Mickey's Storybook Adventure
| Mickey's Storybook Adventure | |
|---|---|
| Park | Shanghai Disneyland |
| Land / area | Mickey Avenue |
| Type | Stage show |
| Opened | June 16, 2021 |
| Designer | Disney Live Entertainment
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| Status | Operating |
Mickey's Storybook Adventure is a live stage show at the Walt Disney Grand Theatre in Mickey Avenue at Shanghai Disneyland. The 28-minute musical revue follows Mickey Mouse and Goofy into a giant storybook kept in a magical library, where a succession of Disney stories is performed as full-stage musical numbers. It opened to park guests on June 16, 2021, the fifth anniversary of the park's opening, and is an adaptation of Mickey and the Wondrous Book, the stage show created for Hong Kong Disneyland's tenth anniversary.[1][2]
History
The Walt Disney Grand Theatre is a 1,200-seat Broadway-style theatre in Disneytown, the resort's shopping and dining district just outside the park gates. For its first years it was not part of the theme park at all: it sold separate tickets for long-running Mandarin productions of Broadway musicals, beginning with the first Mandarin production of The Lion King, which premiered on June 14, 2016, two days before the resort opened, and played its final performance on October 8, 2017. A Mandarin production of Beauty and the Beast followed, opening on June 14, 2018 and closing in early 2020.[3][4]
The show itself originated in Hong Kong. Mickey and the Wondrous Book premiered at Hong Kong Disneyland's Storybook Theater on November 17, 2015, as the centrepiece of that park's tenth anniversary celebration, built around the same premise of Mickey and Goofy discovering a book that brings stories to life.[5] When Shanghai Disney Resort prepared its own fifth anniversary, it adapted the Hong Kong production for the much larger Grand Theatre stage. Announced on June 7, 2021, the show premiered at a special event for invited guests on June 15, and on June 16 the resort opened a new in-park entrance to the theatre, bringing the building inside Shanghai Disneyland's entertainment line-up for the first time and allowing park guests to attend as part of their day in the park.[6]
Experience
The production is set in a magical library dominated by the oversized storybook of the title. Mickey opens the book and accidentally dislodges Olaf, the snowman from Frozen, from its pages. Because Olaf will melt if he is not returned to his own story, Mickey steps into the book with Goofy's help and turns its pages one by one, searching for the Frozen section while each page he passes opens into a self-contained musical number.[7]
The journey begins in The Jungle Book, with Baloo and King Louie performing, before a princess sequence brings together Moana, Mulan and Rapunzel, each singing from her own film. A Zootopia sequence follows, built around Gazelle's performance of "Try Everything" with Judy Hopps, and then a The Princess and the Frog sequence in which Tiana's restaurant takes shape on stage around her numbers. The search ends in the world of Frozen, where Olaf is restored to his story alongside Anna and Elsa. In total the show presents 23 Disney characters drawn from 13 stories, performed by a company of 23 live vocalists, characters, dancers and musicians singing ten Disney songs, supported by projected backgrounds and scenery that transforms as the pages turn.[8]
The Shanghai staging differs from its Hong Kong parent in several respects. The Aladdin sequence of the original was replaced by the Zootopia sequence, and the princess sequence was recast: Ariel and Merida, who appeared in Hong Kong, gave way to Mulan and Moana alongside Rapunzel. Dialogue is performed largely in Mandarin while most songs are sung in English, and unlike the Hong Kong version the Shanghai production does not project translations at the sides of the stage.[9] The show is performed several times daily, and with one of the largest performing companies of any indoor show at the park it remains Shanghai Disneyland's principal large-scale indoor stage production.
See also
References
- ↑ Mickey's Storybook Adventure to Debut at Shanghai Disneyland June 15th. DisneyGeek. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ 'Mickey's Storybook Adventure' stage show debuting June 15 at Shanghai Disneyland. Attractions Magazine. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ "Beauty and the Beast" to Replace "The Lion King" at Shanghai Disney Resort's Walt Disney Grand Theater. Laughing Place. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Mandarin Version Of Beauty And The Beast Opening At Shanghai Disney Resort on June 14. WDW News Today. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Mickey and the Wondrous Book. Disney Wiki. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ New Musical to Debut at Shanghai Disneyland. Theme Park Insider. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Shanghai Disney Resort Announces "Mickey's Storybook Adventure" Debuting This June. Laughing Place. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Mickey's Storybook Adventure to Debut at Shanghai Disneyland June 15th. DisneyGeek. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Mickey's Storybook Adventure at Shanghai Disneyland Review and Guide. The Disney Specialist. Retrieved 2026-11-14.