Photo, BBC/Jennifer Hawthorn
“Only 22 people in the world are EGOTs – winners of the coveted quartet of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards. One of these is Alan Menken, the American composer whose acclaimed catalogue of shows, songs and scores includes so many of Disney’s greatest hits. American conductor Sarah Hicks and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra are joined by special guests and performers from the National Youth Music Theatre in a celebration of this classic songwriter, including sets from ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Aladdin’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Enchanted’. So why not ‘Be our guest’…!”
Beauty and the Beast: Be Our Guest
The Little Mermaid: Main Titles
The Little Mermaid: Part of Your World
Beauty and the Beast: Gaston
Aladdin: Friend Like Me
Pocahontas: Colors of the Wind
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Out There
Enchanted: I See the Light
Enchanted: True Love’s Kiss
Aladdin: A Whole New World
Hercules: Zero to Hero
Aladdin: Prince Ali
Beauty and the Beast: Prologue
Beauty and the Beast: Belle
Tangled: Mother Knows Best
The Little Mermaid: Poor Unfortunate Souls
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: God Help the Outcasts
Hercules: Go the Distance
Newsies: Santa Fe/Seize the Day
Enchanted: That’s How You Know
Beauty and the Beast: Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast: Transformation
Ben Forster vocals
Lucie Jones vocals
Sam Oladeinde vocals
Celinde Schoenmaker vocals
Marisha Wallace vocals
National Youth Music Theatre
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Sarah Hicks
Rupert Hands stage director
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030j7d
Alan Menken (born 1949).
The onstage presenter for this concert was so irritating, loud and inane. And the performances were unrelenting, doing these songs no favours. Al in all, a terrible concert.
This will come as a shock to the 5,000+ audience who absolutely and very audibly loved it. Agree it was OTT sometimes but overall it was brilliantly entertaining.
I’m glad someone has said this. I thought it was just me. Whilst children who knew the music might have liked ‘hearing what they knew’, there seemed to be no heart and passion in it. Then, of course, that might just be the saccharine sweet (yuck) nature of Disney’s output.