Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along

Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along: attraction at EPCOT, Walt Disney World — live wait times, operating status, and planning data on MouseHub.

Wait time history

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Visitor sentiment

4.8· 6 Google ratings

The MouseHub take

Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along is a 15-minute film in the Palais du Cinema at EPCOT's France pavilion, running since January 17, 2020. Don Hahn directed it, and he produced both the animated and the live-action Beauty and the Beast films. Angela Lansbury narrates as Mrs. Potts, the part she played in 1991. Four songs from that film carry the show, with the lyrics on screen so the room can sing Be Our Guest and Gaston together, and new animation sequences work a twist into the original story.

It shares the theater with Impressions de France, so the two alternate through the day and the posted schedule decides which one you get. Adults who walked over for the travelogue take that hardest. Families land somewhere else on it: the room is cool and dark, the seats are padded, and nobody has to keep a toddler quiet for a quarter of an hour. Fans who want the 1991 story left alone tend to come out unhappy with what the new footage does to it. Treat this as the sit-down break in a lap of World Showcase and it does that job well.

At a glance

Best for
Families with young kids who want a cool, seated break and a chance to sing along partway around World Showcase.
Skip if
You came to the France pavilion for Impressions de France, or you would rather the 1991 story were left alone.
Ride type
Indoor sing-along film in a seated theater
Intensity
Gentle. No motion and no drops. The theater goes dark and the music runs loud enough to sing over.

The good

  • Angela Lansbury narrates as Mrs. Potts
    Lansbury voices the narration in the same role she played in the 1991 film. For anyone who grew up with that movie, hearing her open the show is the best thing in it.
  • The air conditioning does half the work
    Fifteen minutes of cool, dim, seated time buys back more of a World Showcase afternoon than the run time suggests.
  • Kids can sing without being shushed
    The lyrics run on screen through Be Our Guest and Gaston, and the whole room is meant to join in. Parents who spend the rest of the day keeping children quiet get a break from that here.
  • You are off your feet the whole time
    The Palais du Cinema seats are padded and the show is short enough that nobody gets restless. It lands at about the point in a World Showcase loop where feet start complaining.
  • Almost nobody gets turned away
    The theater takes a large crowd at once, so the group waiting outside usually all fits into the next showing. Long standby waits are rare here even on busy afternoons.
  • Wheelchairs and ECVs stay put
    Disney classifies this one as May Remain in Wheelchair/ECV, so guests with mobility devices roll in and stay in them. There is no transfer to a theater seat.

The bad

  • The story changes, and fans notice
    New animation sequences rework the plot of the 1991 film rather than retelling it. Viewers who know the movie well are the ones most put off by the result.
  • The new animation clashes with the old
    The connecting sequences drawn for this film sit next to clips from 1991, and the two styles do not blend. The seams show at every transition.
  • It costs Impressions de France showtimes
    The two films rotate through the same theater, which cuts the daily showings of each roughly in half. Adults hoping for the travelogue often arrive to find the sing-along on instead.
  • Much of it is clips with lyrics over them
    Between the new sequences, the film leans on footage from the 1991 movie with the words on screen. Anyone expecting a staged production or new musical numbers comes out short.
  • The holding area gets loud
    Guests bunch up in an enclosed lobby before the doors open, and the noise builds with the crowd. It is the least pleasant part of the visit.

Veteran tips

  • Check the schedule before you walk over
    This film and Impressions de France alternate in the Palais du Cinema, so the France pavilion is not always showing the one you want. Check showtimes in My Disney Experience before crossing the lagoon for it.
  • Use it as the afternoon cooldown
    Save it for the hottest stretch of the day rather than riding the morning with it. Nothing about the show gets better or worse with crowds, so spend the cool hours on attractions that do.
  • Lightning Lane does not cover this one
    It appears on neither EPCOT Multi Pass group nor Single Pass, so there is no selection to make here. Put your one first-group pick on Test Track, Remy's Ratatouille Adventure, or Frozen Ever After instead.
  • Get there early for the gallery cases
    The Palais du Cinema holds six gallery cases of costumes, music, and artwork under the title Tales As Old As Time: French Storytelling on Stage and Screen, covering the French stories behind Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella as well as this one. Ten minutes ahead of showtime is enough to walk them.
  • Middle rows beat the front
    Sit back from the screen for the cleanest sightline and the most even sound. The front rows put the screen above you for the whole film.
  • Any height, so nobody waits outside
    There is no height requirement, and Rider Switch does not apply here. Whoever walks up together watches together.
  • Ask about audio description and assistive listening
    Disney lists both assistive listening and audio description for this theater. Worth knowing before you decide whether a guest who would struggle with a subtitled screen can follow the show.

MouseHub editorial, written from visitor reports and official Disney sources. Last reviewed .

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