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So, almost 30 years after he died, 2020 brings a new work with words by Ashman and tunes by Menken. But as an artist, he's extremely vital — even now.". Musical: She's in Love • Human Stuff • Positoovity • I Want the Good Times Back • Daddy's Little Angel • Her Voice • The World Above • The Contest • If Only • Beyond My Wildest Dreams • Sweet Child • One Step Closer • All Good Things Must End All Rights Reserved. Rhythm of the Pride Lands: Kube • Lea Halalela • It's Time • Lala • Busa • Noyana I don't think we had had that before at Disney — hardly at all — where you could appeal to all age bracket and still have the humor that the adults could enjoy, over and over again.
"The animation studio was basically shutting down," Jodi Benson, the voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid, recalled in 2016. He also wanted to let Ashman tell his own story, so he strung together every available recorded interview, along with songwriting work session tapes, to give it a “fly-on-the-wall style that made you feel like you were there just talking to him.”. The documentary tracks Ashman’s rise from a theater-obsessed kid in Baltimore, to his musical highs and lows (including the ill-fated Broadway show Smile with composer Marvin Hamlisch), and to his untimely death. Books: The Beast Within: A Tale of Beauty's Prince • The New Adventures of Beauty and the Beast • Winter Wonderland • Sittin' Pretty! • Mickey's Rainy Day Express • Move It! Summer: Mickey's WaterWorks “The stuff that was coming out of Howard’s pen, lyrically, it was just unbelievable,” says Menken, the composer who put the music to Ashman’s powerful words. • The Scuttle Strut • There's Only One Ariel • He's a Friend • At the Mermaids' Ball • Party With Me • My Room in the Sea • Dreaming • H2O, What a Feeling! “Oh my god, was it a labor of love,” says Menken. Restaurants: Ariel's Grotto More remarkable is how most of his work between “Mermaid” and “Aladdin” was done while he was dying of AIDS, a topic the film handles with equal parts compassion and honesty.
“I think there was a feeling that he was irreplaceable to some degree, that you’re not going to find another Howard Ashman. Little Mermaid's Island: Sandy • Scales Eva Gabor, After the lyricist died, Menken worked his grief out in the form of a song with a lilting melody that he called "My Old Friend."
A young Howard Ashman, photographed on the set of his musical Little Shop of Horrors. Season Three: "Battle for the Pride Lands" • "The Harmattan" • "The Accidental Avalanche" • "Ghost of the Mountain" • "Marsh of Mystery" • "Dragon Island" • "Journey of Memories" • "The Race to Tuliza" • "Mama Binturong" • "Friends to the End" • "The Tree of Life" • "The River of Patience" • "Little Old Ginterbong" • "Poa the Destroyer" • "Long Live the Queen" • "The Lake of Reflection" • "The Triumph of the Roar" • "Journey to the Pride Lands" • "Return to the Pride Lands", Timon & Pumbaa: Zazu's Tree • Madame Credenza's Place • Savage Rock • Boss Beaver's Log Land It's got a childlike quality to it, certainly, a simplicity to it. Disney Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. $100.14M, G Directors: BD Wong,
Going in there and seeing all these animators crammed into these little cubicles and sleeping on the floor, it was just unbelievable to think that Walt's vision was dying.". • Disney in the Stars • Magic, Music and Mayhem • The Magic, the Memories and You • Magical • Once Upon a Time • Wishes • Wonderful World of Animation • World of Color "When you went to the movies, people were applauding like they're watching a Broadway show. Music: Aladdin • Aladdin (2019 film) I think that one of the innovations that Ashman and Menken brought to [Disney songwriting] was sort of this Broadway sensibility, of really almost conversational-level lyrics, contrasted with this epic melody and epic storytelling. • "The Seven Faces of Genie" • "The Wind Jackals of Mozenrath" • "A Clockwork Hero" • "Mission: Imp Possible" • "Stinker Belle" • "Sea No Evil" • "Shadow of a Doubt" • "Smells Like Trouble" • "The Way We War" • "Night of the Living Mud" • "Egg-stra Protection" • "A Sultan Worth His Salt" • "Heads, You Lose" • "The Love Bug" • "When Chaos Comes Calling" • "Genie Hunt" • "Armored and Dangerous" • "The Lost Ones" • "Eye of the Beholder" • "Shark Treatment" • "Black Sand" • "Love at First Sprite" • "Vocal Hero" • "The Lost City of the Sun" • "As the Netherworld Turns" • "Seems Like Old Crimes" • "From Hippsodeth, with Love" • "Destiny on Fire" • "The Return of Malcho" Mouse • Frank • Krebbs • Red • Baitmouse • CrocodilesDeleted characters: • Louis • Cruella De Vil, Television: Sing Me a Story with Belle • Belle's Tales of Friendship • A Poem Is... New Disney documentary Howard goes beyond the lyricist’s animated career . Christian Bale, It was literally one day. Deleted: Diku • Baasho • Iggy • Herr Rhino • Kwashi • Bhati • Mheetu • Banagi • Daabi • Dwala • Naanda, Season One: "Boara Boara" • "Saskatchewan Catch" • "Kenya Be My Friend?" Hahn chronicled that era in his 2009 documentary, Waking Sleeping Beauty.
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• "Shake Your Djibouti" • "Yosemite Remedy" • "The Sky is Calling" • "Mozam-Beaked" • "Ocean Commotion" Other: One Dance, Music: SoundtrackThe Rescuers Down Under (soundtrack) It was literally one day. ", "There's a trunk that we have," says Menken. Remake: Speechless, Television: Timon & Pumbaa • Timon and Pumbaa's Wild About Safety • The Lion Guard The documentary tracks Ashman's rise from a theater-obsessed kid in Baltimore, to his musical highs and lows (including the ill-fated Broadway show Smile with composer Marvin Hamlisch), and to his untimely death. Stars: "His life was pitifully cut short, unfortunately, as were many at that time," says Menken. For Menken, Ashman remains vital to this day, both in the way his work lives on in every new generation that discovers it and in the work of songwriters like Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land) and Lin-Manuel Miranda, who have all cited Ashman and Menken as influences. It allows for photos and animations to be showcased, but there are times, especially during the discussion of Ashman’s illness, where in-person interview footage would have been even more powerful. ", "I used that theme, in a way, consciously," Menken says, "because it kind of threaded a connection to Howard into the Broadway show, beyond what he'd already created.". And I was so moved by that. “Great artists give you a way of looking at the world that you never saw before,” explains Peter Schneider, a former president of Disney Animation. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat.