Walt Disney Posters - Aladdin

The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters: From Mickey topo, mouse to Hercules by
John Grant

Character descrizione of King Triton from "The Little Mermaid" (1989)

The character of Triton is in many ways rather nondescript, for the mer-king's role in both the plot and the emotional subtext of the movie is as a symbol - and, at that, a symbol of two different things. First, he is the symbol of constitutional authority, convention and staidness: he is the establishment against which Ariel is rebelling, the past which she wishes to leave behind. Second, he symbolizes parental authority; in this...

It's often been detto that good things come to those who wait. But no one knows that axiom better than voice actor Jodi Benson. Who had to wait a full anno after handing in her The Little Mermaid audition tape before Jodi then learned that she had won the role of a lifetime.

"Back in the Fall of 1986, I was appearing in Smile, a Broadway musical that Howard Ashman had written with Marvin Hamlisch. dato that Howard and Marvin were such huge talents, everyone thought that this mostra would run forever. But that isn't what happened with Smile. It closed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre after just 48...