Kristen Anderson-Lopez Talks IN TRANSIT, Broadway's FROZEN & Next Disney Project

In an all-new interview with ET, Academy and Grammy Award winner Kristen Anderson-Lopez discusses her latest project In Transit, an original cappella musical now in previews and officially opening on Broadway Sunday, Dec. 11.

The New York native shares that the music for the show was inspired by The Big Apple and her personal experiences riding the New York subway. "They were looks at what it was like to be single in NYC or, you know, how annoying it was to be on the subway," Lopez says of the lyrics to the unique project.

The talented composer also discusses the highly anticipated stage adaptation of Disney's mega-hit FROZEN, opening for a limited run in Denver in 2017 before heading to New York's St. James Theatre in the spring of 2018. While the book of the musical will closely follow the script from the film, Lopez and her co-creator, husband Robert Lopez, were tasked with expanding the eight songs heard on the soundtrack to 23 for the stage within a nine month period. "You're at the bottom of a giant mountain that you need to climb, and that's where we were September of 2015," she explains. "We said, we know we have something to say and let's just dig deeper."

Next up on her busy schedule will be an animated adaptation of Jack and the Beanstalk for Disney. The film will center on Jack as he meets a child giantess living in the clouds. Lopez reveals that the project will have a much different feel than FROZEN, sharing, "Frozen was darker than what Gigantic is going to be. But each project is like a child. You have to let it unfold and meet it where it needs to be. We're in the middle of forming it right now."

Read the interview in full HERE

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