Mickey
Mouse Club Theater Opens
August
27, 1955
Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me?
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
Hey there, Hi there, Ho there! You're as welcome as can be!
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
Mickey Mouse! (Donald Duck!)
Mickey Mouse! (Donald Duck!)
Forever let us hold our banners high,
High, high, high!
Come along and sing a song and join the jamboree!
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
Mickey Mouse Club!
Mickey Mouse Club!
On August 27, 1955 The Mickey
Mouse Club Theatre opened in
Disneyland's Fantasyland. The air-conditioned theatre presented various
Disney cartoons, and at one point it was the home to the 3D Jamboree featuring
the multi-dimensional Mouseketeers in color as well as introducing the short
films Melody and Working for Peanuts — all in 3D. In 1964, the theater was renamed
the Fantasyland
Theater.
Bruce Healey, senior music
director/producer for Disneyland Entertainment Productions, remembered working
in the theater. “In the days of the Fantasyland Theater of old, which was a
little movie theatre in Fantasyland, we converted that to a live performance
venue for this music education show that ran for about six months called “Fun With Music” which was an
educational program that the company put together. This was about 1976 or ’77.
It was a live stage show with film and live performers and a six-piece band
that I was the leader of and I played the piano. There were these little opera
boxes on either side of the theater that we made into an orchestra pit. Three
of us were on one side of the theater and three of us were on the other side,
which was a very challenging thing to deal with in terms of staying together.” The
Fantasyland Theater took a final bow in 1981 and “Hey there, hi there, ho
there” made way for “Hi diddle dee dee” when Pinocchio’s
Daring Journey attraction debuted in its place in 1983. And that’s what
happened today in Disneyland history.
Trivia Time! Can you name all of the original Mouseketeers? Who was your favorite? Bonus points if you can name what each day of the week was on "The Mickey Mouse Club".
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