Entertainment cuts

[Brad Bishop]

You can be against IP all the live long day but their is no denying watching another piece of Muppets representation go to the wayside is extremely disappointing. Especially a well done show like Great Moments.

My guess is that it has little (really nothing) to do with the Muppets and mostly to do with WDW sticking IPs in where they don't belong.

It'd be like sticking the Muppets into Kilimanjaro Safari to liven it up a bit.

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

I still miss these guys

 

[bryanfze55]

Meaningless to who? Isn't that pretty subjective?

Right... i would rather have The Muppets Present Show than Tron. There, I said it.

Stop spending all this money on billion dollar lands and hundred million dollar rides if you can’t spend a few bucks a day to maintain a freakin’ puppet show.

 

[Mickeyboof]

Right... i would rather have The Muppets Present Show than Tron. There, I said it.

Stop spending all this money on billion dollar lands and hundred million dollar rides if you can’t spend a few bucks a day to maintain a freakin’ puppet show.

I love rides AND shows (well, the ones in the streets. I’m not a fan of the stage shows.)

Personally, I’d say stop buying billion dollar corporations.

Build rides! Boost streetmosphere!

 

[wdwfan22]

I’m not surprised about the muppets as it is a costly show to run. The other acts listed are really no loss to the overall park experience. To be honest I’m surprised some acts are still around as they are far from entertaining.

 

[mm52200]

I’m not surprised about the muppets as it is a costly show to run. The other acts listed are really no loss to the overall park experience. To be honest I’m surprised some acts are still around as they are far from entertaining.

When you pay $4.50 for a bottle of Coke; 8 performers making $14 an hour, one equity making $20 an hour, two techs, a captain, and a manager isn’t expensive to operate. There’s no excuse, it’s just budget cuts.

 

[raven]

Gotta make up for that hurricane donation somehow! But seriously, every time Disney makes a large “donation” there always seems to be cuts made somewhere that effect employees. Not saying it goes hand in hand but seems plausible.

 

[Casper Gutman]

The Muppets show is a perfect example of a small scale thing that made many on this site upset due to thematic integrity. Now that it's going away, just as many people are upset.

I don’t remember the complaints - I remember the show being very well received on these boards, with one very obvious exception.

This seems like a bad case of “blame the consumer to protect the multinational mega corporation.”

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

To be honest I’m surprised some acts are still around as they are far from entertaining.

What is entertaining to you?

 

[wdwfan22]

When you pay $4.50 for a bottle of Coke; 8 performers making $14 an hour, one equity making $20 an hour, two techs, a captain, and a manager isn’t expensive to operate. There’s no excuse, it’s just budget cuts.

Cuts will always occur it’s just a fact of life. No Entertainment offering should be permanent either.

 

[mlayton144]

It’s called squeezing every possible penny from the operation to make the quarterly goal, or minimize the gap. Welcome to wall st

 

[wdwfan22]

What is entertaining to you?

The parade, The Dapper Dans, the Philharmonic, the castle show. Those are entertaining acts.

 

[Sweet Thing]

Puppeteers aren’t equity???

Only at the Finding Nemo show because they sing.

 

[Casper Gutman]

For everyone whose been rooting for GE to fail, this is what we get.

We have betrayed the benevolent deity Disney. It cannot sin, only be sinned against.

OR

WDW could have reacted to the SWGE disappointment in some way other then massive entertainment cuts, the very reason SWGE disappointed in the first place. But they gotta double down.

 

[Lilofan]

Let’s assume all 9 of them get $20 per hour with an 8 hour day. $1500/day is breaking the Disney bank??

Add to the fact that operations cast work in the attraction, engineering cast maintain the attraction 24/7 just as a few examples, the AC costs and the building maint costs, the costs add up and so do the savings. And who cleans it? It doesn’t by itself. Big picture.

 

[drizgirl]

Add to the fact that operations cast work in the attraction, engineering cast maintain the attraction 24/7 just as a few examples, the AC costs and the building maint costs, the costs add up and so do the savings. Big picture.

It’s amazing how Disney even stays in business.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

The parade, The Dapper Dans, the Philharmonic, the castle show. Those are entertaining acts.

Gotcha. Those are good.

I really enjoy the piano player and I think citizens of Main Street add a lot. I also miss banjo brothers quite a bit.

 

[Tony the Tigger]

Especially considering that this drop was due to their own overpromising of what the land would be on top of years of nickel and diming their paying customers, guests have every right to feel justified in wanting this company’s karma to catch up to them.

...which has zero to do with meeting budgets.

 

[marni1971]

How was last nights night parade?

Oh.

 

[monothingie]

How was last nights night parade?

Oh.

I had once marched down Main Street in my own parade, but security kindly asked me to stop because apparently I was traumatizing children.