Limited Time Magic

[RStar]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

So what's the next bit of "Magic?"

Limited Time Magic
New Orleans Bayou Bash!,
Lunar New Year Celebration,
and True Love Week

Disneyland’s New Orleans Bayou Bash will continue to bring its fun Mardi Gras offerings to New Orleans Square through Mardi Gras, which falls on next Tuesday, February 12.

New Orleans Bayou Bash!
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
February 8-12

[€uroMeinke]

There is something wrong about a Mardis Gras celebration ending at 5:00 PM

[RStar]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

There is something wrong about a Mardis Gras celebration ending at 5:00 PM

I agree!

It makes it hard to get there after work!


Not to mention a Mardis Gras celebration without booze!

[innerSpaceman]

Someone could run a hose down from the bar at Club 33, I suppose.


I don't know why, and likely it will be meh, but I'm more interested in the Chinese New Year's celebration at DCA featuring expanded tastes of Asian cuisine. I feel like a sucker for wanting to check this out, as the Lucky Fortune Cookery - which will be the centerpiece of this experiment -has always had pretty lousy Chinese food.

[RStar]

And from Al's update today:

Coming up this May, Disneyland will kick off a new concept known as “Small World Celebrations”, where a different country is honored in both parks over a long weekend with displays about its native culture, arts, and cuisine. The first country to be feted with a Small World Celebration will be Greece, with authentic Greek dancers, musicians and artists on display at Disneyland in the Small World mall, while DCA features Greek celebrity chefs who will give cooking demonstrations in a miniature version of the old Food & Wine Festival. Mickey Mouse even gets in on the act and will appear at the events wearing a custom made Foustanella, the traditional costume of Greece. This will be the first time Mickey has ever appeared wearing a Greek Foustanella, and TDA will be heavily marketing the weekend event to both Annual Passholders and the Greek-American community in Southern California.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Thanks for reminding me to check Al. I find this stuff so interesting:

The problem came from the core concept itself, as many park visitors wandered in to the show not realizing it was a special engagement meant to play on Walt Disney nostalgia. Complaints were logged daily at Guest Relations over the raciness of the can-can girls and the sauciness of the banter from the show’s hostess Miss Lilly. And for every person who complained formally at Guest Relations, the Cast Members working the Horseshoe snack bar received a dozen or more complaints a day from upset audience members. In the Politically Correct world of 2013, many female visitors were not happy to see the Golden Horseshoe Revue return to Frontierland with its garter belts showing.

After I saw the 5pm show on Saturday it was easy to see just how they crossed the line with the longer Can Can dances and increasing the time on all the Flirting/Mirror gags. In cutting the comedy stuff (Boag’s balloon animals/tooth spitting and Burley’s Irish tenor’s song – either Harrigan or Police Gazette ) they expanded the girls dance and Lilly’s flirting into the void. I can clearly see how it could ratch up the discomfort index for those who have never seen the original. Back to Billy Hill putting a fiddle bow up his nose I guess.

Seems iSm was right about the changes being detrimental but I'd say if they had tried to approximate Boag the APers would give them hell.

Still sad I'm missing this.

It may go without saying but Al's update is really interesting this time and worth a read, at least for this out-of-touch APer.

[innerSpaceman]

Seriously? Complaints? Everyone at our show ate it up. And there were no Walk-Ins. Everyone had a ressie and the doors were closed. I had to sneak Issac into the saloon. The entire audience adored Miss Lilly's flirting ways and the obviously old-west-themed Can-Can dancers. What The Giant Fvck?!

[Moonliner]

I find it ironic that things that would have sent Walt over the edge (hair, dress, etc...) are now normal and what he thought of as family friendly is now taboo to some.

[innerSpaceman]

I know, right? Weird world.


Anyway, that was one depressing Al's Update. When the total failure of the public to Grok the Golden Horseshoe Revue - and its revival to be a financial and dismal P.R. failure are the least sad things in the Update, that is one update I wish I'd missed. Sheesh.

[RStar]

I remember when I first started reading Al Lutz in his DIG forums and even before MP, during the later part of the Pressler era, all of his updates were depressing. Then, around the shine and polish for the 50th and leading into the DCA redux, things got so much brighter. So this update took me back to the olden days!