Fort Wilderness
Walt Disney World
The Laughs Are Still Fresh as "Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue"
Celebrates 30 Years and More Than 28,000 Performances
How time flies when you're leaving 'em laughing in their spare ribs and
fried chicken: Disney's "Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue" dinner
show celebrates a milestone 30th anniversary on June 14, 2004.
The Pioneer Hall Players -- an ever-changing cast of singers, dancers
and musicians with a passion for whimsy -- will mark the occasion as they
have in more than 28,000 performances: with guffaws as fresh (and silly)
as they were when Disney entertainment gurus created "Hoop-Dee-Doo
Musical Revue" as a college workshop program in summer 1974.
When summer ended, the show did not. On Sept. 5, 1974, a professional
troupe of Disney entertainers continued the roles of Six Bits (and his
bear jokes), the darlings Dolly and Flora and giggling Clair, and Johnny
and Jim Handy.
The rest is hysteria. Mass hysteria, in fact -- an audience during 30
years in excess of 8 million people laughing and chowing down at Disney's
Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground.
There in rustic Pioneer Hall you'll find a down-home, foot stompin',
hand clappin', western vaudeville musical-and-comical revue-style dinner
show featuring a zany bunch of singing and dancing road-show entertainers.
Folks enjoy the all-you-care-to-eat menu (served family style) of tossed
green salad, fresh baked bread, smoked BBQ pork spare ribs, country-fried
chicken, corn, baked beans, and beverages. During the meal, a troupe of
six Wild West performers entertains guests with a bucket-load of corny
jokes and songs -- all topped off by a memorable act that involves the
cast delivering strawberry shortcake.)
The dinner show has seatings at 5, 7:15 and 9:30 p.m. each night in rustic
Pioneer Hall -- where all 360 seats are routinely filled with vacationers
for the first two shows. Even the late show frequently has a big audience!
The cost, including tax and gratuities, is $49.01 for ages 12 and over
and $24.81 for ages 3 to 11. Reservations, which are required, can be
arranged by calling 407/WDW-DINE.
For reservations and information, call 407/WDW-DINE.
Source: Walt Disney World
HOOP-DEE-DOO MUSICAL REVUE IN THE BEGINNING -- College workshop performers
provoked the laughs during the summer of 1974 when Disney's Hoop-Dee-Doo
Musical Revue debuted in Pioneer Hall at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort
& Campground. The dinner-show fun was so well received that the show
continued with a cast of professional actors and actresses in fall 1974.
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