Walt Disney World has revealed eating bundle particulars and dates for the 2024 EPCOT Worldwide Pageant of the Arts, in addition to the total meals sales space lineup and a sneak peek at new Figment merchandise! This submit covers every part we learn about our favourite occasion of the yr, plus preliminary crowd predictions for January and February 2024 and hypothesis in regards to the standing of CommuniCore Corridor.
For these unfamiliar with it, the EPCOT Worldwide Pageant of the Arts is a worldwide celebration of the visible, culinary, and performing arts. It’s technically the latest particular occasion of the yr at Walt Disney World, despite the fact that 2024 is its eighth yr! After flying below the radar for some time, EPCOT’s Pageant of the Arts has lastly come into its personal within the final couple of years–fueled largely by Figment.
Nonetheless, the 2024 EPCOT Pageant of the Arts stays a very brief occasion. It’ll run from January 12 by way of February 19, 2024, making it about on par with Pageant of the Holidays and considerably shorter than Flower & Backyard or Meals & Wine–by a measure of months. It additionally happens throughout what we expect is among the finest occasions of the yr at Walt Disney World, however extra on that in a bit within the crowd commentary. For now, let’s begin with all the brand new particulars Walt Disney World has launched…
2024 Disney on Broadway Live performance Sequence
A few of Broadway’s brightest stars are coming to Walt Disney World because the Disney on Broadway Live performance Sequence returns for the 2024 EPCOT Pageant of the Arts with three day by day reveals. For the primary time in endlessly, two authentic main women from a sure icy kingdom will carry out collectively on the America Gardens Theatre stage.
Performing songs from lots of your favourite Disney reveals, these stars by no means fail to encourage. Right here’s the total lineup for the Disney on Broadway Live performance Sequence on the 2024 EPCOT Pageant of the Arts:
- Caissie Levy and Patti Murin (“Frozen”): Jan. 12, 14, 15, 18, 20, 22, 23
- Heidi Blickenstaff (“Freaky Friday” and “The Little Mermaid”) and Gavin Lee (“Mary Poppins” and “Magnificence and the Beast”): Jan. 13, 16, 17, 19, 21, 24
- Ashley Brown (“Mary Poppins” and “Magnificence and the Beast”) and L. Steven Taylor (“The Lion King”): Jan. 26, 28 and 29; Feb. 1, 3, 5 and 6
- Kissy Simmons (“The Lion King”) and Josh Strickland (“Tarzan”): Jan. 27, 30, 31; Feb. 2, 4, 7 and eight
- Mandy Gonzalez (“Aida”) and Michael James Scott (“Aladdin” and “Tarzan”): Feb. 9, 11, 12, 15, 18, 19
- Bradley Gibson (“Hercules” and “The Lion King”) and Shoba Narayan (“Aladdin”): Feb. 10, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19
Showcase Plaza can be dwelling to a kaleidoscope of performances day by day, the place you’ll discover musicians, dwell portray and the thrilling acrobatic feats of Artwork Defying Gravity.
2024 Disney on Broadway Eating Packages
Select from 8 distinctive eateries at EPCOT providing 2024 Disney on Broadway Live performance Sequence Eating Packages. Right here’s what’s included along with your meal:
- At Spice Street Desk: 2 small plates, a shared tagine, a shared dessert platter and a nonalcoholic beverage
- At Different Collaborating Eating places: An appetizer, entrée and dessert—or one full buffet/family-style meal (the place relevant)—in addition to a nonalcoholic beverage
The costs listed beneath don’t embody tax or gratuity.
| Grownup (ages 10 and up) |
Baby (ages 3 to 9) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Akershus Royal Banquet Corridor Norway Pavilion Breakfast Lunch / Dinner |
$66 $78 |
$42 $50 |
| Biergarten Restaurant Germany Pavilion |
$60 | $34 |
| Coral Reef Restaurant The Dwelling Seas |
$73 | $29 |
| Backyard Grill Restaurant The Land Pavilion Breakfast Lunch / Dinner |
$58 $73 |
$37 $47 |
| Le Cellier Steakhouse Canada Pavilion |
$99 | $39 |
| Regal Eagle Smokehouse: Craft Drafts & Barbecue (same-day eating packages solely) American Journey Pavilion |
$36 | |
| Rose & Crown Eating Room United Kingdom Pavilion |
$61 | $26 |
| Spice Street Desk Morocco Pavilion |
$50 | $21 |
The 2024 Disney on Broadway Live performance Sequence Eating Packages will be booked on-line starting December 19, 2023. Advance Eating Reservations are extremely really useful (by Disney).
We sometimes do NOT suggest these. (The prolonged finale is the one exception–it’s troublesome to discern within the schedule above, however there are double the performers on February 19, 2024). We’ve seen Disney on Broadway live shows numerous occasions and by no means as soon as had a difficulty getting seats. I suppose in the event you completely want a major view, it’s not a nasty choice–however it strikes us as a waste of cash. To every their very own, although.
2024 Meals Studio Sales space Lineup
Greater than 15 Meals Studios all through EPCOT mix touches of delectable flavors with an inventive twist – together with tempting new dishes and drinks to savor. After debuting final yr, Figment’s Inspiration Station on the Odyssey: Artwork, Meals and Little Sparks of Magic (phew) may also be returning to the 2024 EPCOT Pageant of the Arts!
Right here’s the total listing of Meals Studios for the 2024 EPCOT Pageant of the Arts:
The Artist’s Desk (American Journey Pavilion)
Deal with your senses to artistically elevated consolation meals—like dumplings, hummingbird cake and extra. Pair your dish with beer or a glass of wine.
Delicacies Classique (Close to Check Observe) – NEW! (Really, returning)
Take pleasure in fastidiously crafted classics, like beef Wellington and roasted mussels—in addition to a flavorful beer or cocktail.
The Craftsman’s Courtyard (Close to Disney Merchants)
Indulge your urge for food whenever you order steak or pork stomach sandwiches from the grill.
Deco Delights (Close to Port of Entry)
Fulfill your candy tooth with smooth desserts impressed by the artwork deco period— from the gilded glamour of the roaring 1920’s to the brilliant pastels of Miami Seaside.
The Deconstructed Dish (Close to Port of Entry)
Rediscover your favourite dishes fragmented and offered in a playful method—like a BLT and key lime pie.
El Artista Hambriento (Mexico Pavilion)
A fiesta of taste awaits! Enjoyment of traditional Mexican fare—from savory carne asada to chilled lobster with chipotle aïoli.
Figment’s Inspiration Station on the Odyssey: Artwork, Meals and Little Sparks of Magic
Sweeten your day with colourful treats, like rainbow cake or a sugar cookie with a enjoyable twist. You’ll additionally discover a wide range of beers and arduous ciders.
Goshiki (Japan Pavilion)
Have fun the Japanese culinary arts with delectable dishes that includes “the 5 colours” of Japanese delicacies. Highlights embody sushi donuts, daifuku mochi and sake.
Gourmand Landscapes (Canada)
Savor beautiful dishes artfully composed with the best components which have been farmed and foraged from the land. Take pleasure in wild mushroom risotto, roasted bone marrow and extra.
L’Artwork de la Delicacies Francaise (France Pavilion)
Uncover scrumptious French treats and baked items, from savory to candy—together with salmon served sizzling or chilly and heat brie in a bread bowl. Pair your dish with a French wine or frozen martini.
L’Arte di Mangiare (Italy Pavilion)
Bask in Baroque delicacies, ready with wealthy colour and dramatic taste. This meals studio serves up fried mozzarella, pasta and extra.
The Painted Panda (China Pavilion)
Take pleasure in ornamental delicacies impressed by magnificent Chinese language artwork, like Common Tso’s hen shumai or the char siu pork bun. Plus, sip bubble tea, Chinese language-inspired cocktails and different refreshing drinks.
Pastoral Palate (Germany Pavilion)
Assist your self to hearty dishes impressed by the country settings the place Bavarian Folks Artwork is painted. Bask in a crimson wine-braised beef brief rib and black forest cake.
Pop Eats (Close to Port of Entry)
Enjoyment of mouthwatering masterpieces impressed by essentially the most charming pop artwork of the twentieth century. Highlights embody tomato soup with grilled cheese.
Tangierine Café: Flavors of the Medina (Morocco Pavilion)
Take your style buds on a Moroccan journey as you get pleasure from delectable dishes like grilled kebabs, stoned-baked Moroccan bread and extra. Pair your dish with arduous cider or the chai tea mint mimosa.
Vibrante & Vívido: Encanto Cocina (Between Morocco & France)
Feast on genuine Colombian delicacies impressed by the Disney animated movie Encanto—like an empanada with chorizo or mango cheesecake.
Further Areas
Delight your urge for food with mouthwatering morsels, nibbles and noshes from these year-round meals stops—every providing particular menu objects along with the common menu.
- Refreshment Port (close to Canada): Serving poutine, the Artist Palette Jumbo Chocolate Chip Cookie and refreshing drinks
- Refreshment Outpost: Serving scrumptious beers from breweries in Louisiana, Florida and New York
- Funnel Cake: Serving a specialty funnel cake
- Joffrey’s Espresso & Tea Firm (all 4 in-park places): Serving a singular art-inspired beverage at every location
- Swirled Showcase: Serving soft-serve ice cream in a dish or waffle cone
Count on full menus for the Meals Studios on the 2024 EPCOT Pageant of the Arts to be launched someday in December.
When you’re up for a scrumptious problem, don’t miss the Fantastic Stroll of Colourful Delicacies. This enjoyable meals stroll highlights yummy candy and savory choices in all the colours of the rainbow. Your useful Pageant Passport will present the place to make your picturesque purchases and obtain stamps in your passport. When you’ve collected 5 stamps, convey your passport to Deco Delights Meals Studio to obtain a complimentary shock.
The Fantastic Stroll of Colourful Delicacies will be accomplished at your leisure – so you may get pleasure from a brand new deal with each time you go to all through the pageant.
Interactive Arts at EPCOT
Need to get in on the artwork your self? You’re in luck, because the 2024 EPCOT Pageant of the Arts gives oodles of alternatives to interact within the artistic course of.
At Animation Academy–held day by day at 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. in America Gardens Theatre–study drawing abilities from a few of the finest within the enterprise as they train you ways to attract a Disney character. At Expression Part: A Paint by Numbers Mural, be a part of fellow artists to go away your artistic mark on a larger-than-life wall mural.
Child’s Chalk Artwork takes place on the bridge to World Showcase Plaza day by day from 11:00 a.m. to five:00 p.m. permitting little ones to create their very personal chalk masterpieces. And what would a go to to the pageant be with out clever picture ops? From Botticelli to Renoir, these life-size tableaus beckon you to develop into a part of the portray.
PhotoPass may also provide limited-time Magic Pictures created for the colourful celebration.
2024 EPCOT Pageant of Arts Merchandise
Figment will as soon as once more take heart stage because the 2024 EPCOT Pageant of the Arts celebrates all issues creativeness! This lovable ambassador of caprice is featured on pageant merch, starting from home goods and décor to attire and buying and selling objects.
If I’m being sincere, I don’t know if there’s any Spirit Jersey design I’d conceivably purchase. Between the exorbitant costs and magnificence, I’m simply not a fan. But when I had been going to purchase one, this Figment Spirit Jersey is fairly shut to my optimum design. Swap out the textual content (huge Residence Items signal vibes on that) for a easy “Figment” in his iconic sweater font, and I’m on board. I like the character graphics.
I’m additionally a giant fan of this espresso mug.
Easy but colourful and kooky. That is Figment merchandise finished proper. Not excessive or garish–excellent. Since I like this, I’m guessing it gained’t be dishwasher protected, making it a nonstarter for us since we don’t dwell within the Nineteen Thirties. (C’mon Disney, even Carousel of Progress has a dishwasher halfway by way of the twentieth century!)
When you’re in search of a handy solution to pay, there might be mini festival-themed Disney Reward Playing cards. Load it with as little as $15 and put on it in your wrist for fast and straightforward scanning whenever you buy all of your pageant delights.
Youngsters of all ages will wish to interact in Figment’s Brush with the Grasp’s Scavenger Hunt. On this journey all through World Showcase, you’ll assist Figment study all about artwork. To get began, buy your map and stickers at Creations Store, Port of Entry, or World Traveler. Then, seek for Figment hiding inside artwork impressed by well-known works at every World Showcase pavilion—simply search for the Figment-themed image body.
Each time you discover Figment, add the corresponding sticker to the pavilion in your map. As soon as your journey is full, return your map to Disney Merchants or World Traveler for an clever little souvenir.
2024 EPCOT Pageant of the Arts Crowds & Commentary
Let’s begin with a “daring” prediction: CommuniCore Corridor gained’t be prepared for the 2024 EPCOT Pageant of the Arts. I do know that Walt Disney World has claimed that the EPCOT overhaul will wrap up on the finish of this yr, however they’ve additionally been cautious with how they’ve worded the World Celebration updates.
Primarily based on that verbiage, seeing the glacial tempo of progress, and it being absent from the 2024 EPCOT Pageant of the Arts announcement, my guess is that CommuniCore Corridor gained’t be prepared till Flower & Backyard. Disney will hold the “mission achieved” banner on the EPCOT overhaul whereas CommuniCore Corridor continues to be behind (progress!) partitions.
Hopefully I’m mistaken, however it looks like we’d be listening to about one thing–both Figment’s Inspiration Station or leisure–occurring at CommuniCore. As an alternative, the previous is on the Odyssey once more and the latter is in Showcase Plaza. Who is aware of, although, possibly CommuniCore might be finished with every part else in December and people places will change. I’m skeptical having watched work on CommuniCore, as building is crawling.
Lastly, pageant crowds. These have been up and down in the previous few years, however typically up. As a refresher, we’d simply typically remind you that enormous swaths of winter are not the low season at Walt Disney World, no less than not in the identical method they had been in 2019 and earlier.
For January and February 2024, there are primarily two countervailing forces. The primary is the conclusion of the overhaul, filling in of the Big EPCOT Filth Pit and debut of Luminous: Symphony of Us. That technically occurs in December, however will nonetheless be “new” as of Winter 2024, particularly as many locals might be blocked out till the brand new yr.
The second is the exhaustion of pent-up demand. Crowds actually began to drop off after Easter this yr, and have been down year-over-year fairly constantly since then. The 2023 occasion was already slower than the 2022 occasion, and if that pattern continues, the 2024 EPCOT Pageant of the Arts can be slower than final yr.
I’m skeptical that’ll be the case. I feel there’s truly going to be a localized type of pent-up demand for EPCOT amongst Floridians and followers who’ve averted the park for the final 3+ years whereas it’s been a maze of building partitions. We’re already seeing {that a} bit with the Disney100 “celebration” (air quotes) and anticipate it to solely worsen as soon as the partitions are down.
Not considerably so, as world pent-up demand for Walt Disney World is petering out, however a bit of bit. That’ll be doubly true if there’s ticket deal for Florida residents–and there most likely might be. (Additionally, with regards to all of this, we’re speaking “looks like” crowds–attraction wait occasions most likely gained’t be too unhealthy. Actually higher than this vacation season or peak vacationer occasions.)
In the case of crowd ranges as measured by wait occasions, we’d anticipate that January 8, 2024 by way of February 15, 2024 might be among the many least busy dates of the yr (minus the MLK vacation weekend) at Walt Disney World as a complete. All bets are off beginning February 16, although.
In reality, our listing of the 10 Greatest and 10 Worst Weeks to Go to Walt Disney World in 2024 & 2025 has two completely different units of Winter 2024 dates on the ‘finest’ listing and one set on the ‘worst’ listing–beginning February 16, 2024. (Sadly, the latter of the 2 ‘finest’ weeks is after EPCOT’s Pageant of the Arts ends; select the sooner one if you wish to expertise this distinctive occasion!)
To make sure, that good month-plus window gained’t be “useless” or low season by the requirements of 5 years in the past, however it needs to be one of the best time to go to since mid-August by way of September of this yr. Simply understand that up to date crowds are worse than historic ones–so in the event you’re one of many individuals who discovered this early fall to be “too crowded,” you’ll undoubtedly really feel the identical method about these Winter 2024 dates.
Finally, we suggest planning a winter Walt Disney World journey throughout that date vary and across the 2024 EPCOT Pageant of the Arts. As long as you keep away till after Marathon Weekend wraps up and keep away from the 2 vacation weekends, you need to be in fairly fine condition. EPCOT will certainly really feel busier as locals pack the park, however most of them don’t do rides, so the wait occasions are usually manageable. In addition they arrive late, so profiting from Early Entry or rope drop will be massively advantageous.
Past the crowds, the climate tends to be improbable, there’s a extra laid again vibe to the parks, and it may be fulfilling even when attendance is elevated. There are such a lot of good causes to go to in January and February that we’d suggest strategically choosing one of many higher weeks (see our January 2024 Crowd Calendar or February 2024 Crowd Calendar) and going. No matter what occurs with wait occasions and crowd ranges, it’ll be time. We can not wait to get again and expertise the 2024 EPCOT Pageant of the Arts once more!
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Have you ever attended the EPCOT Worldwide Pageant of the Arts in the previous few years? What was your expertise with crowds or strains for something aside from Figment popcorn buckets? Are you excited to expertise the 2024 EPCOT Pageant of the Arts or will you be sitting this one out? Excited that Figment’s Inspiration Station is returning? What in regards to the Figment-centric merchandise? Assume that CommuniCore Corridor truly will open, and the demonstrations or seminars will return? Any suggestions you wish to share to profit from the expertise? Any questions we can assist you reply? Listening to suggestions about your experiences is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas beneath within the feedback!