(0 votes, average: 0.00/10)- Country: USA
- Genres: Biography, Documentary, Music
- Release: 2018-12-14
- Director: Don Hahn
- Writers: Don Hahn
- Language: English
- Stars: Don Hahn , Sarah Gillespie , Shirley Ashman
- Runtime: 94 min
- Awards: 1 win & 3 nominations
- AKA: 霍华德·阿什曼 (China)
- Plot: Howard Ashman grew up in an average Jewish family in Baltimore with an extraordinary love for musical theater. After college, he opened a theater in a derelict section of New York and struggled to put on shows, until his adaptation of Roger Corman's film LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS becomes a huge Off-Off-Broadway hit and catapults him into the limelight. Finally on Broadway, he collaborates with the Oscar- and Tony-winner Marvin Hamlisch to create the ultimately disappointing Smile. Embarrassed, Howard fled to Los Angeles and took up with a struggling gang of artists in a warehouse-Disney animators who had just been kicked off the studio lot until they could prove themselves. Along with Alan Menken, Howard writes the Oscar winning songs for THE LITTLE MERMAID. While the film becomes a global phenomenon, Howard is diagnosed with HIV-which he kept a secret in an era when AIDS is a death sentence and gay men are at the margins of society. After creating the initial songs for ALADDIN, Howard's health deteriorated and he wrote the lyrics to BEAUTY AND THE BEAST from his hospital. Howard died before he was able to see his final Disney films release, but the legacy of his work lives on in Broadway productions and live action remakes for a new generation.
- IMDB:tt7682430
Howard Cast
Howard Ashman
(1950–1991)
Self / Various character scratch singing (archive footage)
Alan Menken
Self / Various character scratch singing
Don Hahn
(I)
Self
Jodi Benson
Self / Ariel (voice) / Doria Hudson
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Self
Chris Montan
Self
Rob Minkoff
Self
Roger Allers
Self
Glen Keane
Self
Gary Trousdale
Self
Thomas Schumacher
(I)
Self
David Friedman
Self (archive footage)
Paige O’Hara
Self / Belle (archive footage)
Richard White
Self (archive footage)
Jerry Orbach
Self / Lumiere (archive footage)
Angela Lansbury
Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage)
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Jonathan Hadary
Norman Mushari (archive footage)
Frederick Coffin
Eliot Rosewater (archive footage)
Jonathan Haze
Seymour Krelborn (archive footage)
Howard Stills (10)
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