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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 8, 2021 23:27:56 GMT
Yes, this is another issue with the Disney shows, they don't quite work when another company takes over that doesn't have the Disney budget. The 2007 tour was another company (UK Productions I believe) and they're more of a panto producer. Yes, it was UK Productions. I've seen other musicals produced by them, & other producers, which, while clearly lower-budget touring shows, still worked reasonably well. Unfortunately with BatB I thought the lack of budget badly impacted the show. |
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 17, 2021 15:51:24 GMT
Nice to see some board members posting similar thoughts that I expressed (nearly) two years ago about the Aladdin stage production.
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 17, 2021 15:53:25 GMT
I am clearly in the minority, thing that The Lion King is brilliant from beginning to end, so clever how they tell the story of Hamlet using animals. The puppets are breathtaking too. Same here Phantom.
(I'm going out on a limb here but) visually one of the best things I've ever seen!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2021 16:31:19 GMT
I'm sure there has been a Disney thread on here before, but I'll say my thoughts again anyway.
The first Disney musical I saw was Mary Poppins in 2005, then on tour in 2008 which I absolutely loved to the point where I prefer it to the film! It is by far one of the best adaptations of a film/book/anything I have seen on stage and everything family theatre should be.
The Lion King (on tour in 2013) I found was good, maybe because my expectations were too high I felt that once I got over the puppetry, costumes and some of the music, it was all just good - possibly because it just felt like the film on stage so ultimately there wasn't anything new with the story.
I have booked to see Bedknobs and Broomsticks in November which I am very excited about as that is another favourite Disney film. While it doesn't look it like it will be a big production like Poppins or Lion King (judging from the tour venues it is travelling to and the weekly runs) I hope it will be just as magical and brilliantly adapted.
As for the other Disney musicals, I have mentioned before that I was very interested to see how Pinocchio was done at the National, however I never got to see it and reception was pretty mixed... wasn't even a full musical in the end! But I hope it does come back one day as that was another favourite film and it looked like an interesting way to tell the story on stage.
So overall I think Disney musicals shouldn't necessarily be judged collectively as each stories are different and different approaches are taken in adapting them, but as long as there is magic and great story telling I'm all for them. In terms of what they could do next, I would like to see them approach some Pixar stories which I believe could be a good idea for theatre - i.e. Coco and Soul, the latter could be pretty complex but still fun to see on stage.
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