CommuniCore Hall Closes to Prepare for Disney Broadway Exhibit at EPCOT

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CommuniCore Hall Once Upon a Stage: 30 Years of Disney on Broadway

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Posted: Friday January 10, 2025 9:12am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

CommuniCore Hall at EPCOT has closed as preparations begin for the upcoming Disney Broadway exhibit set to debut during the 2025 Festival of the Arts.

CommuniCore Hall Once Upon a Stage: 30 Years of Disney on Broadway

Crews have started work inside the space, with both entrances now covered by large promotional wraps highlighting Once Upon a Stage: 30 Years of Disney on Broadway.

The exhibit promises to showcase iconic items from Disney stage productions, including The Lion King and Aladdin, giving guests a closer look at how these stories were adapted for Broadway. The 2025 Festival of the Arts will be the first time that Communicore Hall has been used as an exhibit space, with its use so far being limited to merchandise sales and food and beverage.

Once Upon A Stage: 30 Years of Disney on Broadway Exhibit Concept Art

EPCOT's Festival of the Arts will take place this year from January 17 to February 24, 2025.

CommuniCore Hall Once Upon a Stage: 30 Years of Disney on Broadway

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monothingie1 day ago

The 2017 F&W Festival Center at the WoL Pavilion had interactive demos, exhibitors, classes, food, and entertainment. It took a dilapidated abandoned building and made it interesting. Why does everything new have to be done to the minimum ?

Fido Chuckwagon1 day ago

This appears to be a response to “The Wicked Experience” at Universal, which by all reports has been a huge success and is moving a ton of merchandise.

mattpeto1 day ago

Did you want an omnimover moving around guests inside the space? It's a hall man.

wdwmagic1 day ago

Street Painter Nate Baranowski

monothingie1 day ago

I was just thinking that. I remember at F&W the WOL Pavilion had a lot to offer guests.

Disstevefan11 day ago

Remember when the festival center was in the WoL pavilion? This is nothing compared to that. To be fair, my standard operating procedure when visiting WDW is to set expectations as low as possible. ;)

monothingie1 day ago

Set expectations so low, that when Disney does the absolute bare minimum, the cupcake brigade's heads explode. It's a small area with a couple of exhibits and props. This isn't anything more than that. The one thing they did wisely was to darken down and drape over the surroundings to hide the cafeteria feel of the space.

mattpeto1 day ago

This is a proper way to outfit Communicore Hall. FotH was a small step forward, this is where it needs to be.

Brian1 day ago

monothingie1 day ago

All they had to do was tear down a couple of buildings, let it sit empty for a couple of years and then cobble together another generic building, to get...exactly they had before.

TheCoasterNerd1 day ago

YESSS their biggest mistake has been temporarily fixed! Big win for Epcot fans

JohnD1 day ago

I was about to say the same thing. Now the real test is their being able to keep it that way with different themes or will it eventually revert back to an open warehouse.

Epcot82Guy1 day ago

This is definitely a step in the right direction. I will agree that this display within CommuniCore Hall is engaging. I can't say that the overall Hall lives up to that by a long shot. At least the pig chose high quality lip stick in a quite attractive shade this go round.