Welcome back to another edition of the Disney dish podcast with Jim Hill. It's me,

Lantesta, and today is October 1st. You know what that means? It means that it's

pumpkin season, like duck season and wabbits season. Also means that we need to bring in

one Mr. Jim Hill to greet our fall festivities.

Jim, how's it going?

Give me a minute here zipping up the pumpkin outfit.

So that's what that is.

Oh, that's what that is.

Well, I have a side job as a crash car dummy and this helps lend.

It's hard to find a front seat I fit in.

Anyway, a couple of things we want to talk about.

We're going to continue our conversation here about Mickey's Tuntown in Disneyland.

But before we do that, Disney's just announced that the Epcot International Festival of the Arts

is coming back to Epcot in 2018, almost exactly the same date as last time, January 12 to February 19th in 2018,

but this time it's going to be seven days a week instead of just on weekends. What's your thought around this?

This has turned out to be a pretty nice promotion for what Disney is doing on Broadway.

And I heard an interesting rumor that frozen right now is actually out in Denver at the Buell Theater and it's in the

middle of its sort of pre-Broadway tryout and it evidently is doing very well but the thing is they're going to take a couple of months off to sort of retool and move the show into the St James Theater.

And my understanding is that the folks who go to the festival of the arts may actually get to see a couple of members of the cast of the show.

They may come down there as part of the pre-Broadway, kick off of the show and put it in an appearance there.

So it'll be interesting when they announce the talent that's coming to see who's singing in the American

Gardens Theater because you might get to see a little bit of

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