Thirty-four years ago, the animated film based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale got a boost from songs by Broadway veterans Howard Ashman and Alan Menken — plus Jodi Benson as the voice of Ariel — and kicked off the studio’s comeback.
“Howard approached it in such a beautiful way, like a Broadway musical,” says Jodi Benson, who was 27 and working with Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch at the time, performing in the short-lived Broadway show. “The Disney executives came to see the show, and I got to meet them backstage,” recalls Benson. “When our show closed very quickly, Howard invited a handful of us girls to audition forIt was something to do on the way to the unemployment office.
Katzenberg nearly cut Ariel’s signature song, “Part of Your World,” because “he was just bored” during the sequence, recalls Benson, but Ashman and Ariel’s animator, Glen Keane, “both said, ‘No — you can’t do that.’ ” Katzenberg acquiesced, and the song became a standard.predicted in its review would “solidify the studio’s comeback.
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