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Posted By Alex Galbraith on Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 12:02 PM click to enlarge Illustration via Mad Cow Theatre/Lisa Buck Peter Rabbit gets into trouble in one of the illustrations for Mad Cow Theatre s Bedtime Tales of Long Ago. Like all of our performing arts institutions, Mad Cow Theatre has had to adjust to the fact that in-person performances are risky at best. While music venues put out benefits compilations and some theaters move to entirely virtual productions of live shows, Mad Cow is one of the first to address a particular reality of the pandemic. No nights on the town means no babysitters and no time away from the sticky, miniature roommates. ....
Posted By Alex Galbraith on Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 12:50 PM click to enlarge Photo via SeaWorld Julia is a 4-year-old muppet with autism. She was added to the Sesame Street cast in 2015. SeaWorld s Sesame Street Land is getting a new resident. Julia, a Muppet who was added to the foundational children s television series back in 2015, will be around the Orlando park for the month of April. Julia s addition is timed to coincide with Autism Acceptance Month. The character of Julia has autism and was added to the cast as part of a partnership with autism advocates. At the time, she was first new Muppet added to the series in a decade. ....
Posted By Matthew Moyer on Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 5:53 PM click image Photo courtesy Fashion Square Mall/Facebook Tabula Rasa! Local theater company CFCArts will be staging their next production Rodgers and Hammerstein s Cinderella inside a mall that could use a little Cinderella-style makeover action Fashion Square in April. A unique space that would benefit from more foot traffic, the Fashion Square Mall s abandoned Express storefront will become an ad hoc performing-arts theater there s a pretty good critique of capitalism in there somewhere, but I m out of coffee giving CFC s theater troupe much more space (three times as much!) to play with and, of course, socially distance. ....
Posted By Ken Storey on Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 3:35 PM click image Image via Universal Orlando | Youtube VR used in a Halloween Horror Nights experience at Universal Orlando Since being added in 1993, Disney’s Carousel of Progress s last scene has promised a future where families gather around the voice-activated kitchen appliances and play video games together via virtual reality headsets. Now, nearly three decades later, that scene is finally being realized in houses across the globe. Virtual reality is quickly becoming a cornerstone of entertainment, both in-home and out-of-home. Earlier this year, Universal Studios Japan debuted the first major attraction to feature augmented reality. Simultaneously, other immersi ....
Posted By Ken Storey on Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 11:31 AM click image Image via Disney Disney MagicMobile Service will provide MagicBand services via smartphones Disney has confirmed that it will soon offer MagicBand capabilities via smartphones. The service will roll out on Apple devices first but should be available on multiple smart devices soon after. It will include all MagicBand capabilities, such as theme park admission and in-resort purchases. MagicBands were first introduced in 2013 as part of a multi-billion-dollar technological upgrade program at Walt Disney World, known as MyMagic+. The program, which also included resort-wide Wi-Fi upgrades, involved adding new ‘tapstiles’ at the entrance to every park ....