How could a show about such an outsize hero as Hercules be so lame? That’s the question hovering over a Disney-backed musical that arrived at the Theater Royal, Drury Lane, in London on Tuesday ...

Alice Saville Wed, June 25, 2025, 4:41 AM EDT Hero to zero: The musical adaptation of ‘Hercules’ fails to replicate the magic of its source material (Johan Persson/Disney) ...

However, Brady’s Hercules is sweet but uncharismatic, his romance with Hades’ bored-seeming servant Meg (Mae Ann Jorolan) low-powered. Alan Menken and David Zippel’s score includes hits from ...

In “Hercules,” on screen and stage, that’s embodied by the Muses, a five-strong Greek chorus of smart-mouthed, lung-busting Black women. A sound design with more clarity on the vocals than on the ...

With eye-popping sets, music by Disney veteran Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Little Mermaid) and a book by Robert Horn and Kwame Kwei-Armah that leans into the puns and panto vibe, it's ...

While the film wasn’t the immediate box office smash Disney had hoped, Hercules has in the years since earned something of a cult following. The musical, which began life as a workshop in Central Park ...

With eye-popping sets, music by Disney veteran Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Little Mermaid) and a book by Robert Horn and Kwame Kwei-Armah that leans into the puns and panto vibe ...

They cut the horse. But while Hercules' friend Pegasus may be gone, in almost every other respect, Disney's latest stage adaptation, “Hercules,” cleaves to its 1997 animated movie hit.

The original Disney movie had a fantastic cast, including Tate Donovan as Hercules, Danny DeVito as Philoctetes, James Woods as Hades, Rip Torn as Zeus, and Susan Egan as Megara.

LONDON (Reuters) -Disney takes London audiences back to Ancient Greece with its new musical "Hercules", bringing alive its 1997 animation on the West End stage. Showing at composer Andrew Lloyd ...

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