Walt Disney's World On Ice Happy Birthday Donald

Walt Disney's World On Ice Happy Birthday Donald was a Disney On Ice show that premiered in 1984 and ended in 1991. The show celebrated Donald Duck's 50th Birthday.

## Show Snypopsis

### Act 1

The show starts out with a couple of famous Disney characters along with Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, and Pluto stepping off the silver screen for a special occasion, Mickey and Minnie are throwing a special surprise party celebrating Donald Duck's 50th year in show business. The party preparations are underway, with a couple of things that need to be done: send out an invitation to the villains, in which Mickey and Minnie call on Doc, Grumpy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, Happy and Dopey to deliever it. Grumpy then asks a guy on a bench where the villains live, pointing to a sign that reads "Villains Villa 5 Miles". The dwarves head off to deliver the invitation leading into a comedy act between a guy on the bench and an observer.

At the Villains Villa, Stromboli, The Old Witch, The Big Bad Wolf, Maleficent, and Cruella De Ville question on what dastardly deeds they should do, in which the Big Bad Wolf suggests that they should hunt down the Three Little Pigs. Maleficent then suggests to see if they can conjure up some mischief in the magic cauldron. The villains then hear the "Heigh Ho" of the Seven Dwarves, giving them the idea to give them a fright as they enter. After they enter, they notice something is a bit different, they have an invitation to the party for the villains. The villains accept it because they've never invited been to a party and was the nicest thing that's ever happened.

The next thing on the list for the party, is for a cake to be made. Mickey and Minnie call on the Absent Minded Professor and his chefs Pierre and P.U. During the baking session, anything can go wrong does go wrong.

The celebration is underway and in full force. Mickey gets each side of the audience to yell surprise as loud as they can seeing which side can be the loudest. The gang then hears a familiar quack, Mickey gets the audience to work together to yell surprise as Donald walks in. Donald notices all the presents he got, and his first present is a special of magic apple that makes his presents come to life from the Old Witch. He eats the apple and a magical skating star comes to life and starts to spin and glide real smooth to all that jazz. The next set of presents is a toy train, a boat, a plane, and a firetruck (that some lucky audience members get to ride). The next present is a set of tin soldiers and ballerina dolls. After all of the presents are opened, a giant birthday cake comes out as the cast sings Happy Birthday to Donald. Donald to blow out the candles to no avail, The Big Bad Wolf tries to blow them out as well but ends up blowing up a storm with the candles still lit. Mickey then gets the audience to help blow out the birthday candles. The party slowly comes to a close as the entire cast heads backstage after one more birthday song. Before Mickey heads backstage, Donald notices another present that has a tag that says "Not to be opened unless in the presence of the Blue Fairy". Mickey reassures Donald that the Blue fairy will come after a short intermission.

### Act 2

As the second act starts, Donald comes out to try and open his present with a hammer, a chainsaw, and some dynamite. The Blue Fairy then arrives noticing Donald trying to open his present, doing so with a little bit of magic and gentleness. The Blue Fairy reveals the present to be a memory book. Donald recollects on how he got into the movies, and how he signed a contract by a famous movie producer and his assistant after noticing one of Donald's trademark tantrums. Donald then gets a new set of clothes, a little bit of makeup done, and a couple of press photos done.

On the movie set, a set of film dancers come out in the middle of a big production number featuring Donald Duck, and on that same set he meets a beautiful duck named Daisy.

The Blue Fairy then tells Donald about the time he won his first award.

The 1943 Academy award presentation was hosted by Goofy, and gets on with the presentation. The awards include Outstanding Picture of 1943 with the nominees being: "Gone with the Ice" "The Ice Man Cometh" and "I Only Have Ice For You", with "Walt Disney's World On Ice" being the winner (this segment was removed in later version of shows). The next award is for best romantic couple. The moment has come.....the academy's duck of the year: with the nominees being "Humphrey Boduck" "Sir Lawrence Ollieduck" "Ducklas Fredrickson Jr." and "Donald Duck". Donald won the award and a salute to Hollywood starts. As everyone leaves, Donald feels sad that no one likes him because he talks funny, but the Blue Fairy reassures him that he has the gift of making people smile in his own special way.

The next memory Donald recollects, was the jump from the silver screen to television in a special segment with some Mousketeers in the Mickey Mouse Club. The Mousketeers lead everyone in a sound-off with Mickey against Donald taking each side of the audience. The Mousketeers decide that both sides were equally as good, introducing the special guest: Knight Rider Nick who leaps on the over tires, burning barricades, and moving motorcycles across the Devils teeth.

The show ends with a wonderful salute to Walt Disney's World of Color, with Mickey Mouse reminding us of why we're all here today: to celebrate Donald Duck's 50th Year in Show Business. Mickey then advises the audiences to come back next year for a special edition of Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom On Ice.

## Stories Represented

### Hosts:

* Mickey Mouse
* Donald Duck
* The Blue Fairy
* Goofy
* Minnie Mouse
* Daisy Duck
* Pluto

### Stories Represented

* Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
* Pinocchio
* Dumbo (1986-1990)
* 101 Dalmatians
* Sleeping Beauty
* The Three Little Pigs
* The Mickey Mouse Club
* World of Color
* The Adventures of the Gummi Bears (1985-1986)
* The Wuzzles (1985-1986)
* Mary Poppins

## Trivia

* At one point during the show, the show's program had a special section mentioning The Gummi Bears and The Wuzzles making their way off the screen, and onto the ice. Very little footage of this segment exists and is unknown if it actually happened. The program page also appeared in the program for Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom On Ice Sport Goofy
* Dumbo was added in later runs of the show replacing show host Rosalyn Summers.

## Gallery

Cast PhotoDonald and his friendsWorld of Color FinaleDonald and DaisyThe Villains Villa