That show ran from 2007-2009 and was very entertaining and thrilling for all of us. They did, and true to his word he blew it out of the park with drawing the fantastic Ariel/Sebastian the following year.Īround that time, we were fortunate again to be able to see the Broadway show iteration of TLM, and even meet the Prince Eric lead, Drew Seeley, through family connections. A tremendous artist and all around great guy, Procopio drew the simply fabulous Ursula piece below and offered that they should to look him up again at other conventions. 20 years later, my comic-art-collecting husband would bring our daughters to NY Comic Con where they would meet Disney artist Rubén Procopio. I wasn’t a fan of mermaids growing up particularly (unicorns represent!), but I did see TLM in the theater with my boyfriend (now husband) when it was released my senior year of college we still each remember how impressed we were with the animation. Clemens tells of seeing little girls dressed as Ariel for Halloween in 1989 and knowing they had a smash hit. The album went platinum six times over, so the formula works. Both of my daughters mentioned the music as some of their childhood favorites, and a big reason they love the movie. Bring in the great Alan Menken and Howard Ashman for the music, and you’ve got a formula for box office success. He and John Musker gave the mermaid a name, threw in a campy villainess, and fleshed out the characters. evil story and a “love triumphs all” story. It had a lot of potential but was too depressing, so he made it more of a good vs. He had read the original fairytale, but thought it was too sad that the mermaid dissolves into a clump of seafoam at the end. Ron Clemens, a writer and director at Disney, tells how all of the writers were tasked with finding new ideas. This podcast series covers how the 1989 TLM animated revived the Disney company.
1, Laura Beth Nielsen: “Ahead of the Lawmen”: Law and Morality in Disney Animated Films 1960–1998) Strange coincidence, I thought, and then moving things around in my youngest’s room after she went to college, I came across some art she had gotten at Comic-Con years ago. (Listen to Episode 1 and/or read the article by the guest of Ep.
A couple of days later, I was coincidently recommended Malcom Gladwell’s podcast Revisionist History, and the next 3 episodes he aired was a series on the movie. When we were selecting which title we wanted to lead for #CannonBookClub, I offered to take The Little Mermaid and Sea Witch-having seen the Broadway show once and the animated movie approximately 10,000 times with my two daughters, I thought I surely knew the source material. Cannonballer Abby Awesomeness who is now in college.
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