Disney Musicals
Original (broadway) cast included:
Sierra Boggess, Norm Lewis, Sherie Rene, Eddie Korbich, Sean Palmer, Brian D'Addario, and Tituss Burgess
The Little Mermaid
"Has Mr. Travolta ever been to Baltimore? Has he ever heard the accent?"
Hairspray
"The musical was adapted from Steven King's homonymous novel, and the classic horror film that followed. The Broadway version of the classic was also a horror, but for entirely different reasons."
Carrie
Halfway between
Where I've been
And where I'm going
In between wondering why
And finally knowing
The musical had three readings and two workshops with Alex Brightman in the title role, Sophia Anne Caruso as Lydia Deetz, and Kerry Butler and Rob McClure as Barbara and Adam Maitland.
Beetlejuice
What is the most recent Disney musical to open on broadway?
Frozen
"Most of the songs suck and it gets real tiresome waiting for the father and the nun to finally do each other."
The Sound of Music
Increased price for tickets in the "landing zone"
"Polls at the time also found that over 50% of the attending audience were driven to see the show to see if someone else gets injured."
Spiderman, Turn Off the Dark
There's a fever goin' 'round. Has anybody caught it?
We're shaking it for Shakespeare!
Methinks you got it
Producers announced on August 14, 2012, due to his commitments with NBC's Smash, leading man [Jeremy] Jordan would exit the musical on September 4.
Newsies
What was the first Disney musical on Broadway?
Beauty and the Beast
"It's just a formulaic love story set in the 50's around a bunch of high school students, most of which are in their 30's."
"With classic lyrics like "Give me your mouth upon my mouth", how can this musical be that bad? Just one year after another vampire musical, Dance of the Vampires became a notorious flop, the producers of [show] decided that it would be a great idea to try the Broadway vampire musical format again. In short, they were wrong. Reviewers remarked that it looked like "the longest Meat Loaf video ever"."
Dracula
Asaka, grow me a garden
Please Agwe, don't flood my garden
Erzulie, who will my love be?
Papa Ge don't come around me.
The production continues to play at the Majestic, where it became the first Broadway musical in history to surpass 10,000 performances on 11 February 2012.[55] On 26 January 2013, the production celebrated its 25th anniversary with its 10,400th performance.
The Phantom of the Opera
Features songs written by Elton John, Tim Rice, and Hans Zimmer.
"Not a conventional musical"
Won Best Musical at '98 Tony's
"Loved this when it came out, but I was 10 so I didn't question how a Black [queen] and a white [king] had an Asian [prince]."
Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
"Hobbits picking up and running about with benches. While “lazy” is too strong a word, I don’t think the hobbits of canon would engage in quite that much exercise."
"Why on Middle-Earth would elves ever consider it a good idea to strap candles to the tops of their hands and do some variation of the Macarena with them?"
The Lord of the Rings Musical
Welcome to the Rock if you come from away
You'll prob'ly understand about half of what we say
They say no mans an island, but an island makes a man
'Specially when one comes from one like Newfoundland
[Composer] says [musical] was originally a hip hop album in his head. The show draws heavily from hip hop, as well as R&B, pop, soul, and traditional-style show tunes.
Hamilton
Name the musical:
Opened in 1999 off-broadway
Never made it to broadway
"a darker, more gothic adaptation of the film"
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
"It turns out this isn't going to be an amazing review, after all. I wish that everything was different. I wish that this was never made. I wish that everything I said made people realize how problematic you are. I mean, face it, would anyone notice if this movie disappeared tomorrow? Sincerely, me."
Dear Evan Hansen
"Quick recap: We have 1) it's all happening in a kid's imagination, 2) everyone is trains, 3) everyone is roller-skating trains, 4) it's Cinderella story but trains and roller-skating tho, 5) it's also about classism. I think we're all caught up now."
Starlight Express
No, you can't give in and you can't play dumb
When you get thick skin, then you're quick to numb
You let them win and a dog's what you become
At the dogfight
The original French musical premiered in Paris in 1980 with direction by Robert Hossein. Its English-language adaptation by producer Cameron Mackintosh has been running in London since October 1985, making it the longest-running musical in the West End and the second longest-running musical in the world after the original Off-Broadway run of The Fantasticks.
Les Miserables