Vance, Andy Garcia, Blair Underwood and Pat Sajak.Ĭonfessore started this year’s event with one of the greats of stage, film and television: three-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera, “West Side Story’s” first Anita, and the photograph he posted to Facebook shows his elation. Still, the list of 2021 narrators is filled with notables, including Courtney B. Some of the event’s most popular regular participants, the celebrities who read the account of Christ’s birth, will not return either, possibly out of caution with regard to the virus, or because they simply could not be booked in time, last year’s event having been canceled. For people who love Candlelight, it still is 100 percent Candlelight, though we’ve made some minor accommodations.” “It is a perfect time to show off the orchestra’s size, which is the same as it’s always been and looks exactly the same as it always has, including the fanfare trumpets. “That adds a different texture to the choral sound,” he said. Now, about 175 Walt Disney World cast members comprise the choir, with vocal arrangements “altered to feature the Voices of Liberty (EPCOT's American Adventure-based singers), singing in harmony,” in Confessore’s words. Until two years ago, about 300 seasonally vested participants, including 150 to 175 high school vocalists, bore their candles and solemnly proceeded to the stage to be part of the show, but COVID-19 put a stop to that.
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Candlelight Dining Packages for lunch and dinner start at $44 plus tax per person for adults and $15.50 plus tax per person for children, ages 3-9.It is not the same Candlelight Processional it once was, probably to the disappointment of hundreds of young choristers. Breakfast, lunch and dinner options are also available this year at Disney’s Yacht Club Resort, with breakfast and dinner options being offered at Trattoria Al Forno at Disney’s BoardWalk. Candlelight Dining Packages for breakfast start at $35 plus tax per person for adults and $21 plus tax per person for children, ages 3-9. In addition to lunch and dinner packages, breakfast options are available at restaurants in and near Epcot like Akershus Royal Banquet Hall and The Garden Grill. These packages, available on select nights, include a delicious meal and a guaranteed seat for one of the Candlelight Processional performances. The Candlelight Processional presents the traditional story of Christmas in truly spectacular fashion – with a celebrity narrator, a 50-piece orchestra and a massed choir. The processional is performed three times per night (5:00, 6:45 and 8:15 p.m.) during the holiday season at the America Gardens Theatre.
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Here is the full list of narrators (everything subject to change, of course):įor more information on booking your next trip with our official travel agent sponsor, the Vacationeer, visit avel. Bailey from “Grey’s Anatomy,” Chandra Wilson – and newly-named Disney Legend Whoopi Goldberg, co-host of ABC’s “The View.”
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Two veterans of the event – actress/comedienne Ana Gasteyer and Jodi Benson, voice of Ariel in Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” – complete this year’s list.Īs previously announced, new narrators for this year’s lineup include Matt Bomer (“White Collar,” “The Last Tycoon,”) Star Wars fan favorite Warwick Davis, who played Wicket the Ewok in “ Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ” Daytime Television Legend Pat Sajak and TV star CCH Pounder, who was recently at Disney’s Animal Kingdom for the grand opening of Pandora – The World of Avatar. And returning this year are everyone’s favorite hard-driving Dr.
(Mariah Wild, photographer)ĭisney Legend Kurt Russell, who has starred in Disney films from the 1960s to 2017’s “Guardians of the Galaxy 2” will read the Christmas story this year – as well as gold- and silver-medal-winning gymnast Laurie Hernandez. Epcot is located at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The event is one of the most beloved holiday traditions at Walt Disney World Resort, featuring a joyous retelling of the Christmas story by a celebrity narrator accompanied by a 50-piece orchestra and a glorious mass choir. Emmy and Tony award-winning Actor Neil Patrick Harris narrates Candlelight Processional Dec. Disney has announced the remainder of the celebrity narrator lineup for the 2017 Candlelight Processional, now part of the Epcot International Festival of the Holidays.
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