Ballet at dtd??

[Briarmom]

We are here now and no one seems to know about this but I swear the Anaheim ballet was going to perform scenes from Nutcracker today??

Anyone have any info about times and location?

Thanks!

 

[john398]

Maybe it was last year

This site said December 19 2013

http://www.disneylandguru.com/downtown-disney/

 

[Sherry E]

I think I know what happened. Not too long after the holiday season start and end dates were first officially announced by the Parks Blog, I checked the Disneyland Resort website and noticed that they had filled in the holiday entertainment for Downtown Disney (not on the calendar, but just as a synopsis of what would be happening in DTD). Included in that synopsis were carolers and scenes from the Nutcracker.

I remember saying in the Christmas/Holiday Season Superthread -- which is maybe where you saw the Nutcracker reference?? -- that I thought it was very odd that the dates listed for the Nutcracker and for the carolers were the exact same dates as when those events happened last year, without even a shift to one day later on the calendar.

But, since the caroler and Nutcracker info was right there in the description of what was happening in DTD for the holidays (on the DLR website), I thought it must be correct and I added it to my Dates to Remember post on page 1 of my Superthread. I was always suspicious of those dates, though. I had a feeling that this was a case of Disneyland's computer system not having purged the old info from the system yet, and so the old dates were still showing up and someone hastily put them on the website.

I just noticed now that the Nutcracker info is not showing in the Downtown Disney section of the DLR website (at least not in the area where I looked), although there is a reference to carolers in the Winter Village section and in the Yuletide Entertainment section -- so the Nutcracker plans must have changed, or someone figured out that the dates were old/incorrect and took them down. I'll remove the info from my Dates to Remember post!

ETA: This is the post (from early October) in the previous Superthread in which I was commenting on the dates being exactly the same as they were in 2013, and being puzzled by it -- HERE.

 

[Briarmom]

Yes, I saw it on the super thread, Sherri.

It was one of the few things that we has as a MUST DO.

Oh well. It's not meant to be.

Thanks!

 

[Sherry E]

Yes, I saw it on the super thread, Sherri.

It was one of the few things that we has as a MUST DO.

Oh well. It's not meant to be.

Thanks!

I'm so sorry you didn't get to see it! I hate that Disney does that -- they would have been better off leaving the Downtown Disney section of the website blank (until they got this year's info) instead of putting up the old info because, inevitably, someone would see the old info and think it was accurate. Even though I didn't trust those dates, I still assumed that the DLR website wouldn't post completely false info, so I added it to my Superthread info posts. I'm not sure when they removed the Nutcracker references from the DLR site -- it seems like I saw it mentioned on the site too not long ago, but maybe they took it down before December?

To be honest, it's not the first time that Disney has posted or put something up on their website, or in any other official venue, that turned out to be incorrect. It's not that it happens all the time, but it does happen and it makes it hard to know what to trust and believe! There seems to be a pattern of outdated information hanging around in their computer systems, and if it lingers there a bit too long then Cast Members see it and give out incorrect info to people who call/email to ask. (One time someone from my Superthread got detailed info on the Holiday Time Tour from a CM on the phone at DLR -- and the info turned out to be from 2 year prior!!!!)

 

[Gisele]

To the best of my knowledge, there are not any AB performances scheduled for Downtown Disney this year. There is however this wonderful opportunity to attend one of their performances of the classic all time favorite The Nutcracker.


http://www.anaheimballet.org/