WASHINGTON — It’s time to dress up as your favorite characters and sing your favorite songs.
Wolf Trap is hosting a Disney concert on Friday, featuring music by the Wolf Trap Orchestra and accompanying video clips projected onto a giant screen.
“Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, they had just finished a project on Broadway when they were brought in to work on ‘Little Mermaid,’ so they brought that sensibility of the song informing the content and the story,” says Jonathan Heely, Disney’s Director of Music Publishing & Concert Licensing.
“It was exciting at that time, and it was also (exciting) here in the last couple of years to see ‘Frozen’ reach that same kind of pinnacle. To have those two things during my career has been very exciting.”
Indeed, Friday’s sing-along includes the Oscar-winning “Let it Go” from “Frozen” (2013).
It also includes “Hakuna Matata” from “The Lion King” (1994).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB5ceAruYrI
You should also be ready to belt out the title song from “Beauty and the Beast” (1991).
And you can’t miss singing “Under the Sea” from “The Little Mermaid” (1989).
The concert begins at 8 p.m., but if you get there a half hour early, children are invited to participate in a costume parade from the Plaza to the Filene Center stage. Costumes are encouraged but not required to participate. Very small children may invite a grown-up friend to join them in the parade.
Tickets range from $25-$60.
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Listen to the full interview below.
