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Podcast: Enchanted Ears: A Disney Adults Podcast
Episode: How Disney Took Over Broadway
Description: Today, we’re exploring the fascinating history of Disney on Broadway—a partnership that now feels like a perfect fit, but almost never happened.
In the early 1990s, Disney was just beginning its renaissance of animated musicals, while Broadway itself was struggling to reinvent and revitalize Times Square. When Disney brought Beauty and the Beast to the stage, it kicked off a theatrical partnership that would reshape Broadway for decades.
In this episode, we cover:
How Disney first made the leap from animation to Broadway
Why Beauty and the Beast became Disney’s first Broadw...