I found the "Freaky Friday" musical TV film much more emotionally exciting than I expected. At first, I was losing track of the mother being in the daughter's body and vice versa - but realized that even though this was Disney, they were playing it a bit PG-13, like "Big" had but with more abandon.
Once in a while, I did wonder about the use of colorblind casting (Does that work as smoothly on realistic TV as on stage? I assume these were actors who did the show onstage at some point). Would a minority actor playing a "villainous" person not convey something not meant by the writing, even if the character comes around later on?