How to Enjoy: Mickey's PhilharMagic 3-D Theater Attraction in Fantasyland at Disney World's Magic Kingdom

Fun Facts about "Mickey's PhilharMagic" 

• "Mickey's PhilharMagic" features the largest seamless projection screen in the world - 150 feet long and 28 feet high. It is the most immersive wrap-around image Disney has ever created.
• The voice of Donald's lines in the show was compiled from classic performances by Clarence "Ducky" Nash, the original voice of Donald Duck. The current voice of Donald, Tony Anselmo, added a few new lines, such as humming the melody to "Be Our Guest."
• The entire production of "Mickey's PhilharMagic" was created totally on computer, representing the first time the featured classic Disney characters were completely modeled and animated by computer.
• The lobby features posters inspired by animated classic Disney movies with musical themes: "Toot, Whistle, Plunk & Boom," "Melody Time" and "Fantasia."

The Concert Program 

1. Mickey Mouse Club March (from television's "Mickey Mouse Club," 1955-59)
   Music and lyrics by Jimmie Dodd
   © Walt Disney Music Company (ASCAP)
   
   This irresistibly memorable tune announced the start of one of the most popular children's television series of all time, "The Mickey Mouse Club," which debuted Oct. 3, 1955, on ABC. Its bouncy rhythm taught millions of baby boomers and subsequent generations how to spell "Mickey Mouse" and humorously established Donald Duck's jealousy over Mickey's popularity.
2. Be Our Guest (from 1991's "Beauty and the Beast")
   Lyrics by Howard Ashman; music by Alan Menken
   © Walt Disney Music Company (ASCAP) / Wonderland Music Company, Inc. (BMI)
   
   From the first animated feature film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, this Broadway-style number features Jerry Orbach's show-stopping performance as Lumiere, the debonair candlestick who describes in sumptuous detail a "culinary cabaret" of gastronomic delights:
   
   Be our guest! Be our guest!
   Put our service to the test
   Tie a napkin 'round your neck, cherie
   And we'll provide the rest
   
   Soup du jour!
   Hot hors d'oeuvres!
   Why, we only live to serve
   Try the grey stuff, it's delicious
   Don't believe me? Ask the dishes!
3. The Sorcerer's Apprentice (from 1940's "Fantasia")
   Composed by Paul Dukas
   
   Inspired by German poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Der Zauberlehrling, Dukas' 1897 composition was brilliantly interpreted in Walt Disney's animated masterpiece "Fantasia" as Mickey Mouse learns the disastrous consequences of borrowing his master's magical hat to bring to life a single broomstick to assist with his chores.
4. Part of Your World (from 1989's "The Little Mermaid")
   Lyrics by Howard Ashman; music by Alan Menken
   © Walt Disney Music Company (ASCAP) / Wonderland Music Company, Inc. (BMI)
   
   Jodi Benson's performance gives voice to Ariel's longing to live "up where they stay all day in the sun," away from the undersea mermaid realm of her stern father, King Triton, in this emotional ballad:
   
   I've got gadgets and gizmos aplenty
   I've got whozits and whatzits galore
   You want thingamabobs?
   I've got twenty
   But who cares?
   No big deal
   I want more
   
   I wanna be where the people are
   I wanna see, wanna see 'em dancin'
   Walkin' around on those--
   Whaddya call 'em? Oh, feet
5. I Just Can't Wait to be King (from 1994's "The Lion King")
   Lyrics by Tim Rice; music by Elton John
   © Wonderland Music Company, Inc. (BMI)
   
   In this buoyant song, young lion cub Simba (voiced by Jason Weaver) gleefully extols the perks he'll inherit someday when he's "standing in the spotlight" as king -- despite the flustered admonitions of hornbill Zazu (Rowan Atkinson), King Mufasa's confidant:
   
   I'm gonna be the mane event
   Like no king was before
   I'm brushing up on looking down
   I'm working on my roar
   Thus far, a rather uninspiring thing
   Oh, I just can't wait to be king!
6. You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly! (from 1953's "Peter Pan")
   Music and lyrics by Sammy Cahn and Sammy Fain
   © Wonderland Music Company, Inc. (BMI)
   
   The perfect accompaniment as Peter Pan and Tinker Bell fly out of London to Never Land, this memorable song describes the exuberance of sailing among the clouds thanks to faith and trust and a little bit of pixie dust:
   
   When there's a smile in your heart
   There's no better time to start
   Think of all the joy you'll find
   When you leave the world behind
   And bid your cares good-bye
   You can fly! You can fly! You can fly!
7. A Whole New World (from 1992's "Aladdin")
   Lyrics by Tim Rice; music by Alan Menken
   © Walt Disney Music Company (ASCAP) / Wonderland Music Company, Inc. (BMI)
   
   Winner of the Academy Award for Best Song, this soaring duet features the vocals of Aladdin (Brad Kane) and Princess Jasmine (Lea Salonga) as they explore the "unbelievable sights" and "indescribable feeling" of sailing through the clouds aboard a magic carpet:
   
   A whole new world
   A new fantastic point of view
   No one to tell us no
   Or where to go
   Or say we're only dreaming
   
   A whole new world
   A whole new world
   That's where we'll be
   That's where we'll be
   A thrilling chase
   A wondrous place
   For you and me