Director and executive producer Hamish Hamilton explained his vision for the Nov. 5 special, which stars Auli'i Cravalho, Queen Latifah and Shaggy.
won't be a fully staged production like the live musicals that have aired on other networks. Director and executive producer Hamish Hamilton described the upcoming Wonderful World of Disney production, which will star starring Auli'i Cravalho as Ariel, Queen Latifah as Ursula and Shaggy as Sebastian, as an "interesting hybrid" between the original 1989 animated film and live performances of the film's musical numbers.
"There will be visual signatures all the way through that will reinforce the original feature," Hamilton explained. The actors will not re-voice the movie; they will only perform the songs. "The original feature will exist exactly as it always has, and then when we come to a song we will transition from the original to the new."
"We're not creating any new songs or any new characters or any new environments. We are celebrating the animated feature, but we are also celebrating the bigger world ofOriginal composer Alan Menken likened his role in the production to an architect: "I design a house that other people will live in. ... I'll be very involved the first time around with something, and then after that there's a structure that other people can take on and it evolves through different forms.
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