Feel the Magic was a live stage show that was performed at Tokyo Disneyland from 1995 to 1999.
Disneyland Park (Paris) also had its own version of the show, under the name Disney Classics: The Music & The Magic and was performed in Videopolis Theater from 1997 to 1998, as part of its 5th Anniversary Celebration. At Disneyland it was known as Animazement: The Musical and was performed in Fantasyland Theater from 1998 to 2001.
The Disneyland version begins with four singing, dancing animators working on large paintings. Animators are artists. They’re artists because they’re wearing vests and berets. The paintings on stage aren’t simple, flat paintings. They’re actually three-sided, wheeled cabinets which can be spun around and pushed aside. A character emerges from each cabinet, and other characters appear just as quickly. They sing a line or two from various Disney features.
In a later version, the hyenas, Ursula and Jafar responded to the call of Maleficent, the hyenas brought Minnie and Donald, Mickey came to the rescue, and many lines were cut.
Disneyland Paris version
The performers' dance in the Fantasia scene was a reference to the four little swans from Swan Lake.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame scene was the only part that ran the longest in the show, since it was Disneyland Paris' 5th Anniversary Celebration main theme.
