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Hot Ticket: 'On the Record' with Disney

By JOHN FLEMING
Published April 28, 2005

More than 60 songs from Disney movies make up On the Record, which opens Tuesday at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in Tampa. Eight singer-dancers perform favorites ranging from When You Wish Upon a Star (from Pinocchio) to Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat (from The Aristocats) to Let's Get Together (from The Parent Trap) to a medley from Dumbo.

Director and choreographer Robert Longbottom, whose Broadway credits include Side Show and a revival of Flower Drum Song, had the task of concocting a stage show from the Disney catalog. "I spent a summer wading through stacks of DVDs and compilation albums and videos," Longbottom told the Boston Globe. "I knew we weren't looking at a book musical, so I had to think of a framework. I finally came up with the idea of a recording studio, a Disney recording studio where anything could and would happen in terms of magic and fantasy sequences."

On the Record has eight performances through May 8. $30.50-$66.50. 813 229-7827; www.tbpac.org

- JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic

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