Happily Ever After is a fireworks and projection mapping show that debuted at the Magic Kingdom on May 12, 2017. Unlike its predecessor Wishes, the show includes projection mapping, lasers, and searchlights, as well as pyrotechnics.[1] The music also includes a theme song from Angie Keilhauer and Jordan Fisher.[2]
On March 12, 2020, Walt Disney World announced that all fireworks shows are suspended and temporarily closed, due to COVID-19 outbreak.
The spectacular will inspire guests to seek out and find their own “Happily Ever After” by showcasing some of the greatest adventures Disney characters have taken to achieve their dreams. The show will feature the latest fireworks and pyrotechnics and original animation, plus a heart-tugging original score. And thanks to the inclusion of state-of-the-art projection mapping technology, more Disney characters than ever before will be featured in the show. The show was promised to feature largest and most technologically advanced projection mapping display in Disney theme parks history.[3]
Pirates of the Caribbean is the only live action film in the show.
Moana is the only non-Pixar film in the Adventure scene.
Although Shere Khan himself does not appear in the show, however, during the "That's What Friends are For" sequence, a voice clip of either George Sanders or Bill Lee as Shere Khan was used for the castle "singing" the last line before looping into "Friend Like Me".
Unlike past fireworks shows at the Magic Kingdom, Tinkerbell does not descend from the castle until the very ending (weather permitting) rather than the beginning.
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