Ron Logan, a Disney Legend who as EVP and executive producer for Walt Disney Entertainment transformed live entertainment in its parks and helped bring Beauty and the Beast to Broadway, died August 30. He was 84.
Logan began his career at Disney as a trumpet player, where he had the opportunity to meet Walt Disney on several occasions. He also performed with the fanfare trumpets as part of the Disney-produced pageantry for the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, CA.
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In 1978, Logan moved to Florida to become Walt Disney World Resort’s music director before returning to Disneyland in 1980 as the park’s director of entertainment. In 1982, he moved back to Walt Disney World Resort again as VP Entertainment before being promoted to VP Creative Show Development for all of Walt Disney Attractions in 1987.
According to Disney, in that role “Ron was instrumental in the productions of Fantasmic!
Logan began his career at Disney as a trumpet player, where he had the opportunity to meet Walt Disney on several occasions. He also performed with the fanfare trumpets as part of the Disney-produced pageantry for the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, CA.
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In 1978, Logan moved to Florida to become Walt Disney World Resort’s music director before returning to Disneyland in 1980 as the park’s director of entertainment. In 1982, he moved back to Walt Disney World Resort again as VP Entertainment before being promoted to VP Creative Show Development for all of Walt Disney Attractions in 1987.
According to Disney, in that role “Ron was instrumental in the productions of Fantasmic!
- 8/30/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Fox’s cancellation of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” came as a shock to many of the show’s fans, but showrunner Dan Goor suspected that the writing might be on the wall far sooner.
Goor told TheWrap Tuesday night that if the wedding at the end of Season 5 turned out to be the series finale, he wouldn’t have been disappointed.
“We sort of had this feeling there was a chance,” he said on TheWrap’s Outstanding Showrunner Comedy Panel at the Landmark Theatres in Los Angeles Tuesday. “The year before we had Jake and Rosa wrongly convicted and sent to prison, and it would’ve been such a weird F-u to the audience. Then we did a wedding, and I would not have been disappointed if it had been the series finale, but it wasn’t really what I felt like the show was about.”
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Goor told TheWrap Tuesday night that if the wedding at the end of Season 5 turned out to be the series finale, he wouldn’t have been disappointed.
“We sort of had this feeling there was a chance,” he said on TheWrap’s Outstanding Showrunner Comedy Panel at the Landmark Theatres in Los Angeles Tuesday. “The year before we had Jake and Rosa wrongly convicted and sent to prison, and it would’ve been such a weird F-u to the audience. Then we did a wedding, and I would not have been disappointed if it had been the series finale, but it wasn’t really what I felt like the show was about.”
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- 6/7/2018
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday.
This week’s question: What’s the one new fall or midseason broadcast TV show announced at upfronts that you would like to survive?**
**This is a snap judgment based on anything you like — title, pedigree, star, whether you’ve seen the pilot yet or not.
Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall), Uproxx
Between “Parks and Rec,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “The Good Place,” and “The Office”, Mike Schur is as creatively reliable a name as there is in the comedy business right now. “Abby’s” isn’t one of his creations (it’s from “New Girl” and “Superstore” vet Josh Malmuth), but as we’ve also seen with “Master of None,” Schur has excellent taste in what shows to put his stamp on, and both the premise (a young woman runs an unlicensed bar in her...
This week’s question: What’s the one new fall or midseason broadcast TV show announced at upfronts that you would like to survive?**
**This is a snap judgment based on anything you like — title, pedigree, star, whether you’ve seen the pilot yet or not.
Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall), Uproxx
Between “Parks and Rec,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “The Good Place,” and “The Office”, Mike Schur is as creatively reliable a name as there is in the comedy business right now. “Abby’s” isn’t one of his creations (it’s from “New Girl” and “Superstore” vet Josh Malmuth), but as we’ve also seen with “Master of None,” Schur has excellent taste in what shows to put his stamp on, and both the premise (a young woman runs an unlicensed bar in her...
- 5/23/2018
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Japanese drama recently premiered at Osaka Asian Film Festival.
Japan’s Stardust Pictures (Sdp) Inc. has sold Parks, directed by Natsuki Seta(A Liar And A Broken Girl, A Letter From Elsewhere), to mainland China (Time-in-Portrait Entertainment), Hong Kong (Sundream Motion Pictures), Taiwan (Sky Digi Entertainment), South Korea (Entermode), Thailand (Starlings) and worldwide in-flight (Encore Inflight Entertainment).
Set in and around Tokyo’s Inokashira Park, the drama stars Ai Hashimoto (Little Forest), Mei Nagano (Peach Girl) and Shota Sometani (Himizu) in a story about a girl who sets out to find a woman mentioned in a love letter written by her late father. Clues lead her to two other millennial friends and a damaged tape of a love song which they try to recreate.
Entermode CEO Bruce D. Lee says Parks is “a good and heartwarming movie, like a Japanese version of La La Land”, while Encore CEO Jovita Toh says, “Parks is a beautiful...
Japan’s Stardust Pictures (Sdp) Inc. has sold Parks, directed by Natsuki Seta(A Liar And A Broken Girl, A Letter From Elsewhere), to mainland China (Time-in-Portrait Entertainment), Hong Kong (Sundream Motion Pictures), Taiwan (Sky Digi Entertainment), South Korea (Entermode), Thailand (Starlings) and worldwide in-flight (Encore Inflight Entertainment).
Set in and around Tokyo’s Inokashira Park, the drama stars Ai Hashimoto (Little Forest), Mei Nagano (Peach Girl) and Shota Sometani (Himizu) in a story about a girl who sets out to find a woman mentioned in a love letter written by her late father. Clues lead her to two other millennial friends and a damaged tape of a love song which they try to recreate.
Entermode CEO Bruce D. Lee says Parks is “a good and heartwarming movie, like a Japanese version of La La Land”, while Encore CEO Jovita Toh says, “Parks is a beautiful...
- 3/12/2017
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
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