The Little Mermaid

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The Little Mermaid.

Oh.

Okay.

The Little Mermaid is like a classic and it's like comfy.

So...

I don't want to say this is a compliment, but a square of American cheese that reminds you of middle school lunch.

He's Alan Menken's music director.

Alan Menken of Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, those Disney classics.

So Michael Kosarin has conducted these shows for 30 years.

And when you go to a conductor who stood on the podium and conducted those shows, and arranged them for different situations, and conducted them all over the world, they know the song and they know the structure of the song at such a deep level that...

She, she actually operates a YouTube channel called 500 Travelers, and it's about travel with kids, and we're actually changing it to be a little bit about a family immigrating to Australia, and so that's becoming our focus there.

Um, but we actually met at the, uh, at, like, a preview performance of The Little Mermaid in Denver, Colorado, and we sat next to each other at the dinner before the show 'cause she used to be a, a ticket seller herself to groups and to people who, like, put together blocks of tickets.

And, uh, and so we met at that dinner, and, uh, took about a year, but she finally agreed to go on a date with me, so, you know.

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School of Rock.

It is a rock musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater, who wrote the Broadway The Little Mermaid, Sister Act, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, the book by one and only Julian Fellowes, who wrote Golden Age, Downton Abbey, Mary Poppins.

The list goes on.

What a team.

You know him from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, 30 Rock, Central Park.

You also may know him from his illustrious Broadway career where he was in the original cast, I was just telling Mike, of Jersey Boys, um, Little Mermaid.

He was the voice of Sebastian.

He was also in Guys and Dolls, Moulin Rouge.

With his husband, composer-lyricist Neil Bartram, they've written Broadway's The Story of My Life, earning four Drama Desk Award nominations, a stage adaptation of Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and the international viral hit The Theory of Relativity, which has been staged around the globe.

As a director, Brian spent seven years on the Broadway creative staff of Disney Theatricals as resident director of The Lion King and associate director of The Little Mermaid.

In Brian's own words, everything I've achieved has come from walking through a door to see what's on the other side.

Curiosity is everything.

So while I think a lot of different cruise lines have really great shows of some sort and entertainment...

If you're looking for that Disney experience, you're going to get a really stunning show that's still focused on Disney, right? Like what we had Aladdin and The Little Mermaid.

I saw Little Mermaid.

It was phenomenal and nice and short, nice and compact for those little kiddos.

wow

yeah it was that quick and I was there for 11 months until I left I was supposed to be there a year but I left one month early because I booked Little Mermaid and

But the story of how you got Little Mermaid as well is pretty amazing.

So you're doing Phantom in Vegas and you'd done an audition, right, for Little Mermaid and then hadn't heard anything?

That's right.

I had auditioned.