Finding Nemo – The Musical Animal Kingdom

Finding Nemo – The Musical Highlights:

  • 40-minute Broadway-manner show re-telling the story of Finding Nemo
  • Performances include live vocals, elaborate puppets, and original music!

Introduction | Attraction | Show Logistics |
Shopping | Interesting Facts | Photo Gallery

INTRODUCTION

Finding Nemo – The Musical marks the start fourth dimension Disney has taken a non-musical movie and transformed it into a musical show for the parks. It's an adaptation of the Disney-Pixar movie, and features favorite characters such as Marlin, Nemo, Dory, Bruce, Crush, and more!

Finding Nemo – The Musical takes place in the Theater in the Wild, which is located in between Dinoland USA and Expedition Everest.

 ATTRACTION

Finding Nemo – The Musical gives guests the run a risk to exist immersed in the story of Marlin and Nemo through the combination of puppets, dancers, acrobats and animated backdrops. The theater itself was updated with innovative lighting, sound, and special effects to create Nemo's undersea environment.

Finding Nemo the Musical retells the film, including memorable scenes set up in the Dentist'due south Aquarium, Dory and Marlin'southward confrontation with the sharks, the turtles on the EAC, and the school of fish providing directions.

The show features original music, including "Big Blue World", too heard at The Seas with Nemo and Friends at Epcot, and Crush's big number, "Go With the Flow", a tribute to 60s surfing music.

This show lasts approximately 40 minutes and is performed at several, scheduled times each solar day. For current show times, check your My Disney Experience App or Times Guide.

Evidence LOGISTICS

You lot can usually get a seat if you arrive 15-20 minutes early.

Seating is wooden bench seats with backs. Guests may remain in their wheelchair, motorized scooter or ECV to experience the attraction.

Before the show starts, the bubbles on the left and right sides of the stage show Nemo swimming past. You tin't tell when and where he'll show upward, and so go along your eyes peeled!

Restrooms are located right side by side to the theater's exit.

Reflective Captioning Available

Assistive Listening Devices from Guest Services Can Be Used Here.

SHOPPING

There is a cart outside the theater that sells a pocket-sized option of Finding Nemo trade, such as toys, plushes, and shirts.

INTERESTING FACTS

The Theater in the Wild now holds 1,500 guests and is the largest theater in Disney'south Animal Kingdom.

Information technology opened with the park on April 22, 1998, and was originally an outdoor amphitheater with its first product existence quite a dissimilar type of evidence. Journey into Jungle Book featured songs from the striking Disney picture and created a new manner of puppetry that gave the animal characters a look of fantasy while all the same conveying life-like realism and emotion.

"Journey into Jungle Volume" closed in Apr 1999 and was replaced with Tarzan Rocks!, a live musical based on the Walt Disney animated feature, "Tarzan". The production combined a stone concert performing the hit songs from the movie, with gymnasts, in-line skaters and aerialists giving the energy and action of the characters' story. It ran from July 1999 to Jan 21, 2006. The Theater in the Wild was then shutdown so it could be fully enclosed and renovated with upgrades to create Nemo'south environment.

Finding Nemo – the Musical involves a number of Broadway's best! Tony Award-winning director Peter Brosius directed it, with Michael Curry, who designed puppets for Disney's successful stage version of The Lion King, serving as leading puppet and production designer. The fourteen original songs were composed past the husband-married woman team of Robert Lopez, Tony Award-winning "Avenue Q" co-composer-creator, and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, co-creator of the a cappella musical "Along the Manner".

The song "Large Blue World" was first heard inside The Seas With Nemo and Friends in Epcot.

While many characters, including Marlin, Nemo and Dory, are represented by live performers operating larger-than-life puppets, other creatures in the bounding main appear using a various array of puppetry styles, including rod, bunraku, and shadow.

Performed on a stage flanked by big bubbles, the musical numbers come to life with underwater effects created with innovative lighting, dynamic props, and blithe projections.

Finding Nemo – the Musical was announced at the Apr 7, 2006 Grand Opening of Expedition Everest. It held previews starting Nov five, 2006, and opened on January 24, 2007.

Finding Nemo – The Musical was the outset major spectacular produced for Walt Disney World by Disney Creative Entertainment.