The Little Mermaid - Adaptations

Adaptations

• It was first translated into English by H. P. Paull in 1872.
• It was made into an opera entitled Rusalka, music composed by Dvorak, first performed in Prague in 1901.
• Austrian composer Alexander von Zemlinsky's 40-minute long symphonic poem, Die Seejungfrau ("The Mermaid"), received its premiere in 1905.
• The 1914 play The Garden of Paradise written by Edward Sheldon was adapted from it.
• In 1957, the French composer Germaine Tailleferre wrote a three-act opera version of The Little Mermaid (called La Petite Sirène in French) on a libretto adapted by Philippe Soupault.
• Classics Illustrated Junior, a 1950s American comic book series, published a version of the tale as issue #525.
• In 1961, Shirley Temple Theatre broadcast a television version of "The Little Mermaid", starring Shirley Temple as the Mermaid.
• "Coralina: La Doncella del Mar" starring Dyanik Zurakowska is the first segment of the 1966 Spanish anthology film Fantasia...3.
• In 1966 the story appeared in the live action/stop-motion animated movie "The Daydreamer (film)" produced by Rankin/Bass. It centers on a young Hans Christian Andersen (played by Paul O'Keefe) and features the voices of Burl Ives as Father Neptune, Hayley Mills as The Little Mermaid, and in what would be her last film role Tallulah Bankhead is the voice of the Sea Witch.
• One of the earliest animated films based on the story was the Soviet Union's 29-minute The Little Mermaid (Russian: Русалочка), released in 1968.
• In 1974, Richard Chamberlain narrated a Reader's Digest animated version.
• There are several anime adaptations of the story, including Anderusen Dowa Ningyo Hime (Andersen's Story: The Mermaid Princess), a feature film directed by Tomoharu Katsumata (1975); and the 1991 NHK TV series Saban's Adventures of the Little Mermaid. There have also been the magical girl adaptions Mahō no Mako-chan and Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch.
• In 1976, a live-action Rusalochka (Русалочка), a joint production by the USSR and Bulgaria, was released. Directed by Vladimir Bychkov, starring Vyctoriya Novikova as the mermaid and Valentin Nikulin.
• Film adaptaption Czech production 1976, The little Mermaid (Malá mořská víla); Miroslava Šafránková- Mermaid and Libuse Safránková.
• Japanese Jazz-Fusion Band "The Square" (now known as T-Square) wrote and released a song called "Little Mermaid" in 1982, with the album called "Magic".
• In 1987, Shelley Duvall produced a version of the story for Faerie Tale Theatre.
• In 1989, the fairy tale was adapted into an animated film by the Walt Disney studio called The Little Mermaid. After which a TV series of the same name followed, also by Disney, taking place before the movie's storyline, with a few episodes guest starring Mark Hamill of the Star Wars Original Trilogy fame as the original novel's author, Hans Christian Anderson. In 2000, a sequel titled The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, concerning the adventures of the Little Mermaid's human daughter Melody, who longs to be a mermaid, was released by The Walt Disney Company. A prequel was released in 2008 entitled The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning; the story is set before the events of the original film, in which King Triton has banned music from Atlantica. The movie also explains the absence of the Little Mermaid's mother.
• Golden Films adapted the story in 1992 as The Little Mermaid. The production was distributed by GoodTimes Entertainment.
• In the late 1990s, the HBO series Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child did an episode based on The Little Mermaid.
• The novel, My Love, My Love: Or The Peasant Girl by Rosa Guy is based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale, and inspired the musical Once on This Island, set in the French Antilles.
• Japanese artist Junko Mizuno adapted The Little Mermaid as Princess Mermaid, the third and final part of her "fractured fairy tales".
• In 2004, the animated TV series Hans Christian Andersen The Fairytaler had an episode telling the story of The Little Mermaid.
• The Royal Danish Ballet commissioned Russian-American composer Lera Auerbach to create a modern rendition of this fairy tale. It was choreographed by John Neumeier and premiered on 15 April 2005.
• On 28 July 2007, the premiere of Lior Navok's version for actress, two pianos and chamber ensemble/orchestra.
• The Russian movie Rusalka (2007) by Anna Melikyan is a modern-day adaptation, set in Russia.
• On January 10, 2008, the stage version of the Disney film opened on Broadway.The music in the play is by Alan Meken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater. Howard Ashman and Alan Maken were also the composing and song writing team for the Disney original flim.

• The 2008 Hayao Miyazaki film, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, was inspired by and based loosely on The Little Mermaid.
• In 2009, an upcoming movie from the upcoming series, "Tales from H.C. Anderson" will have a shortened version.
• Producers using the software Vocaloid have made two songs based on The Little Mermaid. One is sung by Luka Megurine and is called 人魚姫/Ningyo Hime (The Little Mermaid). The other is sung by Miku Hatsune, Luka Megurine, Meiko and Kaito and is called リトマメ / Rito Mame (Little Mermaid).
• On March 20, 2010, San Francisco Ballet performed the United States premier of John Neumeier's "The Little Mermaid".
• An episode of the anime Devil May Cry: The Animated Series is loosely based on the story of The Little Mermaid, including a narration of part of the story.
• In July 2010, it was announced that director Joe Wright will helm a live action adaptation of the story.
• In the book "The Mermaid's Madness (2010) by Jim C. Hines the Mermaid is named Lirea and she is on a quest of revenge on the human prince who denied her advances.
• Korean/Chinese band EXO's track titled 'Baby Don't Cry' is based on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid".
• Japanese visual kei band LM.C's track titled "Ningyo No Namida" (Literally "Tears of the Mermaid") is based loosely on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid".
• In 2013, the 3D re-release of Disney's The Little Mermaid was scheduled for September 13th, after the success of The Lion King (1994), which was re-released in 3D in September 16th, 2011.
• After Disney's Sing Along Songs: Fun With Music, this story has been a Sing Along Songs DVD which is Under The Sea. When the video is over, Fun With Music is replaced by Under The Sea.