Originally Posted By SafariRob I (obviously) never saw it. Was it worse than Light Magic or the Eureka! parades?
Originally Posted By gadzuux The Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs stage show that occupied the FL 'Wonderbra' theater for an entire summer season. It was not exactly well received.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan i too love Finding Nemo at the AK! I would love to see it here as well except I do not really like seeing clones from other parks but if its between toy story the musical, or finding nemo the musical I would vote for finding nemo. I too was thinking about mulan but don't know how they would pull it off, I rather have that one turned into a broadway show, it can use many different designs and inspirations from chinese culture like how disney drew from the african culture to help put lion king together.
Originally Posted By avatarmickey115 thats exactly what i thought! it could actually turn out to be a really good broadway show if they did it... i heard that Dumbo is being considered as Disney's next broadway show...
Originally Posted By Ohana Hmmm, I didn't gather that the show wasn't well received, but nonetheless i cannot argue that this was the last show in that theater and no more shows have been scheduled or announced. That is sad to me, it's a theater, not a meet and greet. I would love for a show to return.
Originally Posted By SafariRob Disney isn't short on ideas for live entertainment. There is so much they could do. I just think it's time for Aladdin to go.
Originally Posted By yamabuki Aladdin is still highly rated by park guests. Guests love it, still packs in the crowds. No reason to get rid of it now. Always amazes me that LP'ers are always the group of fans who dislike almost everything and nitpick away at everything DCA has to offer. Geez.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt How long did the Golden Horseshoe Revue play at Disneyland? Wasn't it like 25 years or something?
Originally Posted By gadzuux And it was a ... musical review. Exactly what I've been saying all along.
Originally Posted By leemac <<I (obviously) never saw it. Was it worse than Light Magic or the Eureka! parades?>> In short - YES. Snow White was awful - absolutely no redeeming feature whatsoever. Granted that theater is a director's worst nightmare (being open-air and right next to the train line) but the entire show was a disaster. Not sure Eureka! A California Parade should be mentioned in the same sentence as Light Magic. Eureka! was a great parade - and shock horror - no Disney characters!
Originally Posted By leemac <<Aladdin is still highly rated by park guests. Guests love it, still packs in the crowds. No reason to get rid of it now. Always amazes me that LP'ers are always the group of fans who dislike almost everything and nitpick away at everything DCA has to offer. Geez.>> Count me as someone that loves Aladdin - it just seems to work. People complain occasionally about the Genie's shtick but having just seen the Villains Tonight show on the Disney Cruise Line that tries to do the same with Hades (and fails miserably) I can tell you that that stuff is hard. It fits the character and the ad-libbing makes the show highly repeatable. I used to regularly go back and check out my favorite Genie. I can appreciate that for some folks the show is a little hollow or "missing something" but I don't think that is the fault of the musical. By having Aladdin as the thieving street rat and Jasmine as the aloof insular princess you have two characters that are largely unappealing and it is difficult to empathize with them - entirely different to Belle & Beast or Ariel and Eric. The new Menken song (To Be Free) is an attempt to make Jasmine more likeable but it feels a little false. The Hyperion is an incredibly difficult space to fill - the proscenium is very high - but I think that Zambello did a great job on the direction (shame the same couldn't be said for the disastrous The Little Mermaid musical).
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo >>>I too was thinking about mulan but don't know how they would pull it off, I rather have that one turned into a broadway show, it can use many different designs and inspirations from chinese culture like how disney drew from the african culture to help put lion king together. <<< We had an awesome Mulan show in DLP 10 years ago. It was one of Disney's best IMHO. It was more like seeing the Chinese State Circus or Cirque du Soliel set to the Mulan soundtrack (Mushu was a tumbler). That was brilliant. I quite liked Aladdin. Whereas I feel all the stage shows in WDW are subpar with the possible exception of Finding Nemo (though the music and story did little for me, the puppetry was excellent). A blacklight show like Animagique at WDSP could work well too.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "Always amazes me that LP'ers are always the group of fans who dislike almost everything and nitpick away at everything DCA has to offer. Geez." I think it's great myself, but different strokes...
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: I love the Aladdin stage show at DCA and never get tired of seeing it. Us Cauldron girls have lost count as to how many times we've seen it because we enjoy it so much. ORDDU: Unfortunately we can't say the same thing for the Nemo stage show at Animal Kingdom. While the visuals are very nice, the music is very disappointing to us and comes across as being written in haste by Third graders. It's hard for us to understand how anyone could like it but, then, there are many different tastes out there. ORGOCH: Got that right! I don't see how nobody can stand ta put a dang Krispy Kreme in their foul mouth!! ORWEN: Well, it's sure better than putting a dirty old slimy green frog in your even FOULER, toothless mouth, old biddy!!
Originally Posted By tashajilek I loved the Aladdin show too, I think it's a good show for not having to pay $100 per ticket for the show alone!
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: I wouldn't mind seeing a Rapunzel stage show replace Aladdin at the Hyperion at some future point. Of course it might be too much of a challenge having to dance around all that long hair of hers. ORGOCH: Got that right! I can just see it now! Ol' SkinFlint Rider goes an' trips up over Rapurplepunzel's long locks an' ends up face down in somebody's lap on the front row a the dang theatre!! I can just hear him yellin' somethin' like, "Somebody git me a torch! I cain't see the light!!"
Originally Posted By DBitz2 >>...nonetheless i cannot argue that this was the last show in that theater and no more shows have been scheduled or announced. That is sad to me, it's a theater, not a meet and greet. I would love for a show to return.<< There are currently rumors floating around that the princess meet & greets may be relocated over to Carnation Gardens. If this turns out to come to pass, I am hoping that we will then get a new show in the theater. While I like the Aladdin show, I wouldn't mind if they replaced it with something good. I would like to see something like a new version of One Man's Dream - something that has production numbers based around several different films rather than a show based around a single movie. I never got to see One Man's Dream in person, but, one of the best such stage shows that I remember was the stage show that accompanied Mulan when they had to show Mulan at the Alex Theater in Glendale because of work being done on the El Capitan. Loved that show.
Originally Posted By gadzuux The Mulan parade in disneyland was one of the better ones of the past twenty years. They even made a nighttime parade out of it, which was even better than the daytime version.
Originally Posted By leemac <<I would like to see something like a new version of One Man's Dream - something that has production numbers based around several different films rather than a show based around a single movie.>> Be careful what you wish for - TDL currently has One Man's Dream II as its premier show (in a theater space in Tomorrowland that is very similar to the Fantasyland Theater). The show is truly ghastly - syrupy sweet with poor production values. I still think that The Golden Mickeys is the best example of a vignetted revue show. It is also the only example of something getting updated regularly - they have added a Tangled scene to the version on the Disney Dream.
