Bit mixed feelings here; of course we love a Disney singalong but they owe us A LOT of money.
Starting with my son; he was named after a famous lion cub in his pre-transition life. It was a cool name, no-one else had it, and it summed up their personality brilliantly. And then….. every third child you came across had the same name and everyone was ‘What, like in Frozen?’ No, we had that name 7 years before you stole it.
It also means we can’t watch the film or the songs as it’s a bit of a trigger still. I keep telling him to let it go but that only seems to make it worse.
And then……
My wife is 1/4 Kiwi, her grandmother was born and brought up in NZ and came to the UK as a young woman. As is common she had a Maori name, meaning ‘wide ocean’ which was passed on to my wife, and then on to my daughter as middle names. And then **** me……they nicked that as well! Fortunately my daughter embraces it because she clearly had it 12 years before Walt the thieving bastard came along. I’ve written to them demanding recompense, but I don’t know how far I’ll go with that.
To the question. For the memories, HSM was the songs as kids they always had in the car, so that has good memories. For me, it has to be KOTS which is just a great song anyway. When we went to Florida, meeting King Louie and Baloo in Animal Kingdom on the first day was a dream come true (although meeting Mary Poppins later on led to some other sorts of dreams best not mentioned here. Let’s just say after the kids are tucked up in bed – pure filth. No wonder Bert’s voice went all funny.)
Lastly, don’t know if it counts but Lin-Manual Miranda. I know a stage piece first and then Disney got the rights to film that but Hamilton is just brilliant and has some fantastic music in it. And the theatre co my kids work with did Bring It On a few years ago at Southwark in South London, and the man himself only went and turned up to watch it, and was charm personified. His Desert Island Discs is worth a listen, if you like that sort of thing.
Lin-Manuel Miranda Surprises Bring It On Cast At Southwark Playhouse
