THEA 80N Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Redone, Critter Country, Winchester Mystery House
Lecture 15: Disneyland
5/22/2018
The Happiest Place on Earth
● Constantly being updated
● New Orleans Squares
○ 1966
○ At the Bend in the Rover, the “Gay Paree” of the American Frontier
○ Based on plan by Herb Ryman in 1964
○ Haunted Mansion
○ Magnolia Park
■ Turned into New Orleans Square
■ Ws part of Frontierland
○ Ken Anderson
■ Did on original sketch of the haunted house in 1958
○ Inspired by the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose
○ Captain Gore
■ Old sea captain who disappeared
■ Audience is lead by a butler
■ Was a little too graphic and the walk through didn’t seem quite right
○ The Headless Horseman
■ The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, 1949
■ The Graveyard is the only part of the attraction that is still there in today’s
park
○ Rolly Crump and Yale Gracey
■ Brought old-fashioned ideas to the Haunted Mansion
○ Museum of the Weird
■ Designed by Rolly Crump
■ Didn’t happen
○ 1966
■ Walt Disney Died
■ Mansion gets postponed
○ 1969
■ Mansion finally gets built
○ Act I
■ The Portraits
○ Act II
■ The Seance Room, Madame Leota
■ The Grand Hall
■ The Attic
