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Posted by Calluna on 29.03. at 08:30

I've added a few new pages to the lyrics section: Icelandic "Prince Ali" and Hungarian "Arabian Nights", "One Jump Ahead", "One Jump Ahead (Reprise", "Friend Like Me", "Prince Ali", and "A Whole New World". The Portugese "A Whole New World" lyrics have been corrected, too.

Best of all, I have a new cut song, The Wazir's Song, by Howard Ashman, from the July 15, 1990 script!

(Thanks very much to Anna, David, Joe, and Nick for your help with the lyrics!)

Posted by Calluna on 28.03. at 13:28

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Posted by Calluna on 01.03. at 08:24

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/115517.html

Quote:

Academy and Grammy Award-winning songwriter Alan Menken is among the 2008 inductees to the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Menken, who is currently represented on Broadway with Disney's The Little Mermaid, will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at the 39th annual awards dinner, which will be held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City June 19. An alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engle Musical Theatre Workshop, Menken has earned eight Academy Awards, ten Grammys and seven Golden Globes. He will be honored alongside songwriters Desmond Child, Albert Hammond, Loretta Lynn and John Sebastian. Menken's Academy Award-winning compositions include "Under the Sea" from Disney's "The Little Mermaid," "A Whole New World" from "Aladdin," the title song from "Beauty and the Beast" and "Colors of the Wind" from "Pocahontas." His screen musicals also include "Newsies," "Hercules," "Enchanted" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" – which was later adapted for the stage. Menken also composed the oft-produced musical Little Shop of Horrors, as well as Weird Romance, A Christmas Carol, Sister Act: The Musical, and the ambitious oratorio King David. Founded by Johnny Mercer, Abe Olman and Howie Richmond in 1969, the Songwriters Hall of Fame celebrates songwriters, educates the public with regard to their achievements, and produces a spectrum of professional programs devoted to the development of new songwriting talent through workshops, showcases and scholarships. Previous inductees include Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Cy Coleman, Richard and Robert Sherman, Burt Bacharach, Carole King, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Sir Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Brian Wilson and James Taylor.

Posted by Calluna on 27.02. at 17:11

This live-action, modern-day 'Aladdin' movie, which was posted about here almost three years ago, is apparantly still being developed by producers Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot's Offspring Entertainment for Disney:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117981497.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

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Among the projects that Offspring is developing at Disney are ... a live-action "Aladdin" scripted by Bill Kelly ("Enchanted")

The article also says that Offspring have signed a deal with Disney for three more years, so presumably the movie is planned to come out sometime before then.

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