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Credit: Inside The MagicThere are only two days left to watch one Disney show for free.
Whether you’re at Disneyland Resort or Tokyo Disney Resort, every Disney location around the globe features some kind of entertainment after sundown. However, with four theme parks across its 29,720 acres, Walt Disney World Resort by far has the most to offer.
Each night at Magic Kingdom – the resort’s first theme park – the sky above Cinderella Castle lights up with Happily Ever After.
The fireworks show, which is synchronized with classic Disney music, features pyrotechnics, projections, and laser effects that come together for an experience so popular that diehard Disney guests all but bullied Disney into restoring the show after previously replacing it with Disney Enchantment for Walt Disney World Resort’s 50th anniversary.
Come 2025, the park will also start offering a nighttime parade again (finally). Disney Starlight is set to debut next summer and, like the Main Street Electrical Parade, will use thousands of twinkling lights to bring classic Disney tales to life.
Meanwhile, at EPCOT, guests can currently enjoy Luminous: The Symphony of Us. This show, performed nightly over World Showcase Lagoon, combines fireworks, fountains, music, and lights in a show designed to remind us that everybody is more alike than they are different.
While Animal Kingdom sadly hasn’t offered nighttime entertainment since 2020 (RIP Rivers of Light), Disney’s Hollywood Studios currently boasts Fantasmic! – in which guests watch Mickey Mouse use the power of imagination to fight forces of evil – and Wonderful World of Animation, a projection show performed on the façade of the Chinese Theatre that celebrates over 90 years of Disney and Pixar animation.
When Is the Final Show for Disney Dreams That Soar?
Earlier this summer, another nighttime spectacular debuted at a surprising location. Disney Springs welcomed Disney Dreams That Soar in May, just in time for the summer crowds.
Taking place over Lake Buena Vista, this sees 800 drones take to the night sky for a 10-minute show that recreates images and characters from the likes of Toy Story (1995), Coco (2017), Dumbo (1941), Peter Pan (1953), Up (2010), the Star Wars saga, and more.
This show has been well received by Disney World guests, who’ve dubbed it “absolutely beautiful” and “outstanding.” Disney Springs filled up rapidly for its first few nights, with the only critique being that the area doesn’t have the right infrastructure to host crowds of this size.
People who attended its opening night complained on social media that they were “crammed in like sardines” and “it was difficult to see the night sky” with so many people around them.
Disney Dreams That Soar is currently performed twice daily: once at 9 p.m. and again at 10.45 p.m., adding another element to visits to Disney’s shopping and dining district. Most notably, unlike other Disney nighttime spectaculars, it’s free, with no admission fee required at Disney Springs.
However, after today, there are just two days left to enjoy Disney Dreams That Soar. The show is scheduled to wrap up on Monday, September 2. Its performance will hopefully spread out the Labor Day crowds a bit.
For now, Disney has yet to confirm whether the show will return. We’d personally be shocked if Disney didn’t bring it back for summer 2025, but it has proven that it’s willing to lay shows to rest after a singular run in the past (cough, cough, Disney California Adventure’s “Rogers: The Musical”). Stay tuned for more updates, but in the meantime, say a fond farewell to Disney Dreams That Soar.
What did you think of Disney Dreams That Soar?