Howard Ashman Disney musical Howard Ashman

Exploring the legacy of award-winning gay Disney lyricist Howard Ashman

Reading now: 341
gcn.ie

With 2024 being the 35th anniversary of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, it is only fitting to shine a spotlight on one of the writers, and someone who is credited with being the main driving force of what is called the ‘Disney Renaissance’: queer playwright, lyricist and stage director, Howard Ashman.

Read more on gcn.ie
The website meaws.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

24.12 / 22:57
film Music song record career UPS Traffic Elizabeth Chan, ‘Queen of Christmas,’ on Channeling Grief Into Her 14th Straight Holiday Music Release, ‘Shatterproof’
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Singer-songwriter Elizabeth Chan set yet another benchmark in the annals of holiday music by issuing her 14th straight annual Christmas release, “Shatterproof,” this month. No one is likely to come close to shattering that record for the highest number of consecutive seasonal albums or EPs, but Chan — who is known for having a claim on the “queen of Christmas” title — dealt with plenty of events in the past year that put some cracks in her mostly cheerful holiday façade. Most impactfully, she was undergoing grief over the death of a close friend, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (“Super Size Me”), this past spring, as well as her grandmother last December.
DMCA