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| name = Mermaid Lagoon Theater<br />
| park = [[Tokyo DisneySea]]<br />
| land = [[Mermaid Lagoon]]<br />
| type = Theatre venue (former stage show; now character greeting)<br />
| opened = September 4, 2001<br />
| status = Operating<br />
}}<br />
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'''Mermaid Lagoon Theater''' is a theatre venue inside [[Mermaid Lagoon]] at [[Tokyo DisneySea]], the second park of the [[Tokyo Disney Resort]] in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan. A theatre-in-the-round of about 700 seats set beneath the port's indoor "under the sea" cavern, it was for its first two decades the home of musical stage shows drawn from Disney's 1989 film ''The Little Mermaid'' — first ''Under the Sea'' and then ''King Triton's Concert''. The stage shows ended in 2020, and since September 29, 2020 the theatre has served as the indoor home of Ariel's character greeting; as of November 2026, no stage production is staged there.<ref name="wikipedia">{{cite web |title=Mermaid Lagoon (Tokyo DisneySea) |website=Wikipedia |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mermaid_Lagoon_(Tokyo_DisneySea) |access-date=2026-11-15}}</ref><ref name="disneywiki">{{cite web |title=Mermaid Lagoon Theater |website=Disney Wiki |url=https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Mermaid_Lagoon_Theater |access-date=2026-11-15}}</ref><br />
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== History ==<br />
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The theatre opened with the park on September 4, 2001, as the centrepiece of Mermaid Lagoon's indoor section, where guests descend into Triton's Kingdom, a cavern styled as the world beneath the waves. Its first production, billed as the Mermaid Lagoon Theater show ''Under the Sea'', retold Ariel's story with live actors, large-scale puppetry and Audio-Animatronic figures, performed in the round so that the action could happen above and around the audience, simulating a performance suspended underwater.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tokyo DisneySea |website=Wikipedia |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_DisneySea |access-date=2026-11-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Mermaid Lagoon at Tokyo DisneySea |website=TouringPlans |url=http://touringplans.com/tokyo-disneysea/lands/mermaid-lagoon |access-date=2026-11-15}}</ref> ''Under the Sea'' ran from 2001 to 2014.<ref name="disneywiki" /><br />
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After a refurbishment of the venue, a new production, '''King Triton's Concert''', opened on April 24, 2015.<ref>{{cite web |title=King Triton's Concert — Disney This Day, April 24, 2015 |website=DAPS Magic |url=https://dapsmagic.com/2025/04/king-tritons-concert-disney-this-day-april-24-2015/ |access-date=2026-11-15}}</ref> Reframed as a concert hosted by King Triton himself, it kept the aerial, in-the-round staging — Ariel performed by a live actor, swimming through the air above the seats, alongside puppets and projections — and ran about 14 minutes.<ref name="touringplans">{{cite web |title=Mermaid Lagoon at Tokyo DisneySea |website=TouringPlans |url=http://touringplans.com/tokyo-disneysea/lands/mermaid-lagoon |access-date=2026-11-15}}</ref><br />
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== Closure of the shows and current use ==<br />
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King Triton's Concert was suspended when Tokyo Disney Resort closed for the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, and it never resumed. The theatre itself closed on July 1, 2020, and on September 29, 2020 it reopened in a new role, as the indoor location of Ariel's Greeting Grotto — the meet-and-greet whose original outdoor home elsewhere in Mermaid Lagoon had closed on January 31, 2020.<ref name="wikipedia" /> The greeting, initially run in a socially distanced format, has remained the theatre's function since; reference listings for the park continue to show Ariel's Grotto in the theatre as of 2026, and no successor stage show has been announced.<ref name="wikipedia" /><ref name="disneywiki" /><br />
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The end of the concert also closed a chapter of the port's original design: Mermaid Lagoon was built around its theatre, and the lagoon's rides — [[Jumpin' Jellyfish]], [[Blowfish Balloon Race]], [[The Whirlpool]] and [[Ariel's Playground]] — now carry the indoor area without its former headline show. Ariel herself, meanwhile, returned to a full stage in the resort in 2026 in a different venue and form: the Shiki Theatre Company's production of Disney's ''The Little Mermaid'' musical opened at the Maihama Amphitheater, outside the park, in August 2026.<ref>{{cite web |title=Disney's "The Little Mermaid" Swims Into Maihama Amphitheater at Tokyo Disney Resort in 2026 |website=TDR Explorer |url=https://tdrexplorer.com/the-little-mermaid-maihama-amphitheater-2026/ |access-date=2026-11-15}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Mermaid Lagoon]]<br />
* [[Scuttle's Scooters]]<br />
* [[The Magic Lamp Theater]]<br />
* [[Tokyo DisneySea]]<br />
* [[List of Tokyo DisneySea attractions]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Attractions]]<br />
[[Category:Entertainment]]<br />
[[Category:Tokyo DisneySea]]<br />
[[Category:2001 establishments in Japan]]</div>Admin