In keeping with the Disney Corporation’s transparent bid for global domination of all adorability-based product, they want to bring Dumbo to Broadway. Tony Award-winning director of Billy Elliot: The Musical, Stephen Daldry, is hard at work planning an adaptation of the 1941 animated classic and … why not? There’s already precedent in the people-dressed-as-elephants genre of musical theater (Addams Family star Kevin Chamberlin was nominated for a Tony for his searing portrayal of Horton the Elephant in Suessical) and the project comes readymade with great songs like Baby Mine and (the admittedly semi-racist) When I See an Elephant Fly. There’s no creative team assembled for this thing yet, which means it’ll be at least 2012 before any imagineered output is available. But think of all the giant-ear-themed products not yet produced, just waiting to be sale-tabled in Disney stores world over.
By Romeo San Vicente
