1st Edition

Disney Theatrical Productions Producing Broadway Musicals the Disney Way

By Amy Osatinski Copyright 2019
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

Disney Theatrical Productions: Producing Broadway Musicals the Disney Way is the first work of scholarship to comprehensively examine the history and production practices of Disney Theatrical Productions (DTP), the theatrical producing arm of the studio branch of the Walt Disney Corporation. This book uncovers how DTP has forged a new model for producing large-scale musicals on Broadway by... Read more

Part 1: Once Upon A Time: Disney Enters the Great White Way  1 Be Our Guest: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast   2 Disney Comes to Times Square: The New Amsterdam Theatre  3 The Disney Way  Part 2: Anything Can Happen: Disney Theatrical Production Models  4 King of the Broadway Jungle: Disney’s The Lion King  5 For the First Time: Disney’s Tarzan: The Musical  6 Watch What Happens: Newsies: The Musical  Part 3: We’re All in this Together: Collaboration and Cooperation  7 Never Had a Friend Like Me: Disney In Partnership

Biography

Amy S. Osatinski is a director, performer, scholar, teacher, and designer. She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Northern Iowa, where she teaches courses in Directing, Analysis, and Musical Theatre. Amy holds a PhD in Theatre from the University of Colorado Boulder, an MA in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Colorado Denver, and a BA in Theatre from the University of Denver.