Mickey's Musical Wonderland is a delightful and enchanting show that brings together the beloved Disney characters with the world of music. This musical extravaganza takes the audience on a magical journey filled with catchy songs, dazzling dance numbers, and captivating storytelling. The show starts with Mickey Mouse, the iconic Disney character, receiving a special invitation to a secret musical wonderland. Excited to embark on this adventure, Mickey gathers his friends, including Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck, and Pluto, to join him on this extraordinary journey. As they make their way to the wonderland, the gang encounters various obstacles and challenges that they must overcome together. Each challenge is cleverly integrated with a musical performance, allowing the characters to showcase their singing and dancing talents.
Each challenge is cleverly integrated with a musical performance, allowing the characters to showcase their singing and dancing talents. From hip-hop beats to classical melodies, the show covers a wide range of musical genres, captivating audiences of all ages. Throughout the performance, the Disney characters interact with the audience, encouraging them to participate and sing along to the catchy tunes.
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All the creatures of the night gather in "the Hollows" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party . and to feed.
Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining -- and it’s Rachel Morgan'sjob to keep that world civilized.
A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she'll bring 'em back alive, dead . or undead.
Dead Witch Walking is the first of the fourteen-book Hollows series. It was originally released late April 2004 through HarperTorch as a mass market.
It has since been awarded Romantic Times's Best Fantasy novel 2004 and P.E.A.R.L's (Paranormal Excellence Award for Romantic Literature) Best Science Fiction novel of 2004. PEARL also granted Kim Harrison their title of Best New Author for that same year.
Dead Witch Walking
I stood in the shadows of a deserted shop front across from The Blood and Brew Pub, trying not to be obvious as I tugged my black leather pants back up where they belonged. This is pathetic, I thought, eyeing the rain-emptied street. I was way too good for this.
Apprehending unlicensed and black-art witches was my usual line of work, as it takes a witch to catch a witch. But the streets were quieter than usual this week. Everyone who could make it was at the West Coast for our yearly convention, leaving me with this gem of a run. A simple snag and drag. It was just the luck of the Turn that had put me here in the dark and rain.
“Who am I kidding?” I whispered, pulling the strap of my bag farther up my shoulder. I hadn’t been sent to tag a witch in a month: unlicensed, white, dark, or otherwise. Bringing in the Mayor’s son in for wereing outside of a full moon probably hadn’t been the best idea.
A sleek car turned the corner, looking black in the buzz of the mercury streetlamp. This was the third time around the block for it. A grimace tightened my face as it approached, slowing. “Damn it,” I whispered. “I need a darker door front.”
“He thinks you’re a hooker, Rachel,” my backup snickered into my ear. “I told you the red halter was slutty.”
“Anyone ever tell you that you smell like a drunk bat, Jenks?” I muttered, my lips barely moving. Backup was unsettlingly close tonight, having perched himself on my earring. Big dangling thing—the earring, not the pixy. I’d found Jenks to be a pretentious snot with a bad attitude and a temper to match. But he knew what side of the garden his nectar came from. And apparently pixies were the best they’d let me take out since the frog incident. I would have sworn fairies were too big to fit into their mouths.
I eased forward to the curb as the car squished to a wet-asphalt halt. There was the whine of an automatic window as the tinted glass dropped. I leaned down, smiling my prettiest as I flashed my work ID. Mr. One Eyebrow’s leer vanished and his face went ashen. The car lurched into motion with a tiny squeak of tires. “Day-tripper,” I said in disdain. No, I thought in a flash of chastisement. He was a norm, a human. Even if they were accurate, the terms day-tripper, domestic, squish, off-the-rack, and my personal favorite, snack, were politically frowned upon. But if he was picking strays up off the sidewalk in the Hollows, one might call him dead.
The car never slowed as it went through a red light, and I turned at the catcalls from the hookers I had displaced about sunset. They weren’t happy, standing brazenly on the corner across from me. I gave them a little wave, and the tallest flipped me off before spinning to show me her tiny, spell-enhanced rear. The hooker and her distinctly husky-looking “friend” talked loudly as they tried to hide the cigarette they were passing between each other. It didn’t smell like your usual tobacco. Not my problem, tonight, I thought, moving back into my shadow.
I leaned against the cold stone of the building, my gaze lingering on the red taillights of the car as it braked. Brow furrowed, I glanced at myself. I was tall for a woman—about five eight—but not nearly as leggy as the hooker in the next puddle of light over. I wasn’t wearing as much makeup as she was, either. Narrow hips and a chest that was almost flat didn’t exactly make me streetwalker material. Before I found the leprechaun outlets, I had shopped in the “your first bra” aisle. It’s hard finding something without hearts and unicorns on it there.
My ancestors had immigrated to the good old US of A in the 1800s. Somehow through the generations, the women all managed to retain the distinct red hair and green eyes of our Irish homeland. My freckles, though, are hidden under a spell my dad bought for me for my thirteenth birthday. He had the tiny amulet put into a pinky ring. I never leave home without it.
A sigh slipped from me as I tugged my bag back up onto my shoulder. The leather pants, red ankle boots, and the spaghetti strap halter weren’t too far from what I usually wore on casual Friday to tick my boss off, but put them on a street corner at night . . . “Crap,” I muttered to Jenks. “I look like a hooker.”
His only response was a snort. I forced myself not to react as I turned back to the bar. It was too rainy for the early crowd, and apart from my backup and the “ladies” down the way, the street was empty. I’d been standing out here nearly an hour with no sign of my mark. I might as well go in and wait. Besides, if I was inside, I might look like a solicitee rather than a solicitor.
Taking a resolute breath, I pulled a few strands of my shoulder-length curls from my topknot, took a moment to arrange it artfully to fall about my face, and finally spit out my gum. The click of my boots made a snappy counterpoint to the jangling of the handcuffs pinned to my hip as I strode across the wet street and into the bar. The steel rings looked like a tawdry prop, but they were real and very well-used. I winced. No wonder Mr. One Eyebrow had stopped. Used for work, thank you, and not the kind you’re thinking of.
Still, I’d been sent to the Hollows in the rain to collar a leprechaun for tax evasion. How much lower, I wondered, could I sink? It must have been from tagging that Seeing Eye dog last week. How was I supposed to know it wasn’t a werewolf? It matched the description I’d been given.
As I stood in the narrow foyer shaking off the damp, I ran my gaze over the typical Irish bar crap: long-stemmed pipes stuck to the walls, green-beer signs, black vinyl seats, and a tiny stage where a wannabe-star was setting up his dulcimers and bagpipes amid a tower of amps. There was a whiff of contraband Brimstone. My predatory instincts stirred. It smelled three days old, not strong enough to track. If I could nail the supplier, I’d be off my boss’s hit list. He might even give me something worth my talents.
“Hey,” grunted a low voice. “You Tobby’s replacement?”
Brimstone dismissed, I batted my eyes and turned, coming eye to chest with a bright green T-shirt. My eyes traveled up a huge bear of a man. Bouncer material. The name on the shirt said cliff . It fit. “Who?” I purred, blotting the rain from what I generously call my cleavage with the hem of his shirt. He was completely unaffected; it was depressing.
“Tobby. State-assigned hooker? She ever gonna show up again?”
From my earring came a tiny singsong voice, “I told you so.”
My smile grew forced. “I don’t know,” I said through my teeth. “I’m not a hooker.”
He grunted again, eyeing my outfit. I pawed through my bag and handed him my work ID. Anyone watching would assume he was carding me. With readily available age-disguising spells, it was mandatory—as was the spell-check amulet he had around his neck. It glowed a faint red in response to my pinky ring. He wouldn’t do a full check on me for that, which was why all the charms in my bag were currently uninvoked. Not that I’d need them tonight.
“Inderland Security,” I said as he took the card. “I’m on a run to find someone, not harass your regular clientele. That’s why the—uh—disguise.”
“Rachel Morgan,” he read aloud, his thick fingers almost enveloping the laminated card. “Inderland Security runner. You’re an I.S. runner?” He looked from me to my card and back, his fat lips splitting in a grin. “What happened to your hair? Run into a blowtorch?”
My lips pressed together. The picture was three years old. It hadn’t been a blowtorch, it had been a practical joke, an informal initiation into my full runner status. Real funny.
The pixy darted from my earring, setting it swinging with his momentum. “I’d watch your mouth,” he said, tilting his head as he looked at my ID. “The last lunker who laughed at her picture spent the night in the emergency room with a drink umbrella jammed up his nose.”
I warmed. “You know about that?” I said, snatching my card and shoving it away.
“Everybody in appropriations knows about that.” The pixy laughed merrily. “And trying to tag that Were with an itch spell and losing him in the john.”
“You try bringing in a Were that close to a full moon without getting bit,” I said defensively. “It’s not as easy as it sounds. I had to use a potion. Those things are expensive.”
“And then Nairing an entire bus of people?” His dragonfly wings turned red as he laughed and his circulation increased. Dressed in black silk with a red bandanna, he looked like a miniature Peter Pan posing as an inner city gang member. Four inches of blond bothersome annoyance and quick temper.
“That wasn’t my fault,” I said. “The driver hit a bump.” I frowned. Someone had switched my spells, too. I had been trying to tangle his feet and ended up removing the hair from the driver and everyone in the first three rows. At least I had gotten my mark, though I wasted an entire paycheck on cabs next three weeks until the bus would pick me up again.
“And the frog?” Jenks darted away and back as the bouncer flicked a finger at him. “I’m the only one who’d go out with you tonight. I’m getting hazard pay.” The pixy rose several inches in what had to be pride.
Cliff seemed unimpressed. I was appalled. “Look,” I said. “All I want is to sit over there and have a drink, nice and quiet like.” I nodded to the stage where the postadolescent was tangling the lines from his amps. “When does that start?”
The bouncer shrugged. “He’s new. Looks like about an hour.” There was a crash followed by cheers as an amp fell off the stage. “Maybe two.”
“Thanks.” Ignoring Jenks’s chiming laughter, I wove my way through the empty tables to a bank of darker booths. I chose the one under a moose head, sinking three inches more than I should have in the flaccid cushion. Soon as I found the little perp, I was out of here. This was insulting. I had been with the I.S. for three years—seven if you counted my four years of clinicals—and here I was doing intern work.
It was the interns that did the nitty-gritty day-to-day policing of Cincinnati and its largest suburb across the river affectionately known as the Hollows. We picked up the supernatural stuff that the human-run FIB, short for the Federal Inderland Bureau, couldn’t handle. Minor spell disturbances and rescuing familiars out of trees were in the realm of an I.S. intern. But I was a full runner, damn it. I was better than this. I had done better than this.
It had been me who single handedly tracked down and apprehended the circle of dark witches who had been circumventing the Cincinnati Zoo’s security spells to steal the monkeys, selling them to an underground biolab. But did I get any recognition for that? No.
It had been I who realized the loon digging up bodies in one of the churchyards was linked to the spate of deaths in the organ replacement wing in one of the human-run hospitals. Everyone assumed he was gathering materials to make illegal spells, not charming the organs into temporary health, then selling them on the black market.
And the ATM thefts that plagued the city last Christmas? It had taken me six simultaneous charms to look like a man, but I nailed the witch. She had been using a love charm/forget spells combo to rob naive humans. That had been an especially satisfying tag as she had tried to run. Three streets I chased her. There had been no time for spell casting when she turned to hit me with what could have been a lethal charm, so I had been completely justified in knocking her out cold with a roundhouse kick. Even better, the FIB had been after her for three months, and tagging her took me two days. I made them look like fools, but did I get a “Good job, Rachel?” Did I even get a ride back to the I.S. tower with my swollen foot? No.
And lately, I was getting even less: sorority kids using charms to steal cable, familiar theft, prank spells, and I couldn’t forget my favorite—chasing trolls out from under bridges and culverts before they ate all the mortar. A sigh shifted me as I glanced over the bar. Pathetic.
Jenks dodged my apathetic attempts to swat him as he resettled himself on my earring. That they had to pay him triple to go out with me did not bode well.
Revised: 11/04/2022 Copyright © 2003 by Kim Harrison. All rights reserved.
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This creates an immersive and engaging experience where everyone feels like a part of the magical wonderland. One of the highlights of Mickey's Musical Wonderland is the stunning visual effects. The stage is adorned with colorful and elaborate sets that transport the audience to different settings, such as underwater worlds, enchanted forests, and bustling cities. The vibrant costumes worn by the characters add to the visual spectacle and bring each Disney character to life. The show's storyline is a testament to the power of friendship and teamwork as Mickey and his friends support each other and work together to overcome challenges. Through their adventures, they learn valuable lessons about perseverance, friendship, and the importance of following one's dreams. Mickey's Musical Wonderland is a heartwarming and entertaining show that appeals to Disney fans of all ages. Its winning combination of beloved characters, catchy tunes, and mesmerizing visuals ensures that everyone leaves the theater with a smile on their face and a song in their heart. So, take a trip to this magical wonderland and experience the joy and magic of Disney music like never before..
Reviews for "Embark on a Magical Journey with Mickey in Wonderland"
1. John - 1 star
I was really disappointed with "Mickey Musical Wonderland". The show felt like a hot mess from start to finish. The storyline was confusing, and it seemed like the creators were just trying to pack in as many popular Disney characters as possible without any thought to the actual plot. Additionally, the songs were forgettable and lacked the catchiness that you would expect from a musical. Overall, I would not recommend wasting your time or money on this mediocre production.
2. Sarah - 2 stars
As a big fan of Disney, I had high expectations for "Mickey Musical Wonderland", but unfortunately, it fell flat for me. The costumes and sets were visually appealing, but that's about the only positive aspect of the show. The performances lacked energy and the characters felt one-dimensional. The story also felt rushed and poorly developed, which made it difficult to fully immerse myself in the production. While it may appeal to young children who are simply excited to see Disney characters on stage, for anyone looking for a quality musical experience, "Mickey Musical Wonderland" fails to deliver.
3. Lisa - 2 stars
"Mickey Musical Wonderland" was a disappointing experience for me. The show felt cheesy and unoriginal, with recycled storylines and predictable plot twists. The performances were lackluster and underwhelming, failing to capture the magic and charm that Disney is known for. The incessant use of pre-recorded tracks instead of live music also took away from the live theater experience. Overall, I expected much more from a production featuring Mickey and his friends, and was left wanting something more engaging and unique.