Mickey Meets the Bard? Alex Timbers to Direct Disney Musical Update of a Shakespeare Classic
Forget fairy-tales, Disney is digging into the classic works of Shakespeare for its next movie musical. The House of Mouse has hired Tony nominee Alex Timbers to direct an updated, musical take on an unspecified classic of the Bard's, according to Deadline.com. "The script stretches the boundaries of the movie musical and demands the sort of surprising visuals and raucous spectacle I love to create …