Introduction / George Rodosthenous -- Disney musicals: on film. Music and the aura of reality in Walt Disney’s Snow White and the seven dwarfs (1937) / Elizabeth Randell Upton -- Medieval ’beauty’ and romantic ’song’ in animated Technirama: pageantry, tableau and action in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty / Raymond Knapp -- Mary Poppins: a precursor of the feminist musical? / Tim Stephenson -- Musicals in the mirror: Enchanted, self-reflexivity and Disney’s sudden boldness / Paul R. Laird -- Disney adaptations: on stage and beyond. Disney as Broadway auteur: the Disney versions of Broadway musicals for television in the late 1990s and early 2000s / Geoffrey Block -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996): too far ’out there’? / Olaf Jubin -- The Lion King: a ’blockbuster feline’ on Broadway and beyond / Barbara Wallace Grossman -- Not only on Broadway: Disney JR. and Disney KIDS across the USA / Stacy E. Wolf -- Disney musicals: gender and race. Dancing toward masculinity: Newsies, gender and desire / Aaron C. Thomas -- ’We’re all in this together’: being girls and boys in High school musical (2006) / Dominic Symonds -- ’I wanna be like you’: negotiating race, racism and orientalism in The jungle book on stage / Emily Clark, Donatella Galella, Stefanie A. Jones and Catherine Young -- Ashman’s Aladdin archive: queer orientalism in the Disney renaissance / Sam Baltimore -- ’For the first time in forever’: locating Frozen as a feminist Disney musical / Susah Whitfield.