About the Stage Production(s)

A few words about the stage production.

As with most Disney adaptations, pretty much everything you ever loved about the movie is there-- plus a bunch more. This show adds many songs. Eric gets some songs. Ursula gets another song. Flounder and Scuttle each get a song. The sisters of Ariel get their own feature number. And the characters who always sang now sing more.

The story has also been rewritten a bit, most notably rewriting the ending so that Ariel is not a bystander at the climax of her own story.

Also-- and for those of you who do research on the intertoobz, this is important-- The Litttle Mermaid has been turned into a stage production twice. The first production ran from 2007-2009, and that is what almost everything you'll find on line is from. The show underperformed and was mothballed in 2009, to be rewritten and tweaked and re-presented a couple years later, and that second version is the version that is now rented out. That's the one we're doing.

Notable differences between the two productions. Some songs were removed or replaced. Regrettably, Ursula's "extra" number from the first production ("Bring Back the Good Old Days") was replaced in the second version. The first version depended on heelies for most motion, with no flying. The second version goes with flying rather than wheels.

Most of the clips you find on youtube will be from the first version, which is mostly the same, but not exactly the same. Just so you know!