![]() ![]() Once these animated classics became so popular, then it was just a natural progression.” “And then we see the trend, the continuation of that journey with Disney on Broadway. “Their ideas of infusing these Disney movie musicals with Broadway actors voicing these parts … really changed the way that animated movie musicals were made. “This was kind of the beginning of their work and in the Disney canon,” Franklin Smith said. Lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken both came from Broadway, “Little Shop of Horrors” being their prior big success, infusing the music with a Broadway sensibility. But Franklin Smith is quick to note that it was also the film that helped fuse Broadway and Disney, which has gone on to bring many of its films to the stage including “The Lion King” and “Beauty and the Beast.” Of course, while “Chorus Line” is a Broadway legend, “Little Mermaid” owes its notoriety to the 1989 film widely credited with reviving Disney animation. How ‘Little Mermaid’ musical is different The cast of “The Little Mermaid” rehearse scenes for the Lexington Theatre Company’s production of “The Little Mermaid” at the Lexington Opera House in Lexington, Ky., Tuesday, July 12, 2022. “I feel, again, really lucky that I had the experience to work on the piece in New York, and work with the original creative teams, again, knowing sort of the intention, the ‘why’ behind all of the musical numbers in the staging and why it was done the way it was done,” Franklin Smith said Monday morning in the Lexington Opera House lobby as the company entered the final days preparing to bring the Disney classic to life on stage. This summer, she brings her other Broadway credit home with “The Little Mermaid,” which she was in from January 2008 to August 2009. From its beginning, the idea behind the Lexington Theatre Company was that Lexington native and Broadway veteran Lyndy Franklin Smith and her husband and fellow Broadway vet Jeromy Smith were bringing their experience back to Lexington to produce professional productions featuring established stage actors and rising stars.įranklin Smith’s most literal example of bringing it home was in 2018, when she directed “A Chorus Line,” her first Broadway show in which she performed and served as the assistant dance captain in the 2006 revival. ![]()
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