Nightfall Glow is a nighttime parade at Tokyo Disneyland that usually runs when it rains which causes Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade: DreamLights to be unable to be shown. In this parade, there are four floats and all of the characters speak in English.
The parade debuted on May 9, 2011, and served as a temporary replacement parade for DreamLights as the latter was undergoing renovations in mid-2011. It also replaced Rainy Night Fun, also a nighttime parade designed for rainy nights. Starting from July 8, 2011, the parade was set to only run on rainy nights following the return of DreamLights the same evening.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-2020, Nightfall Glow was announced to be specially running daily for a limited period of time, beginning September 1, 2020.[2][3]
Summary
The Three Good Fairies
The parade starts with a large, glowing, column-like float. Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather each stand on levitating platforms around the column, commenting on the beauty of the lights and raindrops. They then start illuminating the column with light before Flora changes it to pink. Merryweather protests, changing the float to blue. Fauna, joining in, turns the float green. The fairies then begin rapidly changing the color of the float back and forth from red, to blue, to green until Flora finally decides that they should try it all together. The fairies cast their magic, and the column glows in a lovely rainbow of light and color.
Mickey and Friends
Following the fairies, a large float appears, decorated with glowing platforms, canopies, and bubbles. Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Daisy are on board the float, welcoming the guests to the parade and amazed by the beauty of the glowing lights.
The Princesses
The Princesses follow Mickey's float, riding on a large, multileveled float that is covered by a single canopy. Riding on the float are Cinderella, Jasmine, and Belle, each wearing sparkling gowns.
Umbrellas
The final float of the parade is decorated with three large, color changing umbrellas. Chip and Dale stand at the front of float, each wearing matching green jackets and hats. They are each covered by an umbrella. Clarice, wearing a sparkling green dress, stands at the very top of float, a large umbrella protecting her from the rain. At the back of the float, Pluto and Goofy stand under a canopy and wave goodbye to the guests as the parade ends.
Show facts
- Theme song: "Nightfall Glow"
- Show duration: Approximately 5 to 10 minutes
Cast
- Bret Iwan: Mickey Mouse
- Russi Taylor: Minnie Mouse, Fauna
- Tony Anselmo: Donald Duck
- Tress MacNeille: Daisy Duck, Merryweather, Chip, and Clarice
- Bill Farmer: Goofy and Pluto
- Corey Burton: Dale
- Jennifer Hale: Cinderella
- Julie Nathanson: Belle
- Linda Larkin: Jasmine
- Susanne Blakeslee: Flora
Dialogue
The Three Good Fairies
- Flora: Good evening, everyone! How are you?
- Fauna: We're so happy to see you!
- Flora: It's going to be a wonderful evening!
- Merryweather: It's so exciting!
- Fauna: Oh, look! It's so beautiful!
- Merryweather: It's as if the raindrops were all dancing!
- Flora: Now, ladies, shall we begin?
- Fauna and Merryweather: Yes, of course!
- (Fairies giggle)
- Flora: There!
- Merryweather: How's that?
- Fauna: Or this?
- (Fairies giggle)
- Flora: This will be lovely!
- (Floats turn pink)
- Merryweather: Oh, not pink! Blue!
- (Floats turn blue)
- Fauna: Oh, how lovely, both of you! Now then, my turn!
- (Floats turn green)
- (Fairies quarrel, and the floats change between pink, blue and green colors rapidly)
- Flora: Pink!
- Merryweather: Blue!
- Flora: Pink!
- Merryweather: Blue!
- Fauna: Don't forget green!
- Flora: Pink!
- Merryweather: Blue!
- Flora: Pink!
- Merryweather: Blue!
- Fauna: Green!
- Merryweather: Blue!
- Flora: Pink!
- Merryweather: Blue!
- Flora: Oh, just look at what we've done!
- Flora: How about something altogether?
- Flora: Now!
Mickey and Friends
- Minnie: Good evening, everyone!
- Mickey: Hi, everybody! Haha! It sure is great to see ya.
- Daisy: Isn't it a beautiful evening?
- Donald: Are you having fun? (laughs)
- Minnie: Oh, wow. Everything's all aglow!
- Daisy: Rain in the evening is so romantic.
- Minnie: Oh, look at that!
- Daisy: How exciting!
- Donald: Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!
- Mickey: Wow! How pretty!
- Minnie: Look at the pretty colors!
- Daisy: Look, Minnie! Our dresses, too! (laughs)
- Minnie: Oh, my!
- Mickey: Oh, gosh!
- Donald: What's going on?
- Daisy: Oh, how magical!
- Minnie: Oh, (laughs) oh, my goodness! Oh, it's so dreamy!
- Mickey: Gosh! What a great bit of night magic. Haha!
The Princesses
- Cinderella: Good evening, everyone!
- Belle: It's wonderful to see you!
- Jasmine: I'm so happy you're all here!
- Belle: Look! The shimmering in the water looks like joy!
- Jasmine: It's so brilliant!
- Cinderella: It's wonderful!
- Belle: How enchanting!
- Jasmine: Wow!
- Cinderella: How lovely!
- (Princesses giggle)
- Jasmine: Oh, what a pretty color!
- Cinderella: What a perfectly wonderful rain!
- Belle: Ooh, I love it!
- Jasmine: Oh, it's all so magical!
- Cinderella: Oh, look!
- (Princesses giggle)
- Jasmine: Oh, it's like we're inside a rainbow!
- Belle: This is exactly how I imagined it would be!
- Cinderella: It's so romantic!
Umbrellas
- Clarice: Good evening, everyone!
- Chip: Hello! How are you?
- Dale: Welcome, everybody!
- Goofy: Howdy there! A-hyuk!
- (Pluto barks)
- Clarice: Oh, what a wonderful night! (laughs)
- Goofy: Gawrsh! It's evening rain. What a show. Hyuk!
- Clarice: It's fantastic!
- Chip: Wow, this is great!
- (Pluto barks)
- (Chip laughs)
- Clarice: Oh, look how pretty it is!
- Goofy: Wow! What's goin' on?
- (Chip and Dale both laugh)
- Dale: Wow! So many colors!
- Chip: In carnival!
- Clarice: It's perfect!
- (Pluto barks)
- Goofy: Such beautiful colors!
Trivia
- This parade marks the first time Clarice speaks English at an international Disney park since Two Chips and a Miss.
Closing Lyrics
As raindrops fall
Coloring all
Ripples of water
Dance in light
Radiant pools
Sparkling like jewels (sparkling like jewels)
Glittering rainbows
Fill the night
Light appears when one believes
Shining on all (shining on all)
The wonder in me
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In the kingdom of dreams
Where water flows (Nightfall Glow)
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Where only dreamers dare to go
Shimmering in the magic night
Glimmering in the world of light
Colorful, brilliant and beautiful
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References
- ↑ "'Nightfall Glow' Parade debuts at Tokyo Disneyland". Retrieved on September 5, 2020.
- ↑ "アトラクション、キャラクターグリーティング、パレード/ショー、アトモスフィアの主な対応や、休止状況 (Japanese)". Retrieved on September 6, 2020.
- ↑ "Operational Changes and Status of Suspended Operations for Attractions, Disney Character Greetings, Parades/Shows, and Atmosphere Entertainment (English)". Retrieved on September 6, 2020.
