#DisneySide Disney Performing Arts-Live Your Dream
How do you show your #DisneySide? Well if
you’re aspiring young performers, you head to Disneyland to become a part of
the Disney Performing Arts Conservatory. A few months ago, 40 talented singers,
dancers, actors and puppeteers came together to work with the best of the best
in Disney mentoring as they lived their dreams with the first ever, one week
long, intensive performing arts experience.
A program 6 years in the making and part of the long running Disney
Youth Programs, the Disney Performing Arts Conservatory allowed each of these
15-19 year old a chance to see their dreams come alive and experience the magic
of performing on the Disney stage.
Each day started bright and early with
daily training in each of the disciplines, but along with the dancing, singing and
acting rehearsals came surprises as only Disney can do.
The Madrone School Wizard of Oz Cast Gets the #DisneySide Surprise of their Lives!
The
name Disney and Magic often go hand in hand and are often interchangeable but
at no time was this more evident than at last week’s surprise #DisneySide @
Home Celebration thrown for the Madrone Elementary School Cast of “They Wizard
of Oz”. The 60 cast members thought they
were being summoned to an unheard of last minute Friday rehearsal. After being sequestered in the band room and
given ears to put on-to make a Friday rehearsal “just a little more bearable”,
the cast was ushered to the cafeteria where the booming “Soundsational Parade
Music” could be heard through the cafeteria walls. Once gathered at the doors, it was explained
to them that Walt Disney said it best when he said, “If you can dream it, you
can do it.” The play, which only a few
short months before was just a dream, was about to become a reality but in the
meantime, it was time for some fun Disney style. 
To cheers, shrieks and even a
few tears of joy, the doors opened to the big reveal-a party to end all
parties. Complete with Disney treats aplenty, music from the Parks, their own
