The Paper Mill Playhouse here has only non-stop a new chronicle of “Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid,’ ” an spectacular that ran for 685 performances on Broadway after a premiere in Jan 2008 though was no doubt a beating for Disney compared with “The Lion King” and “Beauty and a Beast.” The progressing “Mermaid” was generally reviled by critics; a new one works improved by not perplexing to be some-more than it is.

The Paper Mill entertainment comes with a new executive (Glenn Casale), choreographer (John MacInnis) and scenic engineer (Kenneth Foy), as good as dual new dress designers, Amy Clark and Mark Koss, and a integrate of new songs. More important, it comes with a new sensibility. The progressing version, during slightest from a video clips accessible on a Internet, was a cranky between a children’s story and a Cirque du Soleil show, featuring clumsy, off-putting costumes and choreography that done complicated use of Heely-like boots with skating wheels embedded in them.

At Paper Mill, Ariel (Jessica Grové), a charmer of a title, spends a satisfactory volume of time aloft — that is, floating and swimming above a theatre — as do assorted others, and Scuttle a sea gull (Matt Allen) flies. You’re always unwavering of a actors’ harnesses, though somehow this seems a some-more organic fit for a story than all that skating was. And a gimmick substantially has a aloft wow cause for a show’s aim audience.

That assembly is utterly clearly 12 and under, and a arrogance is that these congregation are fans of a 1989 charcterised film and don’t most caring about highfalutin reinterpretations thereof. This chronicle isn’t demure to plead a movie.

Take, for instance, a costuming of Ursula a sea magician (Liz McCartney), a knave of a story, who tries to take Ariel’s poetic voice and adopt a energy of her father, King Triton (Edward Watts). The green get-up of Broadway is gone; here Ursula is all purple and black, her colors during a multiplex.

The uncover might be pitched to youngsters, though it takes an adult to conclude only how good Ms. McCartney’s opening is, and Alan Mingo Jr.’s, too. He is Sebastian a crab, confidant to Triton, and he does a fine pursuit of putting his possess spin on a colorful prolongation series “Under a Sea,” one of a best-known of a Alan Menken/Howard Ashman songs from a movie. (New songs for a theatre are by Mr. Menken and Glenn Slater.)

Things swamp down a small each time a intent of Ariel’s affection, a tellurian Prince Eric (Nick Adams), shows up, though that was loyal of a film as well; there only isn’t most to a character. There’s also not most to his ship, that looks as if it’s done of cardboard.

In a movie, that boat plays a critical purpose in a howling climactic scene. Here, a finale has been redone to make it some-more stageable, though in a routine it has turn not really noted and a small disjointed to boot. Too bad; even a children in a assembly are substantially awaiting a large boon for carrying sat by a story they already know well.

A prior Disney film-turned-stage-musical had a rehearsal during Paper Mill: “Newsies,” that played there in 2011 before going on to Broadway and dual Tony Awards. What a destiny binds for this new “Mermaid,” reduction ostentatious and some-more kid-centered than a predecessor, depends on how many relatives are peaceful to flare over big-house sheet prices to perform a small mermaids in their lives.

The Little Mermaid

Music by Alan Menken; lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater; book by Doug Wright, formed on a Hans Christian Andersen story and a Disney film constructed by Mr. Ashman and John Musker and created and destined by Mr. Musker and Ron Clements; destined by Glenn Casale; choreography by John MacInnis; song director, Craig Barna; sets by Kenneth Foy; costumes by Amy Clark and Mark Koss; lighting by Charlie Morrison; sound by Randy Hansen; hair and wig pattern by Leah J. Loukas; makeup pattern by Ana Marie A. Salamat; drifting sequences choreographed by Paul Rubin; drifting by Foy; orchestrations by Danny Troob; immaterial song and outspoken arrangements by Michael Kosarin; prolongation theatre manager, Kim Vernace. Presented by Paper Mill Playhouse, Mark S. Hoebee, producing artistic director; Todd Schmidt, handling director. At a Paper Mill Playhouse, 22 Brookside Drive, Millburn, N.J.; (973)376-4343, papermill.org. Through Jun 20. Running time: 2 hours 15 minutes.

WITH: Nick Adams (Prince Eric), Matt Allen (Scuttle), Sean Patrick Doyle (Jetsam), Jessica Grové (Ariel), Scott Leiendecker (Flotsam), Liz McCartney (Ursula), Alan Mingo Jr. (Sebastian), Christian Probst (Flounder), Timothy Shew (Pilot/Chef Louis), Edward Watts (King Triton) and Ron Wisniski (Grimsby).

Marketers typically bashful divided from pairing adult with films unless they’re formed on an existent — and already renouned — property. But with hits like “High School Musical,” “Camp Rock” and “The Cheetah Girls,” a Disney Channel Original Movie has spin adequate of a code magnet on a own.

To assistance hype a recover of subsequent month’s “Teen Beach Movie,” Disney Channel has lined adult Best Western and Honda, who will both launch pricey national ad campaigns for a surf-rock musical. The hotel chain’s debate will also widen into Canada.

The film is radically Disney Channel’s loyalty to a beach-set musicals of a 1960s like “Beach Party” and “Beach Blanket Bingo,” that starred former Mouseketeer Annette Funicello, as good as “Grease” and “Austin and Ally.”

Directed by Jeffrey Hornaday (Disney Channel’s “Geek Charming”), “Teen Beach Movie” revolves around high propagandize friends who find themselves ecstatic into their favorite movie, “Wet Side Story.” David Lawrence (“High School Musical”) constructed a score.

Retailers including Walmart, Target, Toys R Us, Kohls, Kmart and Disney Stores also are prepared to fill store shelves with “Teen Beach Movie” merchandise, with any removing their possess product lines that spans apparel, home decor, dolls, bedding, lunch kits, books, stationery and propagandize reserve directed during 6-14-year-olds.

Taking a gamble on an different skill is unsure — generally with sell featuring characters kids don’t nonetheless know. But Disney Channel has been means to surveillance a success of a prior pics and recognition of stars it has expel in “Teen Beach Movie” to attract partners.

Over a past 11 years, Disney Original Movies have ranked as TV’s tip film among tweens. Nearly 6 years after a premiere, “High School Musical 2” is still a No. 1 scripted wire TV telecast of all time with 18.7 million sum viewers.

The “Teen Beach Movie” expel also includes Ross Lynch, Maia Mitchell and Grace Phipps, stars of Disney Channel hits “Austin Ally” and ABC Family’s “The Fosters” and “The Nine Lives of Chloe King.” Ross also headlines a rope R5.

Those elements enticed Best Western to lapse and foster a Disney Channel film for a sixth time (it started with “Camp Rock”), while “Teen Beach Movie” will symbol Honda’s fourth (that kicked off with “High School Musical 2”).

“When we have companies entrance behind 4 and 6 times, it’s since it worked,” pronounced Rita Ferro, executive VP, Disney media sales and marketing. “It’s a Disney Channel Original Movie and that’s a authorization for us that’s consistently been a series one film on wire year after year.”

SEE ALSO: How TV has Replaced Animated Films as Disney’s Biggest Brand Ambassador

Both Best Western and Honda will launch TV, radio, online, mobile and amicable media ads, and unite sweepstakes for a film, that premieres on Disney Channel on Jul 19. The film bows even progressing on Jul 15 to purebred users of a WATCH Disney Channel app on mobile inclination and WATCHDisneyChannel.com.

As partial of a deal, Honda will get a sponsored by credit on a film, repeats and a designed sing-along special. The automaker will also emanate a co-branded end on DisneyChannel.com, that will foster a company’s Odyssey minivan.

In further to a designed marketing, Best Western will unite episodes of “Austin Ally,” to extend a organisation with Lynch, and a portal on Disney.com that will capacitate kids to emanate mashups of “Teen Beach Movie” calm to share with friends.

SEE ALSO: Disney Renews ‘Austin Ally’

Best Western will also make standees of “Teen Beach Movie’s” characters inside a hotels, and palm out pivotal cards featuring images from a film, while regulating a Aurasma app will place images of guest in scenes from “Teen Beach Movie.”

The partners’ ad campaigns are approaching to spin by early August. The brands do not seem in a film since of boundary on product chain in kids programming.

Working with brands enables a companies to aim family audiences that watch a films together. Not usually can they put their brands in front of parents, who control a household’s spending, though also six-14-year-olds who increasingly change where families vacation and what cars mom or father buys.

In further to a increasing income a film can generate, marketers also assistance Disney Channel widespread a word about a new film over a categorical media buys and Disney operated platforms. Honda, for example, will also buy TV time on non-Disney owned wire or promote channels.

The cinema “aren’t usually about kids,” Ferro said. “It’s about a cross-family audience. The assembly strech is so broad. It’s an entrance indicate for mixed generations.”

The partners should also be means to advantage from their tie-in with a homevid release, as well, that will entrance exclusively during Walmart on Jul 19, and during many other retailers on Jul 30, tighten to a TV bow.

A soundtrack becomes accessible Jul 16 from Walt Disney Records that facilities 12 songs and 3 enlightening reward marks charity adult dance lessons.

Disney Channel also is producing a 10-city “Teen Beach Movie Beach Party” eventuality debate during Simon Malls, Radio Disney events in 31 markets opposite a U.S., and is tossing out 7 feet “Teen Beach Movie” branded beach balls during One Direction and R5 concerts opposite a U.S.

In a latest cost-cutting pierce during Disney, a association is seeking buyers for 6 AM and one FM radio hire that are partial of a Radio Disney portfolio in a United States.

Disney Media Networks is doing a sale of a stations in small- to mid-sized markets: Albany, New York; Kansas City, Missouri; Little Rock, Arkansas; Milwaukee, Wisc.; Richmond, Virginia; Salt Lake City, Utah; and San Antonio, Texas. The radio hire in Little Rock is on a FM dial.

It is misleading only how most silver Disney could collect from a sale of a stations directed during kids, tweens and families. The association does not mangle out formula from a radio stations in gain reports, incorporating them, instead, with a media networks group, that also includes foster and wire TV networks like ABC, Disney Channel and ESPN.

Disney still considers Radio Disney a clever item — generally as a height to foster a immature Walt Disney Records and Disney Channel stars, as good as association TV shows, thesis parks, online, diversion and film properties.

But it sees a sale as a approach for Burbank-based Radio Disney to concentration on a 24 stations it operates in a tip 25 markets, with a difference of Baltimore, Maryland. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Dallas turn out a tip five.

Sale also comes as Disney is looking to boost income and urge distinction margins companywide by a sale of resources or staff reductions.

SEE ALSO: Disney Layoffs Underway during Disney 

This isn’t a initial time Disney is looking to sell off Radio Disney stations. It silenced 6 stations in 2010, also in small- to mid-market cities like Riviera Beach, Florida and Portsmouth, Virginia, as it sought buyers.

All of Radio Disney’s stations, are upheld by internal and inhabitant advertisers, while it also generates income from inhabitant advertisers on a digital and satellite placement platforms like RadioDisney.com, SiriusXM satellite radio, iTunes Radio Tuner, Facebook and mobile phones. Programming can also be downloaded around a iTunes Store.

“In a past year, we’ve driven new calm smoothness and ad sales income opportunities with Radio Disney Junior and a Radio Disney Music Awards, among others initiatives, and we intend to build on those opportunities while gripping a classification clever and focused on portion a listeners with programming that entertains and is suitable for kids- and families,” pronounced Phil Guerini, VP, programming and ubiquitous manager, Radio Disney, in a statement.

Disney also operates 12 Radio Disney stations in South America, that are not partial of a sale.

SEE ALSO: ESPN to Lay Off Hundreds of Employees

Disney kept tenure of Radio Disney when it sole ABC Radio Holdings to Citadel Broadcasting Corp in 2007. Sale during a time consisted of 22 large-market radio stations and a ABC Radio Network.

Radio Disney started broadcasting in late 1996, with a slogan, “We’re all ears.” It launched Radio Disney Music Awards in 2002.

Harmonix Music Systems Inc.,
a Cambridge association that launched a strain video diversion disturb with “Guitar Hero” and “Rock Band,” is building a new diversion desirous by a 1940 charcterised Disney classic, “Fantasia.”

In a movie, sorcerer’s neophyte Mickey Mouse tries to conjure sorcery to a exemplary soundtrack. In a new game, “Fantasia: Music Evolved,” players will be means to use palm gestures and physique movements to cgange and remix exemplary music, as good as renouned songs from artists like Bruno Mars, Queen, Kimbra, and Fun.

“ ‘Fantasia’ is a unequivocally desirous title,” pronounced Christopher Nicholls, a game’s executive writer during Disney. “We’re doing some unequivocally fantastic things.”

The diversion is set for recover someday in 2014. It will be accessible usually for Microsoft Corp.’s arriving Xbox One
video diversion console and a Xbox 360 with Kinect motion-control technology.

Kinect, that was introduced by Microsoft in 2010, lets Xbox owners control a console with physique movements and voice commands. It has been a renouned appendage for a Xbox 360, with over 24 million units sold.

An softened chronicle of Kinect will be enclosed with each Xbox One when that console comes to marketplace after this year.

In “Fantasia: Music Evolved,” gamers turn apprentices to a magician who seeks to file their low-pitched talent. The players learn how to manipulate a stroke and character of informed songs by gesturing toward images on a screen.

For example, they can dial adult a exemplary adaptation of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” or have it played in a 1980s hard-rock style.

Other facilities let a actor change a sounds of particular instruments, like a lead or stroke guitars. Players can also use gestures to conceal a new tune onto a song.

But Harmonix orator John Drake pronounced that these enchanting powers are delicately tranquil to safeguard that a formula are easy on a ears.

“There are no green notes,” Drake said. “We’re never going to make we sound bad.”

The diversion will embody strain marks from over 25 artists, including “Levels” by AVICII, “Locked Out Of Heaven” by Bruno Mars, “Some Nights” by Fun, “Settle Down” by Kimbra, and of course, “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

And as with a company’s “Rock Band” games, a new diversion has copiousness of room for expansion.

The association expects to offer downloadable files from each low-pitched genre, so that gamers can exam their talents opposite a latest hits or dear classics.

While prior Harmonix games were recognised by association cofounders Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy, “Fantasia: Music Evolved” was dreamed adult by Disney. Nicholls, a pianist and lifelong fan of a Disney film, believed that Harmonix could interpret a judgment into a successful game.

“They flattering most single-handedly combined what we call strain gaming,” Nicholls said.

Helping nonmusicians make strain done Harmonix an courtesy titan.

In 2005, a association expelled a strange “Guitar Hero,” a diversion that let players use feign cosmetic guitars to play along with renouned songs. The “Guitar Hero” games and a follow-up series, “Rock Band,” generated over $3 billion in sales during a strain diversion disturb of a final decade.

After direct for music-playing diversion collapsed, Harmonix returned with a “Dance Central” games, in that players contest by dancing to cocktail tunes. That array sole several million copies.

These days, pronounced Drake, scarcely all of Harmonix’s courtesy is focused on a new “Fantasia” title, that has been underneath expansion for 18 months.

“We have an whole building fundamentally clinging to ‘Fantasia’ right now,” pronounced Drake.

Billy Pidgeon, an eccentric video diversion courtesy analyst, pronounced it is doubtful that “Fantasia” will compare a recognition of “Guitar Hero” or “Rock Band.”

“I unequivocally see that expansion in a stroke diversion difficulty as an curiosity that’s not unequivocally repeatable,” he said. But he pronounced that a diversion does not have to be a million-selling beast strike to be a success; indeed, Pidgeon reckoned that a association could substantially mangle even with sales of about half a million copies.

Pidgeon pronounced that since Microsoft is fervent to get copiousness of new games for a arriving Xbox One, a association might determine to inexhaustible agreement terms that would give Harmonix a larger-than-usual share of diversion revenues.

The initial open proof of “Fantasia: Music Evolved” will take place in mid-June during a E3 video diversion trade uncover in Los Angeles.

Leah Zanolla | Posted: Jun 4, 2013 | Updated: Jun 4, 2013 – 5:58:12 PM

Walt Disney World’s signature restaurant, Victoria Albert’s, has perceived a respect of apropos a AAA Five-Diamond grill for a 14th year in a row. Along with singular menus and a freshest ingredients, a staff contingency “exceed guest expectations by attending to any fact in an free and unimportant manner.” Victoria Albert’s rises to accommodate those standards and afterwards some. The grill facilities “Italian Sambonet silver, excellent Royal Doulton and Wedgwood china, and Italian Frette tablecloths” that are hung to equivocate creases. Female guest are given a sofa on that to rest their handbags and are sent home with a rose. If congregation are cold in a restaurant, servers will offer a cashmere hang for their shoulders.

Maitre d’Hotel Israel Perez, Chef Scott Hunnel and Master Pastry Chef Erich Herbitschek lead a group during Victoria Albert’s, charity Modern American flavors combined with general mixture and interconnected with wines for any course. The grill offers seating in their categorical dining room, a Queen Victoria’s Room and a Chef’s Table in a kitchen. The dining room seating offers 6 courses and is $135 per chairman and $65 if we would like booze pairings. The Chef’s Table and Queen Victoria’s room offer 10 courses and are $210, and $105 for a booze pairings.

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Experiencing a sorcery of Disney is now going to take a small some-more sorcery from mommy and daddy’s wallet. Disney announced that starting Sunday, a one-day sheet to a Magic Kingdom during Walt Disney World review in Orlando, Florida. jumped to $95 from $89 for ages 10 and up. Disneyland in California also saw cost increases, going to $92 from $87 for a “1-Day 1 Park” adult pass.

“Like any business, we weigh and adjust a pricing formed on a accumulation of factors,” Disney orator Bryan Malenius told NBC News. “A sheet to a thesis parks represents a good value, quite when we demeanour during a extent and peculiarity of attractions and party we offer and a special moments guest knowledge with a Cast.”

Multi-day passes saw increases as well. For example, a four-day “Magic Your Way” sheet for Walt Disney World Resorts now costs $279, or $69.75 per day. Disney posted a updated prices for Disneyland here, and Disneyworld here.

Most of their guest squeeze a multi-day pass, Disney told NBC News.

“It wouldn’t make me insane if a lines were shorter,” Amber Morris, a medical transcriptionist from Oklahoma City, OK told NBC News. “But to compensate $400 for a family of 4 for one day and mount in lines perpetually is ridiculous.”

Curtis White lives in Tulsa, Okla. and owns a Disney Vacation Club timeshare that his family has used given 1993. He told NBC News that a cost change wouldn’t change his mind about going to Disney.

“They say that place to perfection,” he said. “I am a informal manager for a hotel tenure company. we know what it takes to keep a review in tip-top figure and no one does it improved than Disney.”

The association final lifted sheet prices in 2012.

On Tuesday, Viacom and Amazon announced an extensive, multiyear understanding that includes extenuation Amazon disdainful rights to Nickelodeon’s preschool shows. The agreement, estimated to be value several hundred million dollars, is Amazon’s biggest streaming understanding nonetheless and signals that a exhilarated conflict for online rights has increasingly changed to television’s youngest viewers.

In April, Netflix pronounced it would concede a understanding with Viacom to expire. Then final month Netflix struck a understanding with a Walt Disney Company to benefit disdainful rights to tide Disney Jr. array like “Jake and a Never Land Pirates” and Disney XD’s “Tron: Uprising.” In 2011, Netflix introduced a “Just for Kids” menu with a preference of shows and cinema directed during children, or relatives looking to perform them.

That put vigour on Amazon to secure children’s programming for a Amazon Prime subscription service, that it hopes will contest with Netflix and Hulu in a streaming video market.

Amazon has a smaller streaming assembly than Netflix, though for Viacom a arrangement presents a event to have tie-ins with a consumer products that Amazon sells, like DVDs, “Dora” backpacks and “SpongeBob SquarePants” beach towels.

“They’re a really consumer driven association and they also bond a Nickelodeon calm to products,” Philippe Dauman, Viacom’s arch executive, pronounced in a write interview.

As partial of a understanding announced on Tuesday, Amazon also cumulative a rights to tide shows that are initial promote on Viacom’s Comedy Central and MTV, including some episodes of “Jersey Shore” and “Teen Mom 2.” But a pivotal to a agreement is creation Amazon’s Prime Instant Video subscription use a disdainful opening for pre-school-age children to watch aged episodes of shows like “Dora a Explorer,” “Go, Diego, Go!” and “The Backyardigans.” Since children do not mind reruns as most as adults do, deals for these forms of shows mostly cost reduction than array directed during adults.

Bill Carr, Amazon’s clamp boss of digital video and music, pronounced in a matter that children’s programming was “one of a most-watched TV genres on Prime Instant Video.”

In a minute to customers, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Amazon’s arch executive, pronounced a understanding gave Prime Instant Video some-more than 250 TV seasons and some-more than 3,900 episodes from Nick Jr., Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central. “We have increasing by 55 percent a array of episodes accessible to tip Prime shows for kids,” Mr. Bezos wrote. The deal, he said, combined “400 episodes of new shows like ‘Team Umizoomi,’ ‘Bubble Guppies,’ ‘Victorious,’ ‘Big Time Rush’ and ‘Drake Josh.’ ”

Amazon Prime members compensate $79 a year for two-day giveaway shipping, monthly Kindle e-book rentals and video streaming. The association has pronounced it has millions of Prime subscribers though has declined to give an accurate figure. Netflix has 27 million streaming subscribers in a United States. Hulu’s subscription service, Hulu Plus, has about 4 million.

In a past, Viacom has had a difficult attribute with subscription video on-demand services like Netflix. After an astonishing ratings dump during a Nickelodeon channel final year, analysts partly blamed a bolt of aged episodes accessible to Netflix for cannibalizing a wire channel’s ratings. Children increasingly watch shows around streaming, though income from digital syndication deals still does not come tighten to that supposing by advertisers who compensate to strech viewers a out-of-date way.

In a entertain that finished Mar 31, promotion income during Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. rose 2 percent as a network rebounded with preschool audiences. Mr. Dauman pronounced a uninformed tube of shows had softened Nickelodeon’s ratings. As promotion income grows on a wire channel, Mr. Dauman has shielded deals with digital subscription streaming services as good for both parties.

“Our pursuit is to grow a pie,” Mr. Dauman said. “And carrying all these opposite income streams grows a altogether pie.”

Viacom will need to make an additional $125 million to $150 million in streaming deals in mercantile year 2013 to accommodate a idea of 10 percent associate growth, according to Bernstein Research.

Amazon has fast built a streaming use to contest with some-more determined services, namely Netflix and Hulu. The Viacom understanding is a latest instance of a online retailing giant’s swooping in to benefit streaming rights after deals with Netflix expire.

After Netflix declined to replenish a rights to renouned wire array like “Pawn Stars,” Amazon jumped in. In December, Amazon struck a understanding with Time Warner to benefit a disdainful streaming rights to TNT’s “The Closer” and “Falling Skies.” Netflix got disdainful rights to TNT’s “Dallas.”

Amazon and CBS have a understanding that will let Prime subscribers watch “Under a Dome,” a new scholarship novella array formed on a Stephen King novel, 4 days after episodes are promote on CBS commencement Jun 24.

The force stays clever in executive Florida, where Disney’s annual “Star Wars Weekend” lets middle-age fanatics channel their middle Skywalkers and Leias.

The renouned event, that runs by this weekend, is hold during Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

When we went final month, we determined my galactic domicile in walking stretch from a park opening during Disney’s Yacht Club Resort.

Park sheet in hand, we headed out during 7 a.m., after all we was on a mission. we wanted to land a FASTPASS sheet to accommodate my favorite actor, Ray Park, a double lightsaber-wielding Darth Maul.

Little did we know that a FASTPASS placement had started outward of a categorical opening during 6:30 a.m. and that even some-more revolutionary fans had been camping out in a parking lot of The Studios given 4 in a morning to waylay a sheet for a event with their favorite character.

I staid on a a FASTPASS to accommodate with Ashley Eckstein, a voice behind Ahsoka Tano from “Star Wars: The Clone Wars.”

About half of Disney’s Hollywood Studios is set adult as a thesis park. The other half is off-limits solely for a not to be missed behind-the-scenes-tour called a Studio Backlot Tour.

There are of march a iconic rides such as Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, a Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster Staring Aerosmith, Star Tours: The Adventures Continue and a park’s hottest ticket, Toy Story Mania!

And while good shows such as Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!; Lights, Motor, Action! Extreme Stunt; a Beauty and a Beast — Live on Stage!, and a night uncover Fantasmic! are contingency see for first-time visitors, many guests, like me, were here for a special Star Wars events.

Premiere Theater is home to shows divulgence a fascinating universe of voice acting, special effects and a life and movie-making adventures of Star Wars celebrities.

Liliane Opsomer for New York Daily News

Young Jedis in training take on an majestic walker.

Different shows are shown over a march of a 4 weekends and a weekly special Star Wars Weekend park map is accessible on entering a park, inventory all shows, special events as good as a impression meet-and-greet locations.

And so we set out to revisit with Darth Maul, Darth Vader, a friendly Chewbacca, Princess Amidala, Boba Fett, a operation of Jedis and Clone Wars characters, and even Jedi Mickey.

There is also some critical selling inside a aptly named Darth’s Mall, where we can batch adult on themed merchandise, specialty drinks and Darth Vader cupcakes.

And while we did not get my correspondence on a three-dimensional figurine, we could not conflict a Lightsaber umbrella.

Free of assign is a revisit to Roxy, a 17-foot-long illustration of a rancor. The fan-made pet of Jabba a Hut has done a rounds around a universe though it is creation a initial revisit to Star War Weekends.

It is such a fanciful print event that even George Lucas has acted with it.

At a impression meet-and-greet we assimilated a prolonged line of fans wanting to shake hands with Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, R2D2 and C-3PO.

Disney is branch a groundbreaking 73-year-old charcterised underline film Fantasia into a video game, yet with strain from exemplary rockers and contemporary artists.

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The game, Fantasia: Music Evolved, is scheduled for recover subsequent year on Microsoft’s arriving Xbox One and a Xbox 360 platforms.

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Using Microsoft’s motion-sensing Kinect system, players call their arms, pull a palms of their hands in several directions and generally pierce to a strain in an bid to indeed remix songs. Onscreen, all that relocating around is also permitting them to try and change their visible environments.

The diversion will come with some-more than dual dozen songs, any including a strange chronicle and remixes that players can remix serve in mixed ways by their physique gestures.

The 5 songs Disney announced Tuesday are “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen; “Locked Out of Heaven” by Bruno Mars; “Settle Down” by Kimbra; “Levels” by Avicii; and “Some Nights” by Fun.

Disney didn’t divulge a financial arrangements it has with a artists. In a curtsy to a strange Fantasia, that facilities strain by Bach, Tchaikovsky and more, some exemplary strain will also make an appearance.

The diversion was grown over dual years by Harmonix, a association behind games like Dance Central and Rock Band, and will embody a ability for players to share a remixed versions of songs with others. It’s a underline that insiders contend Disney worked tough on, given it had to navigate wily chartering issues.

“It lets we be partial of a artistic routine of a song. Once we put so most appetite into creation it yours, we know you’ll wish to share it,” says John Drake, executive of code government for Harmonix. “Disney, being a overwhelming media partner they are, cumulative a really good rights portfolio.”

While a film Fantasia starred Mickey Mouse as an neophyte to magician Yen Sid, insiders contend a iconic animation impression isn’t a primary concentration of a video game, as he is in Epic Mickey, a diversion from Junction Point Studios that also uses Yen Sid as a tract point. Disney recently shut down Junction Point after softening sales of Epic Mickey.

Disney’s tip coronet have been putting vigour on a conglomerate’s interactive section to spin a profit. In a mercantile second quarter, Disney’s interactive shred mislaid $54 million on $194 million revenue. The section is creation a large gamble on Disney Infinity, a high-tech hybrid of a normal movement figure and a video diversion that is due Aug. 18.

The Fantasia film initial had a singular recover in 1940, afterwards several wider releases by a years. It has warranted $76.4 million worldwide during a box office. A sequel, Fantasia 2000, was expelled in 1999 and warranted $60.7 million worldwide.

See a trailer for Fantasia: Music Evolved below.

Walt Disney Co. (DIS)’s California
Adventure, bolstered by a $1.1 billion expansion, led the
world’s largest thesis parks with a 23 percent swell in visitors
to 7.78 million final year.

Attendance during a tip 25 parks worldwide increasing 5.2
percent to 205.9 million visitors in 2012, according to a report
today by a Themed Entertainment Association and a consulting
firm Aecom.

“The marketplace in North America was, this year as final year,
driven by vital reinvestment during a vital operators’ parks,”
according to a report.

Disney, a world’s largest thesis park operator, tripled
its investment in a resorts multiplication between 2008 and 2012,
spending $9.2 billion on dual new journey ships and improvements
to a properties. The company’s net income jumped 32 percent to
$1.51 billion in a second quarter, in partial due to higher
attendance and a swell in increase during a parks business.

Disney’s California Adventure park in Anaheim non-stop its
Cars Land captivate in Jun 2012, sketch tourists to a new
area formed on a Pixar “Cars” films. Neighboring Disneyland
was a usually park among a world’s largest to register fewer
visitors final year, with assemblage timorous 1.1 percent to 16
million, according to a report.

Attendance ‘Dream’

Jay Rasulo, Disney’s arch financial officer, pronounced during an
investment discussion final week that a income spent on
California Adventure was designed to scold an imbalance in
attendance between a dual California resorts.

“We had a really disproportionate placement where many people spent
most of their time during Disneyland and Disney’s California
Adventure was empty,” Rasulo said. “Now, half of a folks go
to one, half of a folks go to a other. It’s roughly a dream
come true.”

Rasulo pronounced during a discussion a thesis parks division
faces a tough year-over-year comparison in a stream fiscal
third quarter. Results will simulate one reduction week of Easter
holiday traffic, compared with a same duration final year, and
Disney won’t get a same gain boost from a new cruise
ship Fantasy as a boat has now been handling for some-more than a
year, he said.

Disney’s batch rose reduction than 1 percent to $64.35 during the
close in New York. Shares of a Burbank, California-based
company have risen 29 percent this year by today, compared
with 14 percent for a Standard Poor’s 500 Index.

The association lifted acknowledgment prices during a parks this week,
increasing a cost of a Disneyland or California Adventure
single-day, adult sheet by 5.7 percent to $92.

To hit a contributor on this story:
Christopher Palmeri in Los Angeles at
cpalmeri1@bloomberg.net

To hit a editor obliged for this story:
Anthony Palazzo at
apalazzo@bloomberg.net

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Walt Disney Co., a world’s largest thesis park operator, tripled a investment in a resorts multiplication between 2008 and 2012, spending $9.2 billion on dual new journey ships and improvements to a properties.

Walt Disney Co., a world’s largest thesis park operator, tripled a investment in a resorts multiplication between 2008 and 2012, spending $9.2 billion on dual new journey ships and improvements to a properties. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

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Disney’s Upgraded California Park Draws 23% More Visitors

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Walt Disney Co.’s California Adventure park in Anaheim, California non-stop a Cars Land captivate in Jun 2012, sketch tourists to a new area formed on a Pixar “Cars” films.

Walt Disney Co.’s California Adventure park in Anaheim, California non-stop a Cars Land captivate in Jun 2012, sketch tourists to a new area formed on a Pixar “Cars” films. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

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Disney’s Upgraded California Park Draws 23% More Visitors

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Crowds accumulate to watch “Mickey’s Soundsational Parade” during Walt Disney Co.’s Disneyland Park, partial of a Disneyland Resort, in Anaheim, California.

Crowds accumulate to watch “Mickey’s Soundsational Parade” during Walt Disney Co.’s Disneyland Park, partial of a Disneyland Resort, in Anaheim, California. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg