¡Celebración Encanto! Sing-Alongside at EPCOT Prolonged

“¡Celebración Encanto!” is a restricted time sing-along present at Walt Disney World that debuted for the summer season as a part of the EPCOT overhaul’s completion. This shares all the pieces it is advisable know concerning the new leisure expertise at CommuniCore Corridor, together with dates & showtimes, different particulars, and our ideas on the providing. (Up to date August 20, 2024.)

Let’s begin with the most recent information, which is that Walt Disney World has introduced an extension of ¡Celebración Encanto! at EPCOT. Initially set to finish on September 6, the limited-time ¡Celebración Encanto! sing-along present has been prolonged till no less than October 15, 2024 to to rejoice Hispanic & Latin American Heritage Month.

It’s unknown whether or not ¡Celebración Encanto! will proceed past the “Collectively We Are Magia” celebration in mid-October, however our expectation is that it’ll. It’s comparatively low-cost by leisure requirements, and it hasn’t actually gotten a good shake this summer season for the reason that climate has been sizzling and, perplexingly, this space doesn’t have a lot shade. With October via December being cooler and busier–and no signal of any seasonal leisure taking its place–our expectation is that ¡Celebración Encanto! continues via Winter 2025.

Throughout ¡Celebración Encanto!, you may dance, sing and rejoice with the marvelous Madrigal household at CommuniCore Plaza Stage. That includes beloved characters and songs from the movie together with enjoyable trivia to check your information on all issues “Encanto,” the present runs a number of instances a day at EPCOT and is ideal in your amigos and familia. Bruno and Mirabel might even cease by to affix in on the enjoyable in the course of the present!

Presently, ¡Celebración Encanto! has exhibits at 9:45 am, 10:45 am, 11:45 am, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, and 3:30 pm. It stays to be seen how these showtimes will change in October and past. Personally, I’d wish to see choices which might be a bit later. Having one thing when the solar is decrease within the sky can be nice. However then once more, correct nighttime leisure would possibly make extra sense in the course of the vacation season at EPCOT.

We had the prospect to catch ¡Celebración Encanto! as soon as, and it wasn’t actually my cup of tea. Not likely an enormous shocker there, as I’m not the audience. However not like a few of the different exhibits of this nature–the Frozen Sing-Alongside being a main instance–this doesn’t actually have something for adults. No less than in the course of the performances we noticed, there’s no humor that goes over children heads or something to interact audiences over the age of, like, 8 years previous. For those who’re going to get pleasure from it, that’s going to occur vicariously via the eyes of your youngster.

Though we now have a daughter, she’s nonetheless too younger for this. (She’s extra of a “Grim Grinning Ghosts” gal, anyhow. I’m not kidding. That’s, in some way, her favourite music. It’s not one thing we inspired. It simply kind of…occurred…and now it’s the one music she desires us to sing.) Level being, we’ve solely seen ¡Celebración Encanto! one time in full, and some others in passing. Maybe we’ll make extra of an effort if it sticks round via winter and has showtimes round sundown.

What follows is our unique commentary concerning the ¡Celebración Encanto! announcement, together with a tease for summer season at EPCOT. We’re preserving this for the sake of posterity although it turned out to be (very) flawed. It shouldn’t have been, and after EPCOT’s gradual summer season, maybe it’s one thing they’ll revisit for 2025…

As you already know if you happen to’ve been following our commentary for the reason that EPCOT Flower & Backyard Competition was introduced, we’ve been predicting that Walt Disney World would introduce a brand-new summer season pageant for by additional scaling again each Meals & Wine and Flower & Backyard to permit for the brand new occasion.

No must learn the remainder of this if you happen to’re aware of our tinfoil hat dot-connecting concept as nothing that follows is something new (identical stuff we’ve been saying since like final December). Suffice to say, we consider the plan is to make the grand debut of each that new summer season pageant and CommuniCore Corridor . That’d really be fairly savvy and splashy on Walt Disney World’s half.

As for what this theoretical EPCOT summer season pageant that includes Encanto might be…how about merely the EPCOT Summer season Competition. Easy because it sounds, summer season festivals are widespread in Europe, Asia, and even the USA. An open-ended summer season pageant may embody all kinds of celebrations.

In relation to Colombia, the apparent candidate is a carnival. There’s the Bogotá Carnival yearly in early August that would function inspiration. Not solely that, however it’s not arduous to examine Walt Disney World providing a carnival-like celebration with vibrant road dancing, music, and masquerade parades. Even when it’s not known as carnival, it may evoke the spirit of the occasion–and would “really feel proper” for summer season in Florida. (It may be a take a look at for a everlasting pavilion idea–there have been plans for carnival in World Showcase for years.)

It wouldn’t must cease there. If the EPCOT Summer season Competition is to be, it may embrace a ton of stuff in several international locations. There might be celebrations for Bastille Day in France, Dragon Boat Competition in China, Summer season Solstice in Norway, Independence Day in America, and numerous different music and hearth festivals world wide–plus different occasions I’m most likely forgetting or don’t learn about.

I’m admittedly biased to this concept as a result of it will additionally imply celebrating my favourite occasion, which is Matsuri in Japan. That is an occasion in numerous cities, with the spotlight being Gion Matsuri in Kyoto. For a number of years, Tokyo Disneyland did a superb occasion known as Natsu Matsuri (actually interprets to Summer season Competition) that melded genuine tradition with characters. It might be superior to see one thing like that, however expanded throughout everything of World Showcase.

Nearer to residence, it might be like Viva Navidad or Lunar New Yr at Disney California Journey, that are a bit extra slim in focus however are arguably very EPCOT-y in nature. One thing like these occasions, however make it summer season, can be an ideal match for World Showcase and the newly-opened CommuniCore Corridor & Plaza.

As famous above, meals & beverage have been big for EPCOT through the years, sustaining the park even because it stagnated. Whereas it’s fully attainable that the Flower & Backyard Competition shortening is solely a repeat of final yr with Walt Disney World reducing dates attributable to diminishing returns, my cash can be on a brand-new occasion that “solves” each that challenge and sustains elevated meals & beverage spending that EPCOT enjoys throughout its different occasions. Disney loves contemporary income streams!

Anyway, I feel that’s the proper thought and hope it occurs. With CommuniCore Corridor lastly opening on June 10, a brand new occasion can be the proper solution to commemorate that addition, too. Given how open ended ‘Summer season Competition’ is, Disney may weave some kind of tech expo or one thing futuristic into the entrance half of the park, too. Ample alternatives to do one thing enjoyable that might resonate with vacationers and locals, whereas additionally being within the ‘edutainment’ spirit of EPCOT Heart.

Competition of the Arts is EPCOT’s latest pageant and likewise its greatest. So I’m assured that Walt Disney World may create one thing glorious. A cultural celebration that includes the characters from Encanto…now that would work. I’m positive it’ll elicit groans from the “no characters in EPCOT!” crowd, however that ship sailed way back. Marrying Disney characters with tradition may be very clearly the compromise resolution and path of the park going ahead.

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YOUR THOUGHTS

Are you excited for the brand new “¡Celebración Encanto!” sing-along present? What concerning the opening of CommuniCore Corridor? Suppose an EPCOT Summer season Competition can be a enjoyable occasion with numerous potential? Agree or disagree with our take? Any questions we may also help you reply? Listening to suggestions about your experiences is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!