He knew exactly what he wanted, so that was incredible,” Menken tells Variety of returning for Disney’s live-action version. “Revisiting this with Rob Marshall as a director is such a blessing.
(“Kiss the Girl” was also nominated for an Oscar.) In 1990, the legendary duo accepted the Academy Award for best original song for “Under the Sea,” while Menken picked up a solo trophy for the film’s score. Menken dives back under the sea for the live-action version after composing the score for the 1989 animated classic, on which he worked alongside the late Howard Ashman as that movie’s lyricist.
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(“For the First Time,” sung by Bailey, is the third, plus there’s a solo from Javier Bardem’s King Triton which didn’t make the final cut.) “Going on the musical journey of the film makes me so happy to watch again and again.”Īlong with fresh updates to classics like “Part of Your World,” “Kiss the Girl” and “Under the Sea,” the live-action film features three original tracks, with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda. That’s another one of my favorites,” Bailey tells Variety, reflecting on the first time she watched the movie. Instead, she lists her castmates’ musical numbers: “Jonah song is wonderful - ‘Wild Uncharted Waters’ - his performance of that is iconic.
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When you ask “The Little Mermaid” star Halle Bailey about which moment from Disney’s new live-action adaptation of the animated classic made her marvel the most, her answer isn’t donning Ariel’s fins for the first time (despite practicing to be a mermaid since she was a kid) or belting the ballad “Part of Your World.”
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