While The Nightmare Before Christmas is now a holiday classic, the journey to get Jack Skellington to the screen was a long one.
The Big Picture Another Halloween season, another reason to break out The Nightmare Before Christmas. Jack Skellington and friends have duly taken over the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland, and Danny Elfman is leading a 30th anniversary concert celebration at the Hollywood Bowl. It’s quite the show of mainstream acceptance towards a movie that was once a cast-off to Disney’s Touchstone arm. But then, Nightmare has always worked on long timetables.
The result was a musical more akin to Gilbert and Sullivan than Broadway, an operetta that got over nearly every major character turn through song. As those songs came together through rewriting and demo tapes, Elfman grew more and more attached to the role of Jack Skellington – and loathe to hand it off to anyone else.
Which isn't to say there was never tension over the two years of production. Burton’s hope of involving Vincent Price fell apart when Price, sick and despondent over his wife’s passing, couldn’t manage the role of Santa Claus in Selick’s estimation . Selick also felt that Elfman, while excellent as Jack’s singing voice, didn’t have the same energy in straight dialogue.
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