I will fully admit that I went into a perfomance of Jim Caviezel's two years ago telling people "Yea, were going to go see Jesus at Disney World" and afterwards felt like a complete jerk for having such a shallow, jaded attitude towards it. To say he gave a moving reading was an understatement. He even took time to talk about how important Walt Disney was in his life, even though he never met or worked for the man. Just for what he stood for. Really amazing. Sorry to see he's not in the line up this year. We're going back again and I was really hoping to be in the audience when he took the stage again.
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candlelight processional narrators announced
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SCRacerX70
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Looks like a pretty good lineup to me anyway... The first year we went to the CP ('98) we had Louis Gossett Jr. narrate, and his performance was moving. We saw Harry Hamiln last year and once again it was truly moving... and he was choked up a bit at the end (we saw his last performance). This is one of our family's favorite holiday activities at WDW.
prberk
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Julius & Boobah said:
It's essentially a very elaborately produced choir cantata (like at church), a Christmas pageant without the "pageant" part. It is a formal telling of the Christmas story from the Bible in song, with a narrator, orchestra, and large choir. The narrator tells the story of Jesus in between carols sung by the choir with full orchestration, including the long, regal trumpets at the some points. It is done at the America Gardens theatre, in front of the America Pavillion, but it is a tradition that goes all the way back to Walt Disney and Disneyland, where it was done on Main Street in Town Square for many, many years, with celebrity narrators from Hollywood or the arts. At WDW, it was done at MK in the early years, just like at Disneyland, until they decided to move it to EPCOT where it is done now, every evening from Thanksgiving until New Year's.
It is a very nice thing. Very moving, I think. It is free, but you can get priority seating if you order a special Epcot dinner to go with it.
Paul
martaraepa
New Member
Kirk Cameron!
Haha I love Kirk Cameron! He was soooo cute when I was like 10 and he was 14. I think he went out of style however back in the mid 90's! Oh well! Yeay for fun old actors!
Haha I love Kirk Cameron! He was soooo cute when I was like 10 and he was 14. I think he went out of style however back in the mid 90's! Oh well! Yeay for fun old actors!
blackerbys17
New Member
Well, I just adore Cuba Gooding Jr., he is cute and funny and very watchable. So, I'm there like a bear!
CaptainMichael
Well-Known Member
Hmmm...I'd really like to go to this especially if it was Sinese or Cuba.
Horizons78
Grade "A" Funny...
So when do we find out who is on what day?
Also can someone give the details on the dinner - where, what time, what advantage does it give you, worth doing?
Also can someone give the details on the dinner - where, what time, what advantage does it give you, worth doing?
Teenchy
Member
Horizons78 said:
We should hear soon a more detailed timeline of who will do what days, but anyone and anytime is special.
See this link for details about dinner packages and an overview of the entire CP.
http://www.allearsnet.com/tp/h_cpfaq.htm
Dont miss your chance :xmas:
Skippy
Well-Known Member
I'm pretty sure no dates like such have been determined yet, and are to be announced sometime in august.
As for dining with reserved seating, after talking with Disney Reservations today, there are three 'tiers' of options separated by pricing. Cheapest is Germany's Biergarten or the Garden Grill in the Land Pavillion. The second 'tier' is Marrakesh in Morocco, San Angel Inn in Mexico, Nine Dragons in China, or Rose and Crown in the UK. The third option is Le Cellier in Canada, Chefs de France, Teppanyaki in Japan, L' Originale Alfredo di Roma Ristorante in Italy, or the Coral Reef Restaurant in TLS. But I don't think reservations can be made until sometime in August, along with when specifics are coming.
Most of this was received from talking with Disney Reservations today, but I could be mistaken on some facts.
As for dining with reserved seating, after talking with Disney Reservations today, there are three 'tiers' of options separated by pricing. Cheapest is Germany's Biergarten or the Garden Grill in the Land Pavillion. The second 'tier' is Marrakesh in Morocco, San Angel Inn in Mexico, Nine Dragons in China, or Rose and Crown in the UK. The third option is Le Cellier in Canada, Chefs de France, Teppanyaki in Japan, L' Originale Alfredo di Roma Ristorante in Italy, or the Coral Reef Restaurant in TLS. But I don't think reservations can be made until sometime in August, along with when specifics are coming.
Most of this was received from talking with Disney Reservations today, but I could be mistaken on some facts.