by Beth Keating
News
DisneyBizJournal.com
November 22, 2023
Disney fans will have two separate holiday specials to watch in coming weeks – one for Thanksgiving, and one for Christmas morning.
For Thanksgiving weekend, “The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration” will air on ABC on Sunday, November 26, from 8:00-10:00 p.m. (EST), but if you miss it with all the family celebrations going on, it will also begin streaming the next day on Hulu and Disney+.
Siblings Derek and Julianne Hough will be returning to host “The Magical Holiday Celebration,” and among the featured performances on the Thanksgiving special will be:
• Derek Hough and Julianne Hough – “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,” “What Christmas Means to Me,” “Dance to the Music” medley
• Michael Bolton & Mickey Guyton – “Christmas Isn’t Christmas”
• Andra Day and Adam Blackstone – “Someday at Christmas” and an Adam Blackstone original song “Legacy Christmastime”
• Ariana DeBose– “This Wish” from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Wish
• Mickey Guyton – “Jingle Bell Rock”
• Chris Janson – “Holiday Road”
• Tori Kelly – “This Christmas” and “Winter Wonderland”
• Chrissy Metz – “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”
• The Smashing Pumpkins – “Silver Bells”
• Robin Thicke – “Let it Snow” and “Perfect Holiday”
• Iam Tongi – “White Christmas”
There will also be a special look back at Mariah Carey’s 2016 version of “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”
And while you may be watching the Christmas morning parade from Disney with your family after opening your stockings and gifts, you’ll be forgiven for assuming it’s live from the parks – the parade already filmed last week. If you weren’t in the parks to see it in person, you can catch the 40th anniversary airing of the “Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade” on ABC on Monday, December 25, from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (EST) or 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. (PST). It will also stream the next day on Hulu and Disney+.
Derek Hough and Julianne Hough will again host the Christmas Day festivities, along with co-hosts country music star Mickey Guyton and “The Golden Bachelor” host Jesse Palmer. In addition to the parade (that’s what you’re really waiting for, right?), there will be musical performances from:
• Derek Hough and Julianne Hough – “Good Morning” and “Deck the Halls” Medley
• Chrissy Metz – “Silver Bells”
• The Smashing Pumpkins – “Evergreen” (A new, original holiday song)
• Iam Tongi – “Mele Kalikimaka”
• The Broadway and North American Tour Cast of Disney’s “Aladdin” – “Friend Like Me”
• Meg Donnelly – “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)”
The holiday specials were filmed at a variety of Disney locations, including Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, Disneyland Resort in California, Aulani in Hawai‘I, Disneyland in Paris, and on board the Disney Cruise Line.
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Beth Keating is a theme parks, restaurant and entertainment reporter for DisneyBizJournal.
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