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For the front page of next Sunday’s Arts & Leisure section in The New York Times, Michael Paulson writes an informative article on Disney’s plans for adapting Frozen into a stage musical. A tryout opens in Denver on Thursday, August 17.
Here’s how his article begins:
Yes, you will hear “Let It Go.”
Nearly an hour into the stage adaptation of Disney’s “Frozen,” Elsa, Queen of Arendelle, will embrace her fearsome power and turn the stage into a shimmering wintry landscape, at once chilly and magical. The song that launched an ocean of tributes will rev up, and, as the Act One curtain falls, audience members will race out with that impossible-to-shake lyric (“The cold never bothered me anyway”) still in their heads.
But to get there — to create a must-see musical out of the juggernaut movie that made a superstar of Idina Menzel and a belter of many a 5-year-old — has meant several years of tricky decisions, the sort that Disney has largely, but not always, mastered in turning successful movies into stage hits.
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