This article appears in the new issue ofDEN OF GEEKmagazine.

ForChicago, he went high-concept, recontextualizing the Broadway songs as vaudeville numbers from the imagination of Roxie Hart.

You have to earn a song, especially in a movie, he tellsDen of Geekmagazine.

Halle Bailey as Ariel in The Little Mermaid

It has to feel seamless coming from story and character.

Marshall and Disney go way back.

I saw her become a star in front of me, literally.

The Oscar-winning music got a refresh, too.

Now, Marshall must get his bearings for his next journey.

Ive never done a movie like another movie, he says.

God knows what that will be, he says.

I dont know; go to the Moon or something!

The Little Mermaidcomes to theaters May 26.