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A special "May the (Stephen) Schwartz Be With You" edition of Why For

Jim Hill's back with even more answers to your Disney-related questions. This time around, he talks about "Enchanted" 's score evolves over the course of that motion picture, where Stephen drew his inspiration for "Out There" as well as talking up an event that's being held at Woodbury University this coming Monday night Read More...

Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 12:00 AM | 2 Comments

Filed under: animation, book, Disney, music, Broadway, musical, Disney Theatrical, Beauty and the Beast, Alan Menken, Kevin Lima, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, James Baxter, James Baxter Animation, Stephen Schwartz, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Paris, Kiss the Girl, ASIFA-Hollywood, panel discussion, stage version, ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, 2008, October, animated feature, 2007, Happy Working Song, So Close, That's How You Know , animators , Mulan, Belle, Warner Bros. , 2010, Don Hahn , stage, Woodbury University, Pocahontas, Broadway-bound, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, Disney Music , Carol de Giere, Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz from Godspell to Wicked, Enchanted, The Alchemy of Animation: Making an Animated Film in the Modern Age, Craig Lucas, James Lapine, Cathedral of Notre Dame, Out There, Quasimodo, Hunchback, Mike Belzer, Nik Ranieri, Fletcher Jones Foundation Library, Fletcher Jones, Ever After, Ever

Animation fans prematurely shoot off their mouths about "Bolt"

Jim Hill points out the parallels between what WDAS's next release is now going through and "Beauty & the Beast" & "The Lion King" 's troubled productions Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:00 AM | 18 Comments

Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, Pixar, DreamWorks, computer animation, John Lasseter, Walt Disney Pictures, Beauty and the Beast, John Musker, Ratatouille, Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, DreamWorks Animation, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Toy Story, WDAS, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, WDI, Ed Catmull, Walt Disney Imagineering, Walt Disney Studios, Bolt, Academy Award, film, movie, 2008, animated feature, Richard Purdum , Cranium Command, Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale, award, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Disney Feature Animation, The Emperor's New Groove, Kingdom of the Sun, Kiskaloo, blind men and the elephant, Indian fable, pre-release image, teaser poster, November 2008, gadget tray, Mittens the cat, Rhino the hamster, Chris Williams, American Dog, Chris Sanders, quirkiness, Jan Pinkava, George Scribner, Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers, S Gross, lemons into lemonade, November 28

"Two's Company" expected to draw a real crowd tonight in Glendale

Jim Hill give LA-based JHM readers a heads up about a fun fundraiser that's being held this evening at the Alex Theatre, which celebrates the music of Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz Read More...

Posted Monday, November 05, 2007 12:00 AM | 6 Comments

Filed under: music, Broadway, musical, Disney Theatrical, Beauty and the Beast, Alan Menken, benefit, Desperate Housewives, Stephen Schwartz, Los Angeles, Glendale, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, wildfires, writers' strike, Los Angeles County, California, LA, Two's Company : A Celebration of the Songs of Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, global rental sales, LACCTAA, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Newsies, The Magic Show, Cindy Williams, The Labyrinth of Gedref, The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, Days Of Our Lives, David Burnham , Light in the Piazza, Patrick Cassidy , Assassins, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Ramon Del Barrio , Chita Rivera: A Dancer's Life, Kevin Earley , Can-Can , Sleeping Beauty Wakes, Grease: You're The One That I Want, Kim Huber , Gregory Jbara , Damn Yankees, Victor/Victoria, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Chad Kimball , Into The Woods, NewsRadio, album, Sister Act - The Musical, Michelle Nicastro , The Swan Princess, Valarie Pettiford , Fosse, Linda Purl , Lifetime television , The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Rex Smith , Grand Hotel, Kevin Spirtas , Hairspray, Alice Ripley , The Rocky Horror Show, Side Show, Sunset Boulevard, Ed Squair, The Producers, Andy Taylor , Moon Over Buffalo, Bruce Vilanch , Jennifer Leigh Warren , Julie Reiber, Emily Rozek , Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Flaherty , Lynn Ahrens , Academy Award

Toon Tuesday: Wanna see what the first few minutes of "Enchanted" looks like?

Jim Hill shares some images from the animated portion of this new Kevin Lima film. Which the Mouse hopes will get today's audiences excited about the idea of seeing Walt Disney Studios do traditional animation again Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:00 AM | 24 Comments

Filed under: Disney, movies, traditional animation, Walt Disney Pictures, Dick Cook, Andreas Deja, Beauty and the Beast, Alan Menken, Walt Disney Animation Studios, The Game Plan, Kevin Lima, Amy Adams, James Marsden, Patrick Dempsey, Susan Sarandon, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, The Pacifier, Three Men and a Baby, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Oren Aviv, James Baxter, James Baxter Animation, Andy Fickman, Vin Diesel, Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Rotten Tomatoes, Chris Chase, Jason Reed, Nina Jacobson, Bill Kelly, Barry Josephson, Stephen Schwartz

Tune Tuesday: "Beauty" takes her final bow on Broadway

Jim Hill brings you along to the Lunt-Fontanne. Where the curtain finally came down on this long running Disney Theatrical production this past Sunday night Read More...

Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2007 12:00 AM | 2 Comments

Filed under: DVD / Video, music, theater, Broadway, musical, Disney Theatrical, Beauty and the Beast, Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Lunt-Fontanne Theater