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Good afternoon, everyone! Today, I want to discuss some information that came out a couple days ago! So, let’s get started, shall we?! So, Disney World has announced that they are bringing back some annual passes which it will be starting this month. So, the theme park giant is also doing something big for two of its most important customer groups. Along with the rest of the planet, Disney World shut down in 2020 due to covid-19. When it began to slowly reopen in 2021, it stopped, by and large, selling its Annual Passes, in order to avoid overcrowding. Once vaccines became available, some people stayed home, still unsure about how safe everything was. But a lot of people were eager to get back out there and make up for a lost year, and demand for travel, restaurants and many other things began to rebound. Not necessarily to pre-pandemic levels, but still. But Disney made the decision to halt selling most of its annual passes, “to avoid running out of reservations on more dates,” notes Disney Tourist Blog. “If organic demand were allowed to play out, attendance would’ve been even higher.” But now that we’re a few years out and demand for Disney World is starting to level off and return to pre-pandemic levels, Walt Disney (DIS) – Get Free Report is bringing back a number of annual passes. But you better hurry.
Disney World will resume selling all levels of annual passes on April 20. Blog Mickey notes that “The quantity of passes will be limited and passes, or pass types, may be unavailable for purchase at any time,” which means you better act quick because these things will sell out.
Here’s what will be available:
Disney Incredi-Pass: $1,399
This one is available to all guests, and can be purchased via a layaway plan at $108 per month with 12 monthly payments and 0% APR after $205 down payment with the Florida Resident Monthly Payment Program.
Here’s what it comes with:
Admission to one or more Walt Disney World Resort theme parks during the year with an advance reservation (reservations are limited and are subject to availability)
No blockout dates apply
Make and hold up to 5 theme park reservations at a time on a rolling basis
Passholders staying at Disney Resort hotels or other select hotels are eligible to make theme park reservations for each day of their Resort stay(s), in addition to holding 5 theme park reservations at a time.
Standard theme park parking
Discounts on dining, merchandise, and more
Disney Sorcerer Pass: $969
This is just for Eligible Disney Vacation Club Members or Florida Residents. Club Members can purchase the passes starting April 13, 2023 as part of Membership Magic.
Admission to one or more Walt Disney World Resort theme parks on most days of the year with an advance theme park reservation (reservations are limited and subject to availability)
Blockout dates apply, including select days during select holiday periods — view blockout dates
Make and hold up to 5 theme park reservations at a time on a rolling basis
Passholders staying at Disney Resort hotels or other select hotels are eligible to make theme park reservations for each day of their Resort stay(s), in addition to holding 5 theme park reservations at a time
Standard theme park parking
Discounts on dining, merchandise and more
Disney Pirate Pass: $749
This is for Florida residents only, and its reservation-based-admission is more subject to blockout dates including peak and holiday periods.
Admission to one or more Walt Disney World Resort theme parks on most days of the year with an advance park reservation (reservations are limited and subject to availability)
Blockout dates apply, including during peak and holiday periods — view blockout dates
Make and hold up to 4 theme park reservations at a time on a rolling basis
Passholders staying at Disney Resort hotels or other select hotels are eligible to make theme park reservations for each day of their Resort stay(s), in addition to holding 4 theme park reservations at a time
Standard theme park parking
Discounts on dining, merchandise and more
Disney Pixie Dust Pass: $399
This pass is a big more budget-friendly than the others, but still comes with some serious perks.
Admission to one or more Walt Disney World Resort theme parks on most weekdays during the year with an advance park reservation (reservations are limited and subject to availability)
Blockout dates apply, including during peak and holiday periods — view blockout dates
Make and hold up to 3 theme park reservations at a time on a rolling basis
Passholders staying at Disney Resort hotels or other select hotels are eligible to make theme park reservations for each day of their Resort stay(s), in addition to holding 3 theme park reservations at a time
Standard theme park parking
Discounts on dining, merchandise and more
Disney Is Adding a Useful Feature
Also, starting April 20, existing annual passholders will be able to upgrade their pass outside of the typical renewal/upgrade window, and they will have to pay the difference in pass types in full at the time of purchase.
Before this change, passholders were able to upgrade their annual pass type, but only during the renewal process. This is a meaningful change because Disney never stopped selling entry-level passes for Florida residents. Many people who purchased that pass likely wanted a higher tier and were willing to wait in order to upgrade.
Now, those passholders can immediately move to a higher tier.
Overall, I think this is great news for Disney World fans. It will make them feel really happy! Now, people with annual passes can only visit all four parks including Magic Kingdom on weekdays except on the weekends because that’s one of the days that would get really busy and that makes sense.
So, what are your thoughts about the Annual Passes coming back to Disney World?! I would love to hear lots of comments, thoughts, opinions, questions, or concerns down below!
Stay tuned for Disney updates.
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Broadway star Alfie Fuller’s outstanding recurring role performance in Season 4 of the Emmy award-winning series set in the early 1960s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel earned her a slot as a series regular for the final season of one of Prime Video’s most popular series. Fuller plays Dinah Rutledge, number one for Susie Myerson (Alex Borstein, In Living Color). BGN spoke with Fuller in late March about joining this incredible show, which is filmed entirely in New York City.
How did attending the New School set you up for success?
I moved to New York when I got accepted into the New School. It was an introduction to a lot of new things: the city, obviously, and true New York actor work ethic, which was something that I was unfamiliar with coming from the South. You’ll hear people talk really not so favorably about grad school experiences, and while, of course, it’s a mixed bag, for me personally, it was the smartest decision that I ever made.
I tapped into a lot of things that, had I not gone to the New School, I might not have done so quickly, like the wonderful teachers who advised me on how to reach success in the city as a New York actor. I’m a little bit of a hard-headed kind of girl. So they always say when you’re in acting grad school, you’re not supposed to do any outside productions; you don’t have time. I was like, “Oh, I think I can make it work.” And I did.
I was in a production in my second year of grad school, the hardest year. I did a full outside production of Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare playing Cleopatra. And it was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. I did it, and it worked. But that also set me up for when I got out of school. I already had a professional job under my belt — and a leading role, no less. So I hit the ground running. I didn’t have the mentality of, “Oh, I just got out of grad school, so they’ll come to me because now I have this master’s degree.” No, I was like, “Okay, let’s go like let’s get in front of everyone as much as we can.”
Your theater credits are impressive. So far, what has been your most satisfying role on stage?
I will say playing Anaia in Is God Is. It was my first step into the professional theater world because the production I did in grad school was, you know, off-off-off [Broadway]. So this was my first real New York Times reviewed production. It’s how I got my agent. It’s how everyone was introduced to me as an artist. I did a reading of Is God Is last summer, and I was sure that I had lost it because you know, life is so good, and I didn’t know if I could tap back into all of that drama and trauma. Baby, I got up on that stage, looked down at the script, and it was still so fresh, but that’s the mark of truly incredible writing. After that experience, I enveloped myself in that character. She will always be a part of me and I will always be a part of her.
The pacing and rhythm of the writing on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel are lightning speed. What was your technique for creating your character’s vocal quality?
I saw The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel pilot, and I was like, “This was made specifically for me. This is going to be my Star Wars.” Never did I think that I would be on the show as a series regular, no less. But I was already very familiar with the cadence and the tone, the quickness, the speed of the show.
When I got the call back, the casting director actually worked with me on Zoom for about 30, 45 minutes. She kept saying, “Faster.” And I do it again, and she says, “It’s faster.” And I do it again. And she said, “Okay, now it’s faster and word perfect.” And I thought I understood why she was saying that, but it wasn’t till I got on set that I was like, “Oh, faster and word perfect.” It’s like Shakespeare. Not the speed so much, but in terms of you can’t drop words, you can’t paraphrase.
So anyway, the night before my producer session, I stayed up and I did my scenes 200 times in a row as fast and as word perfect as I could. If I messed up, I’d go back to one and start over. It was worth it. When it came time to do it, I was unshakable. I was ready. I was talking at a speed that I never thought that I could, but I was ready.
Is there special care you have to take when you’re dealing with vintage costumes?
They’re so well made. I could play a whole football game in one of those suits, and it would still be intact. They’re thick. They’re so well made — other than putting all the undergarments on. Back then the women wore just layers and layers of undergarments — the bullet girdle with the stocking with the pencil waist-high waist skirt. It forces you to present yourself in a different way.
What would you say brings Dinah Rutledge the most joy?
Dinah enjoys being in control and likes to problem solve. Because for her, the faster she gets it done, the more joy she gets. She’s like, “Give me a very complex problem, I will solve it in a second flat.” I really love that about her. I’ve kind of taken a little bit of her with me with that. She’s very competent and does not shrink in the face of any kind of challenge. The messier that her boss is, she’s like, “Great I will clean that mess up.” She’s incredible.
I was able to screen the entire final season of the series, and it’s one of the best final seasons I’ve ever experienced.
The fifth and final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel premieres three episodes on April 14, 2023, on Prime Video, with new episodes airing Fridays until the series finale on May 26.