In a new series, today I’m taking a look at all of the different shows throughout the Walt Disney World Parks. In today’s episode, we’re taking a look at Disney’s Hollywood Studios shows.
For our purposes, a show is something on screen or on stage, that you watch as you would watch a movie or play.
At Disney’s Hollywood Studios, with it’s dedication to Hollywood and the great things dedicated to movies, you will find a lot of great shows, some of which are among my favorites in all of the parks. At Hollywood Studios, you will find the following shows:
The American Idol Experience
I’ll admit it — I’ve never watched a single episode of American Idol. However, Scotty McCreery won American Idol, and seeing as he lives in Garner, just a stones throw from where we live, I actually found myself thinking about this show, and also thinking about watching an episode of Idol. I haven’t done either, but that may change when we go visit Hollywood Studios during an upcoming vacation…
Beauty and the Beast — Live on Stage
Beauty and the Beast is the only Disney Movie where the stage show opened on the day that the movie was released to theaters. Beauty and the Beast is one of my favorite shows in all of Disney World, and one that I love to see. It has it all, great music, lively entertainment, that wonderfully romantic story that I love, and a happy ending at the end! If you’ve never seen Beauty and the Beast, you are doing yourself a disservice.
Disney Junior — Live on Stage!
This is a new version of a show that we saw when Sophie was younger. When we saw it, it was the Playhouse Disney show, and we had fun with it because it featured a lot of the characters that Sophie was into at the time. We were able to see it with Sophie’s friend Sofie last July, and it was as much fun now as it was then!
Fantasmic
As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, Fantasmic is actually a show that I’ve never seen before. From what I hear, though, it is an awesome show, and I’m hopeful that we’ll be able to see it this year.
Muppet*Vision 3-D
Muppet*Vision 3-D is, of course, brought to you by the Muppets, and while extremely corny, I love it! I grew up with the Muppet Show, and to see all of my favorite Muppets on the big screen, in 3-D no less, is really cool. The only thing about it is that it is the same as it has been since the first time I saw it, and I would love it if they would upgrade it. Still, we love it, so I can’t wait to experience it again!
Voyage of the Little Mermaid
I’ve only seen the Voyage of the Little Mermaid a couple of times, as it’s not bad, but often has a really long line so we generally skip it. However, Sophie likes it every now and then, so we see it every couple of years or so.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios has some really great shows, and there seems to be something that everyone will love, so take care, and enjoy the shows!
I feel so much better knowing that I’m not the only person who has never seen Fantasmic! I want to see it badly, I’ve just never been in the park at the time of the show. Maybe one day….
You know, Stephanie, the biggest problem that I see with Fantasmic is that you either a) have to wait a really long time and waste a lot of time waiting to sit, or b) purchase a meal so that you can get priority seating for the show. I’m going to write a post about why we don’t do Fantasmic, I hope you will enjoy it. Thanks for commenting!
Mike
That’s kind of the problem we face. We usually try to visit during low crowd times of the year, so by the time we finish touring the entire park (even riding some things twice), we still have two to three hours to kill before it’s time for Fantasmic. We even had Fastpass+ seating reserved on our most recent trip, but we didn’t want to wait around for two hours. I look forward to reading your post!!