Lea Salonga was named a Disney Legend in 2011 for her work providing the singing voices of Princess Jasmine and Mulan.
Marni Nixon lent her voice to four Disney movies, but was only credited in one. She was the main title soloist in the opening of Cinderella, the singing flowers in Alice in Wonderland, the singing geese in “Jolly Holliday” in Mary Poppins, and (her only credited role) the singing voice of Grandmother Fa in Mulan.
In response to the comments that Mulan’s eyes are only a different shape because she’s wearing makeup,
(I knew I would get a few of those)
I purposely chose the pictures that I did because they were in scenes where she wouldn’t be wearing any makeup. The first one is from the moring, after she wakes up and before she goes to be made-up for the Matchmaker, and the second is from right before she decides to take her father’s place. She’s already taken off the makeup and she’s been crying out in the rain. Any makeup she had on would have run down her face.
But, if you don’t believe me, here are others:
When she first wakes up in the morning.
In the bath, after getting water and oils poured over her head, before any makeup is applied.
And after the iconic wiping off her makeup in “Reflection”.
Yes, the extended line is supposed to be her eyelashes, and yes they downplayed them for Ping, but her eyes are also a different shape.
As Mulan, here eyes are more long and narrow. As Ping, they are much more almond shaped, and are also angled on a steeper diagonal than they are as Mulan.
When she is surprised as Mulan, here eyes get wider, but still maintain an almond shape (a bit more similar to Jasmine’s). 
As Ping, her eyes get so wide they’re almost round.
So there you go. That’s all my proof. If you still want to believe that it’s makeup or that she trimmed her eyelashes or whatever, that’s up to you.
BD Wong, who voices Shang in Mulan, began his acting career staring in the original Broadway cast of M. Butterfly as a Chinese man who dresses and passes himself off as a female opera singer in order to act as a spy.
Likenesses of the directors Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook appear as the firework attendants frightened by Mushu in the climax of Mulan.
In the climactic battle of Mulan, when Mulan disarms Shan-Yu with a fan, she is using an actual martial arts technique. Tessenjutsu (鉄扇術) is the martial art of the Japanese war fan, or tessen (鉄扇). Tessen were folding fans with spokes made of heavy plates of iron which were designed to look like normal, harmless fans when folded. They were used in combat both defensively and as weapons.
"A clause in Eddie Murphy’s contract for doing Shrek 2 forbade him from reprising the role of Mushu in Mulan 2." could you please explain in more detail?
AnonymousI found that fact on IMDB.com, and other than just knowing that he was not in the sequal, that’s the only info I can gather on the fact.
Most likely it’s because of the way that contracts are worded. I know from filming commercials, as long as they are producing/filming/running/still holding on to on to the commercial you are in, you can not film a commercial for a competing company. You know that Campbell’s Soup commercial where the snowman comes inside and eats a bowl of chicken noodle soup and defrosts into a little boy? That commercial has been runing since the early 90s, and I guarantee that that boy has never made a commercial for any other soup company.
Mulan 2 and Shrek 2 both came out in 2004. Most likely, since Dreamworks and Disney are competing companys, it was part of Eddie Murphy’s contract with Dreamworks to not work for a competing studio while working for them. Since he has appeared in all of the Shrek sequals, he most likely figured that they would be more successful than a Disney sequal and agreed to the clause.
