In the fall of 2022, Disney announced it was preparing to release a live action remake of its 1989 animated musical hit, "The Little Mermaid." Due for release in May 2023, the trailer triggered a ...

Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International announced that the musical Hans Christian Andersen JR. is now is available ...

But let's be real here: the people (and Twitter bots) crying over The Little Mermaid casting don't care about being "accurate" to Hans Christian Andersen's original story. If they did, they would ...

As she has with previous interpretations of classics, Zwerger (Alice in Wonderland) works from Bell's faithful translation of Andersen's ... in which the little mermaid, now a "child of the ...

2. Hans Christian Andersen's original version of The Little Mermaid was a lot more depressing than Disney’s take.

Although she is able to walk on land, every step the little mermaid takes feels like she is being pricked by sharp knives. Author Hans Christian Andersen also ensured that his main character didn ...

Hans Christian Andersen’s literary fairy tale is radically different to the 1989 film. He was a bisexual social outsider who struggled to express his desires. And his The Little Mermaid was not ...

documentDownload the Teachers' Notes for Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pdf) The Little Mermaid was first published in 1837 and translated into English in 1872. The best-known film adaptation ...

The Danish fairy-tale author Hans Christian Andersen stayed in Sestri Levante ... from forbidden love between a merman, Tigullo, and a mermaid named Segesta—not unlike the forbidden love of ...