Word: disneyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LITTLE MERMAID: Hans Christian Andersen gave his poignant tale of a mermaid who gives up her voice in order to walk on land a tragic denouement: unable to express her love to a handsome prince, she loses him and dies heartbroken. But Disney being Disney, the animated 1989 version of the tale ends with ... well, what do you think...
...then something happened, something that those cheesy Disney movies fail to incorporate. The Tigers held strong. Princeton is a good team, and it would not go down easily...
...script has little use for the novel's other plot line: Hester's difficulty with her love child Pearl. But this Hester is readier to be martyr and lover than seamstress and mother. She is, you see, America's prototype feminist. (Caucasian feminist, that is--Pocahontas, in the Disney cartoon, beat Hester to the p.c. punch.) And the Rev, weak in the novel, is now a fiery film hero, deserving of the preposterous happy ending the filmmakers tack...
...eyes in this nation of snackaholics. Movie-house owners have long catered to the eat-and-art urge, as the stalagmites of chewing gum and Jujyfruits on the floor of the local Googolplex will attest to future archaeologists. In the past decade, producers of live shows merged foodomania with Disney-style theme attractions (Medieval Times, King Henry's Feast) to create that curiosity known as environmental theater. Song of Singapore was set in a lavish nightclub in 1941. For Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding you went to church, then to a restaurant. When Tamara came to New York, visitors wandered...
There are a zillion reasons for the collapse of the genre: preposterous production and running costs, the aging or death (often from aids) of top practitioners, the defection of others to Disney movies, the ignoring of a younger generation's pop-musical tastes. Says Michael Price, executive director of the pacesetting Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut: "In the Golden Age of the musical, what you had was a lot of producers who threw a lot of product up into the air and a couple of shows stuck to the ceiling." Now, musicals are so costly that producers...