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The death of a castmember in 1974

I live in California, and am a big fan of Disneyland attractions, and I think the gruesome death of Deborah Gail Stone on July 8, 1974 should be mentioned. She was working the "America Sings" attraction at Disneyland (in the Carousel of Progress theater), and was crushed between a rotating wall and a stationary one. It was a big event for Disneyland fans at the time. More facts about the incident can be found here: http://www.snopes.com/disney/parks/amersing.htm Goodfellow408 22:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

It is mentioned in the America Sings article. --blm07 22:54, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Oops, sorry! It fits much better there, anyway  ;) Goodfellow408 06:52, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Youtube videos

The Youtube videos referenced for the "animatronic failures" are from 2008, and have nothing to do with what is described. I don't know why it's even mentioned that they got stuck in one section 4 times, this probably happens very often. Who is "Soren Ibsen" and where did he say that flash photography could cause a problem like this? Why do tons of spam results come up on Google when you search his name? Why would a "Epcot Park Inspector" be inspecting Magic Kingdom attractions? This whole thing sounds ridiculous. Wires would have to physically cross in order for something like that to happen, flashes from cameras could not move wires. --blm07 07:01, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

I've removed both the "Incidents" and "Animatronic failures" sections as unsourced. They're not really important anyway; the only important incident that I know of was after the Carousel show was removed from Disneyland and replaced with America Sings, when a cast member was crushed between the walls during a rotation. Guests getting stuck on an attraction is something that happens all the time at Disney; it's just not notable. Powers ^T 21:12, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

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NARRATOR Welcome to Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress. Ah, you’re in for a real treat. The Carousel of Progress was Walt’s own idea from beginning to end—he loved it. He introduced the show at the World’s Fair in New York City in 1964, and it was an immediate smash hit. Millions of people came to see it, and since then, the Carousel of Progress has had more performances than any other stage show in the history of American theatre. You know, Walt loved the idea of progress, and he loved the American family. And he himself was probably as American as anyone could possibly be. He thought it would be fun to watch the American family go through the 20th century, experiencing all the new wonders as they came. And he put them together in a show called Carousel of Progress, which we are now about to see. Although our Carousel family has experienced a few changes over the years, our show still revolves around the same theme—and that’s progress. May the century begin.

(Theatre begins rotating and stops in Act I room.)

CHORUS There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow Shining at the end of every day. There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow, And tomorrow is just a dream away.

Man has a dream and that’s the start. He follows his dream with mind and heart.

FATHER & CHORUS And when it becomes a reality, It’s a dream come true for you and me.

So there’s a great big beautiful tomorrow Shining at the end of every day. There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow, Just a dream away.

(Birds chirping.)

FATHER (Spoken) Ah, it looks like the robins are getting ready to celebrate Valentine’s Day today. What year is it? Oh, right around the turn of the century. And believe me, things couldn’t be any better than they are today. Yes sir, buildings are towering now as high as twenty stories. And moving pictures flicker up on a big screen. We have almost 8,000 automobiles in this country, and we can travel by train from New York to California in less than seven days! And I even hear tell about two brothers in North Carolina who are working on some kind of flying contraption. (Chuckles.) It’ll never work. Closer to home, we’ve now got gas lamps, a telephone, and the latest design in cast-iron stoves. And that reservoir keeps five gallons of water hot on just three buckets of coal. Oh boy, it sure beats chopping wood. And isn’t our new icebox a beauty? Look at that! Holds 50 pounds of ice. Milk doesn’t sour as quick as it used to. And our dog Rover here keeps the water in the drip pan from overflowing. It wasn’t too long ago we had to carry water from a well. Thanks to progress, we’ve got a pump right here in the kitchen. Of course, we keep a bucket of water handy to prime it with. Yes sir, we’ve got everything we need to make life easier.

(SARAH and YOUNGER DAUGHTER appear behind left scrim.)

FATHER Say, mother?

SARAH Mmm?

FATHER I was reading about a fella' named Tom Edison who’s working on an idea for snap-on electric lights.

SARAH Electric lights? No more kerosine! No more gas!

FATHER (Chuckles.) Sarah sure gets to the core of the apple.

SARAH But we do have this new wash-day marvel. Now, it takes me only five hours to do the wash. Imagine, it used to take two days.

FATHER Oh, that’s right folks. Now Sarah has time for other things, like—

SARAH Like canning and cleaning the oven?

FATHER Yes dear.

SARAH Well ovens just don’t clean themselves, you know, dear.

FATHER I know dear. (Chuckles.) And they probably never will!

SARAH Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to get the laundry off the line before it starts raining cats and dogs.

(ROVER barks. Blackout on left diorama.)

FATHER Ah, don’t worry Rover. She didn’t mean real dogs. Besides, it’s not going to rain today. My lumbago isn’t acting up.

(Lightning and thunder outside as rain begins to fall.)

SARAH (Offstage) I hate to say I told you so.

FATHER Oh, look at it come down! All you have to do is put your wash on the line, right? Oh well, the cistern was low anyway.

(JIMMY appears behind right scrim, looking at stereoscope.)

JIMMY Wowee! Look at that!

FATHER Now James, I thought I told you to ask my permission before using my new stereoscope. That’s not a toy you know!

JIMMY Ooh-la-la! So that’s Little Egypt doing the hoochie-koochie, eh Dad?

FATHER Isn’t she a knockout? She’s the star of the new World’s Fair in St. Louis, and—(clears throat) now you put that away before your mother finds it.

JIMMY Aw, Dad…

FATHER You heard me!

(Blackout on diorama.)

FATHER Well, we have one of those new talking machines. Now that is something. It plays music right here in our home.

(Lights up on left diorama, when GRANDMA sits listening to phonograph with her PARROT.)

RADIO (Singing) There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow Shining at the end of every day.

PARROT (Squawk) She keeps that thing going all day long. (Squawk) Progress! (Squawk. Whistle).

(Lights out on left diorama as they come up on right diorama, where PATRICIA is sitting, half dressed.)

PATRICIA Oh, papa!

FATHER Yes Patricia?

PATRICIA Papa! All these people! I’m… I’m indecent!

FATHER (Chuckles.) Don’t worry, Patricia. They’re friends. (To Audience.) That’s our teenage daughter. She’s getting ready to go to a Valentine’s dance across town, on one of those new horseless trolleys.

PATRICIA I think it’s very romantic you’re taking mother out for Valentine’s dinner this evening.

FATHER Well, you know what kind of sport I am.

PATRICIA I only hope I have an evening as romantic as yours and mother’s.

FATHER (Sternly) Now you be home by nine o’clock, daughter. You hear me?

PATRICIA (Dejectedly) Yes papa.

(Lights out on diorama.)

FATHER Well, with all this talking, I’ve worked up quite a thirst. I think I’ll take one of those new-fangled trolleys down to the drugstore soda fountain and meet the boys for a cold sarsaparilla. Oh, haha, I’m sorry, I forgot—we’re drinking root beer now! Same kind of thing, different name. Well, that’s progress for you. And, uh, speaking of progress…

(Theatre begins to rotate to Act II.)

FATHER & CHORUS There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow Shining at the end of every day. There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow, And tomorrow is just a dream away.

Man has a dream and that’s the start. He follows his dream with mind and heart. And when it becomes a reality, It’s a dream come true for you and me.

So there’s a great big beautiful tomorrow Shining at the end of every day. There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow, Just a dream away.

(Theatre finishes rotating.)

FATHER Whew, boy, hottest Fourth of July we’ve had in years. We’ve come a long way, though, since the turn of the century over twenty-some-odd years ago. You know that pilot fella', Charles Lindberg? He’s about to fly a single-winged airplane all the way across the Atlantic. (Chuckles.) He’s never gonna make it. And sports stadiums are springing up all over. And boy, nobody hits that old horse hide like that new fella, Babe Ruth. Jazz music is the cat’s meow, and there’s been ads in the paper for months for a movie starring Al Jolson—and he’s going to talk! And sing! Boy, I’ve gotta see that. (Car horn sounds outside.) Hahaha. There goes Schwartz in his Hupmobile. He sure loves that horn. You know, in my new Essex, I’ve got an electric starter—now I don’t have to crank! We can travel from New York to Los Angeles by train in only three days. And we’ve got a house full of new electrical servants. Mr. Edison sure added life to our home. (All the appliances in the house come to life.) Whoa there! You’ll blow a fuse! (Lights in the house go dark.) Drat! That’s the third one this week. I buy fuses by the case. (Lights outside the windows go dark.) Uh oh. And I’ve blown the whole neighborhood again!

NEIGHBOR WOMAN Henry! He did it again! Go over and give that neighbor of ours what for!

(ROVER growls.)

FATHER Easy, Rover. (Calling offstage.) Jimmy! Hurry up with that fuse!

JIMMY (Offstage) Shucks. Every time he has company, he blows a fuse. And guess who always has to change it.

FATHER I heard that young man! I heard that!

(Lights come back on. They also reveal SARAH behind the right scrim. She is dressed in colonial garb and is sewing a costume.)

SARAH Oh, well that’s more like it. John, yours is the last costume I’ve got to finish before the parade starts.

FATHER Sarah’s ladies’ club is responsible for our town’s Fourth of July celebration tonight. She’s got us all roped into performing in their program, and I—

SARAH (Interrupting) And I’ve decided that we’re going as George and Martha Washington, dear.

FATHER Oh, the father of our country! (Chuckles.) That’s a role that really fits me! You know, I—

SARAH (Interrupting) I’m so glad we installed an electric light fixture here on the porch, because it’s just too darn hot to be sewing inside.

FATHER Yes Sarah. You know, next year I’d like to go as Benedict Arnold! (Chuckles.) I—

SARAH (Interrupting) Wait until you see what I’ve got planned for the fireworks show tonight.

(ROVER barks.)

FATHER Rover! Don’t interrupt, while Sarah’s interrupting.

SARAH And guess who volunteered to choose the music for the program?

(Lights out on right diorama and up on left diorama, where JIMMY is standing next to the radio and GRANDPA sits in the chair.)

JIMMY I did, Pop! Listen to this!

(JIMMY turns on the radio, which plays “Stars and Stripes Forever.”)

FATHER Oh, that’s a nice tune, Jimmy. (To Audience.) Y’know, with our new Crosley radio set, we can get news and big-time entertainment from all over the country. Even Pittsburgh!

RADIO ANNOUNCER People are starting to arrive downtown for a spectacular Fourth of July parade and fireworks event tonight. Mayor Reed said…

(RADIO dies down and lights out on left diorama. FATHER addresses right diorama, which is still dark.)

FATHER Oh, Patricia.

PATRICIA Yes Father?

FATHER Better get a move on! The radio says people are arriving downtown.

PATRICIA Do I really have to go?

(PATRICIA is revealed behind right scrim wearing a Statue of Liberty costume.)

PATRICIA If my new boyfriend Theodore sees me in this, it’ll scare him away!

FATHER (Chuckles.) Well dear, if that happens, you’ll always have that torch you can carry for him. (Laughs.)

(ROVER growls exasperatedly.)

PATRICIA Oh, father!

(Lights out on right diorama.)

FATHER Calm down Rover. I was only kidding! (To Audience.) By the way, we have indoor plumbing now! Oh boy, that’s really great on cold nights. Especially for our perennial houseguest, old Uncle Orville.

(Lights up on left diorama, where UNCLE ORVILLE sits in the bathtub wearing an Uncle Sam hat. He has a fan blowing on him over the top of a large block of ice.)

FATHER Uncle Orville’s taken over the coolest spot in the house, of course, and he’s rigged up a real clever contraption. He calls it “air cooling.” Hmph. Too bad he’s not reading the help wanted ads.

(Lights out on diorama.)

UNCLE ORVILLE (Offstage) No privacy at all around this place!

FATHER Sorry, Orville. (To Audience.) You know, considering all the—

SARAH (Offstage) George.. your costume’s ready!

FATHER Oh, coming Martha! (To Audience.) As I was saying, considering all the conveniences we now have, I’ll say that we’re really on Easy Street these days. It just can’t get any better! Just goes to show that…

(Theatre begins to rotate to Act III.)

FATHER & CHORUS There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow Shining at the end of every day. There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow, And tomorrow is just a dream away.

Man has a dream and that’s the start. He follows his dream with mind and heart. And when it becomes a reality, It’s a dream come true for you and me.

So there’s a great big beautiful tomorrow Shining at the end of every day. There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow, Just a dream away.

(Theatre finishes rotating.)

FATHER Well, it’s another Halloween here in the fabulous forties. Everything is better than ever now. And we’ve got some amazing new wonders around the house to prove it. For instance, our refrigerator holds more food and ice cubes. And thanks to our automatic dishwasher, I don’t have to dry the dishes anymore after supper. Gives Rover and me more time to enjoy our evening stroll together.

(ROVER barks.)

FATHER (Chuckles.) Later boy. (To Audience.) Oh, and here’s something else that’s new. I just heard a new term today on the radio. Fella says we’ve got something now called the “rat race.” Did you ever hear that one? Sure describes my life. I’m involved in something now called “commuting.” I drive into the city for work all day and then turn right around and drive all the way back. And the highway is crowded with fellow rats doing the same thing!

GRANDMA (Offstage) That’s what they call progress dear.

FATHER (Laughs.) I guess she’s right. But we do have television—when it works. Gives you something to do after you come home. I kind of like it, y’know? Guy named John Cameron Swayze gives us all the news, and then they have all this singing and dancing. A lot of fluff, but it’s fun.

(Lights come up on right diorama, which shows GRANDMA watching the TV while GRANDPA naps.)

FATHER You know, I predict the day when millions of people will learn Latin and Greek sitting in front of their TV sets.

GRANDMA (to GRANDPA) Are you awake dear?

(GRANDPA snores, so GRANDMA changes the channel to a boxing match.)

GRANDMA (to TV) Give him a left you big lug!

(Lights out on diorama.)

FATHER Ah yes, a new age of electronic civilization is upon us!

(Lights up on left diorama, revealing JIMMY wearing a werewolf costume and carving a pumpkin.)

JIMMY Hey dad, what do you think of my jack-o-lantern?

FATHER (Mock fear) Oh! Boy is that scary!

JIMMY That’s ’cause I used my beautiful sister Patty’s picture for a model! (Snickers.)

(ROVER barks.)

FATHER Down Rover! (To JIMMY.) Jim, Rover appreciates your joke.

SARAH (Offstage) Now, you’re always kidding poor Patty! She’s certainly prettier than either of you.

(JIMMY howls and ROVER joins in. Lights out on left diorama and up on right diorama to reveal PATRICIA using vibrating exercise machine and talking on the phone.)

FATHER Ya hear that? My daughter Patty is using that old exercise machine she rescued from the attic. Was all the rage in the twenties. Grandma, of course, had to have one. Didn’t work then; doesn’t work now. (Chuckles.) Consistent at least. Makes a lot of noise and blows fuses.

PATRICIA (Shaky voice from machine) As I was saying, Babs, I think college is really swell! You should give it a try!

BABS (On the phone) Oh Patty, are you going to the Halloween party tonight?

PATRICIA Oh, yes! And I’m hoping to lose a few more inches by then since I’m going with that dreamboat, Wilfred.

BABS Wilfred?! What a slug!

PATRICIA He’s coming as the headless horseman.

BABS (Laughs.) It fits.

PATRICIA Come on Babs! That clodhopper Howard you’re going with is no Cracker Jack prize!

(Lights out on diorama.)

FATHER Oh poor Howard. I wonder what they said about me when I was dating Sarah.

(Cuckoo clock chimes and ROVER barks.)

FATHER (Chuckles.) You’re lucky, Rover—you don’t have to date. Well, we’re caught up in the do-it-yourself craze these days. We’re remodeling our basement as something called a “rumpus room.” And we’re looking forward to a few rumpuses, I tell you—as long as they don’t get out of hand.

(Lights up on SARAH behind the left scrim. She stands on a ladder putting up wallpaper while a food mixer stirs paint.)

SARAH John, this papering is getting out of hand. I could use a little help!

FATHER Now Sarah, didn’t I set up that clever automatic paint stirring machine for you?

SARAH Yes John, you’re a genius… Of course this will ruin my food mixer—not that you’d care.

(Lights begin to fade on the diorama as the mixer gets louder and faster.)

FATHER Oh, good old Sarah. Always the last laugh.

(The food mixer gets to its loudest and SARAH shrieks. ROVER barks.)

FATHER What happened Sarah?!

SARAH Oh, you and your progress! That paint mixer of yours just sloshed paint across my rump—er, rumpus… room.

FATHER (Chuckles.) Now, how do you like that? I always say, if you’re going to be married, marry a girl with a sense of humor. Well, it’s time to move on. Let’s cheer up Sarah by singing our song. Come on. Everybody!

(Theatre begins to rotate to Act IV.)

FATHER & CHORUS There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow Shining at the end of every day. There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow, And tomorrow is just a dream away.

Man has a dream and that’s the start. He follows his dream with mind and heart.

PATRICIA And when it becomes a reality…

GRANDPA It’s a dream come true for you and me.

FAMILY So there’s a great big beautiful tomorrow Shining at the end of every day.

FATHER There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow…

FAMILY Just a dream away.

(Theatre finishes rotating.)

FATHER (Spoken) Isn’t it a pleasant holiday? Oh, turkey’s in the oven, it’s peaceful and quiet.

JIMMY (Playing virtual reality game) Yes! Three hundred points, my best score yet!

SARAH Well, it was peaceful until Santa brought that new virtual reality space pilot game.

(JIMMY’s viewfinder lifts.)

JIMMY Your turn Grandma. Let’s switch the image over to the TV so the resident flying ace can show you how it works.

(GRANDMA’s viewfinder goes down as the TV comes on to show the game.)

JIMMY Now, it’s a little tricky. Just use your game glove to fly behind the other guy and blast him with your laser blaster!

GRANDMA Laser blaster? Well, I’ll give it a try.

JIMMY Take a look around Grandma. You’re in the ship!

GRANDMA Feels like I’m really there!

JIMMY Okay, get ready, you’re about to blast off!

GRANDMA Here goes nothin’.... Woah!

(The ship on the TV blasts off an passes a ship. The game continues.)

JIMMY All right, here he comes! Ooh, you missed him!

SARAH (Looking up from laptop computer) Hey everybody, I’m done programming our new voice activation system.

FATHER Now all our household items will do anything we tell ’em to do.

GRANDPA Great, tell the refrigerator to bring me a root beer.

SARAH (Chuckles.) Well, it can’t quite do that. But I’ll show you something it can do. (To Computer.) Tree lights, thirty percent brighter.

(The lights brighten and the family reacts.)

GRANDPA Aw, that’s no big deal. Anybody can do that voice activatin’ stuff. Watch this. (To ROVER.) Rover, speak!

(ROVER barks.)

SARAH John, the oven should respond to your voice commands now. Give it a try!

FATHER Ah, okay, here goes. Temperature to 375.

OVEN Temperature increased to 375.

PATRICIA Look at that! It even talks back.

FATHER Reminds me of certain people I know.

PATRICIA Yeah right, Dad!

JIMMY (to GRANDMA as he watches her play the game) You’re gonna lose him, Grandma! Bank to the right!

PATRICIA Remember Dad’s turkey last year?

GRANDPA Yeah, that thing really smoked up the place when it burned, didn’t it?

PATRICIA We ended up microwaving frozen pizzas.

SARAH Well, no need to worry about the turkey this year. Not with an oven that will do anything your father tells it to do.

JIMMY (to GRANDMA) Ooh! Good shot!

GRANDMA Did you see that?!

JIMMY Dad, Grandma’s up to 550 points!

FATHER Did you say 550? Hey, she’s getting the hang of that thing.

OVEN (Unnoticed by FAMILY) Temperature increased to 550.

GRANDPA I can’t believe all the new gadgets they’ve got now. Do you know in my day—

PATRICIA Oh no! You’re not going to tell us about the old days when you didn’t even have a car phone.

GRANDPA (Chuckles.) Hey Trish, for a while we didn’t even have a house phone. Not to mention laser discs and hi-def TV. Everything is automated today, including…

(Toilet flushes offstage.)

GRANDPA Well, including that.

UNCLE ORVILLE (Offstage) No privacy at all around this place!

GRANDPA Sorry, Orville. Anyway, you guys don’t know how good you’ve got it nowadays.

SARAH You know, my grandpa told me the very same thing when I was a kid.

GRANDMA (to the game) Take that you nincompoop!

JIMMY Hey check it out, Dad. Grandma’s up to 975 points.

FATHER Wow—975!

OVEN Temperature increased to 975. (Begins beeping.) Bake mode overload. Command error! Command error!

SARAH John, what’s wrong with the oven?

FATHER What? Uh…

(Oven door slams open and smokes.)

OVEN Bake Mode complete. Enjoy your meal.

PATRICIA Anyone for pizza?

SARAH Oh, another Christmas turkey ruined.

(ROVER whimpers. GRANDMA’s game ends and her viewfinder lifts.)

GRANDMA Man, what a game! I really smoked those guys. Looks like I’m resident flying ace now.

JIMMY Best two out of three Grandma?

GRANDMA Later kid! Boy that was fun. What will they think up next?

PATRICIA Who knows? We’ve got a whole new century waiting for us out there.

SARAH And maybe sometime in the new century, your father will learn how to talk to our oven.

FATHER Well, maybe by then ovens will read our minds. But hey, as long as we’re all here and happy and together for the holidays, who cares if I burned our Christmas turkey?

GRANDMA I do! I’m starving.

(FAMILY laughs.)

JIMMY Don’t worry, Dad. Someday, everything’s going to be so automated, you won’t ever have to cook another Christmas turkey again.

(Theatre begins to rotate to exit.)

FAMILY There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow Shining at the end of every day. There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow, And tomorrow is just a dream away.

SARAH Man has a dream and that’s the start.

FATHER He follows his dream with mind and heart.

CHORUS And when it becomes a reality, It’s a dream come true for you and me.

So there’s a great big beautiful tomorrow Shining at the end of every day. There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow, Just a dream away.

(Theatre finishes rotating.)

NARRATOR Thank you for joining us on Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress. We hope you’ve enjoyed this tribute to the 1964 Carousel of Progress from the New York World’s Fair. Please gather all your personal belongings and exit through the doors located at the back of the theatre. Have a great big beautiful day, and remember, tomorrow is just a dream away. OlUncleOrville (talk) 14:33, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Re: cast list

Is it worth adding the duet heard in unload as well as Jess Harnell who per Disney legend Dave smith was the father’s singing voice? Geekynerdyguy1996 (talk) 13:36, 1 February 2020 (UTC)