The Wonderful World of Disney
Alright, here's the start of mine. I'm a little dissapointed by it. I think it's a good start,but like the last project I worked on I feel like it's missing something. Hopfully you guys will enjoy it though. Throughout the day, I'll probably edit it to add some finishing touches...
The Wonderful World of Disney -Castle Forecourt Stage
Story Overview
The Wonderful World of Disney is supposed to be the famous Television show brought to life on stage. Hosted by Jiminy Cricket, the theme of this paticular "episode" is a journey inside Walt Disney's imagination. With Jiminy Cricket as our narrator, we follow Donald Duck into "Walt Disney's" imagination (Adventureland, Fronteirland, Tomorrowland, and Fantasyland). I suppose the show is essentially a musical tour of the Magic Kingdom.
List of Characters -
Intro-
Tinkerbelle
Jiminy Cricket
Donald Duck
Frontierland-
The Country Bears
Tomorrowland-
Buzz Lightyear
Aliens
Adventrueland-
King Louie and the Orangatangs
Baloo
Fantasyland-
The White Rabbit
Mad Hatter
March Hare
Queen of Hearts and Cards
Finale-
Mickey and the Gang
Jiminy Cricket
Script
It's not completly done. I'm sorry. I feel like I really dropped the ball on this one...
The Wonderful World of Disney Stage Show
Magic Kingdom
Central Plaza Stage
Act 1 - Opening Sequence
Scene 1 – Television
A giant 1960’s black & white television set magically rises out of the stage. Suddenly, it turns on and (in Disneyland-style font) says, “The Magic Kingdom Presents… “The Wonderful World of Disney” as our narrator reads…
Narrator:
The Magic Kingdom proudly presents, “The Wonderful World of Disney”!
An Instrumental version of “When You Wish Upon A Star” fades in as Tinkerbelle waves her wand over the words, causing them to change into Cinderella Castle to appear on the TV.
Narrator:
Every time you enter this timeless world one of these magical lands will open to you.
Frontierland—Tall tales and true from the legendary past.
As the narrator says this, the “Frontierland Tinkerbelle” from the “Disneyland” television opening appears doing her Frontierland dance. This continues with each land mentioned…
Narrator:Tomorrowland—Promise of things to come
Adventureland—the wonder world of nature’s own realm
Fantasyland—the happiest kingdom of them all
Slowly, the camera zooms in on the entrance of the castle as if entering it. As you “enter” the castle, you see someone standing in the entrance way
Narrator:
Presenting this week, “One Man’s Imagination: A Walt Disney Tribute”
As you get closer to “entering” the castle you realize the outline of the person standing in the entrance way is Jiminy Cricket
Narrator:
And now, your host, Jiminy Cricket…
Suddenly the TV falls into the stage with a burst of energy and smoke (similar to the finale of the current JII), as Jiminy Cricket walks through the real Cinderella Castle to center stage.
Act 1 – Opening Sequence
Scene 2 – Jiminy Cricket/Donald Duck Introduction
Jiminy Cricket:
Howdy Folks! And welcome to The Wonderful World of Disney, where anything is possible with a little imagination! Here, I’ll show you, but first, I’m gonna need a little help…
Suddenly Donald Duck strolls onto the stage.
Donald Duck:
(Quacking) I was going through the park one day…
Why, Hello Jiminy Cricket!
Jiminy Cricket:
Hiya, Donald! I was just talking with some friends about imagination. How would you like to help me demonstrate it?
Donald Duck:
Me? Really? I’d love to!
Scene Descriptions - Because the script's not going to get done, I thought I'd write some scene descriptions so you at least get a better idea of what the show is going to be like...
Frontierland-
While Jiminy gives a quick description of Frontierland, Donald disapears for a few seconds, as "cardboard" cactuses, covered wagons, and other things that say the "Wild West" appear on stage. Donald then reapears as Davy Crocket, along with the Country Bears. They begin singing "The Balled of Davy Crocket", and Donald acts out the lyrics. Everything's fine and dandy until the bears get to the lyrics, "and kilt him a bear when he was only three". As soon as they get to that line, the bears go into a frenzy, talking about how that's blasphemy and how they could never sing a song as violent as this one, etc, and poor Henry is left trying to talk the bears down and explain to the bears that it's only a song.
Tomorrowland-
A transistion between Frontierland and Tomorrowland would take place (as Frontierland Donald gets off the stage), and then Jiminy would give a quick description of Tomorrowland. The stage would be reimagined with props from the second room of "Spaceranger Spin", and suddenly Donald would reappear in a spacesuit, and would be chased by one of the aliens until, "Buzz Lightyear to the rescue!" The rest of the segment would basically be Donald getting angry because Buzz is beating his score. There'd be some witty lines and whatnot...
Adventureland-
As Tomorrowland transitioned to Adventureland, Jiminy would give a description of Adventureland. A jungle cruise boat would appear on the stage along with various jungle props, and in the background, you could hear native drums keeping beat. Donald would reappear this time in a jungle outfit, and would step on the boat until he came to King Louie the orangatangs, and Baloo, would be performing "I Wanna Be Like You" from "The Jungle Book". Donald would take Mowlgalii's place in the number. I'd like to somehow have Pirates chase Donald out of the scene, but I'm not sure how to do it without making it seemed forced.
I also want Donald to be following the White Rabbit out of this scene, bc that's just too good to pass up...
Fantasyland-
The scene transistions, Jiminy gives a description, and Donald appears in his regular garb. The Scenery is the Mad Tea Party, and Donald takes the place of Alice. They have a conversation, sing a Very Merry Unbirthday, etc. And then Donald talks about how he doesn't like hearts that much. Suddenly, the table falls into the stage, and everyone is panicing. The cards start marching onto the stage, with the Queen of Hearts right behind them.
Queen- What did you say Darling?
Donald- (gulp) I don't like hearts very much...
Queen- Oh, is that all? OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!!
Donald is then chased out of Wonderland/Fantasyland and into the grand finale.
Finale-
The scene starts off with Walt saying that now famous line, "I only hope we don't loose sight of one thing, that it all started with a mouse"... Suddenly the an all new original song starts, and everyone joins Donald on the stage, Mickey taking center stage of course. Jiminy, as our host, gives some closing thoughts and then thanks everyone for joining us, as Mickey says, "See Ya Real Soon!!!"
Show Enhancements
New Stage
Backdrops/Facades
Fireworks
Background Info
In order to accomadate the show, a new stage would be constructed to look something like the one in Tokyo Disneyland (minus the benches)...
Also, the show would debut along with a revival of "The Wonderful World of Disney", which wouldn't be a movie every week, but a show hosted by Jiminy Cricket (just like the stage show) and formated very similar to the way TWWoD was back when Walt hosted it.
Edit: I'm sorry guys. There's no way on earth I'm going to get the script done tonight. I'll try to finish most of it tomorrow. I apologize, seeing as how I appear to be the only slacker.