by Beth Keating
News
DisneyBizJournal.com
December 9, 2022
The EPCOT International Festival of the Arts runs from January 13th to February 20th, 2023, and brings with it a dozen Broadway stars, performing the best of 25 years of Disney’s award-winning Broadway shows during the 2023 DISNEY ON BROADWAY Concert Series.
Taking the stage this year will be Kara Lindsay (Newsies); Kevin Massey (Tarzan); Arielle Jacobs (Aladdin); Adam Jacobs (Aladdin); Patti Murin (Frozen); Robert Creighton (Frozen); Mandy Gonzalez (AIDA); L. Steven Taylor (The Lion King); Kissy Simmons (The Lion King); Josh Strickland (Tarzan); Ashley Brown (Mary Poppins); and Michael James Scott (Aladdin).
The free Broadway concerts take place at EPCOT’s America Gardens Theatre three times each evening (5:30 p.m., 6:45 p.m., and 8 p.m.), and stand-by lines can get long before concerts featuring the most popular performers. Seating is on a first-in-line, first-seated basis as capacity allows, so stand-by guests will line up far in advance of concert time to see the shows. (Check here for the schedule of dates and performers.)
If you don’t want to wait in the stand-by line, however, you can guarantee yourself a seat by making reservations for a DISNEY ON BROADWAY Dining Package at a number of EPCOT restaurants. Dining packages go on sale December 13, and can be booked beginning 60 days in advance of your EPCOT visit. Dining packages include an appetizer, entree, and dessert, or one full buffet, as well as a non-alcoholic drink. They also include a seating badge that provides you with a guaranteed seat per person at a designated concert that same day. Packages are available for both lunch and dinner seatings.
This year’s participating restaurants include:
• Akershus Royal Banquet (Norway Pavilion)
$74.00 adults; $48.00 children
• Biergarten Restaurant (Germany Pavilion)
$60.00 adults; $34.00 children
• Coral Reef Restaurant (The Living Seas)
$69.00 adults; $27.00 children
• Garden Grill Restaurant (The Land Pavilion)
$66.00 adults; $43.00 children
• Le Cellier Steakhouse (Canada Pavilion)
$95.00 adults; $36.00 children
• Rose and Crown Dining Room (United Kingdom Pavilion)
$59.00 adults; $25.00 children
• Spice Road Table (Morocco Pavilion)
$47.00 adults; $20.00 children
A limited number of same day dining packages may also be available at Regal Eagle Smokehouse: Craft Drafts & Barbecue in the American Adventure pavilion ($35.00).
In addition to the spectacular music from the Broadway concerts, guests at the Festival of the Arts will be able to meet working artists and purchase their creations; participate in painting enormous murals on EPCOT’s walls; watch chalk artists fashion mesmerizing sidewalk art; step into life-size recreations of famous paintings; and nibble on artistic and tasty specialty dishes at a variety of food booths.
To participate in either the Broadway concert series, or the Festival of the Arts at EPCOT, both a theme park reservation and valid theme park admission are required. EPCOT admission is not included in the price of the dining package.
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Beth Keating is a theme parks, restaurant and entertainment reporter for DisneyBizJournal.
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