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Breaking News: FROZEN is Officially Headed to Broadway; Timeline and Creative Team Set!

By: Feb. 09, 2016
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Long rumored, for the first time in forever, it's official -- Frozen, a new musical based on Disney's Academy Award®-winning musical film, is slated to join Disney hits Aladdin and The Lion King on Broadway at a theatre to be announced in spring 2018, Disney Theatrical Productions announced today on Twitter @FrozenBroadway.

Frozen will play its out-of-town tryout beginning in summer 2017 at a theatre to be announced.

As previously announced, Frozen features music and lyrics by creators of the film score Kristen Anderson-Lopez (In Transit, Up Here) and Robert Lopez (Avenue Q, The Book of Mormon, Up Here) and a book by Jennifer Lee(Wreck-It Ralph), the film's screenwriter and director (with Chris Buck). Frozen won 2014 Oscars® for Best Song ("Let It Go") and Best Animated Feature.

Golden Globe Award and Obie winner and two-time Tony Award®nominee Alex Timbers (Peter and the Starcatcher, Here Lies Love, Amazon'sMozart in the Jungle) is Frozen's director and Tony-winner Peter Darling(Billy Elliot, Matilda) is choreographer.

The design team for Frozen includes scenic and costume design by seven-time Tony Award winner Bob Crowley (Mary Poppins, The Coast of Utopia, An American in Paris), lighting design by five-time Tony Award winner Natasha Katz (Aladdin, An American in Paris, The Glass Menagerie) and sound design by four-time Tony nominee Peter Hylenski (The Scottsboro Boys, Motown, After Midnight).

Two-time Tony Award winner Stephen Oremus (Avenue Q, Wicked, The Book of Mormon) is music supervisor and creates vocal and incidental arrangements.

Casting and Broadway dates and theatre will be announced at a future date.

Frozen is produced by Disney Theatrical Productions, under the direction of Thomas Schumacher.




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