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2 unusual facts about The Ugly Duckling


The Ugly Duckling

The album, titled “The Ugly Duckling: Story with Songs” contains both songs and spoken narration, and was released independently on CD Baby and iTunes.

Other musical versions include the song “The Ugly Duckling” composed by Frank Loesser and sung by Danny Kaye for the 1952 Charles Vidor musical film Hans Christian Andersen, and Honk!, a musical based on the tale which was produced in Britain and won an Olivier Award.


Booktrack

Since then, the company has published editions of Salman Rushdie's short story In the South and classics including Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, The Ugly Duckling, The Selfish Giant, Hansel and Gretel, Peter Pan, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

Daniella Fray

Fray has also done extensive theatre work including parts in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Whistle Down the Wind and in 2004 the musical Honk!, based on The Ugly Duckling.

Gustaf Tenggren

He later worked with productions such as Bambi and Pinocchio, as well as backgrounds and atmospheres of films such as The Ugly Duckling and The Old Mill.

Makeshift Theatre Company

The first four children's shows produced by M.T.C were written by Jack Neary, and adapted from well known stories, specifically, Robin Hood, The Ugly Duckling, Snow White and Rumplestilskin.

The Ugly Duckling and Me!

Intended for a family audience, it is a modern adaptation of The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen.


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Tween Hearts

Kylie Padilla as Heidi (the ugly duckling) – Heidi is someone from Rick's past who he used to dislike because she was ugly and annoying; but now that Heidi's all grown up, Rick seems to have changed his mind about her.