzer,” Aisha de Haas as “Medda Larkin,” and Ethan Steiner as “Les.” Since opening on Broadway in 2011, NEWSIES has played 1,711 performances between Broadway and the North American tour, to more than 2.5 million audience members in 65 cities across the country.
Tickets for “Disney’s Newsies: The Broadway Musical!” can be purchased online by visiting www.FathomEvents.com or at participating theater box offices. Fans throughout the U.S. will be able to enjoy the event in more than 700 select movie theaters. For a complete list of theater locations visit the Fathom Events website (theaters and participants are subject to change).
Set in New York City at the turn of the century, NEWSIES is the rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a ragged band of teenaged ‘newsies,’ who dreams only of a better life far from the hardship of the streets. But when publishing titans Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise distribution prices at the newsboys’ expense, Jack finds a cause to fight for and rallies newsies from across the city to strike for what’s right.
NEWSIES, the new American musical, features a Tony Award-winning score with music by eight-time Academy Award®-winner Alan Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman, a book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein and is produced by Disney Theatrical Productions. NEWSIES is directed by Tony nominee Jeff Calhoun and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, who won a 2012 Tony Award for his work on the show. The entire creative team has reunited to bring the break-out smash musical to audiences across North America.
“From the very beginning, the stage adaptation of NEWSIES has had an exciting and entirely unexpected journey, propelled by the show’s passionate fan base,” said Thomas Schumacher, president and producer, Disney Theatrical Productions. “We are thrilled to be working with Fathom Events, and to have Tony-nominee, Jeremy Jordan and members of the original Broadway company join the North American touring cast as we take Newsies on its next exciting chapter, reaching new audiences around the country.”
“‘Once and for all!’ NEWSIES fans have one last chance to experience their favorite stage production all across the country – on the big screen,” Fathom Events CEO John Rubey said. “We’re proud to partner with Disney Theatrical Productions to give fans old and new the chance to re-experience or be introduced to this amazing show with the best seat in the house at their local movie theater.”
Stage Adaptation of Disney’s Frozen Gets Month-Long Lab in NY Starting Today
The stage adaptation of Disney’s blockbuster animated film musical Frozen receives a month-long developmental lab in New York City starting today ahead of an announced pre-Broadway world premiere at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in 2017.
Disney Offers To Share Broadway Frozen Profits With Original Cast
Following on the Hamilton producers’ agreement to pay the original cast members a percentage of that show’s mega profits, The Wall Street Journal reports that Disney is planning offer original cast members of its upcoming stage adaptation of Frozen a similar cut of that show’s future profits.
