![]() ![]() “We ended up using that demo in the movie because there was something hugely emotional about it and it just couldn’t be beaten.” Lin-Manuel Miranda then wrote lyrics for the second, more heartbreaking reprise that’s new to this movie. Surprisingly, Bailey’s vocal on the reprise “is actually the scratch vocal that she recorded quickly on a freezing cold day, after doing stunt rehearsals and being thrown around on wires for 13 hours,” said Higham. “The arrangement starts small and grows to become so full and lush at that climactic moment,” said Mike Higham, the movie’s music supervisor and music producer. “In that moment, you can feel the depth of Ariel’s yearning.”īailey’s emotional take is backed by an 86-piece orchestra, complete with a particularly large string section that swells at just the right times. “I wanted to see how high she could belt, so we just had her go up note by note, and it was just so beautiful, we knew it had to stay in the song,” he said. “I went into it saying, ‘I have to be up to par.’ And then I tried to give myself creative freedom to not get locked into the version that we’ve all heard.”īailey first performed “Part of Your World” during her audition with director Rob Marshall, who asked her to extend the song’s final crescendo. “She was the blueprint - I forever have to credit her for laying this beautiful foundation that can never be topped because, to be honest, it’s perfect,” said Bailey of Benson’s original version. “ almost returns the Disney animated features to their glory traditions of the ‘30s and ‘40s.”Īshman coached Jodi Benson through the recording of the now-iconic ballad, which was nearly cut from the movie when Disney‘s then-studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg worried it’d bore younger viewers. “Impudent, grandiose, a multilevel crowd-pleaser,” wrote Michael Wilmington in The Times’ review. The movie was a box-office hit and won two Academy Awards for its musical components: original score (also by Menken) and original song (“Under the Sea,” over fellow nominee “Kiss the Girl”). ![]() Released in 1989, “The Little Mermaid” is largely credited for kicking off the Disney renaissance, a streak of acclaimed animated musicals that included “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Lion King” and numerous others. There was a hunger for what it was - a return to Disney animation, and to movie musicals - and we were given a great deal of leeway to really create.” “What are these two off-Broadway songwriters doing at Disney? We were in Glendale - not even on the main lot - in these little warehouses that had been converted for work on animation, looking at the storyboards and giving details to the animators about what we think the structure of the story should be. ![]() Alan Menken recalls working on “The Little Mermaid” as “a constant miracle.” He and lyricist Howard Ashman were still flying high from the screen adaptation of their eccentric stage show “Little Shop of Horrors,” and they were re-teaming to write music for a new film. ![]()
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