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The Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack

The Little Mermaid

Shows · The Little Mermaid

Having been unable to meet expectations for Tarzan, Disney Theatrical Productions tried again with a stage version of the 1989 Disney animated feature The Little Mermaid. The production had its premiere at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, which had been hosting Disney’s breakthrough musical, the long-running and hugely successful Beauty and the Beast, since 1999. Disney Theatrical shut down Beauty voluntarily, not wishing…

Opened
2008
Performances
685
Type
Musical
Era
Modern
Music: Alan MenkenLyrics: Howard Ashman & Glenn SlaterBook: Doug Wright

Productions1 on Broadway

2008 Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Original. January 10, 2008 · Francesca Zambello 685 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Recordings 42 albums held

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The Little Mermaid
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The Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Walt Disney Records CD-018
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The Little Mermaid BMG BMGWD-W007. 1989
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The Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Walt Disney Records 60841‐2; Walt Disney Records CD‐018; BMG Dir…. 1989
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The Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Walt Disney Records 60841-2; Walt Disney Records 60841-7. 1989
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The Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Walt Disney Records CD-018. October 13, 1989
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The Little Mermaid: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Pickwick Music DSTCD 451. 1991
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The Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Walt Disney Records 60841‐2. June 25, 1992
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The Little Mermaid (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (日本語版) Walt Disney Records PCCD-00142. December 16, 1995
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The Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack Walt Disney Records 60946-0. 1997
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The Little Mermaid Walt Disney Records 60946-7. 1997
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The Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack Walt Disney Records 60946‐7. October 14, 1997
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The Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack Walt Disney Records 5012012-2. 1999
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The Little Mermaid Walt Disney Records 0927443712. 2002
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The Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack Walt Disney Records. May 30, 2006
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The Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack Walt Disney Records 861618‐7. October 3, 2006
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The Little Mermaid: Special Edition Walt Disney Records. November 27, 2006
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The Little Mermaid: Original Broadway Cast Recording Walt Disney Records D000108102. 2008
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The Little Mermaid 2008
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The Little Mermaid: Original Broadway Cast Recording Walt Disney Records D000103302. February 26, 2008
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The Little Mermaid: Original Broadway Cast Recording Walt Disney Records. February 26, 2008
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The Little Mermaid: Original Broadway Cast Recording Walt Disney Records AVCW-12654. October 29, 2008
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The Little Mermaid: Greatest Hits Walt Disney Records D001886702. September 24, 2013
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The Little Mermaid Favorites Walt Disney Records. October 1, 2013
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The Legacy Collection: The Little Mermaid Walt Disney Records D002065692. November 24, 2014
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The Legacy Collection: The Little Mermaid Walt Disney Records 0050087318796. December 1, 2014
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The Legacy Collection: The Little Mermaid Walt Disney Records. December 14, 2014
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The Legacy Collection: The Little Mermaid Walt Disney Records. December 15, 2014
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The Legacy Collection: The Little Mermaid Walt Disney Records. August 21, 2015
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The Little Mermaid Walt Disney Records 8739257. April 27, 2018
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The Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Walt Disney Records. April 27, 2018
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The Little Mermaid: Original Broadway Cast Recording Walt Disney Records UWCD-8127. December 12, 2018
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The Little Mermaid Live! Walt Disney Records. November 5, 2019
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The Little Mermaid Live! Walt Disney Records. November 6, 2019
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The Little Mermaid Walt Disney Records. May 19, 2023
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The Little Mermaid Walt Disney Records. May 19, 2023
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The Little Mermaid (deluxe edition) Walt Disney Records. May 26, 2023
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The Little Mermaid Walt Disney Records D004226202. May 26, 2023
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The Little Mermaid Walt Disney Records D004226401. May 26, 2023
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The Little Mermaid (deluxe edition) Walt Disney Records D004270025. May 26, 2023
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The Little Mermaid (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Walt Disney Records. October 13, 2023
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The Little Mermaid August 23, 2024

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Disney's The Little Mermaid matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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40 passages naming The Little Mermaid, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

Zambello, Francesca The Little Mermaid book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387

Disney followed Beauty with The Lion King, Tarzan (2006), Mary Poppins (2006), The Little Mermaid (2008), Newsies (2012), and Aladdin (2014) book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p172

“Sooner or Later” and another song from Dick Tracy, “More,” were nominated for 1990 Grammys for Best Song written for a motion picture or for television. Having two nominees from the same film likely divided the voting and was a factor in them losing to “Under the Sea” from The Little Mermaid. book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p782

The Little Mermaid 685 performances Opened January 10, 2008 Closed August 30, 2009 book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p459

The Little Mermaid, The 369, 385 book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p507

The former is a rock version of ‘The Little Mermaid’, a story perhaps most beloved to Czech people through its manifestation as a Dvořák opera, which premiered at the National Theatre in Prague in 1901. book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p373

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