The show closed on Broadway August 30, 2009, after 685 performances and 50 previews. Notable replacements included Faith Prince as Ursula and Drew Seeley as Eric. Singleton as Flounder, and John Treacy Egan as Chef Louis. The original cast featured Sierra Boggess as Ariel, Norm Lewis as King Triton, Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula, Eddie Korbich as Scuttle, Tituss Burgess as Sebastian, Sean Palmer as Prince Eric, Jonathan Freeman as Grimsby, Derrick Baskin as Jetsam, Tyler Maynard as Flotsam, Cody Hanford and J.J. The musical began performances on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 3, 2007, and officially opened on January 10, 2008. Main article: The Little Mermaid (musical)Ī pre-Broadway stage version premiered in September 2007 in Denver, Colorado, at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, with music by Alan Menken, new lyrics by Glenn Slater, and a book by Doug Wright. The air date was selected to allow the program to have advertising for the Novemlaunch of Disney+ streaming service and to mark the film's 30th anniversary. The show was produced by Done+Dusted with director-executive producer Hamish Hamilton and executive producer Richard Kraft and is still expected to be ABC's first live musical. The special featured music from both the film and the Tony Award-nominated Broadway adaptation and would be performed in front of a live audience with giant projection surface. The cast also included John Stamos as Chef Louis, Amber Riley as Daughters of Triton Emcee and Graham Phillips as Prince Eric. On August 5, 2019, ABC announced that the project was revived and would air November 5 of that year with Auliʻi Cravalho, Queen Latifah and Shaggy starring as Ariel, Ursula and Sebastian, respectively. However, on August 3, 2017, it was announced that the special had been dropped due to budget issues. On May 16, 2017, ABC announced that it planned to air The Wonderful World of Disney: The Little Mermaid Live, on October 3, 2017, which would have featured a broadcast of the film with a similar concert format (aiming to appeal to the recent trend of live made-for-TV productions of Broadway musicals on television). The opening theme to the show is a combination of the songs "Part of Your World", "Under the Sea" and "Kiss the Girl".Ī series of shorts starring Sebastian were aired as part of another Disney Saturday morning series for CBS, Marsupilami, which ran from 1993 to 1995. Some of the episodes contain musical segments, featuring original songs written for the series. It was later shown in reruns on The Disney Channel and Toon Disney. This series originally appeared on CBS, with an original run from 1992 to 1994. The Little Mermaid premiered in the fall of 1992 with the animated prime time special called "A Whale of a Tale", then moved to Saturday mornings. This series is the first Disney television series to be spun off from a major animated film. Main article: The Little Mermaid (TV series)ĭisney's The Little Mermaid is an animated television series featuring the adventures of Ariel as a mermaid prior to the events of the first film. The film is scheduled to be released on May 26, 2023. Additional filming took place in Sardinia for a total of "roughly three months" in the summer of 2021. Ultimately filming had finally begun by the end of January 2021, at Pinewood Studios in Iver, England. Filming was expected to begin as early as July or August 2020. Principal photography was originally scheduled to begin in April 2020, but production on the film was temporarily halted in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Javier Bardem plays her father King Triton, while Melissa McCarthy, Jacob Tremblay, and Nora "Awkwafina" Lum portray Ursula, Flounder, and a gender-swapped Scuttle, respectively. Halle Bailey was cast in the starring role as Ariel, and Jonah Hauer-King was cast as Prince Eric. In December 2018, Rob Marshall was officially hired as director for the film. Three months later, it was announced that Alan Menken would return as the film's composer and write new songs alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda, who will also co-produce the movie with Marc Platt. In May 2016, Deadline Hollywood reported that Disney was in early development for a live-action adaptation of the film. Main article: The Little Mermaid (2023 film)
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