Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Lotion-View-957.asp" target="_blank"><b>LP Lotion: Tiana's Showboat Jubilee and More at the Magic Kingdom</b></a> Video and pictures of the debut of Princess Tiana at the Magic Kingdom including Tiana's Showboat Jubilee, her welcome to the Magic Kingdom and interviews with Princess and the Frog animator Bruce Smith and Tara Anderson, Show Director with Walt Disney Creative Entertainment.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I haven't had time to watch the videos yet, but this looks like a lot of fun. It looks like it's really high energy, but not in an in-your-face kind of way (like BBP). It just looks like it's a fairly authentic (using the term loosely) jazz funeral procession, which leads to a show on the boat. I'm really impressed with the variety of props that they're using on the boat, which I'm sure make the performers a lot easier to see. Does the procession to the castle and down Main Street happen every day, or was it just for the opening of the show? I can't wait to see this once it opens in DL!
Originally Posted By magic0214 So excited for this! I hope to be in the Choir robes...lol. The villian, I think its Doctor Facillier, is really weird. With the real face but the puppet hands, creepy!
Originally Posted By blueharvest82 hey ferret, the processional was a one time event this past monday at 9:15am. The jubilee is scheduled three times per day at 12:15, 1:30?, and 3:45. It runs until Jan. 3rd. I was there all day on monday, it was a really cool event and the jubilee is a throwback to the type of events wdw used to throw for the their big animated features.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt What a great show! Dr. Facilier reminds me of Dennis Rodman! he is CREEPY!
Originally Posted By mousermerf Let's play the logic game.. MVMCP happens at night. The night is the sun isn't out. That makes it dark over large bodies of water without lighting infrastructure. No one has reported seeing giant lights installed on the banks of the rivers of America recently. There have been no permits filed to install any such lights in the future. A show on a boat in the middle of a river during the night would require lighting from the shore.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I wonder if they will do the DL version at night. I seems like it would make a nice little preshow for Fantasmic!, if it doesn't get in the way of organizing the watercraft for the night. It always seems like they stop running things at least 2-3 hours before the show, so it would be kind of fun if this came by with an hour to go or something to break up the wait a little. They already have the boat and the lights, so why not use them together? And FWIW, the DL version opens on Monday.
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin What a great idea to have this show. I'm so glad I got to watch the videos. I don't know how I feel about the songs yet. Maybe once I see the movie, I will appreciate them more. I do like the occasional (frog) Orleans/French accents.
Originally Posted By Dznygrl Hmm, interesting. What I want to know is what happens with the guests on the boat once the music stops and it travels around the RoA. I'm assuming they get an exclusive meet n greet session with the characters?
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>>>Let's play the logic game.. MVMCP happens at night. The night is the sun isn't out. That makes it dark over large bodies of water without lighting infrastructure. No one has reported seeing giant lights installed on the banks of the rivers of America recently. There have been no permits filed to install any such lights in the future. A show on a boat in the middle of a river during the night would require lighting from the shore. <<<< Yeeeeah...Pretty sure you can get into MVMCP at about 3:00 when the SUN is out, merf.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Does anybody know how much of the music for the show is live? It sounded like the band was completely live, but I wasn't sure about the voices. Obviously Louis had a recorded voice, and I'm assuming that the background singers were recorded as well. The singing was very very well done, which leads me to think that the whole thing is prerecorded, but that seems like it would be very difficult for the musicians to keep in time. If most of the singing is live, then they certainly have some impressive singers, and if it's recorded they have some very talented musicians playing in the band. Great show!
Originally Posted By mousermerf Jazz is a unique musical style that is based on the idea of "comping" and improvisation. You play a base track, the musicians play percussion and then "comp" and improv - voila, jazz. It's probably the easiest to combine live with prerecorded. Yes, the voices are prerecorded. Also interesting is the combination of the parade route's audio and the boat's audio systems.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I hadn't thought about using the parade speakers. That's really clever! I have no idea how they make it work, but they definatley seem to have gone the extra mile to get this show working. I'm assuming the DL version will use the Fantasmic! speakers around the river, since the parade route doesn't go anywhere near there.
