Your Photo Pass to the American Adventure

Each Monday, Marc Lorenzo shares his beautiful photos to transport us to Walt Disney World. This week we take you to American Adventure in Epcot.  So, sit back, relax and enjoy the very patriotic show!

The American Adventure is the host pavilion of Epcot's World Showcase.  It is also the name of the main attraction housed within the pavilion.  If you enjoy the masterful audio-animatronics that Disney has to offer, then this stage show of American history might just be for you!

First, you make your way to the Colonial-style building that houses the entire pavilion.  Along with the show, you will find the Hall of Flags exhibit, the Liberty Inn quick service restaurant, the Heritage Manor Gifts shop, and the eight-member a capella group known as the Voices of Liberty.  It's all very red, white and blue. 

Once you find yourself in the American Adventure theatre, you can look around at the beautiful statues that surround the large number of spectator seats.  When the show begins, you will take a trip through the country's past, with the help of a couple of important narrators - Mark Twain and Benjamin Franklin.  The story progresses from the Revolutionary War period through the Civil War through American industrialization to the Great Depression.  All the while, sets and characters rise out of the stage.  The grand final is a film montage set to music depicting famous people and moment in the post-World War II era.

Over the years, there have been few changes to the show, other than some sprucing up here and there.  Two major changes did happen.  In 1993, a new version of the theme song "Golden Dream" by Bob Moline was recorded and in 2007, footage was added to the finale to update it, which included a scene of the police and fire rescue crews after the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11.