I have no clue how to post pictures on here but do have some from early December last year. I will try to join in.
Candlelight had best not be cancelled! I do still think perhaps with the 60th surge and also all that entailed to get going, perhaps regular events had taken a bit of a back seat and are just slower to get started. I also wonder if Disneyland is trying to line up more than one narrator for the CP this year and perhaps that is part of the delay as well.
Meantime, I sure would love some cooler December-like weather right about now! Time to turn my a/c back on!
Candlelight is not regular event, though, in that it's not something that is publicized and promoted as part of the Holiday Season. It's all handled behind the scenes and kept very hush hush. Because of the deadlines and all that goes into it (that I mentioned above), the choir directors and participants have to begin submitting applications and auditions by the end of this month or the beginning of September. They can't wait if the Ceremony is going to take place on the first weekend of December -- 60th anniversary or no 60th anniversary.
Disney already held auditions for A Christmas Fantasy Parade. They should absolutely have the Candlelight info sent out to choir directors by now. I know that a lot of times the choir directors get emails or letters from Disney, so perhaps they have been contacted that way. It could just be that Disney set up a private website -- accessible only to the Candlelight participants -- so that the general public (people like me!
) can't view the details, especially if there is something different happening this year (such as a different date, or a new rehearsal location).
The narrator choice wouldn't have anything to so with the process of selecting choirs and soloists, and sending in applications and auditions and all of that. That has to be started early.
Okay, for Jamie and Tracy I will post the Hallmark Countdown to Christmas stuff, so everyone else forgive me for the temporary diversion from Disney-related info...
Oh please share the Hallmark stuff on here! I'm so excited to have it this year (but of course I read that UVerse came to an agreement, so would have had it either way). I LOVE Mariah's Christmas album from long ago and listen to it every year when we decorate our tree, so even though I'm not overall a huge fan on hers, I'm excited about what this project might entail.
On the regular Hallmark Channel, some of the new Countdown to Christmas movies (and there are supposed to be 16 of them) will be:
"Family for Christmas" (with Lacey Chabert, which already debuted in July during the Christmas in July event)
"Just in Time for Christmas" (a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation starring Eloise Mumford, who was in "Christmas With Holly")
"Northpole 2: Open for Christmas" (starring Hallmark favorites Lori Loughlin and Bailee Madison, and Hallmark newcomer Dermot Mulroney, of "My Best Friend's Wedding" fame)
"An Ice Sculpture Christmas" (about an ice sculpting competition, starring Hallmark fave Rachel Boston of "A Ring by Spring")
"'Tis the Season for Love" (starring Sarah Lancaster, another Hallmark favorite, from "Fir Crazy")
"On Time for Christmas" (formerly titled "A Christmas to Remember," starring Hallmark mega-favorite Candace Cameron Bure)
"Charming Christmas" (starring Julie Benz, of "Dexter" fame, as well as the Hallmark movie "Uncorked," and David Sutcliffe, from the Hallmark movies "The Wish List" and "Before You Say I Do," as well as the film, "Under the Tuscan Sun")
"Crown for Christmas" (starring new Hallmark fave, Danica McKellar)
Also possibly slated for the Hallmark Channel (subject to change), but very little is known:
"The Secret Life of Mrs. Claus" (no one knows who is starring in this one)
"Christmas Neverending" (the title of this one may change)
"Better than Perfect" (title may change)
"The Ultimate Legacy" (this movie completes the trilogy that includes "The Ultimate Gift," with Abigail Breslin, and "The Ultimate Life")
"Mariah Carey's Christmas Project" -- No one knows what this is about.
And there are other movies yet to be announced, including whatever is going to premiere during Thanksgiving week (there will be 5 brand new movies premiering during the week of Thanksgiving).
Now... over on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel. we have:
"Debbie Macomber's Dashing Through the Snow" (which, hopefully, will be better than last year's "Mr. Miracle")
Karen Kingsbury's "The Bridge" (no one knows anything about this one)
"The Christmas Note" (no one knows about this either)
"The Magic Stocking" (nope -- no info on this one either)
"Murder, She Baked: A Plum Pudding Mystery" (with Cameron Mathison of "The Christmas Ornament" and "All My Children," and Alison Sweeney)
I also noticed that Hallmark is putting out TWO Halloween or Fall-themed movies scheduled for October this year:
"Harvest Moon" (starring Jessy Schram -- who is she? Also starring Jesse Hutch, from "Let it Snow" and "Cedar Cove"!!!)
"Temporarily Yours" (starring Ashley Williams, who was in a really cute Lifetime Christmas movie in 2013, called "Christmas in the City")
That's all I know for now! Oh, and there will be a new non-holiday movie starring Kellie Martin -- star of "The Christmas Ornament" -- debuting on the Movies & Mysteries channel next month, called "Hello, It's Me."