News Flights of Wonder closing and replaced by 'UP! A Great Bird Adventure'

[steve2wdw]

And the show should be more than "acceptable".

I'm a perfectionist, so any less than perfect would be acceptable. I would guess that 95% of the audience found this show more than acceptable.

 

[WondersOfLife]

Yes....they should've been comfortable with it, but they weren't, so it was a bit rough, but I wouldn't call the cast unprepared. Far from it. You have to realize that no matter how prepared you are in "live" theatre, the minute you add in a real audience, it changes. There were times where the audience laughed longer than probably expected, and recorded lines couldn't be heard.

I know a lot about live theatre. Grown up in a touring theatre company, and studying it in college currently. The thing that was noticeably bad about the show comes from 1 of 2 things: Either the cast didn't know their lines very well, so the dialogue from the characters were delayed because they weren't given proper cues, or the tech was delayed because they obviously didn't have a tech week to fix any potential glitches.

It's not a very complex show, either. That's why I'm nitpicking it. It obviously wasn't ready to be performed by opening day.

 

[Biff215]

Yes....they should've been comfortable with it, but they weren't, so it was a bit rough, but I wouldn't call the cast unprepared. Far from it. You have to realize that no matter how prepared you are in "live" theatre, the minute you add in a real audience, it changes. There were times where the audience laughed longer than probably expected, and recorded lines couldn't be heard.

Are the recorded lines played automatically? I assumed someone in the sound booth triggered them which would allow it to seem more natural. I realize it would make it tougher on the costumed characters, but at least you could account for audience reaction and the natural behaviors of the birds.

 

[WondersOfLife]

Are the recorded lines played automatically? I assumed someone in the sound booth triggered them which would allow it to seem more natural. I realize it would make it tougher on the costumed characters, but at least you could account for audience reaction and the natural behaviors of the birds.

These pre-recorded lines aren't played automatically. They are sound cues that are followed by specific lines. There are many things that could be wrong. The stage manager, assuming there is one, might not know the show well enough yet to know when to call the cues. The sound technician may still not be used to the sound board. The actors may not be delivering the correct lines. The system could be acting up.

Whatever it is, though, is just unprepared-related.

 

[Sonconato]

My family and I haven’t seen the show, however, we have seen the new façade, at night after it closed and all we can say is it’s very garish. It’s totally out of character from the rest of the area and most of the Park. It certainly gives us our first reason for not wanting to see the show, plus, adding more IP characters is moving away from the beauty of the Park which is exactly the same thing that is happening to EPCOT.

 

[BonnieAppetite]

adding more IP characters is moving away from the beauty of the Park which is exactly the same thing that is happening to EPCOT.

I was thinking that too.

 

[networkpro]

IMHO not as good as FoW. We saw it Saturday and the giant foam heads didn't add anything.

 

[Kman101]

IMHO not as good as FoW. We saw it Saturday and the giant foam heads didn't add anything.

But ... but ... think of the children!

 

[networkpro]

But ... but ... think of the children!

If you want your children to grow up in ignorance and treat wild life as yet another remote controlled to, then sure... Knock yourself out.

 

[Haymarket2008]

Saw the show today. Far from terrible. Not great, but enjoyable. The Up characters are pretty pointless, but the show is not deserving of the over reactive responses on these boards lol.

 

[Kman101]

For me it's not so much it's "bad" (though I think it's a downgrade from FOW, unfortunately) it's just I wished the show had been done a little differently. I think the UP characters could have been used a little differently, or better. The show could be better but it's not totally awful I guess, lol.

 

[marni1971]

Saw the show today. Far from terrible. Not great, but enjoyable. The Up characters are pretty pointless, but the show is not deserving of the over reactive responses on these boards lol.

It’s more the fact it wasn’t broke and didn’t need fixing. Again.

 

[Kman101]

It’s more the fact it wasn’t broke and didn’t need fixing. Again.

That. The inclusion of UP didn’t need to be so mediocre. Once again a poor use of IP. When it didn’t need to be because I thought it could have had potential. But at the same time it didn’t necessarily need them either.

 

[I am Timmy]

Well, I guess it's one less thing we'll be doing in AK, just hope it draws more crowds away from the other things we like! My family is so not interested in seeing this, and disappointed the show has less about preservation and conservation. Maybe more will be added as time goes on.

 

[ford91exploder]

Are the recorded lines played automatically? I assumed someone in the sound booth triggered them which would allow it to seem more natural. I realize it would make it tougher on the costumed characters, but at least you could account for audience reaction and the natural behaviors of the birds.

You cant have a CM making decisions like that the cues were professionally designed in a boardroom by executives ... and by god the lowly cms will follow them or there will be hell to pay

 

[Castle Cake Apologist]

You cant have a CM making decisions like that the cues were professionally designed in a boardroom by executives ... and by god the lowly cms will follow them or there will be hell to pay

I would be willing to bet a large sum of money that no executive in any boardroom had any awareness of or involvement in this show.

 

[JWG]

I didn't like the show. Didn't feel like the Up characters added and more so disrupted the continuity of the show with their forced participation. It turned what seemed like a 10 minute bird show into a 30 minute ordeal.

We saw it opening week, so I'm sure adjustments will be made, but it wasn't anything I'd go back to.

 

[DisneyDebRob]

The cast should've been comfortable with everything BEFORE the attraction opened. You don't open up a live show unprepared. It's immediately bound to be bad. It's like they skipped over tech week before the first performance.

It’s why you never go to a new restaurant at Disney or anywhere for that matter until about a month later. No matter how prepared everyone is, things happen. Let them work out the kinks and hopefully it will be more enjoyable. I think we all hope that.

 

[WondersOfLife]

It’s why you never go to a new restaurant at Disney or anywhere for that matter until about a month later. No matter how prepared everyone is, things happen. Let them work out the kinks and hopefully it will be more enjoyable. I think we all hope that.

Just watched the show today. It’s still terrible.

 

[Kman101]

"Kinks" in a show are one thing. This needs a new script.