Magical: Disney's New Nighttime Spectacular of Magical Celebrations

Magical: Disney's New Nighttime Spectacular of Magical Celebrations
Disneyland
Status	Closed
Opening date	June 12, 2009
Closing date	October 2, 2014
Replaced by	Disneyland Forever
General statistics
Attraction type	Fireworks spectacular
Designer	Walt Disney Creative Entertainment. Creative Director: Steve Davison
Sponsor	Honda
Wheelchair accessible

Magical: Disney's New Nighttime Spectacular of Magical Celebrations was a fireworks show at Disneyland. The show features recorded music and dialogue, fireworks, lower level pyrotechnics, 10k spotlights, and gobo projections via Vari-Lite 3000 Spot fixtures housed in enclosures on Sleeping Beauty Castle and the Matterhorn. The show's main musical theme is an adapted rendition of the main theme from Tokyo Disneyland's It's Magical 10th Anniversary Castle Show. Magical was intended as a replacement for Remember... Dreams Come True and as a nighttime entertainment offering for Disneyland's Summer Nightastic promotion.

The show was produced by Walt Disney Creative Entertainment.

The show ran in the summers of 2009-2014, alternating with Halloween Screams in the fall, Believe... In Holiday Magic in the winter, and Remember... Dreams Come True in the spring.

The show begins with a fanfare of the Magical theme while new lighting effects on the castle shimmer and twinkle, and behind the castle 10k spotlights shine up into the night sky.

A comet is launched across the sky and Tinker Bell sweeps past the castle as the chorus sings the show's main theme. The show transitions into a Neverland theme. Eden Espinosa sings a rendition of "The Second Star to the Right," from the Disney film Peter Pan.

As the song "When You Wish Upon a Star" (from Disney's 1940 film Pinocchio) is played, Geppetto is heard making a wish on a star for Pinocchio to become a real boy. The Blue Fairy is heard saying, "Little puppet made of pine, wake. The gift of life is thine." We now hear the song "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee" with an array of multicolored comets shooting up from behind the castle. Excerpts from the songs "Give a Little Whistle" and "I've Got No Strings" are played.