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

Lentesta. And this is our show for the week of Shmer's Day, November 18th, 2024 on the show today.

News, a new Disney survey on Jollywood Nights, plus listener

questions. Then in our main segment, Jim gives us the history of Disney attraction overlays.

Let's get started by bringing in the man kicked out of his high school theater group

for observing that Beauty and the Beast is hunchback of Notre Dame for furries, while Phantom

of the Opera is hunchback of Notre Dame for furries, while Phantom of the Opera is hunchback

of Notre Dame for emo's. It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim, has it going? It's going well, Len. And again,

knowing where you and Laurel make your home these days, I have to ask, did you ever get to see

Love Never Dies, the not the sequel to Phantom of the Opera, the Andrew Lloyd-Weber wrote?

No, I'm really into interactive stuff, not stage presentation these days. Have you seen it?

Well, I, you know, no, because let's see, they did it on the West End in 2010, and

evidently, and what's interesting is that Mr. Weber's partner, the one who handled the lyrics this time, was Glenn Slater, who did the lyrics for Hercules for Disney and Home on the Range and also worked on the stage version of The Little Mermaid.

And it was an interesting animal of a show, Len.

I mean, the gimmick was that it was set 10 years after Phantom, the long-running show.

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