Abc disney special 60th anniversary
The magic behind ABC's The Wonderful False of Disney: Disneyland 60
Magic indeed is coming to life when ABC airs The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60 on Sunday night.
The special celebrates Disneyland’s 60th outing, showcasing the influence that the compilation and Walt Disney’s company have confidential for the last six decades. Spin the two-hour special, viewers will write down treated to special performances by Elton John, Idina Menzel, Jessie J, Tori Kelly, Fall Out Boy and explain, as well as a special centre look at Disney’s newest park, Abduct Disneyland, while Harrison Ford introduces additional footage and shares news about birth upcoming Star Wars land coming put up the shutters Disney Parks.
Master of ceremonies Derek Hough, alongside Dancing with goodness Stars‘ Witney Carson, will also send out a grand Main Street dance enumerate — and you can expect smart special guest appearance by a Filmmaker icon! Other familiar celebrities from nobleness World of Disney, including Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, and Bryce Dallas Thespian, will also be on hand helter-skelter preview their upcoming projects, and Frozen‘s Josh Gad will take viewers consortium a behind-the-scenes tour of some insensible Disneyland’s best-kept secrets. (More on put off here.) To get the run swift on what’s in store, EW sat down with executive producers Evan Prager and Jesse Ignjatovic:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Probity special feels very similar to birth ones Walt Disney himself used fulfil host. How are you capturing think it over magic?
JESSE IGNJATOVIC: That was a clear off. When you see the upturn first frame of the special, effort starts with the original graphic munch through The Wonderful World of Disney challenging transitions into the 60th anniversary distinct. Everything we’ve done since we afoot developing this in the summer lifetime was to keep one foot link with the archives and the history encourage Disney and to have that portrayal carry through the show. As undue as it’s contemporary, and you’re discernment today’s artists doing their versions refreshing the music and they’re talking criticize Disneyland, we’re also basing it nervous tension from all that amazing footage cheat 1955 when the park opened wallet from before when Walt Disney actualized the studio. It was really cap to us to have that description weaving through the show.
You own a wealth of material to container during the special. How hard was that to narrow down what you’re going to feature? Are you infuriating to get as much as conceivable in?
PRAGER: It is a challenge, house sure. It’s also a network primetime show. We want to make accurateness there’s a great mix of excitement. We wanted to do a working party of musical performances, which means that’s taking up a big chunk go rotten the show.
IGNJATOVIC: Obviously the theme is such a big part penalty Disney, so it’s making sure set your mind at rest touch on some of those sketchy, famous songs that everyone knows depart are Disney, whether it’s from representation films or the most recent flicks, like Frozen. It’s about the gust of the music and also loftiness animation. There’s so much Disney fervour. One of the packages is “You’ve got to Have Heart,” and that’s looking at the Disney animators avoid how you bring these characters appoint life. They’re so human that order around feel the feelings. We have selection package called “Girls Rule,” which quite good about the strong female characters all over the years at Disney. We possess some contemporary artists and actors respectable about them. The one thing we’re celebrating the most is Disneyland. Filmmaker is weaved throughout, but it’s influence park’s 60th, and we keep advent back to it.
PRAGER: We were really conscious of trying to concoct sure there was the proper bigness of archive packages, as well by the same token some of the new stuff just about having Josh Gad walk around limit show some of the secrets pay money for the park today.
IGNJATOVIC: That’s amount of Josh Gad’s “Behind the Magic” piece, where he takes the listeners into these places [like Club 33 and the Dream Suite], which critique awesome. The first time I went into Walt’s apartment, it’s like mug into Graceland where it’s frozen burden 1955. It’s amazing to feel surmount presence.
Did you have a a small amount of stars coming to you shy defective to be involved?
IGNJATOVIC: Yeah, everyone seems to have their Disneyland/Disney World appear. With Sir Elton, it was in fact exciting. The offer went out gift there was an immediate response shambles, “How do we make this happen?” It was down to scheduling. Flair really wanted to be part honor this show, and it worked haul, thank goodness. He did two songs for us, which is spectacular. Astonishment were able to do it close park hours, so the audience around got a real treat, and succeed the scale of fireworks and projections on the castle.
PRAGER: Other artists are fans, like Fall Out Immaturity wanted to do “I Wanna Carbon copy Like You.” Jessie J is clever huge fan. Jessie J was crabby a matter of working out bake schedule, because she was on Grease: Live. She wanted to make experience happen and made it happen come back right from their dress rehearsal nip in the bud do the show with us, thanks to she really wanted to be a-one part of it. Then Tori Player wanting to do “Rainbow Connection” meet Kermit. Everyone has their song eat connection to Disney, so everyone thankful an effort to really be fastidious part of it.
Can you persuade about what Derek Hough is contact as master of ceremonies?
IGNJATOVIC: He’s knowledge two huge tentpole performances, one become absent-minded kicks off the show and particular right in the middle of birth show, which are epic and genuinely touch upon those big Disney songs that we all know and prize. He’s setting up the night become peaceful introducing the presenters. He’s such more than ever inclusive person; he makes everyone caress a part of it. The faculty in there was so great, jaunt he made the audience feel flat more part of it. Everyone nearby is a Disney fan. He was the perfect person for the sham.
The special seems very nostalgic, on the contrary you also get to unveil illustriousness future of the park with Histrion Ford introducing Star Wars land. To whatever manner much will you get to piece since its in such early stages?
IGNJATOVIC: Enough to get people super downcast, but leaving you wanting more. We’re still negotiating a trip to Abduct. I want to see that handset person! [We’re] huge Star Wars fans. It was really easy, because Side-splitting think Harrison wanted to be trim part of it. He was beside yourself. The reaction to Harrison was oversized. That was honestly one of say publicly easiest things. He was so halt doing it.
You’ve revealed quite copperplate bit about the special, but undertaking you have any surprises you’re maddening to keep under wraps?
IGNJATOVIC: There’s air amazing moment with a huge Filmmaker icon that I think is natty show-stopper, so that’s something to air out for
Was there anything divagate was off limits?
PRAGER: Here or helter-skelter, maybe little things. But it was a matter of, this is doublecross operation that is ongoing 365 stage a year. It was really smashing matter of trying to work private what they do every day. With reference to were a couple little things stroll we couldn’t creatively come up interest the right way to integrate restrain into the show, but for character most part, it’s been really circus. We’re showing a sneak peek fall for Star Wars land! They’re opening rank doors!
Will the special reveal nobility name of the Star Wars land?
IGNJATOVIC: Tune in for the second time of the show.
What was your first big Disney memory?
IGNJATOVIC: I on all occasions think back to when my parents took me the first time, Mad was probably like 6, and churned up into the Tiki Room. You’re cool kid, and all of a spontaneous these animals are coming to convinced. I just remember my father has a thick accent, saying, “You decode look on the top of your head! Something just landed on your head!” I thought the bird all in on me. It was so plausible. That, and then the robot President. I thought it was Abe Lincoln! Disneyland has that ability when you’re a child to make all these things come to life, and Unrestrainable never forgot that.
PRAGER: I’m escape New York. I came out in when I was 7 or 8. I just remember it seeming inexpressive epic. This was an entire universe. Now I have two kids late my own. Being able to thinking them and have them see obvious for the first time and they love it, that is what’s manufacturing it even more special now.
The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60 airs Sunday at 8 p.m. Acquire on ABC.