Disney and *Aida*...

[Ebony Elizabeth Thomas]

I wrote:
>
> > --Ebony (who read *Aida* to her fifth graders today and thinks it
> > would make
> > a great Disney movie--but again, isn't holding her breath.)

Heidi replied:

>For a movie, you might have to, but a disney *version* of Aida already
>exists! http://disney.go.com/disneyonbroadway/aida/index.htm has a lot
>of info about the Tim Rice/Elton John musical of Evita, which is
>currently onstage at the Palace Theater on broadway & on tour around the
>country - I haven't seen it but my parents say only wonderful things
>about it and my dad listens to the soundtrack all the time in the car.
>My mom alternates between Aida and Ragtime these days...

I'm so glad you posted this, Heidi!  I knew all about the Broadway *Aida* 
(though haven't seen it--yet), but had no idea Disney was behind it.  If it 
is of the same quality as the Broadway version of *The Lion King*, then...  
:::grins and wonders how she can get tickets:::

And I might be able to exhale after all.  My fifth hour class came up with 
several ways Disney might corrupt it in order to fit the animated formula, 
which proves something else...

Kids like happy endings.  They protested at the end... called the characters 
stupid (what does a ten-year old know about "love unto death" and beyond the 
grave?  Heck, what do any of us know?  I'm not sure *I'd* do it!)... and 
proposed at least a dozen ways "happily ever after" could have been 
achieved.

Which makes me think of something else.  Why is "happily ever after" so 
important to us?  Is it because of the uncertainties of our own lives that 
we want a sure thing when we read?  So that we

--Ebony


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