Welcome to Fine Tune with Drew Taylor, one stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.

Drew and I are recording this week's show on Sunday November 13th, 2022, and

regular listeners to this podcast already know that Mr. Taylor often gets to do some very cool things.

Drew, can you tell the nice folks where you were last night?

Yes, I was at Encanto live at the Hollywood Bowl, and I have to say that I was given these tickets by our friends at Walt Disney

Animation Studios, and they were much better seats Jim than I would have been able to afford, so I cannot thank them enough for the opportunity.

It was really lovely, and this is going to debut on Disney Plus next month, so I was not the only one, and the people on Friday night were not the only ones.

We you everyone will see this show very soon, so okay, so for a lot of us,

all we've seen so far is the YouTube videos of the Dancing Donkeys featured in Surface Pressure.

Yes, and there's one other clip of we don't talk about Bruno, but it's literally the dancers in the middle of the concert venue.

Yeah, could you believe that?

Yeah, what's very cool too is if you look, if you're looking at the stage, the left side of the stage,

from backstage, they had a literal seven foot frame glowing eyed Bruno that came out into the audience too.

That was just one of the coolest, it was just a giant puppet, it was so neat, and you know, I really give them a lot of credit because they really transformed the bowl.

I mean, you know, you're looking at the stage, but it is the Cassita, and as the movie is playing, obviously the live orchestra is going,

but there are effects and things that are projection mapped onto that space, like when she has the vision of the of the crack,

and you see the crack kind of, you know, spreading out into the Cassita, because that's where you are.

You're living in the Cassita, they had, you know, band members on the bottom and top floors of the house.

I mean, it was amazing, Jim, I have never seen anything like it.

It's the best thing I've ever seen at the bowl, and the best one of these, like, live to film presentations, I think I've ever seen.

We saw earlier this year, Disney kind of did the same thing with Harmonias.

They did a film version of that Epcot show that arguably will be the best version that's ever presented of Harmonias,

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