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In the early 1920s artist and cartoonist Walt Disney started an illustration company in Kansas City, Missouri, with fellow artist Ub Iwerks. The company soon went bankrupt. In 1923 Disney joined his brother Roy in Hollywood, California, and together they established The Disney Brothers Studio. The studio produced a series of animated short subjects called Alice in Cartoonland (1924-1927). In 1928 Walt Disney came up with the idea for Mickey Mouse, a good-natured, lovable mouse who often finds himself in difficult situations. Iwerks helped design the character, and Walt Disney Productions produced Plane Crazy (1928), a black-and-white silent film featuring the mouse.
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As Walt Disney Productions began work on Disneyland, it ... began expanding its other entertainment operations. In 1950, Treasure Island became the studio's first all-live-action feature, and was soon followed by 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (in CinemaScope, 1954), The Shaggy Dog (1959), and The Parent Trap (1961). The Walt Disney Studio produced its first TV special, One Hour in Wonderland, in 1950. Disney began hosting a weekly anthology series on ABC named Disneyland after the park, where he showed clips of past Disney productions, gave tours of his studio, and familiarized the public with Disneyland as it was being constructed in Anaheim, California. The show also featured a Davy Crockett miniseries, which started a craze among the American youth known as the Davy Crockett craze, in which millions of coonskin caps and other Crockett memorabilia were sold across the country.[35] In 1955, the studio's first daily television show, Mickey Mouse Club debuted, which would continue in many various incarnations into the 1990s.
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Disney Theatrical Productions' "Tarzan" has posted a closing notice for July 8 to end its fairly short run on Broadway in New York. The show, which opened in May 2006 to mixed reviews and featured music from Phil Collins, never built the sales momentum that made "The Lion King" and "Mary Poppins" so successful, Variety.com reported. "The sales trends over the last few weeks just haven't held up," said David Schrader, managing director and CFO of Disney Theatrical. Besides "Tarzan" Disney has seen a lot of success on Broadway, including "Aida," which played a four-year run. "Tarzan" is running in the Netherlands in a retooled staging. There is interest in the show in other markets as well, according to Schrader.
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Additionally, "Disney's High School Musical: The Ice Tour," being produced by Feld Entertainment in cooperation with Disney Theatrical Productions, will hit the ice starting on September 29th. That tour is being produced by Tony Award-winner Kenneth Feld, his daughter Nicole Feld, and Kenny Ortega (director of the two Disney Channel Original Movies). The show will include music from the original "High School Musical," as well as from "High School Musical 2," which is scheduled to premiere on Disney Channel in August.
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A fair examination of Walt Disney's life story, foibles and all. Filled with detailed personal accounts of Disney's involvement with various productions, and giving full credit for his creative achievements. 330 pages
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Disney's first international production of TARZAN(R) is currently in rehearsals and will open April 15, 2007 at the Circustheatre near Amsterdam. The production is a continuation of a long-standing partnership between Disney Theatrical Productions and Stage Entertainment, the collaboration that has mounted six Disney musicals in Europe, grossing over $400 million in ticket sales.
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