Director Rob Marshall is no stranger to movie musicals and the gifted thespians who help bring their stories to throbbing life. His big-screen adaptations of "Chicago," "Into the Woods," "Nine" and "Mary Poppins Returns" have demonstrated his theater-honed skill to marry music with narratives of varying complexities, so seeing thrilling feats of musical derring-do is nothing new to the 62-year-old filmmaker-choreographer. But the first time the filmmaker heard Halle Bailey sing Ariel's signature song "Part of Your World," he found himself crying unabashedly. But so did we when we saw a clip of Halle performing the tune during a special preview of that soon-to-be-iconic "The Lit...Keep on reading: How star-studded cast brought ‘The Little Mermaid’ to life