Photo Flash: Anika Noni Rose Signs Copies of 'Princess Tiana and the Royal Ball'

Anika Noni Rose (voice of Princess Tiana in Disney's "The Princess and the Frog") signed copies of the book "Princess Tiana and the Royal Ball" at Barnes and Noble 86th Street and Lexington Ave.

Disney's Princess and the Frog, featuring for the first time four major Broadway voices - Anika Noni Rose,Jen Cody, Micheal Leon Wooley, and Peter Batlett - gets it's nationwide opening today, December 11.

The upcoming film will be set in New Orleans and feature the Walt Disney Studio's first black princess.

Oprah Winfrey recently joined the cast as Eudora, the mother to Princess Tiana voiced by stage and screen star Anika Noni Rose (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Caroline of Change, Footloose).

The film also stars such stage (and movie) greats asJohn Goodman, Jenifer Lewis, Keith David, Michael-Leon Wooley (American Buffalo, Little Shop of Horrors), and Peter Bartlett (Drowsy Chaperone, Beauty and the Beast).

Currently appearing in Shrek The Musical, Broadway favorite Jen Cody is also in the film as well, voicing Charlotte LaBouff.

The movie is written and directed by John Musker and Ron Clements and features the music ofRandy Newman, who wrote 6 new songs for the film.

 

Digital Photos by Adam Nemser-PHOTOlink

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