Disney Plus is already home to plenty of musicals, and whether you're more into the animated Hercules and Mulan movies, or the spinoff series High School Musical, there are plenty of shows and movies to keep any Disney subscriber busy, though. change with the arrival of Hamilton, which is expected to hit the service on July 3, well in advance of its originally scheduled October 2021 theatrical release date. The award-winning musical, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who also starred in his original Broadway production, he wowed audiences and critics alike with his mix of hip-hop opera, exploring life. Politically turbulent Alexander Hamilton, one of America's founding fathers. His arrival on Disney Plus will be a welcome one for those of us who didn't get to see the show in person, a great deal, given the limited number of seats per performance and the increased price of tickets. . If you don't live in or near London or New York, your only real option is to listen to the soundtrack (which still holds up beautifully on its own). But Hamilton's coming to Disney Plus also opens the door to the many Disney musicals broadcast on Broadway and in London's West End coming to the streaming TV service. This is why. The best Disney+ deals today
A whole new world
Disney has been a major force in the world of Broadway and West End musicals for years, including blockbusters like The Lion King and Aladdin, for others like Tarzan and The Little Mermaid touring many countries without necessarily ending up in the theater. London or Broadway. There's even a musical for Mary Poppins! However, 2020 is not business as usual. With lockdowns keeping cinemas, theatres, bars and entertainment venues closed for the foreseeable future, more and more of us are turning to streaming TV services to remove our content patch. Disney Plus didn't exactly need this driver, with millions of subscribers signing up in the early days in the US, Canada and Australia, and more in the months since, it has spread to the UK and the rest of Europe. But the fact is that the live performance has stopped, and platforms like Disney Plus offer a way to make up for this.
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With the Aladdin movies animated and live on Disney Plus, why not the stage production as well? (Image credit: Disney) Disney has also performed with broadcasts for musical performances, including their Disney on Broadway 25th Anniversary concert, which was filmed in late 2019 (remember 2019?) and aired in April 2020 to raise money for the victims of Covid -19. Of course, many Disney musicals have been closed for weeks due to lockdowns, so it's unlikely that any performance that hasn't yet streamed for Disney Plus will have a chance in the coming weeks. . London's West End should also be closed until June 28, if not later, while Broadway should be closed by at least September (via the New York Times). On Disney Plus, you'll also find a filmed performance of the Broadway musical Newsway, along with the 1992 film version featuring a rather young Christian Bale. However, we'd be surprised if Disney didn't have some form of video recordings for many of their other musicals, or a plan to obtain them, particularly with their involvement in Hamilton showing interest in using musicals. on stage. Theater cameraman Bartek Podkowa (Seven Hills Film) told us that Disney would likely continue with "Frozen, The Lion King and Aladdin," assuming they have pre-existing footage. Shooting new shows on the scale they're dealing with would be incredibly difficult for the foreseeable future, so I'd expect them to start with what they already have available. " "I hope streaming musicals can reach an audience that normally shouldn't consider giving a stage musical a chance, and convince them to start watching live shows after theaters reopen Podkowa was added, though It acknowledges that Disney's "sophisticated, big-budget" broadcasts could stifle attempts to stream small theaters and theaters during the extended shutdown.
A leap forward
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Room for one more? (Image credit: Disney) A way to scale Disney's biggest musicals in their stage form and watch them back-to-back with the original animated movies that spawned them would be a great addition to the Disney Plus catalogue, which, as it stands , still suffers. lack of variety outside of its Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar and Disney channels. Why not a dedicated "Disney Plus Live" tab? There are also plenty of other live musicals that draw in thousands of paying viewers each month, and if Disney was able to secure streaming rights to several of them, their streaming service could become a home for stage musicals, current and past, those who can't or see them in person. Imagine seeing Matilda, Dear Evan Hansen, and Wicked side by side with The Last Jedi and Black Panther, or even the Book of Mormon (although we didn't expect Disney to bring this to its largely family-friendly service). We've seen similar action from the National Theater in the UK, which has extended its regular NT Live schedule to include weekly broadcasts of past productions, with a strategy of limited availability on stream so as not to completely replace performance. live. For now, we'll be happy with Hamilton, but if Disney doesn't have a roadmap for its upcoming musicals on Disney Plus, you should probably start planning one.