This past weekend our family was invited for a road trip out to Youngstown, Ohio for a viewing of Disney Junior Live On Tour! Pirate & Princess Adventure. I, as a Mom of three boys, was excited for any kind of activity with slight mention of princesses! It’s been about a year since I, wife of Mr. InACents, has graced you with my lovely and captivating presence as a writer. I have been in pregnancy and new Mama fog. As you can imagine I enjoy a good activity that gets all five of us out of the house and keeps us busy on a Saturday afternoon (leading to a looong nap), so this Disney extravaganza was a perfect plan.
In events such as these where we are going to bring our five month old, we, of course pack bottles, and diapers. I also always pack my own snacks for the big boys and for Daddy and I, to save money (sorry Disney). I packed two juice boxes per kid, leftover candy, and goldfish crackers. I figured if I did not pack candy, I would still hear whining for junk food from the older boys. They only asked once or twice for popcorn and snow cones, which was countered with snacks from the mom-bag. They know we never buy souvenirs so they never ask for light-up spinners or any other 30-40 dollar nonsense.
We bought a couple of light up spinners in Disneyland a few years back for 12 bucks each and we bring them to anything dark where junk will be for sale. I HIGHLY recommend this! It covers a wide variety of events; fourth of July, Disney trips, ice shows, circus, and basically any place they are going to sell you breakable plastic with LED lights inside. I have, with my own two eyes, seen the SAME Mickey spinners that we bought for 12 bucks at Disneyland, for sale at Disney on ice for 30 bucks. Curse the Disney monopoly that I have a love/hate relationship.
So we see the show, it starts off with a Doc McStuffins opening act, which was cute and followed a “get your pre-show wiggles out” theme. Then the real show started with an introduction by M.C. Mickey Mouse with his date Minnie Mouse singing and dancing to a number written just for the show about why Pirates and Princesses are wonderful…and why they go together. Pirates and princesses came out on stage to pirouette around a bit with Minnie.
Next the crowd went wild for the introduction of Sophia The First. It was evident a lot of the audience was pro-princess. Sophia’s show was a 30 min segment with pre-recorded charactor voices and a flat screen scenery about giving a gift for the friendship festival. Although it does not sound very good, it was actually very age appropriate and cute. There were some new and old musical numbers from the Sophia show in each scene and some cute special effects. Cinderella made a cameo appearance to shrieks from the surprised audience. My favorite part was the end where Sophia’s dress rose off the ground and made her 20 feet tall and glittery.
There was a short intermission, another cute intro with Mickey and Minnie, and then it was time for Jake and The Neverland Pirates. Jake’s 30 min show was about finding a secret hidden volcano that spewed gold doubloons. It was similar in set up to the Sophia show in that it has both old and new songs from the series, and some cute special effects. It had a surprise cameo appearance of Peter Pan. My boys were positively glued to this show and their favorite part was the sword fighting. In fact it inspired a night time viewing of Peter Pan as a family too once we returned home.
All in all it was a great afternoon with a pretty good show that was very appropriate for the Disney Junior age range. I would imagine a boy or girl of 18 Months to age seven would really get their moneys worth. The best part of the experience is that we own enough pirate themed halloween costumes, toys, and dress-up clothing that the five of us were all able to dress (and talk) like pirates for the day….Arrrggh Matey!
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Source: InACents
Our family was provided tickets to Disney Junior Live On Tour! Pirate & Princess Adventure, but all opinions are those of the authors.