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Disney Digital Forum _ Disney Music _ Hercules - Il Musical

Inviato da: veu il 9/2/2019, 10:57

Debutterà a New York il 31 agosto 2019 il musical Hercules, ispirato all'omonimo film d'animazione.

* Le musiche e canzoni saranno sempre di Alan Menken e David Zippel.
* Per il ruolo di Ercole si pensa ad un attore di colore.
* Al momento come per il Gobbo di Notre Dame non è previsto uno spettacolo a Broadway. Potrebbe però arrivare. Anche Aladdin, ad esempio, non è nato come musical per Broadway ma dato il successo è poi stato portato.
* Le ultime notizie indicano Jelani Alladin (che interpreta Kristoff in Frozen, il musical di Broadway) e Ashley Park sono in lizza per i ruoli di Ercole e Megara.


Dal sito https://d23.com/hercules-stage-musical-coming-new-york-city-summer/?int_cmp=d23_disneysocial_hercules-broadway_20190207:

HERCULES STAGE MUSICAL COMING TO NEW YORK CITY THIS SUMMER

This summer, Hercules will once again go the distance—but this time, our hero will go from Mount Olympus to New York City! Today, The Public Theater announced it is bringing Hercules to the stage, continuing its 57-year tradition of offering free performances in Central Park. Part of Shakespeare in the Park, Public Works’ new adaptation will close out the 2019 season.

The stage show, presented by special arrangement with Disney Theatrical Productions, under the direction of Thomas Schumacher, will feature songs from the beloved animated classic, as well as new musical numbers by Disney Legend Alan Menken and David Zippel; it will also include a new book by Kristoffer Diaz and original choreography by Chase Brock. Directed by Public Works Founder Lear deBessonet, the Hercules musical will run August 31 through September 8.

“We are thrilled to welcome Lear deBessonet back at the helm of our Public Works initiative for the first time since 2015,” said Oskar Eustis, artistic director, The Public Theater. “Alan Menken is one of the great musical geniuses of our time; it is an honor to welcome him, David Zippel, and Kristoffer Diaz to the Delacorte. Our Public Works community promises to connect this brilliantly conceived story back to the earth from which it sprang: the people. What a grand and unlikely experience this will be!”

“Many generations of our Public Works families have embraced Disney musicals as a shared American canon,” said deBessonet. “Hercules’ roots in Greek mythology, infused with soulful gospel music, make it a natural extension of Public Works’ radical exploration of humanity through Shakespeare and the classics. We’re excited to see how this Public Works production will uncover the deeper meaning of what it means to be a hero and how true strength is derived, not from the greatness of one person, but the transformative power of community.”

Based on Disney’s Oscar®-nominated 1997 film, directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, the stage production has also recruited scenic designer Dane Laffrey; costume designer Andrea Hood; lighting designer Tyler Micoleau; sound designers Kai Harada and Jessica Paz; wigs, hair, and makeup designer Cookie Jordan; and music arranger and supervisor Michael Kosarin.

If a trip to New York City is on your agenda this summer, visit PublicTheater.org for more details and ticketing information.



Dal sito https://www.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/18-19-Season/Public-Works-Hercules/:

Public Works:
HERCULES
Delacorte Theater
August 31-September 8


The Public Theater’s initiative that invites communities across New York to create ambitious works of participatory theater is closing out the summer in truly epic fashion. Public Works will present the glorious story of HERCULES, brought to vibrant life by professional actors and community groups from across the city. Directed by Public Works founder and Resident Director Lear deBessonet, this summer’s production, based on the Disney animated film, will feature the film’s beloved score, plus additional original songs by the film’s composer Alan Menken and lyricist David Zippel, with a new book by Kristoffer Diaz and choreography by Chase Brock. Journey with Hercules in this new stage adaptation that invites New Yorkers from all five boroughs to participate in a joyous musical that celebrates the heroes found in all of us.

PUBLIC WORKS is a national and international initiative of The Public Theater that seeks to engage the people of New York by making them creators and not just spectators. Led by Founder Lear deBessonet and Director of Public Works Laurie Woolery, Public Works deliberately blurs the line between professional artists and community members, creating theater that is not only for the people, but by and of the people as well.

Join the Partners Program to guarantee your reserved seats to HERCULES. A limited number of additional reserved seats will be made available at a later date.

HERCULES is presented by special arrangement with Disney Theatrical Productions, under the direction of Thomas Schumacher.

Lead support for PUBLIC WORKS is provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and The Tow Foundation. Additional support is provided by Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., The One World Fund, David Rockefeller Fund, The SHS Foundation, New York Community Trust, and New York State Council on the Arts. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Public Works’ Musical Adaptation of
HERCULES

Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by David Zippel
Book by Kristoffer Diaz
Choreography by Chase Brock
Directed by Lear deBessonet

Based on the Disney film written by Ron Clements, John Musker, Donald McEnery, Bob Shaw, and Irene Mecchi, and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker.

Scenic Design Dane Laffrey
Costume Design Andrea Hood
Lighting Design Tyle Micoleau
Sound Design Kai Harada and Jessica Paz
Wigs, Hair, and Makeup Design Cookie Jordan
Music Direction Michael Kosarin



Dal sito https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-Bless-My-Soul-Public-Theater-Will-Stage-HERCULES-at-the-Delacorte-Theatre-This-Summer-20190206:

Breaking: Bless My Soul! Public Theater Will Stage HERCULES at the Delacorte Theatre This Summer

Hercules is about to go from zero to hero of your 2019.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that The Public Theater will present a stage adaptation of the Disney classic this summer at the Delacorte Theatre. The musical, which features music by Alan Menken, lyrics by David Zippel and a book by Kristoffer Diaz, will be directed by Lear deBessonet and choreographed by Chase Brock.

The Public Works production is set to begin performances on August 30 and will run through September 8. A reading is set to take place this April.

According to a casting notice, the role of Hercules will be played by an African American actor.

Hercules is a 1997 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation for Walt Disney Pictures. The 35th Disney animated feature film and the eighth animated film produced during the Disney Renaissance, the film was directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. The film is loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles (known in the film by his Roman name, Hercules), the son of Zeus, in Greek mythology.

Hercules was released on June 27, 1997 to positive reviews from film reviewers who praised James Woods's portrayal of Hades. Despite the positive critical reception, the film under-performed in its theatrical release notably in comparison to its predecessors before ultimately earning $252.7 million in box office revenue worldwide. Hercules was later followed by the direct-to-video prequel Hercules: Zero to Hero, which served as the pilot to Hercules: The Animated Series, a syndicated Disney TV series focusing on Hercules during his time at the Prometheus academy.

PUBLIC WORKS is a major initiative of The Public Theater that seeks to engage the people of New York by making them creators and not just spectators. Working with community partner organizations in all five boroughs, Public Works invites members of diverse communities to participate in theater workshops, to attend classes, to attend productions, and to become involved in the daily life of The Public. Founded by Resident Director Lear deBessonet, Public Works deliberately blurs the line between professional artists and community members, creating theater that is not only for the people, but by and of the people as well.



Dal sito https://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.php?thread=1114683&page=2#5123083:

"The guy playing Hercules is gonna be amazing." Jelani? I’ve heard it’s Jelani.

Also been hearing Ashley Park is Meg.

Inviato da: veu il 26/5/2019, 23:12

Dal sito https://www.broadway.com/buzz/195703/producing-honcho-thomas-schumacher-on-disney-theatricalpast-present-and-futureon-show-people-with-paul-wontorek/:

Producing Honcho Thomas Schumacher on Disney Theatrical—Past, Present and Future—on Show People with Paul Wontorek

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ON BRINGING HERCULES TO THE STAGE

“Lear DeBessonet is such a gifted, gifted director. She went to see Alan Menken at his studio upstate, and she said, ‘What are you doing with Hercules?’ Then she took it to Oskar Eustis. We all came and met, and the Public said, ‘We would like to do this.’ We’ve done a couple of readings of it. Alan Menken and David Zippel, who did the songs for the original, have come back and written new material. It’s very fun, and it’s very emotional to be in the room with the music and see these glorious actors do it.”

Inviato da: veu il 20/6/2019, 23:45

Annunciato il cast di Hercules il musical: Jelani Alladin sarà Ercole, Krysta Rodriguez sarà Megara e Roger Barth sarà Ade.

Dal sito https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-Jelani-Alladin-Krysta-Rodriguez-Roger-Bart-More-Will-Star-in-Public-Works-HERCULES-20190620 :

Breaking: Jelani Alladin, Krysta Rodriguez, Roger Bart & More Will Star in Public Works' HERCULES!

The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) announced casting for the Public Works' musical adaptation of HERCULES with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by David Zippel, book by Kristoffer Diaz, and directed by Lear deBessonet, running for seven nights for free, August 31­September 8 at The Delacorte Theater. Based on the Disney film written by Ron Clements, John Musker, Donald McEnery, Bob Shaw, and Irene Mecchi and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, HERCULES will feature over 200 New Yorkers from all five boroughs and features choreography by Chase Brock, as well as additional new songs by Menken and Zippel for this Public Works production in addition to six songs from the film's beloved Academy Award-nominated score.

The Public Theater's initiative that invites communities across New York to create ambitious works of participatory theater is closing out the summer in truly epic fashion. Public Works will present the glorious story of HERCULES, brought to vibrant life by professional actors and community groups from across the city. Journey with Hercules in this new stage adaptation that invites New Yorkers from all five boroughs to participate in a joyous musical that celebrates the heroes found in all of us. More information on how to access free tickets to HERCULES will be available in July at PublicTheater.org.


HERCULES will feature Equity actors Jelani Alladin (Hercules), Roger Bart (Hades), Jeff Hiller (Panic), James Monroe Iglehart (Phil), Ramona Keller (Thalia), Tamika Lawrence (Calliope), Krysta Rodriguez (Meg), and Rema Webb (Terpsichore); along with a special featured performance by 2019 Tony Honor Award recipient Broadway Inspirational Voices,c elebrating their 25th Silver Anniversary this year.

The Public Works community partner organizations are Brownsville Recreation Center(Brooklyn), Center for Family Life in Sunset Park (Brooklyn), DreamYard (Bronx), The Fortune Society (Queens), and Military Resilience Foundation (all boroughs), along with alumni partners Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education (Bronx), Children's Aid (all boroughs), and Domestic Workers United (all boroughs).

"Many generations of our Public Works families have embraced Disney musicals as a shared American canon," said Public Works Founder and Hercules Director Lear deBessonet. "Hercules' roots in Greek mythology, infused with soulful gospel music, make it a natural extension of Public Works' radical exploration of humanity through Shakespeare and the classics. We're excited to see how this Public Works production will uncover the deeper meaning of what it means to be a hero and how true strength is derived, not from the greatness of one person, but the transformative power of community."


HERCULES features scenic design by Dane Laffrey; costume design by Andrea Hood; lighting design by Tyler Micoleau; sound design by Kai Harada and Jessica Paz; wigs, hair, and makeup design by Cookie Jordan; puppet design by James Ortiz; music supervision and arrangements by Michael Kosarin; orchestrations by Danny Troob and Joseph Joubert; dance arrangements by Mark Hummel; and synthesizer programming by Randy Cohen. HERCULESis presented by special arrangement with Disney Theatrical Productions, under the direction of Thomas Schumacher.

PUBLIC WORKS is a national and international initiative of The Public Theater that seeks to engage the people of New York by making them creators and not just spectators. Led by Founder Lear deBessonet and Director of Public Works Laurie Woolery, Public Works deliberately blurs the line between professional artists and community members, creating theater that is not only for the people, but by and of the people as well. Working with community partners in all five boroughs, Public Works invites community members to take classes, attend performances, and join in the creation of ambitious works of participatory theater.

This year, Public Works welcomes seven new Public Works National Affiliates, including Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven, CT), Pittsburgh Public Theater (Pittsburgh, PA), Theatre Under The Stars (Houston, TX), Trinity Repertory Company (Providence, RI), Tulsa Performing Arts Center and Trust (Tulsa, OK), Virginia Stage Company (Norfolk, VA), and Williamstown Theatre Festival (Williamstown, MA). These National Affiliates will be joining the Founding National Partners-Dallas Theater Center (Dallas, TX), the National Theatre's Public Acts programme (London and nationally, England), and Seattle Repertory Theatre (Seattle, WA). This network of theaters will be gathering to share practices and help build momentum around community-based theater nationwide. Collectively, they are seeking to put theater at the heart of every community, and community at the heart of every theater.

The three Founding Public Works National Partners are now all in production. This summer, all three Founding Partners will be presenting productions of As You Like It, adapted by Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery, with music and lyrics by Shaina Taub. These three productions will appear in Dallas, at the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch in London, and in Seattle in the months of August and September 2019.

Inviato da: veu il 22/6/2019, 21:17

Il cast:




Inviato da: veu il 5/9/2019, 23:35

Ecco l'elenco delle canzoni del Musical che alla prima presentazione ha riscosso un gran successo:

Dal sito https://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.php?thread=1118858#5176767

"To Be Human (Prologue)"

"The Gospel Truth"

"The Gospel Truth (Reprise 1: He Ran the Underworld)"

"The Prophecy"

"The Gospel Truth (Reprise 2: Hades Was Not Amused)"

"The Gospel Truth (Reprise 3: Young Herc Was Mortal Now)"

"Uniquely Greek Town Square"

"Go the Distance"

"One Last Hope"

"The Gospel Truth (Reprise 4: Young Herc Was On His Way)"

"Forget About It"

"A Cool Day In Hell"

"Uniquely Greek Tough Town"

"Zero to Hero"

"A Cool Day In Hell (Reprise)"

"One Last Hope (Reprise)/Go The Distance (Reprise)"

"The Gospel Truth (Reprise 5: Herc Jumped the Garden Wall)"

"I Won't Say (I'm in Love)"

"Great Bolts of Thunder"

"To Be Human"

"A Star Is Born"



Qui un'immagine di Ercole con Megara:





Ci fa strano vedere Megara con i pantaloni...

Inviato da: veu il 7/9/2019, 23:33

Dal sito https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a28890496/hercules-public-works-theater-nyc-review/ una recensione sul musical Hercules:

This Live-Action Hercules Should Be the Formula For All of Disney's Future Remakes

The Public Theater’s production of the animated classic is the perfect example for how reboots should be done.

This has been a tough year for Disney (not that you’d know it from their profit and loss statements, of course). The House of Mouse has been pummeled by critics and fans alike for churning out a cavalcade of soulless live-action remakes, from The Lion King to Aladdin. Despite its all-star cast, The Lion King was denounced as a bland if visually stunning do-over, and Aladdin flopped critically for its plodding, charmless retelling of a larger-than-life story.

Yet over at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, The Public Theater’s Public Works Program has mounted a spirited stage production of Hercules--one that Disney should study closely as they continue barreling down the risky path of rebooting classic films from their golden age. Adapted from the beloved 1997 film by the same name, this Hercules is lively, political, and unmistakably contemporary. It retains everything viewers know and love from the original, while also introducing new material to enrich the themes and deepen the character work. With five new songs from Alan Menken and David Zippel, who wrote the music and lyrics for the film, this production rewards fans without falling into the trap of fan service, ushering the familiar story into the twenty-first century with the added intrigue of a more populated, democratic interpretation. This should be the way forward for Disney—keep the good, chuck the outdated, and lean into the themes that make these stories endure.

Keep the good, chuck the outdated, and lean into the themes that make these stories endure.

For those who miraculously don’t know the story, a refresher course: Hercules is born to Zeus and Hera, king and queen of the Greek gods, then kidnapped in his infancy by minions of Hades, the god of the underworld who seeks to kill him for fear of a prophecy predicting that Hercules will thwart his plan for cosmic domination. The bumbling minions fail to kill Hercules, leaving him sapped of his immortality on a hillside, only for a kindhearted couple to find him and raise him as their own, despite his inexplicable, godlike strength. After 18 years of feeling like an outcast, Hercules discovers his true lineage, and Zeus delivers an ultimatum: Hercules can only return to Mount Olympus, the home of the gods, if he becomes a hero. With the help of Philoctetes, a world-weary, wise-cracking trainer, Hercules embarks on a storied journey to become a hero.


Jelani Alladin (best known before now as Kristoff in Broadway’s Frozen) stars as Herc himself, infusing the role with athleticism, humor, and a winning, boyish dorkiness. In his Hercules, we see new layers of vulnerability and interior life, as in a moment when he weeps to Phil that nobody cares about him as a person—they only want him if he’s a hero. Alladin’s Hercules asks us to question heroism as an archetype versus a lived experience, to ask how the heroes we know through stories must have felt as they lived their trials.

Krysta Rodriguez (of Smash and Spring Awakening) is sensational as Megara, the tough-talking servant of Hades unwillingly working against Hercules. Meg has long loomed large in Disney fandom as a feminist hero, and this production smartly foregrounds that characterization while updating it for 2019’s discourse. In a new song, a pants-clad Meg imagines a world without men, envisioning it as a utopia where she could do as she pleases. A dopey, lovestruck Hercules, seeking to demonstrate his feminist credentials, replies clumsily, “My mom’s a woman.” Much like Hercules, this Meg is more raw than her on-screen counterpart, as we see in her bitter tirade about the worthlessness of friendship and love, where she snarls that it’s best to go through life alone so as to avoid hurt and disappointment.

In the Disney film, the Greek townspeople are accessories to Hercules’ journey, brought into the frame only to cheer, jeer, and crack wise where appropriate. Yet in this play, over 100 New Yorkers from ages 5 to 78 appear as the townspeople, and they’re far from sidelined. When Hades releases the Titans, a mythic group of ancient gods out for blood, the townspeople say to Hercules, who’s been sapped of his powers, “You were there for us. Let us be there for you.” In a departure from the film, which sees Hercules fight the Titans single-handedly, the play leaves him out of the fray altogether, allowing the townspeople to save the day.

In the story’s familiar penultimate moment, when Hercules is invited to return to Olympus and forsake his mortal life, the play reimagines the weight of that choice by peopling the scene not just with Meg, as in the film, but with his adoptive parents and the townspeople, who have become a chosen family, of sorts. The scene juxtaposes this group against the family he was born into, who aren’t the warm, goofy gods you remember from the film—they’re strict, imperious taskmasters whose affection is entirely conditional, predicated on Hercules’ achievements rather than his inherent worthiness of love. When Hercules chooses a mortal life with the lovely new line, “To be human is divine,” it’s as much a romantic choice as it is a personal one. It’s a choice to remain with his “real true friends,” as he calls the townspeople, who love him for who he is, not for the deeds he’s done. On this level, the play deepens the film’s touching resolution, allowing Hercules to choose selfhood and friendship in addition to romantic love.


The play’s updates aren’t just thematic—they’re political, too. In an early scene, after Hercules has clumsily caused a ruckus at the market in an accidental use of his superhuman strength, two armed soldiers force him to his knees and tie his hands behind his back, calling to mind our culture’s rampant police brutality. Later, when Hercules arrives in Thebes, the “Big Olive” of Greece, to offer his help to the downtrodden townspeople, one woman cracks, “Can you help me find affordable housing?” Another asks that Hercules work to improve their civic discourse; still another wants him to solve income inequality. Meanwhile, shades of Donald Trump appear in Hades, who sings about “the art of the deal” in a new song about how no one can outsmart him. In a line that swipes at our do-gooder celebrity culture, Zeus admonishes Hercules, “You’ve become a celebrity. That’s not the same thing as being a hero.”

Indeed this production leans hard on of-the-moment updates, but it also zeroes in on that timeless question at the story’s core: what makes a hero? For this production to cast a black actor in the role of Hercules is no accident, nor is it a lark that the people of Thebes, young and old, male and female, are the ones who fight the Titans, as opposed to Hercules. Like the film, the play argues that heroism is about heart, but it expands the definition of who a hero can be—it argues that heroes come in all shapes and sizes, and that heroism has as much to do with communities banding together as it does extraordinary acts by individual people.


In considering the Disney remake-aissance, it’s important to remember that the original films we know and love are already remakes. Disney stories don’t exist in vacuums—in fact, many of them are already retellings as it is, derived from mythology, fairy tales, history, Shakespeare, and other such sources. The joy and purpose of art isn’t just the making of it, but the remaking—the reimagining, the tinkering, the adapting for new cultural context. This is why we tell stories to begin with—so that we may retell them, again and again.

It’s no crime for Disney to recycle its beloved cultural properties, but to do so with the profound corporate soullessness of films like The Lion King and Aladdin is criminal indeed. Why does Disney insist on tying one hand behind its back, on limiting itself to shot-for-shot remakes when the rewards of reinterpretation are so much greater? Art exists in conversation, as The Public’s Hercules understands, and Disney can only benefit from loosening its chokehold on the wheel. If Disney doesn’t consider how these stories should live, breathe, and change for a new generation of fans, there’s no telling the damage they’ll do to the august reputation they’ve worked so hard to build.

Up next, Disney is remaking Mulan, The Lady and the Tramp, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, The Sword in the Stone, and Lilo and Stitch. Here’s hoping they think outside the box.

Inviato da: veu il 7/9/2019, 23:36

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9x8argQR3E

Inviato da: Filippo il 8/9/2019, 17:01

Scelta visiva terribile e sembra tutto fatto con un budget davvero misero.

Inviato da: Daydreamer il 8/9/2019, 19:53

CITAZIONE (Filippo @ 8/9/2019, 18:01) *
Scelta visiva terribile e sembra tutto fatto con un budget davvero misero.


Eppure i commenti a quel video sono entusiasti huh.gif . Con tutto rispetto per le produzioni scolastiche, siamo davvero da quelle parti, non certo a Broadway.

Inviato da: veu il 8/9/2019, 23:18

Il musical è molto carente per quel che concerne l'aspetto visivo. Non sappiamo perchè abbiano scelto quello stile minimal...
Speriamo che lo rivedano, se lo portano in giro per l'America.
Abbiamo letto recensioni MOLTO positive sullo spettacolo.

Inviato da: Fulvio84 il 9/9/2019, 16:14

ormai pare una barzelletta ma la mia opinione e' sempre la stessa...detesto questi twist razziali che cambiano l'immagine dei personaggi e le immagini sono talmente brutte che pensavo fossero tratte dalla prove generali....
alla disney hanno perso il senno, nn so...

Inviato da: Daydreamer il 9/9/2019, 21:14

CITAZIONE (Fulvio84 @ 9/9/2019, 17:14) *
ormai pare una barzelletta ma la mia opinione e' sempre la stessa...detesto questi twist razziali che cambiano l'immagine dei personaggi e le immagini sono talmente brutte che pensavo fossero tratte dalla prove generali....
alla disney hanno perso il senno, nn so...


La Disney è molto modaiola, probabile si stancherà anche di questo.

Inviato da: veu il 9/9/2019, 23:24

Teniamo conto però che a Broadway i twist razziali ci sono sempre stati... è diverso dai film al cinema. A teatro c'è sempre stata una componente nera anche per i personaggi bianchi (o viceversa). A teatro non conta l'attore ma il personaggio che interpreta o meglio l'idea del personaggio che interpreta.
è tutto molto diverso dal cinema.

Comunque anche noi abbiamo trovato molto povera la messa in scena, anche se c'è da dire che il musical ha riscosso successo . Certo a Broadway sarebbe molto più curato (a meno che non usano lo stile minimal già adottato per Aida, ma non crediamo)

Inviato da: Fulvio84 il 10/9/2019, 10:16

CITAZIONE (veu @ 10/9/2019, 0:24) *
Teniamo conto però che a Broadway i twist razziali ci sono sempre stati... è diverso dai film al cinema. A teatro c'è sempre stata una componente nera anche per i personaggi bianchi (o viceversa). A teatro non conta l'attore ma il personaggio che interpreta o meglio l'idea del personaggio che interpreta.
è tutto molto diverso dal cinema.

Comunque anche noi abbiamo trovato molto povera la messa in scena, anche se c'è da dire che il musical ha riscosso successo . Certo a Broadway sarebbe molto più curato (a meno che non usano lo stile minimal già adottato per Aida, ma non crediamo)


si lo so, a teatro la gestione dei casting e' diversa e spesso si ricorre perfino alle audizioni al buio ma continuo a credere che bisogna essere piu' fedele cmq al personaggio che si sta impersonando se ha gia' un look preciso.
cmq boh... lo trovo scialbissimo questo hercules, quando poi il classico ha una ricchezza cromatica e ricerca stilistica molto inetressante

Inviato da: veu il 23/3/2020, 22:38

Dal sito https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sePAgItK9sM:

Q: Have you been writing? What have you been doing in your downtime?

Alan Menken: It's been a great time for writing, yeah. Production stopped on the Little Mermaid movie. We recorded all the songs. I wrote four new songs with Lin-Manuel Miranda, the lyricist for Mermaid. I'm working on Disenchanted, the sequel to Enchanted. I have another Broadway show. We have Hercules. Hercules is coming to the stage. Of course, we did that in Central Park last summer. Just a whole bushel of new projects.



Alan Menken conferma che Hercules arriverà nei teatri dopo la prima al Central Park la scorsa estate.


Non è detto che Hercules arrivi a Broadway. Sebbene alcuni siti indichino così, Menken ha detto che sta lavorando ad un altro spettacolo a Broadway e Hercules andrà a teatro ma non ha specificato se è Hercules il musical che andrà a Broadway o un altro (probabilmente un altro... alcuni rumors dicevano Pocahontas o un altro non legato alla Disney)...

Inviato da: Filippo il 24/3/2020, 13:12

CITAZIONE (veu @ 23/3/2020, 22:38) *
Dal sito https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sePAgItK9sM:

Q: Have you been writing? What have you been doing in your downtime?

Alan Menken: It's been a great time for writing, yeah. Production stopped on the Little Mermaid movie. We recorded all the songs. I wrote four new songs with Lin-Manuel Miranda, the lyricist for Mermaid. I'm working on Disenchanted, the sequel to Enchanted. I have another Broadway show. We have Hercules. Hercules is coming to the stage. Of course, we did that in Central Park last summer. Just a whole bushel of new projects.



Alan Menken conferma che Hercules arriverà nei teatri dopo la prima al Central Park la scorsa estate.


Non è detto che Hercules arrivi a Broadway. Sebbene alcuni siti indichino così, Menken ha detto che sta lavorando ad un altro spettacolo a Broadway e Hercules andrà a teatro ma non ha specificato se è Hercules il musical che andrà a Broadway o un altro (probabilmente un altro... alcuni rumors dicevano Pocahontas o un altro non legato alla Disney)...



Pocahontas sarebbe stupendooooo

Inviato da: Filippo il 24/3/2020, 13:14

CITAZIONE (veu @ 23/3/2020, 22:38) *
Dal sito https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sePAgItK9sM:

Q: Have you been writing? What have you been doing in your downtime?

Alan Menken: It's been a great time for writing, yeah. Production stopped on the Little Mermaid movie. We recorded all the songs. I wrote four new songs with Lin-Manuel Miranda, the lyricist for Mermaid. I'm working on Disenchanted, the sequel to Enchanted. I have another Broadway show. We have Hercules. Hercules is coming to the stage. Of course, we did that in Central Park last summer. Just a whole bushel of new projects.



Alan Menken conferma che Hercules arriverà nei teatri dopo la prima al Central Park la scorsa estate.


Non è detto che Hercules arrivi a Broadway. Sebbene alcuni siti indichino così, Menken ha detto che sta lavorando ad un altro spettacolo a Broadway e Hercules andrà a teatro ma non ha specificato se è Hercules il musical che andrà a Broadway o un altro (probabilmente un altro... alcuni rumors dicevano Pocahontas o un altro non legato alla Disney)...



Pocahontas sarebbe stupendooooo

Inviato da: veu il 2/4/2020, 21:50

Il musical a cui lavora Menken è la versione teatrale di Una notte al museo.

Per quel che riguarda Hercules, ecco che cosa riporta Menken in un'intervista.

Da https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTv0Sc4TPRE&feature=emb_title:

Q: What are you working on right now?

Alan Menken: We're working on the Broadway show or the stage show, depending where it goes to, Hercules.



Traduzione: Sta lavorando alla versione a Broadway o comunque teatrale, dipende dove sarà destinata, di Hercules.

Inviato da: veu il 19/4/2020, 13:57

Dal sito https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-Exclusive-Thomas-Schumacher-Reveals-Next-Steps-for-HERCULES-AIDA-More-20200226:

BWW Exclusive: Thomas Schumacher Reveals Next Steps for HERCULES, AIDA & More!

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, a new North American tour of Elton John and Tim Rice's Tony-winning Broadway smash Aida will premiere at Paper Mill Playhouse in 2021 before beginning a North American tour, directed by original company member Schele Williams. This will not be the same Aida of Broadway past, however.

"We're going back into it and exploring things that we would rethink today. [We want to] reinvestigate the material," Disney's Thomas Schumacher told BroadwayWorld. "All of these things that we thought we knew about Egypt and Nubia were actually wrong. What we thought we knew about the dynamic of these cultures has changed. So we're really reconstituting parts of the show."

Aida isn't the only new project on Disney's plate. While work on a musical version of The Princess Bride continues (a workshop will be held this spring), a stage version of Hercules, which premiered in summer 2019 at the Delacorte Theatre, is also an ongoing project.

"We're gonna take it to the next level," says Schumacher. "There is no intention of Broadway, but there are all of these theatres across the country that are dying for it. We've turned it into a two-act [show] and made some changes."

Schumacher also recently celebrated the release of the third edition of his book, How Does the Show Go On?. "There is an extraordinary collection of people that it takes to make a show and to make the community of a show- whether its onstage, front of house, back of house, and the people who don't even appear in the theatre, like press and marketing," he explains. "All of that was exciting to me and I wanted to make sure that the book represented all of it."



Traduzione: Hercules non verrà portato a Broadway, ma sarà realizzato in diversi teatri negli Stati Uniti. Verrà trasformato in uno spettacolo in due atti e avrà dei cambiamenti rispetto alla versione presentata a New York l'anno scorso.

Inviato da: Scrooge McDuck il 11/5/2020, 0:54

Ho visto il trailer e l’ho trovato imbarazzante. Niente a che vedere con gli spettacoli Disney Theatrical Productions. Sembrava di vedere le prove che facevo negli hotel come animatore turistico sick.gif

Inviato da: veu il 16/8/2020, 20:06

Da https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ctUVvQ_eUA, intervista ad Alan Menken in cui parla anche del musical di Hercules:

Q: I think you music in Hercules is absolutely gorgeous.

Alan Menken: Oh, Hercules. Now its time has come. You know, we did this theatrical production in Central Park last summer. It was the hardest ticket to get. And now we have an adaptation ready to go for Broadway, once Broadway is able to reopen.



Inviato da: Daydreamer il 18/8/2020, 22:59

Il musical avrà 5 canzoni inedite, di cui una per Ade:

da https://insidethemagic.net/2020/08/hercules-on-broadway-lp1/?utm_content=bufferd34be&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR3RL6O_xUS3VbR9MopNWEtd-o5P7fe2A1lPwjoG1wEC8IHglgjyOB5KSug

[...]now word is that Broadway will be welcoming this Greek mythology God with open arms when Broadway is back up and running. We should be tapping our toes to five new songs on Broadway that were included in The Public Theatre’s Off-Broadway version, including “A Cool Day in Hell,” sung by Hades.

Inviato da: veu il 21/8/2020, 20:09

Sì questo musical sembra essere interessantissimo!!!
anche Megara ha più canzoni!

Inviato da: veu il 25/3/2021, 23:59

Dal sito https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXErNCqaYY, parla Alan Menken:

We have Hercules now which we did in Central Park just before the pandemic hit and we want to bring that to Broadway. [...] I have the stage musical of Hercules where we're now doing the Broadway version of that that we had done in Central Park. [...] Very excited about the Hercules musical.

Inviato da: veu il 4/9/2021, 23:03

Da https://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.php?thread=1125191#5266918 del 30 luglio 2021:

I had an opportunity to speak with someone closely involved with the PublicWorks production of Hercules, and I asked them what led to the production being approved. They said that Lear DeBessonet, the director, approached Disney with the idea, and Disney approved it because they had no plans to turn the movie into a musical on their own terms. It so happens that the Public Works production has inspired them to continue developing it, but that wasn't the case before.



Da https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZpiNEOh7_w del 12 agosto 2021:

Alan Menken: Hercules was not that big a hit as an animated movie. But just before the pandemic, we did it in Central Park at the Delacorte Theater and all the papers went crazy. Now we're going to be opening it next summer.


Da https://variety.com/2021/legit/podcasts/disney-broadway-lion-king-frozen-beauty-and-the-beast-1235052207/:

Q: What can you tell us about what's coming up?

Thomas Schumacher: I can tell you about some of what's on my desk. I just got a very exciting, new script for Hercules. If we would take the park version that we did with Oskar [Eustis]...when we had that conversation to do something in Central Park and the idea of a classical story, Hercules, but set in a contemporary way...working with Lear deBessonet was fantastic. And out of that, we've said 'What will happen next?'. So, there's a draft of that on my desk with no commitment to announce attached to it.

Inviato da: veu il 13/4/2022, 22:59

Dal sito https://www.playbill.com/article/disneys-hercules-sets-stage-return-at-new-jerseys-paper-mill-playhouse:

Disney's Hercules Sets Stage Return at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse

The Tony-winning theatre will be the first to stage the Disney film since a 2019 world premiere via The Public Theater's free Shakespeare in the Park.

New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse has set its 2022-2023 season, which will include the second-ever staging of Disney's Hercules, adapted from the 1997 animated film with songs by Alan Menken and David Zippel. Paper Mill's production, which will run February 9-March 12, 2023, follows the stage adaptation's 2019 world premiere via The Public Theater's free Shakespeare in the Park helmed by Lear deBessonet, who returns to direct the Paper Mill staging.

The upcoming production will newly feature a book by Kwame Kwei-Armah (The Visitor) and Robert Horn (Tootsie, 13), adapted from the screenplay by Ron Clements, John Musker, Donald McEnery, Bob Shaw, and Irene Mecchi. Kwei-Armah and Horn are new to the project, with The Public's production having featured a book by Kristoffer Diaz.

Also returning from the world premiere creative team is Michael Kosarin as music supervisor, with Alvin Hough, Jr. (Once On This Island) joining as music director.

The 2019 production—which starred Jelani Aladdin, Roger Bart, Jeff Hiller, Nelson Chimilio, James Monroe Iglehart, Ramona Keller, Tamika Lawrence, Krysta Rodriguez, and Rema Webb—was part of The Public's Public Works Program, which invites communities across New York to participate in productions at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Participating groups for Hercules included 10 Hairy Legs, Passaic High School Marching Band, and Broadway Inspirational Voices. Casting for the Paper Mill production is to be announced.

Hercules is the latest in a string of high-profile Disney Theatricals productions to find a home at the Playhouse. Newsies made its world premiere at the New Jersey theatre in 2011 with a production that became a surprise hit and transferred to a successful run on Broadway in 2012. Paper Mill also co-presented the U.S. premiere of The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 2015 with La Jolla Playhouse, though this production did not make the jump to the Main Stem. Broadway aspirations for Hercules remain unclear at this time.

The Tony-winning regional theatre's 2022-2023 season will open with On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan, running October 7-November 6. Paper Mill favorite Alex Sanchez (West Side Story, Beauty and the Beast) will direct and choreograph the production, working alongside music director Andrew David Sotomayor (Tootsie).

Next up is a new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, directed by Paper Mill Producing Artistic Director Mark S. Hoebee and choreographed by Kenny Ingram. The holiday production, presenting the classic tale of the nun-turned-governess who brings the Von Trapp family together by teaching them to sing in 1930s Austria, will play December 2-January 1, 2023.

Following Hercules will be Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, adapted by Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor). Running April 12-May 7, 2023, the production will be directed by Casey Hushion, fresh off helming last season's whodunnit, Clue.

The season will close with a new production of Rent, running May 31-June 25, 2023, and helmed by Hamilton resident director Zi Alikhan. With a book, music, and lyrics by Jonathan Larson, Rent updates Puccini's La Bohéme to follow a group of bohemian artists living in New York City's Lower East Side in the late '80s. The piece is both a Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner.

Inviato da: veu il 17/4/2022, 21:09

Da https://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.php?thread=1118903&page=2:

• Is there a workshop happening for this show? Sasha Allen posted sheet music and Muses clip art recently.

• Being that they replaced the bookwriter from the Public production (Robert Horn is now writing it), it would make sense that they should do some kind of workshop.

• Paper Mill Playhouse announced from the stage during "A Jolly Holiday" that they were planning to present "Hercules" next season.

• Sasha posted “rehearsal” today. Definitely don’t think this is for the film, which hasn’t had any updates in the past year.

• There is a workshop happening over the next two weeks. Don't know the trajectory, but preparations for Paper Mill would make sense.

Inviato da: veu il 4/11/2022, 21:24

Aperto il https://herculesthemusical.com/:


Inviato da: veu il 4/11/2022, 21:26

Trovati i personaggi principali del musical che debutterà a febbraio 2023:

Dal sito https://playbill.com/article/james-monroe-iglehart-bradley-gibson-shuler-hensley-isabelle-mccalla-will-star-in-disneys-hercules-at-paper-mill:

James Monroe Iglehart, Bradley Gibson, Shuler Hensley, Isabelle McCalla Will Star in Disney's Hercules at Paper Mill

Directed by Obie winner Lear deBessonet, performances will begin in February 2023.

Initial casting has been announced for Paper Mill Playhouse's 2023 production of Disney's Hercules, based on the animated film of the same name.

The New Jersey production, which will run February 16–March 19, follows the stage adaptation's 2019 world premiere via The Public Theater's free Shakespeare in the Park, helmed by Obie winner Lear deBessonet, who returns to direct the Paper Mill staging. Opening night is March 1.

The cast will feature Bradley Gibson (The Lion King, A Bronx Tale The Musical) as Hercules, Tony winner Shuler Hensley (The Music Man, Oklahoma!) as Hades, Tony winner James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin, Hamilton) reprising his performance from the 2019 world premiere run as Phil, and Isabelle McCalla (Aladdin, The Prom) as Meg. Additional casting will be announced.

Hercules features music by EGOT winner Alan Menken (Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast), lyrics by Tony winner David Zippel (City of Angels, Mulan), and a book by Tony winner Robert Horn (Tootsie) and Young Vic Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah, based on the Disney film written by Ron Clements, John Musker, Donald McEnery, Bob Shaw, and Irene Mecchi and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker.

The Paper Mill production will also have music supervision by Michael Kosarin and choreography by Chase Brock and Tanisha Scott.

The score features hits from the film, including the Oscar-nominated “Go the Distance,” as well as “Zero to Hero” and “I Won’t Say (I’m in Love),” along with new songs written for the stage.

The new stage work will be available to the licensing market at a later date.

Inviato da: veu il 14/1/2023, 20:06

News:

Da https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HUNpn-oMBE:

Alan Menken:

As you probably know, the stage musical of Hercules is coming and it goes into rehearsal in January.



Traduzione: durante il mese di gennaio sono iniziate le prove del musical.



La casa https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm95mhtu1dy/?hl=fr ha riportato la notizia:

We’re going from zero to hero! The cast of Hercules is officially in the rehearsal room!




Inviato da: veu il 2/3/2023, 23:58

Un po' di aggiornamenti:

Thomas Schumacher ha riferito che il musical debutta prima in Germania e poi verrà portato a Broadway:

Da https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayqJfdgILYg:

"It's going to open at the Papermill Playhouse with a really great cast and then a year later it will open in German in Germany. [...] There is an expectation that such things could happen... We'll get in Germany first and then we'll see what happens. [...] It's a big party. There's a lot of puppetry in it, the music is fantastic, so my fingers are crossed".



Video:

Cast Announcement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMtdxmATGzc

Inside Look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Ddip3GD1U

"The Roundtable #57" with Hercules Star Bradley Gibson & Authors Robert Horn & Kwame Kwei-Armah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VYnrLKQUMw

Live from Broadway! Curtains Up! 9/30/22. Coming to the Papermill Playhouse, Hercules!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amm8O1kmj84


Canzoni del musical:





Articolo con un resoconto sul musical presentato ad Amburgo:

https://www.disneycentral.de/disney-filme/hercules-musical-hamburg-song-list/



Immagini:












Inviato da: Fulvio84 il 3/3/2023, 0:09

Tralasciando il blindcasting e le solite polemiche che ormai affrontiamo in ogni topic, io mi soffermerei sul look dle musical, la scena e i costumi.
È rimasto quasi uguali alle prime prove fatte a teatro tempo fa.
Ma veramente piace al pubblico e agli addetti? Io lo trovo terribile come setting. L’outfit di Megara è imbarazzante

Inviato da: Daydreamer il 3/3/2023, 11:19

Secondo me l’approccio così basico e lineare negli abiti vuole in qualche modo ricordare la semplicità delle linee greche e spigolose del Classico. Credo che nella messa in scena e movimento possano rendere più a fuoco e meno straripante la scena. Andrebbe davvero visto prima e poi giudicato; credo che le foto statiche non rendano giustizia alla performance finale. L’attore di Hercules è davvero centrato, che fusto e che presenza.

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