Hollywood Studios:
Rumors have spread for years about Disney Theatrical Productions creating a live stage show based on their Oscar-winning 1941 animated classic film
Dumbo. Advances in stage technology have finally made flying an elephant on stage possible, and the rich, Oscar-winning film score, delightful characters and colorful location of the film will fill the Theater of the Stars with such musical film classics as “Pink Elephants on Parade”, “Casey, Jr.” and the Oscar-nominated Best Song, “Baby Mine.” Audiences will witness a full traveling circus being assembled on stage during a thunderstorm, a flock of crows (actually called a “murder,” but this is Disney after all) singing “When I See an Elephant Fly,” and most spectacularly of all, Dumbo himself flying not just around the stage but actually over the audience itself.
Dumbo the Musical, heading from the Big Top to Broadway, but playing daily at Disney Hollywood Studios, bringing this classic Disney film to “ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls” for years to come.
Bonus:
WALT DISNEY’S VERY MERRY UNBIRTHDAY PARTY
June 5th is celebrated not just at Hollywood Studios, but throughout the entire Disney universe as “Walt Disney’s Very Merry Unbirthday Party,” with special treats available, a special fireworks spectacular and an all-night party to celebrate Walt’s half-year birthdate (to avoid it being lost in the Christmas festivities of the actual date, December 5th).
Animal Kingdom:
PRIMEVAL WORLD- Brought to you
By
PROFESSOR LUDWIG VON DRAKE
Professor Ludwig von Drake, Donald Duck’s brilliant but eccentric uncle, has taken over the management of Dinoland and has transformed it into a huge laboratory for his studies of time travel and the primeval world of Dinosaurs. Every attraction has been transformed by him into an experiment for the professor to learn more about these creatures that ruled the earth millions of years ago.
Dinosaur is now a time machine used to bring examples of dinosaurs forward in time to the present, where he can study them. The former TriceraTop Spin is now
Pteradon Twirl, where the aerodynamics of several species of Pteradons are studied (since Professor Von Drake learned that triceratops couldn’t actually fly); Primeval Whirl has been replaced with
Stegachase, a steeplechase-type attraction where Stegosaurs and other herbivores race against Velociraptors and other carnivores to learn how they survived, and the Boneyard has been expanded as new varieties of dinosaurs have been discovered. The former Restaurantosarus is now the
Professor’s Lunch Box, a buffet with Carnivore and Herbivore serving lines.
Bonus:
“Dinosongs,” an original musical, tells the story of how Professor Ludwig Von Drake, along with the equally eccentric Professor Ludwig Von Goof (yes, he really does exist) and his nephew Goofy, stumble into Professor Ludwig’s time machine and are transported back to the Primeval Era, meeting the characters of the Disney released-film “Dinosaur” and enlist their help in returning to the present, using live actors, state-of-the-art theatre special effects and “Walking With Dinosaurs” technology in a family-friendly spectacle of song, dance and dinosaurs (with a few lemurs thrown in)!