An Interview With Steven Davison - Part 2
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LP: Was the snow always a part of it?
SD: Yeah, the snow was there early on. I was skeptical because I’d never seen a snow effect that I liked and the one came out of Florida and it was like, "oh." I walked out. I was late to the review thing [with the new snow] of it at New Orleans Square one night and all I saw was the street lamps with the snow going by it and I’m like "that’s it". Then we got into how we’re going to end the show. Because you come out of this big remember one more time and then we go into what Don said, it’s a whole new way to do White Christmas and there’s three bell notes and two chords. And we were recording it and I said "you know this is either going to be the hardest sell in the world or it’s going to work perfectly." I said, "I don’t know, let’s try it."
Then we put it out there, and what I loved about it, even though you know the snow comes on - it falls and you see all those kids hands go up to touch it and it’s just this whole new memory. At the end of three minutes they all just applaud because, again, it becomes a new memory to people and people talk about - it snowed.
The best night of the show, I brought both of my grandmothers and my parents - a whole slew of the family and it was the night of fog at Disneyland. We’re watching the show and the show opens with that huge wide explosion. We couldn’t see it, couldn’t see a thing and I’m sitting here with this whole street of people wondering what’s going to happen. So I’m watching and any time they saw anything they would just cheer. It was really cool to watch that even though they couldn’t see it, they could see glimmers of it and they would hear the music. It still worked and by the end of it when it snowed it was like the same experiences. When the castle went off you could hear huge cheers out in the street because you could see all the castle fire up. It’s a great experience and believe will beback.
LP: Will there be any changes in it?
SD: There’s a couple. We’re waiting for some fire from China right now.
LP: Is there anything else you’re working on past your grand opening?
SD: That new Christmas thing is coming up next season. Most likely there’ll be another holiday mixture that is sure to put the "spirit" back. That’ll be a lot of fun, a whole new thing.
"Believe..In Holiday Magic" and It's a Small World Holiday
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-- Posted June 12, 2001
-- Interview by Doobie Moseley
-- Pictures by Rebekah Moseley and Doobie Moseley