I’m just so happy and lucky enough that he chose me.” And then to book it? It was an amazing moment for me.
“I always loved singing his music and being in that room was one of the highlights of my career. “I was living in Los Angeles in 1994/95, and all I wanted to do was sing for Alan,” he says. Getting the gig was a dream come true for Bart.
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RELATED: Disney’s Hercules Coming to the Stage in a Musical Starring Original Movie Voice Actor Roger Bartīart would obviously end up booking the role, immortalizing Hercules‘ inspiring ballad that would go on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song (it lost out to “My Heart Will Go On,” from Titanic). “That was the highest form of praise from Alan!” Bart adds. “I was singing ‘Proud of Your Boy’ - the cut song from Aladdin which was the audition song we had to learn - and then a song called ‘Shooting Star,’ which was the first incarnation of what then became ‘Go the Distance.’ And I just remember finishing and looking over to him and seeing him weep. “Alan is so lovely, if he’s moved, he’ll just cry,” Bart, 56, tells PEOPLE. The Tony-winning actor is returning to Mount Olympus this summer as the devious Hades, though, in the Off-Broadway stage adaptation of the animated classic, which is presented by New York City’s Public Theater in a special arrangement with Disney Theatrical Productions.Īnd while he’s in a different role now, the memory of trying out for Hercules - and Menken’s cries - is still crisp in Bart’s head. It’s been more than 20 years since Roger Bart auditioned to provide the singing voice in Disney’s 1997 animated classic Hercules, but he can still recall the sobs he heard from composer Alan Menken when he did.
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