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🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to another edition of the Disney Dish Podcast with Jim Hill. It's me, |
0:04.1 | Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of Schmer's Day, January 17th, 2022. |
0:09.2 | Happy Martin Luther King Day to everyone. On today's show, news, listener questions, |
0:14.7 | and in our main segment, |
0:16.1 | Jim tells us about Disney's first attempt |
0:18.0 | at a Marvel-themed attraction, |
0:19.8 | the Iron Man experience at Hong Kong Disneyland. Let's get started by bringing in the man |
0:24.7 | who wants to know how he's supposed to live, love, and laugh in this economy. It's Mr. Jim Hill. |
0:31.0 | Jim, how's it going? Are we keeping the Sondheim thing going deliberately? |
0:35.0 | That's the big song, |
0:39.0 | sort of the finale climax, crazy part of Follies, |
0:42.0 | you know, Sondheim's show from 71 and we keep |
0:46.1 | forgetting that if we're talking about, you know, that we were at Disney |
0:49.4 | Podcast in Sondheim, he did write the songs for Disney's Dick Tracy back in 19- and stage show. Go to YouTube and chase down Dick Tracy Diamond Double Cross. It was this |
1:07.3 | 30 minute long show that was done for the parks from June to December of 1990 |
1:11.2 | features all of the Son time songs. |
1:14.3 | Totally ignores the storyline of the film, |
1:16.9 | the Warren Beatty movie, and Eisner goes to see it in the parks, |
1:20.8 | and that's what makes him decide,'re going to do Beauty and the Beast on |
1:24.8 | Broadway and in fact we're going to use the exact same team that did Diamond Double Cross to bring it to the stage. |
1:30.4 | So weirdly important show at least in the history of the Disney Company. That's amazing. Yeah, they actually did two production of the show one at Disney MGM and another one at Disneyland Park in the videopolis theater. |
1:43.7 | So, wow. |
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