The Little Mermaid film to update 2 of the original songs

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Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ live-action will feature updated lyrics to “Kiss The Girl” and “Poor Unfortunate Souls.”

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-The Little Mermaid live action film will update 2 key songs in TLM: Kiss the Girl and

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[silverstarry]

And some info about Howard Ashman:

It’s interesting because you’re so often associated with Howard Ashman, but you only worked together for a short amount of time. Anytime I watch these renaissance movies (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin), I wonder what you and Howard would have produced together if he were still here. You would have been like Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Howard wrote Smile with Marvin Hamlisch. He knew he was dying as he was writing that show. It was a beautiful score. Everyone wanted it to be a light, frothy, chorus girl musical but it really was about the dark side of beauty pageants. Within that show, there is a song called “Disneyland.” Marvin had just passed away and I wanted to play the song as part of my performance at D23 that year. I wanted to make it my own as I performed it. So for the first time, I sat in front of a Howard lyric that I had never worked with before and it was a visceral experience. It is shiny on the surface, but there's so much depth in terms of what's being said; the references and the connections. I just lost it. It was so emotional to remember what it was like sitting in front of a Howard Ashman lyric. Howard and I know other shows he wanted to do.

What were they?

We got halfway into a musical about Babe Ruth. We wrote five songs. We took the material and put it aside and moved on to Little Shop instead. Howard really wanted to do a musical based on a Damon Runyon story. The movie was Big Street which people know if they saw Being the Ricardos. It was that movie that Howard wanted to adapt and we couldn't get the rights at the time. I've worked on that a number of times since then, trying to figure out what Howard would have wanted to do.