Check out updated Haunted Mansion this week

[surfinmuse]

Thanks for the info, GD & CP. I look forward to seeing the changes in person later this week.

You know, I noticed that the lighting was different too for the Haunted Mansion Holiday, so much so that all the scrims are much more noticeable than their non-holiday counterpart. Guess that's the trade-off though for lighting that casts a great relief on the animatronics.

The highlight of that attraction for me though, is unequivocally the music; from the dirge-like tones of the organ, the theme undergoes various harmonic and timbral variations, and culminates into the various renditions in the graveyard, blending into wildly infectious and harmonoius cacophony.

Then, the best one of all... a musical sleight-of-hand, it ends on a soft haunting a capella coda, the same chord progression (same key even) as you first heard when you walked in... first with words ("... and If you would like to join our jamboree, there's a simple rule that's compulsory: mortals pay a token fee; rest in peace, the haunting's free. So hurry back, we would like your company..."), then as hummed underscore for recited "hurry back.... hurry back..."

The lyrics are great and all, but I think Buddy Baker's scoring and orchestration really nails it.