In 1990 Disneyland's 35th Anniversary was celebrated in fittingly spectacular style with this yearlong, larger-than-life extravaganza.... Six towering Disney Character balloon floats reaching 37 feet into the sky served as the centerpieces.
The party was full of salsa and calypso with over 150 singers, dancers, and stiltwalkers. It also featured a parade stop along the route, and guests were treated to a spectacular street show by the talented cast & Disney Characters.
The parade finale featured a huge Conga Line with Disneyland Park Guests & Cast of the Show, Confetti Cannons were Shot Above Main Street U.S.A. Indeed it was spectacular way to celebrate the parks 35th Anniversary.
The Lion King Celebration was a parade based on the animated film The Lion King. It ran at Disneyland from June 1, 1994 to June 1, 1997 and was designed as though the story of Simba, the protagonist of The Lion King, was a tale passed down in Africa for generations. The parade featured six floats designed around different aspects of Africa, dancers dressed in animal costumes and a Pride Rock float featuring Simba and Nala.
During a typical show, a total of 89 cast members performed in The Lion King Celebration. This included 56 dancers, 12 puppeteers, 10 acrobatic pole dancers, 6 musicians and 5 remote control operators. The Lion King Celebration featured the first use of Audio-Animatronics in a Disneyland parade. It also featured the first use of "Puppetronics", a technique used to create the large, lifelike animal puppets featured on the floats.
Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams premiered on May 5, 2005 as part of the Happiest Homecoming on Earth, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Disneyland in California. The parade celebrates the dreams of Disney characters and includes Disney characters such as Mickey, Minnie, Tinkerbell, Cinderella, Snow White, Simba, Alice and Mad Hatter, Pinocchio, Belle and Beast, Ariel, Donald, Goofy ,and Pluto. The parade includes eight floats which include Getaway to Dreams, Dream of Enchantment, Dream of Laughter, Dream of Another World, Dream of Imagination, Dream of Adventure, and Dreams Come True. It closed in November 2008 before the Holidays at Disneyland
Show length: Approximately 35 minutes with three show stops
Show Stop Song: An upbeat version of "Welcome" from Disney's Brother Bear, composed by Phil Collins
Other Songs Featured:
OPENING UNIT:
"Welcome" from Brother Bear / "A Smiling Song" from Sleeping Beauty / "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from Cinderella /"You Can Fly" from Peter Pan / "When You Wish Upon A Star" from Pinocchio
BEAUTY & THE BEAST UNIT:
"Belle" / "Beauty and the Beast"/ "Be Our Guest"
PINOCCHIO UNIT:
"I've Got No Strings" / "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee (An Actor's Life for Me)"
THE LITTLE MERMAID UNIT:
"Part of that World" / "Under the Sea"/ "Poor Unfortunate Souls"
ALICE IN WONDERLAND UNIT:
"I'm Late" / "The Unbirthday Song" / "Alice in Wonderland" / "March of the Cards" / "How Do You Do and Shake Hands" / "March of the Cards" (reprise)
LION KING UNIT:
"Circle of Life" / "I Just Can't Wait To Be King" / "Hakuna-Matata"
Magical: Disney's New Nighttime Spectacular of Magical Celebrations Is Disneyland's second most recent fireworks show behind Halloween Screams. It's designed to take you into the stars to meet the magic-makers from beloved Disney films. This show features fireworks, lower level pyrotechnics, 10k spotlights and castle/Matterhorn projections. The soundtrack for "Magical" features many different orchestrated versions of classic Disney music, with lead vocalist, Broadway actress and former Disneyland cast member, Eden Espinosa. Its theme music is a rendition of Tokyo Disneyland's "It's Magical" 10th Anniversary Castle Show. "Magical" was created as a current replacement for Remember... Dreams Come True and as a nighttime entertainment offering for 'Disneyland's Summer Nightastic!'in 2009.
Watch the Video of an interview with Eden Espinosa (Vocalist), & John Addis (Show Director)
In the Fall of 2009 Disneyland Presented a New Daytime Show featuring characters from it's newest Animated Film "the Princess & the Frog. , The 20min Spectacular which featured a Grand Procession Down New Orleans, Dancers, and Guest Park Performers was one of the Parks most elaborate productions on the Mark Twain the park had featured in a very long time. It Ran from November 6th-Jan 3rd, 2009. The performers all sang Live to some of the Jazz infused Songs from the film like "Almost There", Dig A Little Deeper, When Im Human, Friends on the Other Side, & Take You There.
