A cappella-loving Disney fans, meet your dream mash-up. Created by Disney and contemporary a cappella legend Deke Sharon (“Pitch Perfect,” “The Sing Off”), DCappella is a powerhouse group of seven incredible vocalists, assembled through a nationwide search. You won’t believe your ears when you hear their show-stopping a cappella renditions of classic Disney hits. The seven […]
A cappella-loving Disney fans, meet your dream mash-up. Created by Disney and contemporary a cappella legend Deke Sharon (“Pitch Perfect,” “The Sing Off”), DCappella is a powerhouse group of seven incredible vocalists, assembled through a nationwide search. You won’t believe your ears when you hear their show-stopping a cappella renditions of classic Disney hits. The seven […]
Hollywood’s biggest night is almost here, the 91st Academy Awards. Ever since the great #OscarsSoWhite controversy of 2015 … and 2016, when, for the second consecutive year, all 20 lead and supporting actor nominees were white, with each’s year’s nominees now come important conversations about representation and inclusion in Hollywood. The concerns are legitimate: A study by […]
Calling all moms and dads of little “Puppy Dog Pals” fanatics! If Disney Junior’s answer to “Paw Patrol” is on heavy rotation in your household (and that earworm of a theme song is on repeat in your head), you’re going to want to set your DVR for next Saturday morning, Jan. 25, at 9:30am on […]
Think of the greatest Disney films and songs in recent memory and chances are you’ll find yourself humming an Alan Menken melody for the rest of the day. From “Under the Sea” to “Be Our Guest” to “A Whole New World,” to name a few, the eight-time Oscar-winning composer and pianist (who also happens to […]
If you’ve ever considered booking a Disney Cruise but said “no way” after seeing those prices, the sticker shock is real. Our diehard Disney family (seriously—we do a park trip to Walt Disney World or Disneyland four times a year) had always dreamed of taking our Disney love to the high seas, but any time […]
October 11 is International Day of the Girl and ahead of this important youth-led day of awareness and activism, Disney has launched a new video series as part of their #DreamBigPrincess campaign, which encourages kids everywhere to dream big by highlighting the ambitious, independent, empowering qualities not only of Disney princesses but of inspiring real women […]
Lyric Opera of Chicago is presenting the story of Cinderella as we’ve never seen it before. Gioachino Rossini’s marvelous retelling of this story (“La Cenerentola”) at the Civic Opera House makes us forget the Disney version. There is no fairy godmother. Instead, a towering philosopher sees to it that virtue is rewarded. No cute little […]
With four theme parks, six golf courses and more than 58,000 employees, the Walt Disney World Resort sits on a 47-square-mile plot of land. Disney World is known as the “happiest place on earth,” but it can also be confusing and a bit overwhelming. To the rescue are two experts who have made traveling to […]
We all want our daughters to feel like princesses, but do we really want them constantly asking themselves, “Who is the fairest of them all?” From a very young age, girls learn to define themselves from the outside in, and a large body of research suggests that our culture’s emphasis on physical beauty is […]
