An eye catching night time photograph of the Tiki Room at Walt Disney Worlds Magic Kingdom.
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The Walt Disney World version of the Tiki Room, called "Tropical Serenade," debuted October 1, 1971, and was originally sponsored by the Florida Citrus Growers. The show closed in 1997, then reopened in 1998, as "The Enchanted Tiki Room: Under New Management." The original group of Audio-Animatronics characters continue to star in the show including Jose, Michael, Fritz and Pierre. Walt Disney Imagineers had three of the four original actors re-record audio segments for the new show. Actor Jerry Orbach, well-known as the voice of Lumiere in Disney's Beauty and Beast films, supplies the voice of the French parrot Pierre in this revamped version of the Tiki Room.
The voices of Jose, Michael, and Fritz are supplied, respectively, by Disney mainstays Wally Boag, Fulton Burley and Thurl Ravenscroft. The show features 314 figures including flowers, statues and birds. The attraction's well-known theme song, "In the Tiki, Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room," was written, like many other Disney classics, by Richard and Robert Sherman.