Disney On Ice Let's Party (Let's Celebrate)

Disney On Ice Let's Party (later known as Celebrations or Let's Celebrate is a show that debuted in 2009 and ran until 2016. The show's set elements and main code were reused for Follow Your Heart in 2016.

## Show Synopsis

#### Act 1

The show starts with Lumiere signaling in several Disney Characters as he introduces the show's theme of Celebrations to the tune of Be Our Guest. As the opening number finishes, the hosts of the show (Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, and Pluto) decide they should celebrate a birthday party first with Pinocchio barging in telling them that they're celebrating his birthday, as his nose starts to grow, he realizes the error of his ways and asks the blue fairy to forgive him, in which she does and reverts his nose to normal. As the Pinocchio characters leave, Mickey and the gang still can't decide whose birthday it is, prompting the Mad Hatter along with Alice, Tweedle Dee, and Tweedle Dum to enter and give Mickey the idea to have an unbirthday party. Alice suggests that everyone must have the proper hat for an unbirthday party, with everyone getting one...that is except for Mickey. Mickey then steals the Mad Hatter's hat leading into a wild chase that ends with the mad hatter getting his hat back. Then it's time for musical chairs, with everyone but Mickey getting to sit in a chair. When there is one chair left, the lights go to a dark blue and a slow motion sequence happens as Mickey triumphantly sits on the chair, but the moment of triumph ends abruptly as the White Rabbit enters with a cake for the unbirthday party enters, making a mess of things, leaving everyone to go and get ready for the next celebration except for Goofy and Mickey.

As the cast of the segment leaves, Goofy finds Mickey's sorcerer hat and robe as he helps Mickey put them on, he then remarks how that outfit is quite familiar. As Goofy leaves, Mickey then tries to cast a magic spell on the broom to clean up the room but gets frustrated as the spell doesn't work. As Mickey goes to check the book, a plethora of brooms march onto the rink, Mickey then finds out the spell has finally worked and tests his magic himself by controlling the brooms with his magic wand. As the number finishes, Mickey then tries to get the brooms to do more, but then they all skate frantically away.

On the top of the stage's second level, Daisy and Minnie wonder what holiday they should celebrate next. They then notice Mickey in his sorcerer's costume and decide that Halloween should be the next celebration they should celebrate. Decorations were already set up as Mickey tries to look for some. After that, Mickey calls on the pumpkin king to host the celebration. Jack Skellington then questions "What's This" as he sets the mood. Jack realizes that the celebration can't happen without guests....as several Disney Villains find their way to the celebration (Cruella, Captain Hook, Maleficent, Jafar, the old witch) Jack then notices that these villains celebrate their hands. Jack Skellington heads out to scare up some more spirited fun and just as he leaves, the doorbell rings again as the villains tire of the interruptions. The guest turns out to be Mickey Mouse, still in his sorcerer costume. The old witch tries to give Mickey one of her poison apples, Mickey tries to ask everyone if he's able to eat the apple which they refuse. As Mickey refuses, the villains try to tempt him more until they snap. Mickey luckily has the solution, his idea is to scare the villains with the help of the audience, but that was one of the main reasons they fled from the scene, as they scare both the villains as they'd seen a ghost or something and Mickey.

The ghosts turned out to be Daisy, Pluto, Donald, and Minnie, who feels sorry that they all had to scare Mickey like that. As Donald, Daisy, and Pluto exit, Minnie makes a wish on a star for her valentines wish to come true. A little bit of magic happens as the Fairy Godmother arrives on the scene and is here to make Minnie's wish come true. First, the Fairy Godmother makes Minnie into a Princess, secondly, she helps answer Minnie's question "How Do You Know" with the help of some famous Disney couples. Minnie learns that love is when a whole new world opens (Aladdin and Jasmine), love comes when we least expect it (Belle and her Prince), love comes when we search for it (Cinderella and Prince Charming), you have to learn who you are (Mulan and Li Shang), true love will come someday (Snow White and her Prince), love takes a little push from others (Ariel and Prince Eric), and that happy endings can happen if you believe (Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen). When all the other couples arrive, Minnie questions if she'll ever find her prince, which reminds the Fairy Godmother that Minnie still needs to meet her valentine, and with a wave of her wand, Mickey (now dressed as a prince) appears out of the fountain. The first act ends with the Princesses and Princes along with Minnie and Mickey to end the first act with How Do You Know?

#### Act 2

As the second act starts, Mickey and Minnie come back to reveal the next celebration they decided during the intermission which is a summer vacation. Mickey tries to take the audience and his friends to the beach with a Digital Global Destinator Device, which can take them anywhere in the world. Mickey tries to but is too unfamiliar with the technology, as Minnie succeeds in using the Digital Global Destinator Device. They end up on a beach in Hawaii as a Luau celebration gets started in full gear with a traditional fire dance. On the beach, Mickey and the gang encounter Nani, David, Lilo, and Stitch as the cast skates on Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride.

After the Luau, Mickey tells everyone now he wants some peace and tries to get the hang of the Digital Global Destinator Device, but ends up in the middle of a Brazilian Carnevale. He joined by Donald and Daisy and some carnival-goers perform a traditional Carnevale number. Mickey tries to find Minnie after the song ends with the Digital Global Destinator Device.

Minnie contemplates the peace as she then realizes that Mickey is gone thanks to the Digital Global Destinator Device, but then helps celebrate the coming of spring in Japan. During this sequence, traditional Japanese fans are used, and the opening song from Kingdom Hearts plays. Minnie thanks them for helping her celebrate the coming of spring but then realizes Mickey is missing. She goes out to find him. Mickey then realizes that something must be wrong with the Destinator, and helps celebrate a festival in China with Mulan and Li Shang. After this, Mickey asks Mulan if there is an answer on how to find Minnie, in which Mulan does have the answer on a Chinese scroll which says: "You will find what you seek in your homeland where the freshwaters meet the grand sea" which reveals that she's in New Orleans. Mickey then makes a trip to New Orleans where Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen celebrate Mardi Gras, where the two mice eventually reunite. Mickey and Minnie then decide on the last celebration which turns out to be a special celebration.

Daisy tells Donald to help move some really big presents, as Minnie and Pluto put out the cookies for Santa. Mickey tries to look for Goofy outside. Goofy then tries to get down through the chimney but ends up getting stuck, Mickey and the gang try to pull him out which works, and Goofy turns out to be dressed in a Santa suit, the gang then hears a mysterious noise. Mickey and his gang try to look for what that was, as Jessie sneaks up on them and wishes them a Happy Holiday and it turns out, Buzz, Woody, Hamm, Rex, a troll, and a green soldier turn out to reveal that "The Toys are Back in Town". As they wish each other happy holidays, Jessie puts a spin on the holiday greeting with a "yee-haw". Mickey then asks Tinkerbell to show off a little bit of her holiday magic, which brings out a majority of the cast to skate to a special finale celebrating the greatest time of year. Mickey, Minnie, and Goofy show up in a light-up sled as the show comes to a close.

## Stories Represented and Characters included

#### Hosts

* Mickey Mouse
* Minnie Mouse
* Donald Duck
* Daisy Duck
* Goofy
* Pluto

#### Stories Included

* Beauty and the Beast
* Pinocchio
* Alice in Wonderland
* Fantasia
* The Nightmare Before Christmas
* 101 Dalmatians
* Peter Pan
* Sleeping Beauty
* Aladdin
* Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
* Cinderella
* Lilo and Stitch
* Mulan
* Princess and the Frog
* Toy Story
* The Jungle Book

## Trivia

* The show marked the debut of Princess and the Frog and the only appearance of The Nightmare Before Christmas.
* This show was the last show to feature Pluto as a character in Disney On Ice until Magic in The Stars in 2023
	+ He did appear in a poster in France for 100 Years of Magic in 2019, which was immediately changed after.
* While the storyline retired in 2016, elements from the original production can be found in Follow Your Heart
	+ Mickey and Minnie's final costume appears at the end of Follow Your Heart during Let It Go
	+ The set elements were recycled and upgraded (closing curtains and new backdrops)
	+ The segment from Fantasia was recycled and shortened, it also featured new dialogue from Minnie and Goofy
	+ Mickey, Minnie, and Goofy open up Act 2 while wearing their summer vacation outfits from the Luau opening from that show in particular.
* The show marked the last appearance of the original Rex costume which has been used since 1996.
* The show marked the first time Woody, Jessie, and Buzz were portrayed as face characters as opposed to masked skaters. This is the first time since the original 100 Years of Magic where Woody is a face character and the first since Walt Disney's World On Ice Toy Story where Buzz is a masked character.

## Gallery

A Very Merry Unbirthday PartyHalloween with Jack SkellingtonFinale Cast PhotoLilo and StitchMickey and Minnie in the opening