Walt Disney News

Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson are featured in a new clip from Saving Mr Banks, hitting theaters on December 20th. In the clip, Walt Disney (Hanks) takes Pamela 'PL' Travers (Thompson) for a carousel ride at Disneyland!

Conductor James Conlon, Music Director of LA Opera, will lead a series of Britten performances across the Southland as part of the Britten 100/LA celebration, in commemoration of the 2013 Benjamin Britten centenary.

Events coming up in the next few weeks for the LA Opera include special celebrations tonight, November 22, Britten's 100th birthday.

El Capitan Theatre moviegoers will kick off holiday celebrations early with an exclusive advance engagement of Walt Disney Animation Studios' 'Frozen,' beginning five days before the film's nationwide release. El Capitan isfrozen over this holiday season, welcoming guests into a snow-covered wonderland-complete with ice-capped opera boxes and a flurry of snowflakes. 'Frozen' showings, which will run today, Nov. 22, 2013, to Jan. 5, 2014, will be preceded by ice carving performance artists on stage, as well as 'Frozen' characters Anna and Elsa in their first live-on-stage appearances.

CHICAGO, Nov.21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ Enjoy a night in the city with the whole family at the 2013 BMO Harris Bank Magnificent Mile Lights Festival then retire to comfortable accommodations at the luxurious Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel.

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway. Holiday perennials 'The Christmas Schooner,' 'Winter Pageant,' 'Christmas In Chicago' and more, plus 'The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,' 'Carrie' casting, Griffin's 'Bee,' two from Disney and NBC's 'The Sound Of Music!'

Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck makes his Walt Disney Concert Hall debut leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic and violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann in an all-Dvorak program, tonight, November 21, at 8 pm, Friday, November 22, at 11 am, and Saturday, November 23, at 2 pm.

The Paley Center for Media unveiled today the agenda for its International Council Summit (IC2013) scheduled for today and tomorrow, November 21-22 in New York and additional speakers Nate Silver and Tim Armstrong, who will join the lineup of previously announced participants including Google Chairman Eric Schmidt.

Christian Zacharias, whose relationship with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a both a conductor and soloist dates back to 1993, returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall to lead the orchestra in three performances, Friday and Saturday, November 29 and 30, at 8 pm, and Sunday, December 1, at 2 pm.

P.L. Travers' spellbinding stories of the magical nanny Mary Poppins are ageless and timeless, embraced by each successive generation. Now, in December 2013, Disney will release a new major motion picture, Saving Mr. Banks, which stars Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and Emma Thompson as the willful and unforgettable Travers.

Walt Disney Pictures has released an all-new trailer for MUPPETS MOST WANTED, hitting theaters on 21, 2014. The follow-up to 2011's smash hit, The Muppets stars Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Animal, Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell and Tina Fey. Get a first look below!

Looking for a way to get into the holiday spirit? Check out this list of options to help you have a festive month and bookmark this page for handy reference! (To be updated with new shows as announced).

Sony Music has announced the release of renowned composer John Williams' original motion picture soundtrack of The Book Thief, a moving film by Brian Percival based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Markus Zusak.

Abingdon Theatre Company presents a staged reading of a dynamic and evocative new adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic GREAT EXPECTATIONS, adapted for the stage and directed by Donald Brenner, on Monday, December 9 at 7pm at the June Havoc Theatre (312 West 36th Street) in Manhattan.

Angelenos are invited to belt out the "Hallelujah" chorus - and all of the other glorious choruses from Handel's beloved Messiah - at the Los Angeles Master Chorale's 33rd Annual Messiah Sing-Along on Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 7:30 pm, at the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles. Music Director Grant Gershon conducts the 2,200-member audience, which serves as the choir, a professional chamber orchestra and four professional soloists from the Chorale: Zanaida Robles, soprano, Nike St. Clair, mezzo soprano, Arnold Livingston Geis, tenor, and Chung Uk Lee, bass. Sopranos, altos, tenors and basses of all skill levels - even those with absolutely no singing experience - are welcome. Messiah scores are available for $10 at the door.

On Saturday, November 23, Theme Park Connection (www.themeparkconnection.com) will be re-opening in a 15,000 sq. ft. sized facility in Orlando, Florida that will amaze anyone and soon should become one of the top ten places you have to visit while in Florida. With a big move that took over 20 semi-trucks to relocate, Theme Park Connection felt the re-opening should come with some even bigger surprises for their guests and that includes all the planned events for the opening day festivities listed below. Among them include an actual chance to win a FREE 3 Day Disney Cruise Line vacation for two, a FREE Hunger Games prop costume worn by Marvel and many other amazing giveaway door prizes and discounts.

Headlining Arts Centre Melbourne's summer season is The Illusionists, a grand and spectacular celebration of the art of magic by the most innovative illusionists working today, which will be leaving State Theatre audiences speechless from 3 to 12 January 2014.

The New 42nd Street held its first annual gala last night, November 18 at The New Victory Theater, honoring visionary entertainment leader Michael D. Eisner with the New Victory Arts Award for bringing kids to the arts and the arts to kids. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you photos from inside the after party!

Disney's newest animated feature film FROZEN boasts not only one of the most Broadway-centric casts of any Disney film to date - encompassing Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad and Santino Fontana - but also a score by the man behind two of the biggest hits of the 21st century on Broadway, AVENUE Q and THE BOOK OF MORMON - the gifted composer/lyricist Bobby Lopez, who collaborates here with Kristen Anderson-Lopez, with a musical score provided by Chrisophe Beck. And, the talented troupe assembled extends beyond the songwriters to the directors, Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, as well!