THE PRINCE EGYPT - THE MUSICAL (2020)
Label: UPHE
Region Code: A
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 184 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.78:1)
Director: Scott Schwartz, Brett Sullivan
Cast: Luke Brady, Liam Tamne, Christine Allado, Alexia Khadime
This is the 2020 West End London musical adaptation of DreamWorks Animation film and featuring Stephen Schwartz's songs with choreography by Sean Cheesman, the familiar biblical tale of Ancient Egypt as two young men, raised together as brothers in a kingdom of privilege, find themselves suddenly divided by a secret past. One must rule as Pharaoh, the other must rise up and free his true people; both face a destiny that will change history forever. I will be honest, my musical tastes are of the cinematic variety, but I took a chance on this not for myself but for my musical loving granddaughter, she's on the spectrum and it's a bit persnickety about what she watches,and she loves Disney and animated musicals and I have been struggling to get her into more live-action stuff. It's a lavish and vibrant stage production with multi-colored lighting, and intricate costuming was solid, as were the multicultural cast. The highlights were the Stephen Schwartz’s songs from the original film as well as some new ones, these were lushly orchestrated and when it really shined for me. The dialogue scenes I was less enamored with, but luckily it's heavy with musical numbers. This is not my preferred version of this IP, especially not at a whopping two hours and twenty-four minutes long, but as someone who is not a live musical production connoisseur, this was alright. More importantly, my granddaughter loved it.
This is the 2020 West End London musical adaptation of DreamWorks Animation film and featuring Stephen Schwartz's songs with choreography by Sean Cheesman, the familiar biblical tale of Ancient Egypt as two young men, raised together as brothers in a kingdom of privilege, find themselves suddenly divided by a secret past. One must rule as Pharaoh, the other must rise up and free his true people; both face a destiny that will change history forever. I will be honest, my musical tastes are of the cinematic variety, but I took a chance on this not for myself but for my musical loving granddaughter, she's on the spectrum and it's a bit persnickety about what she watches,and she loves Disney and animated musicals and I have been struggling to get her into more live-action stuff. It's a lavish and vibrant stage production with multi-colored lighting, and intricate costuming was solid, as were the multicultural cast. The highlights were the Stephen Schwartz’s songs from the original film as well as some new ones, these were lushly orchestrated and when it really shined for me. The dialogue scenes I was less enamored with, but luckily it's heavy with musical numbers. This is not my preferred version of this IP, especially not at a whopping two hours and twenty-four minutes long, but as someone who is not a live musical production connoisseur, this was alright. More importantly, my granddaughter loved it.
Audio/Video: The Prince of Egypt - The Musical arrives on Blu-ray from Sony in 1080p HD widescreen (1.78:1) and looks terrific, the musical is captured on stage at the Dominion Theatre in London's West End with bold colors captured quite nicely with some fluid camera movement that captures the choreography with grace, the sets and colored lighting highlights look terrific as well. The 5.1 audio delivering a is mostly front-centric, but dialogue and soaring songs by Stephen Schwartzare always come through clear and intelligible. There are no extras, as soon as you pop the disc in it it's autoplays
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