It's hard to imagine Disney without its iconic animated musicals.

But in the 80s, after several box office bombs, Disney considered never making animated musicals again.

Thankfully, after playwright and lyricist, Howard Ashman's breakthrough success,

with his oddball musical comedy, Little Shop of Horrors, Disney asked Ashman to work with them,

and The Little Mermaid, a film that became so successful that it kicked off what's now known

as the Disney Renaissance.

In the new Disney Plus documentary, Howard, we get a rare look at the amazing work and career of Howard Ashman, whose life was tragically cut short when he died from AIDS in 1991, midway

through the production of Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.

Howard never saw either of these films finished,

and his surviving partner collected his Oscar for Best Original Song, Beauty and the Beast.

Today, musical theater enthusiast Jake Belissimo from the YouTube channel Dream Sounds.

joins us to take a look at the amazing musical legacy of Howard Ashman.

We're coding in Disney films and Beauty and the Beast as an allegory for society's

betrayal of people with AIDS.

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