The Enchanted Library
Replacing Mickey's PhilharMagic at the Magic Kingdom, and for that matter, the Castle Forecourt Stage, this innovative theater-in-the-round production -- which makes use of live actors, projections, puppets and flying effects -- takes place in, well, an enchanted library, filled to the brim with books
(not to mention props and artifacts coinciding with every film in the Disney Animated Canon -- ex. Snow White's poison apple, Dumbo's magic feather, Cinderella's glass slipper, Winnie the Pooh's blue balloon, the Enchanted Rose, Scrump, a floating lantern, etc.), and features Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy perusing its books, with each one they find featuring a medley of songs from a certain literary world -- after the big opening number, Donald's book offers "adventure"
(represented through "You Can Fly!" from Peter Pan
; "Go the Distance" from Hercules
; "How Far I'll Go" from Moana
and "Circle of Life" from The Lion King
); Goofy's offers "comedy"
(represented through "Rumbly in My Tumbly/The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
; "I Wanna Be Like You" from The Jungle Book
and "I've Got a Dream" from Tangled
); and Minnie's offers "romance"
(represented through "A Whole New World" from Aladdin
, and a waltz medley of "Someday My Prince Will Come" from Snow White
; "So This is Love" from Cinderella
; "Once Upon a Dream" from Sleeping Beauty
; "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid
and "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast
) -- but it's not long at all before a book of "mystery" reveals the world of the villains
(represented through "Night on Bald Mountain" from Fantasia
), which brings chaos and ruin to the library -- the aftermath of which leads to a moment of "tragedy"
(represented through "Baby Mine" from Dumbo
, "The Next Right Thing" from Frozen II
and "Someday" from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
), but Mickey offers one final book: "friendship"
(represented through "You'll Be in My Heart" from Tarzan
, "You've Got a Friend in Me" from Toy Story
and "Dig a Little Deeper" from The Princess and the Frog
), which fixes the damage done to the library, and with all ending well, as projections depict all the friends we've seen along our journey, the ensemble performs a triumphant reprise of the opening song.