workshops were two songs that made up the final sequence of the play: a reprise of "Fortune Favors The Brave" entitled "The Two Must Die", and then a final death duet for Aida and Radames, entitled "The Messenger". These songs were replaced with reprises of "Elaborate Lives", "Enchantment Passing Through" and "Every Story Is A Love Story". Potential film adaptation Leontyne Price's original storybook version of the show had first been acquired by Disney with the intention that it should become an animated film, but it was never made. It was believed for a time that concept art existed for this proposed animated feature. However, the artist of that piece Ben Balistreri has stated that "This was nothing more than a class assignment given out by Frank Terry when I was at Cal Arts back in 1996... Frank brought in a newspaper clipping that Disney and Elton John were going to do an animated musical of Aida and our assignment was to create a line-up of the main characters and give them all Disney style sidekicks." Following the success of the stage version, Disney began planning a major live-action motion picture adaptation. In July 2007, it was reported that Beyoncé was attached to portray the title role, alongside Christina Aguilera as Amneris. However, no further reports of the adaptation's production have surfaced since. Popular culture references In 2020, the song "My Strongest Suit" was covered by Lucy Hale, Ashleigh Murray, Julia Chan and Jonny Beauchamp on the first season of the television series Katy Keene in the episode "Chapter Five: Song for a Winter's Night". Awards and nominations References External links Aida on Broadway Aida production, history, tour information at timrice.co.uk Aida at the Music Theatre International website StageAgent: Aida Plot Summary and Character Descriptions Production: Aida – Working in the Theatre Seminar video at American Theatre Wing.org, April 2000 Aida: production information and synopsis at Musical Cyberspace Written in the Stars - Aida 1998 musicals Broadway musicals Walt Disney Theatrical Musicals by Elton John Musicals by Tim Rice Rock musicals Musicals based on operas Plays set in ancient Egypt Tony Award-winning musicals