{"id":6211,"date":"2021-07-22T18:18:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T08:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6211"},"modified":"2021-07-22T18:34:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T08:34:04","slug":"6211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6211","title":{"rendered":"Ashman&#8217;s directions for &#8220;Something There&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While writing the lyrics to songs in <em>Beauty and the Beast<\/em>, Howard Ashman&#8217;s health was deteriorating.  The composer, Alan Menken, recalls: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>By a certain point, he wasn\u2019t well enough to travel. Once Disney knew, they brought a lot of the production over to the east coast; he made it through all the last recording sessions. For Something There, Paige O\u2019Hara was singing the line: \u201cNew, and a bit alarming.\u201d By now Howard was nearly blind and could barely talk. But he said in this hoarse whisper, over the phone from his bed: \u201cTell Paige, when she gets to \u2018alarming\u2019: Streisand!\u201d Next came all the scoring sessions, and pre-production for the animation, but by then he was gone.<\/p><cite>Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Phil Hoad, &#8220;How we made Beauty and the Beast&#8221;, <em>The Guardian<\/em>, 14 March 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2017\/mar\/13\/how-we-made-beauty-and-the-beast\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2017\/mar\/13\/how-we-made-beauty-and-the-beast (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2017\/mar\/13\/how-we-made-beauty-and-the-beast<\/a>.  Accessed 22 July 2021.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While writing the lyrics to songs in Beauty and the Beast, Howard Ashman&#8217;s health was deteriorating. The composer, Alan Menken, recalls: By a certain point, he wasn\u2019t well enough to travel. Once Disney knew, they brought a lot of the production over to the east coast; he made it through all the last recording sessions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,701],"tags":[1367,1555,1369],"class_list":["post-6211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indexes","category-works","tag-alan-menken","tag-beauty-and-the-beast","tag-howard-ashman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6214,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions\/6214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}