Please don't let that be the entire lyric to a song.....
NEW YORK - If you've been looking for Nemo, that rebellious fish from the 2003 animated film "Finding Nemo," you can soon find him on stage, along with his overprotective clown fish of a father Marlin and the movie's other aquatic characters.
Disney is converting the undersea tale of Marlin's adventurous search for Nemo, who is scooped up by a diver, into what company officials are calling a "Broadway-caliber short-form" stage musical.
Preview performances of 'Finding Nemo-The Musical' are set to begin in November and the premiere is set for January 2007 in the 1,500-seat Theater in the Wild at Disney's Animal Kingdom Park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando.
The production marks the first time Disney has made a musical of a non-musical animated film, said Anne Hamburger, executive vice present of Disney Creative Entertainment, who was at Manhattan's Palace Theatre Wednesday where two animated puppets including Nemo were presented and composers performed two songs from the musical.
Using animated backdrops, special lighting, sound and effects, The Theater in the Wild will be transformed into a magical underwater wonderland populated with puppets and dancers and animated backdrops, Hamburger said.
There will be tap-dancing sharks, bike-riding puppets and a punk performance by the great white shark Bruce, Disney officials said.
The musical will run about 30 minutes compared to the a 1-hour-44-minute movie, which grossed hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office, Hamburger said.
Tap...dancing.......sharks to....Avenue.......Q.
.....Could be fun.
Oh, and here are some pictures! o.o
Lion King did pretty well on stage (still going, isn't it...?). Who knows.
If the increables, Monster INC, Lion king, And Tarzan can do it so can nemo.
It's the latest thing. Original musicals do very poorly, but musicals based on existing IPs do awesomely because people already feel comfortable with them.
BTW, it said "broadway-caliber" not Broadway, right? This will proabbly be like the Shortish Beauty and the Beast stage musical they used to do at the MGM Studios.
Seriously though, take a look at some of the stuff that is being developed for Broadway for real. The Little Mermaid....Rocky....Eight Mile....it's ridiculous.
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Seriously though, take a look at some of the stuff that is being developed for Broadway for real. The Little Mermaid....Rocky....Eight Mile....it's ridiculous.
...what's this about 8 Mile being developed for Broadway? o__O;
I'd like to see how The Little Mermaid would be pulled off on Broadway, it seems impossible, but so did The Lion King, and that show was excellent.
The real question is: But why isn't it on ice?
There already is Finding Nemo in ice. I've seen ads for it.
I like these lyrics better. So does Disney.
Money money money mooooney! MOOOOOOOOONEY!
