Disney Dish: Epcot’s “American Adventure ‘78” now available to ALL Disney Dish listeners

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

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4.8 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

As of today, this formerly-Bandcamp-Exclusive show can now be heard by everyone. Check out what the Imagineers were originally thinking of as they tried to create an Audio Animatronic extravaganza that could then be presented inside of Epcot’s United States pavilion. Cast Listing: Narrator … Barry Silverman Ben Franklin … David Chatel Young Ben Franklin … Peyton Clarkson Mary Twain … Jerry Powell Pilgrim Father / Town Crier … Dennis Gould Susan B. Anthony … Wilma Haupt Will Rogers … Aaron Adams Tech Credits: Audio Engineer … Denny Gould Executive Producer … Aaron Adams Producer … Len Testa Special thanks to Jessica Nolan of ASCAP for setting up all of the musical licenses for this presentation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Disney dish podcast with Jimmy.
0:03.2	It's me, Lantesta, and today we have a very special bonus episode of the Disney dish.
0:07.9	This one is part of our unbuilt eepcot ideas series over at Disney dish
0:12.2	that Bandcamp.com, the notes of
0:15.0	Hollywood producer Joseph Mancoitz. Now Len and I typically don't do this. We
0:20.2	don't cross the streams. We put our Disney dish podcast up online for the
0:24.5	German public to enjoy and as for our Bandcamp exclusive shows well those are
0:28.7	typically reserved for subscribers folks are willing to pay a little extra for some extra special content but as for this American
0:35.1	adventure show which by the way keys off of a script for that Epcot show that was written back in
0:40.8	May of 1978 this is an early revised draft of that script, one
0:45.8	that very few people outside of Walt Disney Imagineering have had a chance to read, let alone
0:50.1	here perform. But this Bandcamp exclusive show is now one that we're making available
0:56.0	to the general public largely because of what Len and our editor, the Amazing Aaron Adams,
1:01.8	did to make the show happen.
1:03.8	Can you talk a little bit about that, Len?
1:05.7	This is the earliest known version
1:08.6	of the American Adventure script that's available to the public.
1:12.1	It's dated May 31st, 1978, which is four years and four months
1:16.7	before Epcot opened. And we know there's at least one earlier version of the script because
1:22.0	this one says revised dialogue at the top.
1:25.0	So there may be just one more version and we think there's a really good chance that whatever
1:29.7	it is though it's close to this one.
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