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Frozen, A New Musical Spring 2018
Frozen, A New Musical Based on Disney’s Academy Award Winning Film, Slated to Join Aladdin and The Lion King on Broadway in Spring 2018
Pre-Broadway Engagement at Denver Center for the Performing Arts in August 2017
Frozen, a new musical based on Disney’s Academy Award winning musical 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 on Twitter @FrozenBroadway. Frozen will play its out of town tryout at the Buell Theatre in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in August 2017.
As previously announced, Frozen features music and lyrics by creators of the ï¬lm 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 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’s Mozart 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 Tony Award winner Natasha KaJ (Aladdin, An American in Paris, The Glass Menagerie) and sound design by four-all time Tony nominee Peter Hylenski (The ScoLsboro 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.
Book by Jennifer Lee
Lighting Design by Natasha Katz
Sound Design by Peter Hylenski
Scenic & Costume Design by Bob Crowley
Music Supervision, Vocal & Incidental Music Arrangements by Stephen Oremus
Choreography by Peter Darling
Direction by Alex Timbers