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...like the colored lights," said Joe R. Metz, a sixth-year graduate student in Germanic Languages and Literatures. "It's like Epcot Center...
Somewhere along the line, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow got turned into the epcot theme park, where people could visit the future, but only from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Walt's idea of a utopia with residents was put on hold for a quarter of a century. Only then did the Disney Co., realizing it had more acres than it would ever need for theme parks, put the dream town back on the drawing board...
...park. Can slavery, Civil War slaughter and the doleful fate of American Indians be blended with the traditional marvels of Disney entertainment that will also include Mickey, Minnie and the gang? "Serious fun," Disney chairman Michael Eisner calls it, and his experts rightly point to such a blend in Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. "This is not to be a Pollyanna view of America," insists Robert Weis, a principal Disney imagineer. "But we want people to leave the park feeling good about their country...
...ever expanding Walt Disney Co., having announced plans for a West Coast Epcot Center and a Broadway Beauty and the Beast, has now unveiled a touring stage revue of songs from its animated movies. The show opened a two-week run last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, no less, and will go on to play 17 amphitheaters, arts centers and state fairs through Aug. 22. A lavish affair, it is performed by a symphony orchestra, a 30-member chorus, and 44 players who impersonate more than 200 Disney characters. Alas, the title -- Disney's Symphonic Fantasy -- is only...
...licentious and uninhibited, with a Spanish rhythm. This mood music then gives way to a series of clipped scenes, each with its own song: "Ze Sidealk Cafe" is cleverly lyricized, sprinkled with stock French expressions ("au contraire...laissez-faire...Camembert") and sung individually by chorus members in a cute, Epcot Center-World Show-case style...