[4] The result was When You Wish, a new revue that, though intended to ultimately to play on Broadway, failed to make it past the workshop stage, despite having Tony Award-winning actress Faith Prince attached to the project.

Collaborating with Longbottom, Chase delved through Disney's music canon to extract songs that would showcase the personality of the characters and would be able to tell the story without spoken words.

[3] In April 2009, the show saw new life in the form of Children's Musical Theater of San Jose's production of When You Wish, a separate revue based on On the Record.

Adapted by the theater's artistic director, Kevin Hauge, When You Wish, much unlike its basis, tells the story of three children who stumble upon a fantasy world in which they meet many beloved Disney characters.

[12] Musical numbers in On the Record are performed by the previously mentioned four principal characters, as well as a separate, unnamed quartet, and an eight-member orchestra.

[1] The catalogue of music does not only come from the screen, however, but also from such Disneyland attractions as It's a Small World and The Enchanted Tiki Room,[1] both with songs by Disney's prolific songwriter brother duo, Richard and Robert Sherman.

Also performed in the musical is composer Alan Menken's "A Change in Me" — a song written for Toni Braxton when she entered the role of Belle in the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast.

Many composers and lyricists are credited as working on this project, inasmuch as their songs are included in the show: [22] During its nine-month run, On the Record received mixed reviews.

[17] Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writer Christopher Rawson felt as though the attempt to create a storyline was too forced and that the show should have taken a general revue route by completely scrapping the plot.

[24] After completing her run as Belle on May 28, 2006,[25] Brown opened the Broadway production of Mary Poppins on November 16, 2006, in the title role[26] — a performance which earned her a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Musical.

Brown ended her Broadway run on October 5, 2008,[27] but subsequently returned to the role, opening the North American national tour of Mary Poppins in Chicago on March 25, 2009.