Disneyland’s leisure staff is making ready to convey the Hyperion Theater out of mothballs after three years of inactivity with a brand new Broadway-caliber theatrical manufacturing returning in summer season 2023.
“We’re excited to be exploring a brand new, limited-time providing for the Summer season of 2023 and looking out ahead to sharing extra at a later date,” based on Disneyland officers.
Disney Reside Leisure has posted a casting name discover for actors, singers and dancers for a brand new limited-run musical within the Hyperion Theater at Disney California Journey, based on the official Disney audition web site. Auditions will likely be held on Feb. 26 at an undisclosed location in Anaheim.
The brand new present will likely be written by Tony-nominee Hunter Bell with music by Grammy-winner Christopher Lennertz. Bell wrote the guide for “Villains Tonight” on the Disney Cruise Line, based on Broadway World. Lennertz served as music director on Disneyland’s new “Wondrous Journeys” fireworks present.
The important thing roles for the brand new Hyperion Theater present name for:
- A younger man coming into his greatness
- A courageous, resourceful and clever lady with a robust English accent
- A decisive, succesful and principled man with a wry humorousness who leads others with angle and swagger
- A nobleman who's a loyal, idealistic and romantic do-gooder that doesn’t hand over simply
- A enjoyable, energetic and musical sisterhood trio that acts as a Greek Refrain
The roles described within the casting name line up “nearly completely” with Hercules, Meg, Hades and The Fates from the 1997 “Hercules” from Disney’s animation studio, based on WDW Information Immediately.
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A live-action model of Disney’s Hercules is within the works with Man Ritchie directing and the Russo Brothers connected as producers, based on Collider.
An off-Broadway “legendary new musical journey” of Disney’s Hercules is enjoying on the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey from Feb. 16 to March 19.
The Disney Cruise Line has produced a Broadway-style present primarily based on “Hercules” that may be primed and able to step as much as the subsequent degree at a Disney theme park.
The Hyperion Theater has served as a proving floor for shortened one-act variations of Broadway-bound musicals primarily based on the Disney movies “Aladdin” and “Frozen.”
“Frozen: Reside on the Hyperion” was the final present to play on the 2,000-seat venue earlier than the theater went darkish in 2020 in the course of the yearlong pandemic closure of DCA and Disneyland. The theater has stood vacant for the reason that Anaheim theme parks reopened in 2021.