Ron Logan
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Ron Logan is the former Executive Vice President, Executive Producer, for Walt Disney Entertainment. (Now Walt Disney Creative Entertainment) He was responsible for creating, casting, and producing all live entertainment products for The Walt Disney Company, including the Disneyland Resort, the Walt Disney World Resort, Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Resort Paris, The Disney Institute, Disney Business Productions, Disney Cruise Line, Disney Entertainment Productions, and Walt Disney Entertainment Worldwide. He was also Executive Vice President of the Walt Disney Special Events Group, and Executive Vice President of Disney Special Programs, Incorporated.
Ron holds both BA and MA degrees in Music and Music Education from UCLA. Ron was a founding member of the International Foundation for Jazz, a corporate advisory council established in support of the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE). He is Chairman of the University of Central Florida Theater Advisory Board, serves on the Board of Directors (USA) for the Famous People Players (Canada) and the international Theatre in Long Beach, California, and is a member of the Music Education National Conference Advisory Council. He is Associate Professor at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management at the University of Central Florida. He has been a performer, a high school , junior college and college teacher, a conductor, and a music industry professional. Growing up in Leavenworth, Kansas, he studied trumpet, violin, piano, and dance. He began performing professionally when he was in the ninth grade, has played in bands and orchestras nationwide. He has also performed as a trumpet player and singer on recordings, television, motion pictures, and with name bands and lounge acts throughout the United States.
He began his career at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California in the 1960s as a trumpet player. He later produced many shows for the parks, including, but not limited to:
- Beauty and the Beast Live on Stage! - Disney-MGM Studios - Walt Disney World Resort in Florida
- Beauty and the Beast on Broadway - Broadway in New York
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Dinner Show - Disney Village at the Disneyland Resort Paris in France
- Dick Tracy - Disney-MGM Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida
- Fantasmic! - Disneyland Park at the Disneyland Resort in California
- Fantasmic! - Disney-MGM Studios - Walt Disney World Resort in Florida
- Festival of the Lion King - Disney's Animal Kingdom Park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida
- IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth - Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida
- Laserphonic Fantasy - Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida
- Legend of the Lion King - Magic Kingdom Park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida
- Light Magic - Disneyland Park at the Disneyland Resort in California
- The Lion King Parade - Disneyland Park at the Disneyland Resort in California
- SpectroMagic - Magic Kingdom Park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida