Get ready for some hand-clapping and foot-stomping as Country Bear Musical Jamboree returns to Frontierland this summer! Bunny, Bubbles, and Beulah will have brand new looks featuring bright, bold, and brilliant costumes when the reimagined show debuts!
In a brand-new video, you can visit behind-the-seams with Sara Landesberg, a costumer with Disney Live Entertainment who is helping bring these new fabulous looks to life. Sara is the coordinator of the different teams that come together to create a complete garment, hat, or any items that end up being center stage for the jamboree – including each and every rhinestone that is painstakingly placed across the big-frills costumes.
“I help source all the fabrics and components and rhinestones,” Sara explains. “I also work really closely with the patterning team to figure out how we’re actually going to make the garments come together in 3D, and how they’re going to fit the bears, who are all very uniquely shaped and different sizes.”
Audio-Animatronics figures don’t move the same way humans do so dressing the bears is a bit more challenging than just picking up the real ol’ country rhythm.
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“They have lots of repetitive movement, so a lot of times we’ll add gussets or additional pockets of fabric to give them more room to move in those repetitive movements without destroying the costume,” she continues.
Bunny, Bubbles, Beulah, and the rest of the Country Bears are getting ready to put on a brand-new show that pays homage to the Opry-style shows of Nashville. While the new Country Bear Musical Jamboree will include some easter eggs from the beginning to the end, including a familiar tune fans may remember, the bears will sing new, reinterpreted Disney tunes in different genres of country music – like bluegrass, pop-country, Americana, rockabilly, and other styles.
So gather the kinfolk and plan to be in Magic Kingdom when the Country Bear Musical Jamboree returns fully reimagined and looking spiffy!
Excited for the return of the Country Bear Musical Jamboree this summer?