a disney page, by bob ito

A Disney page

by Bob Ito

Disclaimer : I'm still learning HTML, CSS and other web stuff, so this web page is pretty basic ( but hopefully still useful ).

Contact : You can send e-mail to rdito13579 at yahoo dot com. No spam please and thank you.

Last update : February 21, 2024

Here's the Disney stock chart at finance.yahoo.com.

You can jump down to : [ other movies & media ] [ more web sites ] [ fanart ]

Beauty and the Beast

The Physics of Beauty and the Beast : Here's a fun post from the good old days of the rec.arts.disney newsgroup where we showed that Belle – yes, Belle – has superhuman strength.

A Beauty and the Beast bibliography : Here's a bibliography for Disney's Beauty and the Beast, listing some books and periodicals. ( Nothing yet for the 2017 live-action movie, sorry. )

Beauty and the Beast review by Roger Ebert ( animated, 1991 )

Beauty and the Beast review by Peter David , who also compares it with The Little Mermaid, and contrasts Belle and Ariel.

Beauty and the Beast trailer : Here's the official trailer for the 2017 live-action Beauty and the Beast.

Beauty and the Beast National Tour: The North American Tour begins in June 2025, with a newly reimagined, 30th anniversary production.

Frozen

Frozen the Musical : The Broadway show based on the 2013 animated film, with more information here. Update : Unfortunately, Broadway's Frozen the Musical has closed permanently, due to the coronavirus pandemic and other reasons. But some good news is :

There's a National Tour of Frozen the Musical ( with a sample from the 2020 Rose Bowl Parade ).
Frozen the West End Musical opened in London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane, on September 8th, 2021. ( Here's The Guardian's review. )
Plenty of videos are available online, including Caissie Levy performing Let It Go , and Patti Murin singing True Love .
Also, For The First Time In Forever ( from Good Morning America ), and the new song I Can't Lose You .

Frozen the Crosswalk Musical : From The Late Late Show, here's James Corden's crosswalk musical of Frozen, with the movie cast -- Kristen Bell ( Anna ), Idina Menzel ( Elsa ), Josh Gad ( Olaf ), and Jonathan Groff ( Kristoff ).

Frozen the Trailers :

For Frozen II : teaser official #1 official #2
For the Olaf short Once Upon a Snowman

Frozen the Physics : Some thoughts about the physics of Frozen and how powerful Elsa really is.

Frozen the Pun : The wig room for Broadway's Frozen is known as … Hairendelle.

other movies and media

The Little Mermaid review by Roger Ebert

The Little Mermaid bibliography : Here's a bibliography for Disney's The Little Mermaid, listing various books and periodicals.

More trailers :

Strange World ( nov. 2022 )
The Little Mermaid ( live action, may 2023 )
Elemental ( pixar, june 2023 )
Wish ( nov. 2023 )

Disney animated features : For reference, here's a list of Walt Disney Animation Studios films.

Pixar animated features : For further reference, a list of Pixar animated films.

I got music … : Disney finds a lot of very talented singers. Here's a small sample of their non-Disney recordings.

more web sites

Here's some other web sites that might be of interest to Disney fans :

Paige O'Hara's web site ( aka Belle )

Susan Egan's web site ( aka Belle on Broadway, and also Megara )

Idina Menzel's web site ( aka Elsa )

Caissie Levy's web site ( aka Elsa on Broadway )

Playbill Store ( Broadway shows: Frozen, Mary Poppins, and more )

Sotheby's ( Disney auctions, art and more )

Bud's Art Books ( Disney books, plus comics art and related items )

Peter David's story outline for The Little Mermaid : Portrait of Life
and a followup column

Peter David's Disney Roundtables : Heroines Villains part 1 Villains part 2

disneygeek ( Disneyland, Disney World and more )

Wikipedia : Belle Elsa Anna Mulan Rapunzel

fanart gallery

Please note :

All images in this section are my own personal work, and are provided for your own personal use only. Please do not modify them, or redistribute them without proper attribution. Thank you.

Newer drawings :

Thanks again to Sherline Lee for scanning some of my scribbles. I finally have a scanner, so here are some new(er) scans. (The scans were kept small due to limited web space back then.)

Earlier drawings :

Some earlier drawings are available at the Ito Galleries, Ink. site, thanks to the efforts of Larry 'lar3ry' Gensch and others.

Fanart lists :

Here are lists of my Disney fanart drawings :
1-41 42-81
82-122 123-

Method :

Here's how my Disney fanart is done.