EPCOT Festival of the Arts 2025 Brings Disney Broadway Exhibit to CommuniCore Hall

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

Posted: Wednesday December 18, 2024 1:35pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

EPCOT's Festival of the Arts is returning in 2025, from January 17 to February 24, 2025, with new additions centered at CommuniCore Hall and Plaza.

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

Once Upon a Stage: 30 Years of Disney on Broadway

CommuniCore Hall hosts Once Upon a Stage: 30 Years of Disney on Broadway, a new exhibit celebrating three decades of Disney's impact on the Broadway stage. Visitors can explore costumes and props from productions like The Lion King and Aladdin. The exhibit also offers a behind-the-scenes look at how Disney's animated classics were transformed into theatrical productions.

Opening Bites Food Studio

In CommuniCore Plaza, the new Opening Bites Food Studio features a menu inspired by iconic foods and drinks from Broadway's most famous shows. While full menu details will be revealed closer to the festival, Disney has teased that these offerings are designed to combine creativity and culinary artistry.

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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.