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| Doobie
Fri 9/1/2006 12:03a | This topic is for Discussion of: 8/31/06 Talking Tarzan with Phil Collins |
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| davewasbaloo
Fri 9/1/2006 12:03a | Great stuff guys - I really enjoyed this read and hopefully one day I will get to see this show.
Good work |
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| Tannerman
Fri 9/1/2006 3:07p | I'm sorry, I just have a hard time buying Phil Collins as a Disney Legend... even though he is one. |
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| cstephens
Fri 9/1/2006 3:11p | Was he really declared a Disney legend? I love Phil, but I don't think he's been working with Disney long enough or on enough things to reach the level of legend.
/cs
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| leemac
Fri 9/1/2006 3:23p | <<Was he really declared a Disney legend? I love Phil, but I don't think he's been working with Disney long enough or on enough things to reach the level of legend.>>
Yup. The 2002 ceremony was held at the opening of the Walt Disney Studios park and concentrated on European Disney Legends like Sir John Mills, Maurice Chevalier and Sir Tim Rice. I think we featured it on LP (I was there).
Tarzan was hugely successful both as a movie and soundtrack. Phil was instrumental throughout. Probably closer to the original Ashman model of a musician being involved throughout the production (almost as a producer like Howard) than the later movies (Alan Menken is particularly bitter, and rightfully so, that his score for Home on the Range was lost in such a confused movie. He actually feels it is one of his best).
Lee |
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| leemac
Fri 9/1/2006 3:27p | <<Great stuff guys - I really enjoyed this read and hopefully one day I will get to see this show.>>
A little closer to home, Dave, the show will open at Scheveningen (a pretty seaside town outside the Hague in Holland) on April 15. The theater (I believe it is called Circustheatre) closed The Lion King this week and will open a different version of Beauty and the Beast for the interim. Disney's partners in Europe are pretty savvy and successful producers and they will be rolling out two Tarzan shows themselves. |
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| davewasbaloo
Fri 9/1/2006 3:33p | Will it be performed in Dutch, or English over in the Hague? Presumably in Dutch.
In the old days we would have flown out to NYC, but the kids have a habbit of slowing one down (only a little!). |
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| leemac
Fri 9/1/2006 3:39p | According to the Tarzan team it will be in Dutch (Aida, The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast are all performed in Dutch there). Lots of gurgling was how the music producer described it to me. Or German with mayonnaise!
The original crew are meant to be working on the Dutch version too (the current B&B has a different director to the musical's original, Robert Jess Roth). |
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| cstephens
Fri 9/1/2006 3:46p | Hmmm, I still think it's extremely premature to declare Phil a legend in the Disney circle. I'm a huge fan of Tarzan in pretty much all of its incarnations, and I think Phil's contributions were tremendous, and I even generally liked "Brother Bear", but it still seems like such a minimal connection compared to most of the other legends. Maybe I'm just putting more weight on what constitutes "legend" than what Disney intends with that moniker.
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| irishfan
Fri 9/1/2006 4:20p | I'm with you on this cstephens, if Phil is a Disney legend, I presume Sir Elton John would have to be one too? |
