Disney: The Music Behind the Magic
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A new touring exhibit devoted to exploring and examining the role music has played in the success of the Walt Disney Company is making its only stop in California through May 10. Now showing at the Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology in Hemet, the exhibit was organized by the Experience Music Project of Seattle. The Walt Disney Company has provided unprecedented access into their archives and talent pool to create this celebration, which coincides with the 50th anniversary of the founding of Walt Disney Records.
Exhibits include early studio sound effects devices and costume worn in
Broadway�s Beauty and the Beast.
While the scale of this touring exhibit is small, there is much content to entice the Disney fan. Artifacts have been drawn from Disney animation, live action films, television, theme parks, records, and Broadway musicals. In addition, videos and listening stations include a wide range of Disney personalities and recording stars, dating from the Studios� earliest days to such current phenomenon as High School Musical and Hannah Montana.
Among the artifacts on display are:
- n Score sheets from Steamboat Willie and The Three Little pigs, with penciled notations by composer Carl Stalling;
- n Original sound effects devices created by Disney Legend Jimmy MacDonald;
- n A copy of the first �soundtrack album� ever released, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs;
- n 16 original storyboard sketches of Pinocchio;
- n Six sheets of original story sketches for the 1929 Mickey Mouse cartoon The Karnival Kid;
- n Davy Crockett and Annette Funicello memorabilia;
- n A pair of original mouse ears from the 1955 Mickey Mouse Club;
- n A costume jacket worn by Lisa Welchel in the 1977 Mickey Mouse Club;
- n The Sherman brothers original song sheet for Sticks, Paper and Strings, which became Let�s Go Fly a Kite for the finale of Mary Poppins;
- n Jackets worn by Dick Van Dyke and Matthew Garber in Mary Poppins;
- n The original Barker Bird from the exterior of Disneyland�s Enchanted Tiki Room;
- n Original costumes from the Broadway productions of Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King;
- n The card announcing Alan Mencken�s 1989 Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Little Mermaid;
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