HalloWishes

HalloWishes
Magic Kingdom
Status	Removed
Opening date	2005; 19 years ago (2005)
Closing date	2018; 6 years ago (2018)
Replaced by	Disney's Not So Spooky Spectacular!
Ride statistics
Attraction type	Fireworks spectacular
Designer	Walt Disney Creative Entertainment
Theme	Halloween
Duration	11 minutes
Host	The Ghost Host (Kevin Michael Richardson)
Wheelchair accessible

HalloWishes (also known by its full title, Happy HalloWishes: A Grim Grinning Ghosts Spooktacular in the Sky) was a

• "
  X Atencio
  )
• "
  This is Halloween" (from The Nightmare Before Christmas) (Danny Elfman
  )
• "A Little Night Music Scary-oke" Medley:
  • "Poor Unfortunate Souls" (from The Little Mermaid) (Alan Menken / Howard Ashman)
  • "Cruella DeVil" (from One Hundred and One Dalmatians and its 1996 live-action remake) (Mel Leven)
  • "
    Peter Pan) (Frank Churchill / Jack Lawrence
    )^†
  • "The Elegant Captain Hook" (from Peter Pan) (Sammy Fain)^†
  • "
    Carl Stalling
    )^†
  • "
    The Sherman Brothers) mixed in with "AEIOU" (from Alice in Wonderland) (Oliver Wallace / Ted Sears
    )
  • "
    Heffalumps and Woozles" (from Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
    ) (The Sherman Brothers)
  • "
    Pink Elephants On Parade" (from Dumbo) (Wallace / Ned Washington
    )
  • "Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?" (from The Three Little Pigs) (Churchill)
• Ursula's Spellbound Medley:
  • Reprise of "Poor Unfortunate Souls"
  • "Be Prepared" (from The Lion King) (Elton John / Tim Rice)
  • "Court of Miracles" (from The Hunchback of Notre Dame) (Menken)^×
• Jafar and Oogie Boogie's Medley:
  • "Arabian Nights" (from Aladdin) (Menken)^×
  • "Oogie Boogie's Song" (from The Nightmare Before Christmas) (Elfman)
• Maleficent's Visit:^†
  • "Night on Bald Mountain" (from Fantasia; voice-over by Maleficent) (Modest Mussorgsky)^×
  • "Hellfire" (from The Hunchback of Notre Dame) (Menken)^×
• Reprise of "This is Halloween" and "Grim Grinning Ghosts" in a "Scream-Along" medley finale
• "I Put a Spell on You" (from Hocus Pocus) (Screamin' Jay Hawkins; plays as the exit music for the show)

^× — Instrumental version is played.
^† – Was cut in 2008, moved to Disneyland's Halloween Screams in 2009.

Parts of the soundtrack, which are available on an in-park CD entitled "Magic Kingdom Event Party Music", have also been used in Halloween events at

On September 25, 2009, Disneyland kicked off their yearly 'Halloween Time' promotion. The park introduced a new nighttime fireworks show called Halloween Screams. It is very similar to Hallowishes in that they use the same soundtrack, but there are noticeable differences, the most notable being Jack Skellington (voiced by Chris Sarandon) replacing the Ghost Host as the 'master of scare-monies' and the inclusion of Zero, his ghostly dog.

Hong Kong Disneyland

On September 16, 2010, Hong Kong Disneyland kicked off their yearly 'Haunted Halloween' promotion. The park introduced a new nighttime fireworks show called Disney's Nightmare in the Sky. It is very similar to HalloWishes and Halloween Screams in that they use the same soundtrack, but there are noticeable differences, the most notable being Maleficent from Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty replacing the Ghost Host and Jack Skellington as the 'master of scare-monies'.

Voices

• Madame Leota – Eleanor Audley^{[citation needed]}
• Ghost Host – Kevin Michael Richardson^{[citation needed]}
• Pat Carroll
• Jafar – Jonathan Freeman
• Ken Page
• Susan Blakeslee
• Ghost Hostess – Leota Toombs^{[citation needed]}
• Singer – Tim Davis
• Singer – Missi Hale

References