Watch The Original Voices Of Disney’s ‘Aladdin’ Sing ‘A Whole New World
Aladdin was already released last week on digital HD and Disney Movies Anywhere, but the Diamond Edition Blu-ray combo is coming on Tuesday.
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“Aside from being amusing as anything, he was such a warm person”, supervising animator Eric Goldberg remembered.
“Good Morning America” played a montage of a few of these moments, which will also be on the re-released Blu-ray appearing in stores October 13, but you can catch a few above. The archived footage shows Williams in the recording booth bringing the Genie to life with his improvisational skills and impressions, many of which didn’t make the final cut. Absolutely incredible.” Others spoke on the masterful actor and comedian as Musker added that the part of The Genie was written with “Robin in mind.
GMA’s George Stephanopoulos also caught up with cast and crew members of the 1992 film, including co-director and co-writer Ron Clements, who recalled Williams’ tireless work ethic while portraying Genie.
“When Tim Rice came on to writing with me on Aladdin, I quickly put together this song and “One Jump Ahead” and quickly flew over to London”, Menken said of the songwriting process behind “A Whole New World”. We didn’t know if he would do it, and fortunately for us, he did. “If he said no, we were going to be in big trouble because the whole concept was built around Robin”.
Clements explained “there was nobody else that could be the Genie”. “We recorded him in four-hour sessions, and he would be going four hours straight”. By the end, he was just drenched in sweat.