Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, December 25, 2016
Article: Electrical Parade is coming home
Writer: Brady MacDonald
U-$0.10-B-0.003856699-BE-26
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1. The Main Street Electrical Parade is coming back to Disneyland.
2. The Main Street Electrical Parade will return to Disneyland on January 20, 2017.
3. The Main Street Electrical Parade was at Florida's Magic Kingdom theme park.
4. The Main Street Electrical Parade made its debut in 1972.
5. Ronald Miziker was the director of show development in 1971.
6. Robert Jani was the vice president of the park's entertainment division in 1971.
7. There were 3 reasons the Main Street Electrical Parade almost didn't debut back in 1972. First reason, a third of the floats weren't done. Second, sparks flew on a performer's costume. Third, one parade car crashed into a building.
8. True, the electrical parade was developed out of jealously from Disneyland executives towards the Florida park.
9. In 1971, Disneyland welcome its 100 millionth visitor.
10. Robert Jani and Ronald Miziker sketched the concept for the electrical parade.
11. The first challenge, getting the power to the lights, onboard sound systems and power drives for each parade unit. The second challenge, how to decorate and build the floats. The third challenge, getting all the lights along the parade route to simultaneously turn off: creating "sound zones" that synched the music with each passing float.
12. Baroque Hoedown is the name of the song the Main Street Electrical Parade plays.
13. Miziker hired 14 moving vans to get the floats from Chicago to Los Angeles.
14. 500,000 miniature bulbs needed to be tinted by hand when assembling the floats.
15. The first rehearsal was an "absolute disaster" because (1) Cinderella's canopy of lights collapsed, (2) two horseback riders dropped an illuminated banner, (3) a float crashed into a building.
16. The Main Street Electrical Parade took its first break on summer of 1975 & 1976.
17. The Main Street Electrical Parade took its second break in 1983 & 1984.
18. The Main Street Electrical Parade was retired in 1996.
19. The Main Street Electrical Parade returned to Disney California Adventure Park in 2001.
20. The Main Street Electrical Parade was shipped to the Magic Kingdom in 2011.
21. Ronald Miziker started his own theme park design and production firm in Burbank.
Reference:
http://www.latimes.com/la-bio-brady-macdonald-staff.html
https://disneyland.disney.go.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXBoaD519P8
http://www.miziker.com/team/
Date: Sunday, December 25, 2016
Article: Electrical Parade is coming home
Writer: Brady MacDonald
U-$0.10-B-0.003856699-BE-26
Go to Questions
Go to 2017 Directory of Authors & Books
Answer Key
1. The Main Street Electrical Parade is coming back to Disneyland.
2. The Main Street Electrical Parade will return to Disneyland on January 20, 2017.
3. The Main Street Electrical Parade was at Florida's Magic Kingdom theme park.
4. The Main Street Electrical Parade made its debut in 1972.
5. Ronald Miziker was the director of show development in 1971.
6. Robert Jani was the vice president of the park's entertainment division in 1971.
7. There were 3 reasons the Main Street Electrical Parade almost didn't debut back in 1972. First reason, a third of the floats weren't done. Second, sparks flew on a performer's costume. Third, one parade car crashed into a building.
8. True, the electrical parade was developed out of jealously from Disneyland executives towards the Florida park.
9. In 1971, Disneyland welcome its 100 millionth visitor.
10. Robert Jani and Ronald Miziker sketched the concept for the electrical parade.
11. The first challenge, getting the power to the lights, onboard sound systems and power drives for each parade unit. The second challenge, how to decorate and build the floats. The third challenge, getting all the lights along the parade route to simultaneously turn off: creating "sound zones" that synched the music with each passing float.
12. Baroque Hoedown is the name of the song the Main Street Electrical Parade plays.
13. Miziker hired 14 moving vans to get the floats from Chicago to Los Angeles.
14. 500,000 miniature bulbs needed to be tinted by hand when assembling the floats.
15. The first rehearsal was an "absolute disaster" because (1) Cinderella's canopy of lights collapsed, (2) two horseback riders dropped an illuminated banner, (3) a float crashed into a building.
16. The Main Street Electrical Parade took its first break on summer of 1975 & 1976.
17. The Main Street Electrical Parade took its second break in 1983 & 1984.
18. The Main Street Electrical Parade was retired in 1996.
19. The Main Street Electrical Parade returned to Disney California Adventure Park in 2001.
20. The Main Street Electrical Parade was shipped to the Magic Kingdom in 2011.
21. Ronald Miziker started his own theme park design and production firm in Burbank.
Reference:
http://www.latimes.com/la-bio-brady-macdonald-staff.html
https://disneyland.disney.go.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXBoaD519P8
http://www.miziker.com/team/
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