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ONCE UPON A TIME…

Hans Christian Andersen is No Stranger to Forest Park

This week, her fins a-flapping, Disney’s The Little Mermaid is making her second appearance in Forest Park. Even without sonar, her course has been easy to chart. The much-beloved Disney animated feature was released in 1989. Eighteen years later, Disney Theatrical Productions adapted that now-classic film to the live stage, where she enjoyed a happy Broadway romp for nearly 700 performances, closing in 2009. Ariel brightened the lives of Munygoers two summers later in 2011. Now she has returned.

But in the interest of full disclosure we might point out that the little mermaid – no, not Disney’s mermaid, but rather an earlier incarnation, closer to the one imagined by her creator, Hans Christian Andersen – made her Muny debut in 1981, a full eight years before Ariel swam into our lives on the big screen.

How did that happen? To put the story in context, let’s go back to the beginning.

Ariel, our determined young heroine, is actually quite an old gal. Hans Christian Andersen, the world-renowned Danish author, published his original fairy tale in 1837, which would make her 180. The details of her involvement with the Sea Witch and the prince underwent alterations from Disney – though not so

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