2025 is right here! Since one among my New 12 months’s resolutions is to make extra magic, it seems like a good time to share some thrilling particulars on the upcoming experiences Disney Stay Leisure is dreaming up for Walt Disney World this summer time.
If you happen to requested them, our villains would most likely attempt to persuade you that they’ve been handled fairly unfairly over time. On this present, the Magic Mirror has summoned us to listen to them out. By no means ones to let a dramatic efficiency cross them by, fiendish foes Cruella de Vil, Captain Hook, and Maleficent will break by the glass and take the stage to show as soon as and for all why they’re essentially the most misunderstood. Ultimately, will probably be on you to make the ultimate name in a delightfully depraved finale stuffed with dozens of essentially the most notorious evildoers awaiting your choice from throughout the Mirror’s realm.
A devoted workforce has spent almost two years creating the cutting-edge stage design, thrilling results, and catchy stay musical numbers that can have fun the villains we like to hate. There will probably be drama, there will probably be laughs, there will probably be one thing for everybody when the present opens this summer time alongside “The Little Mermaid – A Musical Journey” – one other spectacular new manufacturing certain to make waves at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
Switching gears to Magic Kingdom Park, “a nod to the previous with our eyes firmly set on the longer term” has develop into a little bit of a motto for the inventive workforce bringing “Disney Starlight: Dream the Night time Away” to life. As they put together this all-new nighttime parade for its debut this summer time, the workforce is drawing inspiration from not solely the wealthy historical past of nighttime parades at Magic Kingdom (belief me fellow parade lovers, there are various easter eggs), but additionally a few of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ earliest animated options.
This reverence for the previous will probably be on full show within the parade’s lately revealed princess unit, which pays homage to Disney Legend and artist Mary Blair’s authentic idea paintings for Disney Animation’s “Cinderella.” Anchored by a gleaming fountain of sunshine that overflows to light up a cosmic ballroom, the float is only one piece of the constellation of basic and up to date tales that make up this new parade. Moments from Disney Animation’s “Moana,” “Peter Pan,” “Frozen,” “Encanto” and extra will unfold on a mattress of starlight because the cavalcade floods Major Road, U.S.A. with a few of your favourite tales.
Anybody who’s seen an excellent parade is aware of the floats are only one piece of the magic. That’s why members of the Disney Stay Leisure Costuming workforce have been exhausting at work designing an entire fleet of glimmering clothes for “Disney Starlight.”
Utilizing a mix of revolutionary lighting strategies and kooky custom-fabrics, the workforce is establishing every look to be “kissed by starlight.” Whenever you have a look at the photograph beneath of one of many prototype costume items for the parade, attempt to think about it swirling down the parade route, layers of shimmering material selecting up the glow of the encircling floats, every mild twinkling in good synchronization with the music.
Talking of music… You already know what? It’s solely January. I don’t wish to reveal an excessive amount of simply but! Keep watch over the Disney Stay Leisure Instagram and proper right here on the Disney Parks Weblog as we share extra thrilling first appears to be like within the coming months.