Spread over 4 pages the Disney themepark site Laughingplace.com introduces or should I say re-introduces it’s readers to the lead animators of the upcoming 2D The Princess and the Frog. People who actually don’t need introduction because their fame, sometimes gathered over three decades drawing legendary Disney characters, exceeds them. Who doesn’t remembers names like [...]

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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Alan Menken - A medley of his favorites

Looking for Alan to perform Little Shop of Horrors songs I came across a recent live performanceAC of him doing a medley of his most memorable songs. He did a concert a school playing besides Little Shop of course selection of all the Disney productions he worked on. Okay so he isn’t the world’s best [...]

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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Princess and the Frog teaser trailer online

The upcomming Ron Clements and John Musker traditional animation film “The Princess and the Frog” got a teaser site complete with teaser trailer. See and be amazed, her animation is more Mulan, Nani style a bit cartoonish but it’s classic hand drawn animation so who am I to complain. After she is animated by the [...]

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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Bruce Adler passed away at 63

Broadwayworld.com reports the death of singer, actor who lost a battle against cancer. We know Bruce as the singing voice of the Peddler preforming “Arabian Nights” He could also be heard in “Beauty and the Beast” and was a broadway beast for many years playing in shows like Fiddler On The Roof, Oliver!, The [...]

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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Robin on Sessame Street

Syera points us to a set of classic Sesame Street clips starring Elmo and Robin Williams.
In Robin gives Elmo a stick the comedian demonstrates the muppet what he can do with a stick and in play ball Mr. Williams plays baseball with the two headed monster, Elmo a bunch of kids. Robin explains that his [...]

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Copied from Playbill.com:
PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, will release “Howard Sings Ashman” this fall as the next volume in its ongoing Songwriter Series.
The disc will feature performances by the late Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning lyricist of Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors [...]

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