Let's See Them All

Why isn’t there a Broadway Musical channel on the thousands of channels on Cable or Netflix or Hulu? Right now we can see March Madness and view every college compete in their highly publicized basketball tournament. Would life be a softer kinder place if we were all singing and dancing through life? There are even great Musicals that were made into big production movies. We need more and we need it available on demand for all to see the great original work put into these elaborate productions. Right now Broadway is being flooded with band and famous musicians revivals like Jersey Boys representing the lives of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, there is Beautiful featuring the songs from Carole King, On Your Feet the Musical features the songs of Gloria Estefan and more recently Escape to Margaritaville featuring the songs of Jimmy Buffet.  

Then there are the Disney movies and Broadway productions of Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King and now Frozen. Many Broadway Musicals have been running for a very long time so there should be a big market for them on TV. Les Miserables ran on Broadway from 1987-2003, Cats ran from 1982-2000, The Lion King has been on Broadway since 1997 and is still there, The Chicago (Revival) is on Broadway since 1996 and is still there and the longest running Broadway show is The Phantom of the Opera since 1988 and is still on Broadway so people love musicals.

Now there is Frozen on Broadway that will be trying to move from the movies to live action. We all saw the success of The Lion King and the elaborate stage production where talented artists transformed people into believable moving animals. Frozen will be on Broadway to have a more adult theme and to embrace the power of women that is an emerging topic lately with the Me Too and Never Again movement of female empowerment sweeping the country. Frozen is the highest grossing animated movie of all time. Elsa the Ice Queen and her sister Anna will be singing brand new songs along with the familiar favorites like Let It Go. It will be a glossy multi-million dollar frozen wonderland on stage with giant icicles and a 15 pound crystal gown and a 5 foot tall snowman named Olaf.

The theme of Frozen is all about female empowerment. The famous song called Let it Go is all about  letting go of expectations, being perfect all the time, of doing everything for everybody else ,all issues that most women struggle with daily. The composers of the music in Frozen Robert Lopez and his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez are two time Oscar winners who have composed a dozen new songs for the Broadway production. Although the musical has a talking snowman, it does have adult themes. The story is about two princesses who break their own spell. It is about sacrifice where one sacrifices her own childhood for her sister. Their selflessness save themselves. It is about two women who find love not necessarily from a romantic interest but love from your best friend.

There is a Prince Charming or two but in this story the Prince isn’t so charming after all. The good guy is Kristoff and both Princes get the girl but neither one ends up with the girl. Elsa is like Hamlet in that she goes into the world and starts having a debate with herself as to who she is and where she is in life and why she is going into the direction she is going to. The story is about love that doesn’t stop at childhood. The princesses also wear pants when they are on the run. If you care, see it to witness women that are about three dimensional in leadership dealing with love and their own relationships.