For the other two Candlelight Processional shows I attended, I also used the dining package but chose to dine at Teppan Edo and San Angel Inn.Īfter my 2000 trip, I did not visit Disney World again during the Christmas holiday season until December 2013. I would choose to dine at Chefs with the dining package two more times, including my most recent trip in December 2016. Also of note from this first experience was that we did the Candlelight Processional Dining Package, having dinner at Chefs de France before the show. I remember being afraid that it wouldn’t hold the attention of our three children (ages 4 – 11) for 45 minutes but that turned out to not be a problem.
My first impression of this show was quite good. But I did place a copy of the nice program we were given in my trip scrapbook… Not being very familiar with Jon Secada and not knowing what to expect at the show, I didn’t take any photos. So during our second ever family trip to Disney World in 2000, my family of 5 attended just one show, narrated by singer Jon Secada. I’ve done this…twice.īut the first time I saw the Candlelight Processional I really didn’t know that much about it. So if you are visiting the Disney World resort during the holiday season, I think it’s worth your time to attend more than one performance with different narrators. As for the guest narrator, each celebrity usually performs for three nights and each gives their shows a slightly different feeling based on their personality. The choir consists of members of Disney’s Voices of Liberty (red & black attire), the Cast Member choir (green robes), and visiting high school and guest choirs (gold robes). Three times each evening (5:00, 6:45, 8:15) the traditional story of Christmas is retold in song and narration by a 50 piece orchestra, a mass choir and a celebrity guest narrator.
Since that time the Candlelight Processional has been held there every year from late November through December 30th. In 1994, the event was moved to the American Gardens Theatre at Epcot. Thirteen years later, in 1971, Walt Disney World presented its first Candlelight Processional at Magic Kingdom with actor Rock Hudson as the celebrity guest narrator. It’s never too early to start thinking about Christmas cards.Disney began its Christmas season tradition known as the Candlelight Processional in 1958 at Disneyland in California. Disney hopes that guest choirs and musicians will return in 2022. In previous years, singers and musicians have come from high schools and community groups, but given the ongoing pandemic, Disney will be limiting participation to its Cast Members, all of whom are required to be vaccinated. Performers include Cast Members, musicians, and singers, as well as celebrity narrators.įar and away, the most popular celebrity narrator in years past has been Neil Patrick Harris, but other famous narrators have included John Stamos, Helen Hunt, Joey Fatone, Whoopi Goldberg, Cal Ripken, Jr., Jim Caviezel, Ming-Na Wen, and Jodi Benson.
The 2021 Candlelight Processional will return for the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays.
Neil Patrick Harris at the 2019 Candlelight Processional at EPCOT.
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