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As each of his six daughters comes out and introduces themselves, they open the stage for Ariel, the seventh and youngest, to make her stage debut, though to their shock she is not in the shell ("Daughters of Triton"). The concert starts as Triton looks at Sebastian approvingly, happy to see his daughters singing. It swims along with other sea creatures and multiple merpeople in the kingdom of Atlantica swimming to Triton's palace for a concert being held by the court composer, Sebastian the crab. He holds a fish to Grimsby which loses his grip and falls back to the ocean, relieved. His guardian, Grimsby, denies the myth although a sailor insists that it is true. Some of them tell about the merpeople's ruler, King Triton, to a young prince named Prince Eric. The film starts with several sailors singing "Fathoms Below" while sailing the ocean. The musical will have had 685 performances and 50 previews. The musical officially opened on January 10, 2008. The musical had a try-out in Denver in September, then in November moved to Broadway. The musical's book is by Doug Wright, music by Alan Menken and lyrics by the late Howard Ashman (written for the film) and new lyrics by Glenn Slater. An musical stage adaptation of the film with some differences opened on Broadway in 2007 or more early 2008, and closed on August 30, 2009. and an additional $99 million worldwide, and is given credit for breathing life back into the animated feature film genre after a string of critical and commercial failures beginning in the early 1980s.
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The twenty-eighth animated feature in the list of Disney theatrical animated features, the film is based upon the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, "The Little Mermaid." The film grossed over $111 million in the U.S. The Little Mermaid is a 1989 animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and first released on Novemby Walt Disney Pictures.