Entertainment Weekly - February 24 - March 3, 2017

Be Our Guest

BEAUTY AND

THE BEAST

1991

Lumière’s Broadway-style

suppertime spectacular

raised the bar for the

delirious heights that an

animated musical number

could reach. Don’t believe

us, ask the dishes.

—MARC SNETIKER

SUNG BY /

WRITTEN BY /

Alan Menken and

Howard Ashman

Jerry Orbach and

Angela Lansbury

LADY AND THE TRAMP / 1955

The puppy-love love song
that beats in the heart of
anyone who’s ever shared
a long strand of spaghet i
with their candlelit
paramour. That’s amore!
—CHRIS NASHAWATY

Danny Elfman plants Tim Burton’s freak flag in the Disney canon with a rollicking Christmas

carol capturing the wonder of a skeleton’s trip to the North Pole. —DEVAN COGGAN

Bella Notte

Peppy, chipper, and industrious: What else would you expect

from Snow White as she and her furry friends clean up the Seven

Dwarfs’ giant-size mess? —CHRIS NASHAWATY

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS / 1937

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS / 1993

Whistle While You Work

SUNG BY / Adriana Caselotti WRITTEN BY / Larry Morey and Frank Churchill

SUNG BY / Danny Elfman WRITTEN BY / Danny Elfman

THE LION KING

Hakuna Matata

1994

Few phrases in Hollywood

rival the iconic philosophy and

downright exuberance of Timon

and Pumbaa’s carefree refrain,

unforgettable for the rest of our

days.—MARC SNETIKER

SUNG BY /

WRITTEN BY /

Elton John and Tim Rice

Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella

WRITTEN BY / Peggy d y ke

SUNG BY / George Givot

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What’s This?

THE LION KING

: WALT DISNEY PICTURES/PHOTOFEST;

LADY AND THE TRAMP

: EVERETT COLLECTION;

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

: BUENA VISTA PICTURES/EVERETT COLLECTION