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‘Mickey’s Soundsational Parade’ Debuts

Mickey's Soundsational Parade Music fills Disneyland® park now that “Mickey’s Soundsational Parade” has made its new debut. The parade kicked off Disney Soundsational Summer, which will also include the openings of The Little Mermaid ~ Ariel’s Undersea Adventure and Star Tours™, along with new experiences at the Disneyland® Hotel and Disney’s Paradise Pier® Hotel.

“Mickey’s Soundsational Parade” features favorite Disney characters, including Aladdin, Ariel, Peter Pan and more, all led by Mickey Mouse. With unique rhythms and instruments, they will tell the story of Disney music as drumlines, percussion teams and jazz horns bring a new energy to each storyline.

Nine newly designed float units, each telling its own musical story, will travel from Main Street, U.S.A.®, to “it’s a small world.” Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Chip ‘n’ Dale and Goofy get the party started with a six-member drumline, followed by characters from Disney’s classic film, “Aladdin,” including Genie as Drum Major and six cymbal dancers.

From there, the parade goes “Under the Sea” with a distinctly Caribbean-style sound including steel drums and marimbas, and on to the spicy sounds of Latin America with The Three Caballeros.

Next, a grand procession of Disney Princesses, including Belle, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Snow White, is followed by Rapunzel’s tower rising overhead. Then, jungle drums sound the arrival of Simba, who is perched majestically atop Pride Rock.

Princess Tiana glides past next on a classic riverboat surrounded by Mardi Gras dancers beating tambourines in time to a New Orleans jazz beat.

Adventure is waiting in Neverland as Peter Pan, Captain Hook and Mr. Smee are joined by Tinker Bell, who is playing a rhythm on mushrooms instead of drums. Finally, Mary Poppins and Bert bring “Mickey’s Soundsational Parade” to a close, along with chimney sweeps performing a broom dance amid the rooftops of London.

Please be sure to check the Disneyland park entertainment schedule for parade times.

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Pixar Play Parade on Hiatus

The first Pixar-themed, roaming show started last week at Disney California Adventure® theme park, which is giving an entertainment alternative while the Pixar Play Parade is on hiatus. The park plans to host shows using characters and props from the Pixar Play Parade for most of this year.

The Disneyland® Resort put the parade on break until November while major construction is ongoing in the park. A show based on “The Incredibles” movie, called “The Incredibles: Heroes in Training Squad,” is set to begin Friday, said John McClintock, a Disneyland® Resort spokesman. It will run six times, five days a week. The tentative schedule is: 11 a.m., noon, 1, 2:15, 3:15 and 4:15 p.m.

The show will go on in front of the ElecTRONica stage near the park’s entrance or in front of the cloud-painted wall of the Hyperion Theater in Hollywood Pictures Backlot. The second show based on “Monsters Inc.” is scheduled to start Jan. 28.

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