Disney’s Broadway musical version of the wildly popular 2013 animated film Frozen will have its Australian premiere season in 2020. The musical will open at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre in July next year.

Caissie Levy as Elsa in Frozen on Broadway. Photo © Deen van Meer

The film, a reworking of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, enchanted audiences with its heart-warming tale of two sisters and a score by Kristen Anderson-Lopez ­(Up Here, Winnie the Pooh, In Transit) and Robert Lopez (Avenue Q, The Book of Mormon and Up Here), featuring the hit song Let it Go. Anderson-Lopez and Lopez have also done the music and lyrics for the musical, expanding and adapting the film score, while the book is by the film’s screenwriter and director Jennifer Lee (Zootopia, Wreck-It Ralph) and Chris Buck. The musical is directed by Michael Grandage with choreography by Rob Ashford.

Frozen opened on Broadway in March last year, breaking four house records at St. James Theatre, and garnering a wide spectrum of reviews ranging from brutal to laudatory. The New York Times called it “sometimes rousing, often dull, alternately dopey and anguished” while The Telegraph’s four star...