Finding Nemo (franchise) at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida. It is a musical adaption of the film with new songs written by Tony Award-winning Avenue Q composer Robert Lopez and his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez. It would "combine puppets, dancers, acrobats and animated backdrops". In August 2016, Egmont Publishing launched a magazine, titled "Finding Dory". "Finding Nemo" is the soundtrack album of the film of the same name. The soundtrack was scored by Thomas Newman. The score was nominated for the 76th Academy Awards for Best Original Score but lost against "". It received 5/5 stars from the Film Score Reviews and 3.5/5
Finding Nemo – The Musical new songs written by Tony Award-winning "Avenue Q" composer Robert Lopez and his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, would "combine puppets, dancers, acrobats and animated backdrops" and open in late 2006. Years later, Anderson-Lopez explained that she had written a compact 15-minute "a cappella" version of the story of Oedipus; someone at Disney read it and recognized her talent for condensing material, and offered her the opportunity to make a pitch for the "Finding Nemo" project. Tony Award-winning director Peter Brosius signed on to direct the show, with Michael Curry, who designed puppets for Disney's successful stage version of "The Lion King",