Mickey Mouse Revue
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| Mickey Mouse Revue | |
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| Locations, openings and status | |
| Magic Kingdom October 1, 1971 | |
| Closed - September 14, 1980 | |
| Tokyo Disneyland | |
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The Mickey Mouse Revue is an indoor stage show acted by audio-animatronic performers in the Fantasyland area of Tokyo Disneyland park. It is not to be confused with Mickey's Revue, an early Disney cartoon.
The show resembles a concert orchestra with Mickey Mouse as the conductor, and various Disney cartoon characters playing musical instruments, including Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, Scrooge McDuck, Daisy Duck, Huey, Dewy, Louie, King Louie, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit, Dumbo, Baloo, Kaa, Gus, Jaq, and others. Parts of famous songs from Disney films are performed by Snow White, the Three Little Pigs, the Fairy Godmother, Alice from Alice in Wonderland, and the Three Caballeros. 73 characters are represented. Songs include "Heigh Ho," "Whistle While You Work," "When You Wish Upon A Star," "Hi Diddle Dee Dee," "I'm Wishing," "The Silly Song," "All In The Golden Afternoon," "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo," "So This Is Love," "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah," and "Mickey Mouse Club Alma Mater." Contributing Disney Personnel were John Hench, Bill Justice, and Wathel Rogers. [1]
In a 1962 interview, Walt Disney talked about his new audio-animatronic technology in The Enchanted Tiki Room and untitled haunted house attraction. He said that he had similar plans for "all the Disney characters." In October 1, 1971, the Mickey Mouse Revue show opened as an 'E' ticket attraction in Fantasyland, in the Magic Kingdom, Florida. The show ran until it was closed on September 14, 1980. The building that housed it was renamed the Fantasyland Theater. Mickey Mouse Revue found a new home at Tokyo Disneyland park in Japan, where it plays to this day in the Japanese language.
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[edit] Attraction facts
[edit] Magic Kingdom
- Opening: October 1, 1971
- Closed: September 14, 1980
- Future attractions:
- Magic Journeys (1987 - 1993)
- Legend of the Lion King (1994 - 2002)
- Mickey's PhilharMagic (2003 - present)
Fantasyland Theater showed Disney cartoons and occasional employee film festival events.
[edit] Trivia
- Mickey Mouse Revue's theater sat 500 park guests in Florida, but the pre-show area only had room for 300 guests, a planning mistake.
[edit] References
- ^ Contributing Disney Personnel http://home.cfl.rr.com/omniluxe/mmr.htm
