Last night I went to San Diego for Disney On Ice: Celebrating 100 years of Magic. Hosted at The Sports Arena the performance featured sumerizations of Disney Classics such as: Toy Story, The Incredibles, Aladdin, Finding Nemo, Lion King, Disney Princesses & Princes, Pinocchio, Mulan, and the attraction/World’s Fair presentation:It’s a Small World.
We were fortunate enough to have 6th row to the show, although all seats that we visited during intermission proved to be good viewing seats. The stage was simple yet catered and changed slightly through each set.
The basic backdrop was Cinderella’s Castle, most famously noted as the castle featured at Disneyland and the logo for Disney that they play before all of their movies.
I would love to write about every detail the crew of Disney on Ice: Celebrating 100 years of Magic put into their show, however since the show is still touring I’ll save some of the spoilers but the pictures talk for themselves.
The show began with Disney’s classic characters: Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, Chip & Dale all providing some opening humor and throughout the show (also welcomed by Stitch) introduced the following performaces.
Aladdin was the first portion of the show with very little naration of what the movies were about, but put on a wonderful ice adaptation to the song “You Ain’t Never Had A Friend Like Me”. Complete with Aladdin, Abu, and multiple Genies, their 3 minutes was very well performed with impressive backflips and other stunts I can only image what they would be called.
Their performance was concluded with Stitch making one of his many appearances (that I wasn’t very fond of) and smoothly led into Finding Nemo.
Finding Nemo was cute, but ended up looking more like a chase scene than a complete performance. Finding Nemo along with The Incredibles that also had a portion of the show, both seemed slightly out of place for the rest of the portions all had a song with the major characters and these two just had a minute to play out a scene from their respective movies. Their sections were good, yes, although I’m not positive how well it fell into this particular Ice Show.
Beauty and the Beast was a beautiful performance, expecially when the Beast becomes man again. The lifts and elaborate lengths the crew placed together for everything to come together was absolutely flawless as performed to the theme song.
Beauty and The Beast flowed into a montage of all the Disney Princess stories with a clip of each’s movie’s most notable song.
After, Toy Story followed alongside It’s A Small World before taking a 10 minute intermission.
After the innermission was tidbits from Lion King which was amazing and the crowd favorite, an interesting push in by The Incredibles, Pinocchio, Mulan (which I also greatly enjoyed) and the final piece where all of the performers take stage for a final bow.
Overall, Disney on Ice was a wonderful show that I and my guest fully enjoyed. I can’t say that I would want to see this specific show again, but I look forward to seeing the other Disney Ice shows that they offer in the future. There are videos of the highlights of the show on my youtube: shakeyvision- if you would like to take a look at those and I encourage all Disney fans to take a trip to the local arena when Disney Ice comes into town, it’s worth the $16-$52 for the Disney experience outside of the Parks.
Tags: aladdin, celebrating 100 years of magic, disney, disney on ice, disney princesses, disneyland, finding nemo, it's a small world, lion king, mulan, pinocchio, san diego sports arena, the incredibles, toy story
