Steve Davison Steven "Steve" Davison is Lead Creative Executive of Parades and Spectaculars for Walt Disney Creative Entertainment, and is responsible for the overall creative direction of daytime parades, firework displays, and nighttime spectaculars at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts worldwide. He created such shows as "Believe... There's Magic in the Stars", "", "World of Color", and "Disney Dreams!". World of Color World of Color is a nighttime show at Disney California Adventure, part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. Conceived by Vice President of Parades and Spectaculars, Steve Davison, and designed by Walt Disney Creative Entertainment, the show has nearly 1,200 musical water fountains and includes lights, fire, lasers, and fog, with high-definition projections on mist screens. The show is inspired by Walt Disney's "Wonderful World of Color" anthology television series, as evidenced by the use of its eponymous theme song written by the Sherman Brothers.
Happily Ever After (Magic Kingdom) Happily Ever After is a fireworks and projection mapping show which debuted at the Magic Kingdom on May 12, 2017. Unlike its predecessor, "", the show includes projection mapping across Cinderella Castle, lasers, and searchlights, in addition to pyrotechnics. The show includes characters and music from a wide array of Disney films. The music also includes a theme song from Angie Keilhauer and Jordan Fisher. Girl Meets World Girl Meets World is an American coming of age television sitcom created by Michael Jacobs and April Kelly that premiered on Disney Channel on June 27, 2014, and ended on January 20, 2017. Jacobs also served as the executive producer of the series. Disney Fantasy Disney Fantasy is a cruise ship owned and operated by Disney Cruise Line, part of The Walt Disney Company, which entered service in 2012. The "Disney Fantasy" currently sails seven-night Eastern or Western Caribbean cruises. Her sister ship, "Disney Dream", was launched in 2011. "Disney Fantasy" is the fourth ship in the cruise line, the other two ships being the Disney Magic and the Disney Wonder. Dan White (magician) Daniel White is an American magician, producer, and creative consultant. In March 2015, White began performing a headline show produced by theory11 at The NoMad Hotel in New York City, titled "The Magician at The NoMad." The critically acclaimed show has been featured in Vanity Fair, Wall Street Journal, and three times on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon". Tad Stones Tad Stones (born 1952, Burbank, California) is an American animator, screenwriter, producer and director best known for his work for The Walt Disney Company, where he worked from 1974 to 2003. His most notable credits for Disney include creating, writing and producing the animated series "Darkwing Duck" and producing "Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers", "Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears", "Aladdin" and "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command". His latest project is as a storyboard artist on the animated series "Bob's Burgers", which premiered in January 2011 on Fox. Carson Williams Carson Williams is an electrical engineer from Mason, Ohio who is noted for his light shows using Christmas lights affixed to and around his house. The lights are programmed and synchronized to turn on and off with music using a computer application and set of controllers from the Light-O-Rama company. For each minute of animation synchronized to music, he spent approximately one hour to sequence 88 Light-O-Rama channels to control his 16,000 Christmas lights. His notability suddenly increased when a popular clip was widely circulated on the Internet in late 2005 showing a recording of one of his shows from 2004, accompanied by the track "Wizards in Winter" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. An urban legend even developed that it was not a video of an actual light display, but faked on a computer. The Popeye Show The Popeye Show is a cartoon anthology series that premiered on November 11, 2001, on Cartoon Network. Each episode would include three "Popeye" theatrical shorts from Fleischer Studios and/or Famous Studios. The show was narrated by Bill Murray (not to be confused with the film actor of the same name), who would give the audience short facts about the history of the cartoons as filler material between each short. Animation historian Jerry Beck served as a consultant and Barry Mills served as writer and producer. A total of 45 episodes were produced, consisting of a total of 135 shorts. Walt Disney Studios Park Walt Disney Studios Park (French: Parc Walt Disney Studios) is the second of two theme parks built at Disneyland Paris in Marne-la-Vallee, France, opened on March 16, 2002. It is dedicated to show business, themed after movies, production, and behind-the-scenes. In 2013, the park hosted approximately 4.4 million guests, making it the third-most visited amusement park in Europe and the 21st-most visited in the world, though it has the lowest attendance figures of all twelve Walt Disney parks. Its sister park is Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World in Florida. Walt Disney Classics Collection The Walt Disney Classics Collection (WDCC) is a series of collectible sculptures of Disney characters and scenes. The sculptures were initially done under the supervision of the Disney animators, and were hand painted and produced in limited editions. They were introduced in July 1992. The sculptures often sold in the secondary market at a multiple of the initial sale price. Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, officially Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. and informally known as Disney Parks, is one of The Walt Disney Company's four major business segments and a subsidiary. The company is responsible for the conception, building, and managing of its theme parks and vacation resorts, as well as a variety of family-oriented leisure enterprises. It was founded in 1971, following the opening of Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida. Celebrate the Magic Celebrate the Magic was a nighttime show at the Magic Kingdom park of Walt Disney World, that premiered on November 13, 2012. It replaced "The Magic, the Memories and You" display, a similar show that ran at the Magic Kingdom and Disneyland from January 2011 to September 4, 2012. Animation Show of Shows The Animation Show of Shows is a traveling selection of the year's best animated short films, curated and presented by Acme Filmworks founder, Ron Diamond. It began in 1998 with the aim of showing the most original, funny, intelligent short animated films from all over the world and presenting them at the major animation studios in order to inspire their animators and directors. Since 2007, some of the films are being published on DVDs. Greg Weisman Greg Weisman (born September 28, 1963) is an American novelist and comic book and animation writer and producer, best known as the co-creator and producer of "Young Justice", the (uncredited) co-creator of "Gargoyles", the Supervising Producer of "The Spectacular Spider-Man". In addition, Weisman wrote the script for "", an animated short feature that is included on the DVD for the film, "". His first novel, "Rain of the Ghosts" was released on December 3, 2013. Its sequel, "Spirits of Ash and Foam" was released on July 8, 2014. Weisman was executive producer on the "Star Wars Rebels" animated series, alongside Dave Filoni and Simon Kinberg, but left the show after season one had been produced. In 2015, Weisman launched a KickStarter campaign to crowdfund $43,000 for a full-cast unabridged AudioPlay based on "Rain of the Ghosts". The project reached 100% of funding in less than a month, raising $54,022 (more 25% than its intended goal) backed by 512 pledges, and it stands as the most funded Young Adult project on KickStarter. Firehouse Tales Firehouse Tales is an American animated television series created by Sidney J. Bailey, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, which premiered on Cartoon Network's Tickle-U preschool television programming block in the United States on August 22, 2005. It is about three anthropomorphic fire trucks. Lights, Camera!? Lights, Camera!? is an American musical drama television series created by Lee Daniels and Tom Donaghy for Fox. It revolves around two talented young videacs who navigate there business on their road to success. The series, which is set in Atlanta, consists of original music, along with musical fantasy sequences, as dreams of the future. Twelve episodes were ordered, which premiered during the 2016–2017 television season. Todd Mason William Todd Mason (born May 3, 1963) is a digital media executive and entrepreneur based in Washington, DC. He has served as creator, Executive Producer and Executive in Charge of Production for a number of national broadcast series and specials. WonderWorks (museum) WonderWorks is an entertainment center focused on science exhibits with five locations in the United States. The company's slogan is "Let Your Imagination Run Wild". Elisabetta Gnone Elisabetta Gnone (born April 13, 1965) is an Italian writer. In April 2001, she co-created the Italian comic/magazine "W.I.T.C.H." with Alessandro Barbucci and Barbara Canepa. The publication was later made into the television series of the same name. Gnone also wrote the children's trilogy "Fairy Oak: Il segreto delle gemelle" (The Secret of the Twins), "L'incanto del buio" (The Spell of Darkness), and "Il potere della luce" (The Power of Light). She expanded the Fairy Oak Universe with four more books, "The four mysteries": "Captain Grisam's love", "Shirley's wizarding days", "Flox smiles in autumn", and "Good-bye Fairy Oak". Disney on Parade Disney on Parade was a daytime parade of the Hong Kong Disneyland theme park in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. It was debuted on rehearsal days throughout June 2005, before the grand opening of Hong Kong Disneyland on September 12, 2005. The parade takes a few floats and themes from Tokyo Disneyland's former daytime parade named "Disney on Parade: 100 Years of Magic". It ran until early 2003, when it was replaced by "Disney's Dreams on Parade". Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is an American computer-animated interactive children's television series which aired from May 5, 2006, to November 6, 2016. The series, Disney Television Animation's first computer animated series, is aimed at preschoolers. Bobs Gannaway, the Disney veteran who created it, is also responsible for other preschool shows, such as "Jake and the Never Land Pirates" and for DisneyToon Studios films including "Secret of the Wings," "The Pirate Fairy", and "". The final episode aired on November 6, 2016.