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Back before Christmas, I headed to Paris with my fiancé Aeron and our friend Shaun to go and see the new revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Lido 2 Paris.

The day before we saw the show, we spent some time in Disneyland Paris, where they were celebrating the festive season.

Check out today’s new theatre trip vlog with added Disney magic for a little festive Parisian nostalgia!

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00:00 | day 1 – Disneyland Paris
23:47 | day 2 – Lido 2 Paris

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Oh my God bonjour oh my God Salo we are in Paris we are for a few days we have come here to see a little bit of musical theater whil be we be here but whenever we come to Paris because we have Disneyland Paris annual passes we end up in

Disneyland and because it’s currently the Christmas season in Disneyland Paris there’s lots of shows and spectacles and exciting things so before we take you to the theater to go and see a funny happened on the way to perum at the Leo dur par uh we’re going to let you spend

The day with us here at Disneyland yay so the park opened at I think the park is about to open at 9:00 a.m. but we’ve been here for almost an hour already because it opens for extra magic hours stopping in a hotel an hour earlier if

And you get access to that if you stay in a Disney look at this mural hope you have a pleas day lovely that’s the carousel you’re hearing on the other side um yes so if you’re staying in a Disneyland Paris Hotel you get to enter the park an hour earlier which is a

Really good perk not everything opens in that hour but there are some characters who meet and some of the really popular rides like Peter Pan’s flight Big Thunder Mountain Space Mountain have much shorter cues during that time especially if you like get ready to be one of the first people into the park

And then like don’t run but walk purposefully and it’s just it’s a little bit quieter and so that’s kind of like our top tip if that’s realistic within your budget to stay at one of the Disneyland hotels we’re staying at the hotel Cheyenne this time around which is

The like old west slightly Toy Story themed hotel and we’re here with sea and we’re here with our friend Sean who is enjoying his beauty sleep right now Sean likes lion he does he loves a lion but he will be joining us in Disney later he didn’t fancy the 7 a.m. wakeup call

So she yeah la la happy holidays you’re about to see the castle behind me uh cuz we’re heading back down towards Main Street USA comma France from fancy land there it is we were just meeting Santa Stitch which is like regular Stitch but christmy um oh they’re about to do an

Announcement this is the Park opening which is exciting and even more exciting when you’re already inside don’t run that’s what that’s say have a nice day we’re waiting to meet Chi Andale look at all the acorns on this festive heart behind them I love that such a cute meet a great

Spot here at the top of Main Street hi Chi Andale hi hi it’s nice to meet you I love your Christmas outfits you look so festive does he like your hat do you like the fact it lights up I have the fair on my head it’s all going on it is it’s like

Another tail you look great you look beautiful my heart look how festive everything looks here on Main Street everything is decorated so we just had a hilarious meet with Chi Andale who liked the fur on my hood and also my hat I bought this hat yesterday from the gift shop at

Hotel Cheyenne Sean said that I should I don’t know if he was half joking but I love this I have entered my bucket hat era in the year 2023 and this this one has Mickey ears which makes it even better and it’s like fluffy and christmy

So I love it I have grabbed a breakfast beet because scientific fact all food tastes better when it’s Mickey shaped and it has chocolate inside um but they also for the Christmas season are doing what is it like the temporary like Gourmet carts they uh gour so they have

Like a like a kind of like a Christmas Market yeah over in fancy land so we’re heading back to fancy land where we just came from this is how our days are spent here is bouncing between the different lands it’s not it’s not that bigger Park

Um but we do clock up quite a few thousand steps look at that delicious I tell you so these the little temporary little Huts little kiosks little chalets if you will uh they are by the entrance to it’s a small world and they are doing all sorts of festive seasonal Delicacies we

Have a lot of sweet treats over here we have waffles we have gallettes we have pancakes we have hot chocolate we have mold wine everything you could ask for breakfast of champions so strolling through fancy land uh we have just uh said hello in passing to Peter Pan and Wendy Myra

Angela darling and uh Belle of Beauty and the Beast Fame in her seasonal Princess geta uh but the point is we were in that chip Andale queue for an hour close to an hour if not if not an hour um and if if you don’t want to be

Queueing for an hour to meet characters not all cues are that long but they can they can get they can get pretty long um then just loitering around Fantasy Land you can at least see the characters and passing and obviously later on the parades and in shows and things as well the

Peter Pan queue over there it’s crazy it’s crazy it says 40 minutes it looks longer like if there is one consistent truth in this world it is that the queue for Peter Pan’s flight Disneyland Paris will always be huge so we basically rope dropped that this morning our initial

Plan was to meet characters but because the park opened earlier today I think the characters kept the same schedule and so Stitch was the first character we saw I think it’s only Stitch that do magic cow minut maybe or maybe poo as well maybe we haven’t been down to see

Winnie the Poo yet but um we ended up doing Peter Pan’s flight first which was a good decision cuz that’s the only way are we going to Pirates seem to be walking I seem to be walking to Pirates it wasn’t deliberately I just I took a

Turn maybe I want us to go on Pirates we’re going to check uh ride wait times on the Disneyland Paris app which is another top tip for optimizing your time here it’s Jafar Santa goofy we just found you in Frontier land how Grand we’re going to

Join the queue cuz it’s short que look at this Santa goofy look at that outfit I so we just met Santa goofy over there cowgirl mini less festive uh but themed to the frontier land area that we are in is meeting over there we’ve met cowgirl

Mini many a Time many a time um so it’s a short line it’s probably only about a 10-minute line um but we’ve we’ve we’ve met cowg girl many many times um this area is quite quiet at the moment people generally only come up here for cowboy cookout which is the

Barbecue uh quick service restaurant behind me but also the I don’t know if they’ve changed the name it used to be called the El chaparal theater uh currently Rhythm Of The Pride lands the uh Lion King show which is quite good actually uh and different to The Lion

King show that used to be in Disneyland Paris if you saw the one years ago the like Festival of I think it was called Festival of The Lion King Aaron will be able to tell us uh cuz he knows all but the Lion King show is playing over

There uh there used to be a Frozen Show there a few years back Rafiki is over there in the distance usually Rafiki is partnered with Timone it’s just Rafiki today but worth noting these Frontier land meet and greets because I don’t think they’re on the app I know the mini

One isn’t I don’t think usually they are secret ones that aren’t advertised which is why they’re a little bit quieter so this is a relatively recent development this restaurant has been reemed this another Quick Service food location with like Mexican Cuisine it used to be called Fuente deoro and it is now themed

To koca it’s called Casa de coco got this statue of Miguel outside here and it is called cassad de coco restaurant de Familia and if they were to start doing a Miguel meet and greet nearby that would be even better just passing Big Thunder Mountain could see a train coming up

Somewhere Aaron’s favorite ride in Disneyland Paris and supposedly is the best one in the world there you go compar to the other ones there you go is in the best Big Thunder Mountain yeah because it actually cuz it goes underwater it does it does um it’s sitting at a 40-minute

Weight right now which is pretty quiet for this time of day I feel like it’s a quieter day generally in the park today and it’s kind of gray weather it’s not raining on us yet but said what we did yesterday so this is the thing um best

Way to do Big Thunder is either like first thing in the morning in the magic hour like right when it’s opening or last thing when everyone else is finding a spot for the fireworks that’s when it’s going to be the quietest last night we weren’t planning on coming into the

Park but we arrived yesterday to check into our hotel and just like have dinner and have like a quiet start to get ready for a full Disney day this morning but we were literally in the Disney Village just outside of the park Gates at 9:45 before a 10: p.m. close we were like

What if we ran into the park just to try and really quickly ride Big Thunder Mountain we were on the second to last train and as we were riding round the fireworks were happening over the castle which was magic and we got the second to last row which is always good cuz it’s

Faster at the back foree and now we’re just kind of following the parade of princesses oh my God hey we found Sha Sha is awake everyone I am because it’s the afternoon and I have the best lion ever we are back in fancy Land once again we’ve actually been over to the

Studios um to go and just run some magical errands and uh we happen to stumble on literally the the last few moments of the princess show they’re doing on the castle stage uh here during the Christmas period we had like a medley of Christmas songs the Wonder like the Happy Holidays

Happy is that it like a Christmas song from anything other than the white Christmas stage musical cuz that’s where I know it from I’m sure we are finding ourselves definitely in the busier time of the day you wanted to do a lot of like thrill seeking rides you say that I

Wanted to do a little sit down shows yeah but you were also like Space Mountain and Tower of Terror you do the big ones um I think we can do this letter I know it’ll be quiet well there are also some little rides in like baby fantasy

Land that have 5 minute wait times that I’m steadily walking us towards so maybe that is our plan for the next few moments we’re getting we’re getting on the story book land oh woo the entrance to this is a giant turntable it’s giving the original production of lame isab woohoo

I’m going to injure myself we got a little bit of snow white Tangled Up on Yonder Hill Hansel and Gretel a windmill and ducks look at these disproportionately large Ducks basking over their tiny Kingdom we got a whole Little Mermaid moment here ah now I haven’t ever actually seen this

I haven’t watched this either uh but I do remember him being very difficult to fight on Kingdom Hearts that’s my only recollection about this gentleman shiny gold and a very dusty lamp and we find ourselves momentarily coming to a stop alongside the underrated gem that is The Sword in the Stone

Where we can see a sword and some Stone they got some beauty in the Beast got Bell feet sheep giving it oh isn’t this amazing and then up on Yonder Hilltop you have the castle now they do try and portray the commute in the film as being

A lot longer than this I think a lot of the film’s geographical issues would have been resolved if the two locations were actually that oh and Casey Jun I just think that if they were to make a musical theater themed theme park that a ride like this would be very easy I’m just

Saying it’s l is again everyone I’m this is the moment this is the bit this is the bit and then off the turntable we have stumbled upon a surprise mystery meet and greet uh with my main man my main Duck Donald um I can never say no to meeting Donald Duck cuz

I love him I love him um so I’ve got my Donald Duck ears that I packed just in case ears on top of ears and Sean is looking festive I’m uh currently uh wearing eron’s spare of course he had a spare in his yeah look at

That look oh so stylish it is Donald’s number one thank you we met Donald always a good day has to be done number one yay we’re in some caves oh honestly genuinely cannot see where I’m going literally feel blind it’s the kind of like weird dark just this way this

Way got briefly locked in some caves oh no more caves nice view from up here though that is a pizza restaurant Resturant believe it or not you can see the mountain of Big Thunder Mountain just beyond that you can actually see the Hollywood uh Tower Hotel in Walt

Disney Studios that’s how close together these two parks are um you can oh those cranes over there are building the uh Frozen land Building Arendelle at the back of the Studios park you can see the Indiana Jones ride over here gosh that’s jolty it’s a Vicky rope Bridge oh sh is

Right oh I’m running oh gosh that speeds you up like nobody’s business please Micky could you help us R Music you’re right Micky this video is the Most Wonderful Time of the Year It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year may I join in oh hell mi I was working on little

Surprise that’s what Christmas is all about remember shh it’s a surprise Mar oh this is so much [Applause] fun Christmas you find make my wish come true all I want for ch Oh happy holidays G I wish I could s like that it’s time for small world everybody cuz it is in fact small ass World Aaron and I like to play games on this ride cuz we’ve been on it so many times and when we were here on reopening

Day cuz it was down for refurbishment for a while we rode it so many times in a row so we like to look for things so today we will we will look for musical theater references that I have made up this is giving finans rainbow I think

I really don’t know much about that show M Rouge it’s I mean this is obviously Mulan Rouge is this is it’s very Mulan Rouge mul rou that is yeah this is very Sound of Music we have a literal lonely goat her I just missed Rome but Funny Thing

Happened on the Way to the Forum you can you can you can you can kind of see it I have a lot of time for this Panda I mean canonically this is The King and I is that culturally responsible for me to point out everything’s culturally responsible and

It’s a small world look at this blinking hippo it’s so good okay we’re approaching Cowboy musical territory very Seven Brides and very Calamity Jane Annie Get Your Gun and whatnot but let us not forget the strong come from away Vibes on the left hand side this is 100% Oklahoma you can’t

Tell me otherwise and this that’s titanique or Titanic and this technically Hollywood but it’s giving it’s giving Broadway as is this entire last room this is deeply theatrical you play those instruments tiny children don’t even don’t even worry about the fact the boat is sinking this is the most exciting thing

That’s happened there are ducks there are ducks getting very close to us please keep your hand probably wondering what an earth we are a heartbreaking sight seen all too often tandom balloon release CL together sh Christmas gr candy come on everybody let is and we got Lun together round

Round let’s decorate our Christmas tree wonderful idea oh but Santa where is it you open your eyes wide W Santa it’s beautiful and so magical too come on it’s your turn what was fantastic together is Christmas in the end you Merry Christmas Merry Christmas Merry Christmas oh my God bonjour get behind

Me come join me I’m not alone I promise we’re in Paris if I sound sleepy it’s because I’ve just been in and out of consciousness on the train from Disney it’s been it’s been a long I was going to say two day it wasn’t really two like 36 hours in Disneyland Paris we

Did a lot of fun things this morning Aon and I went back into the parks to meet Asha from wish which was fun she’s only meeting for the next few weeks um in conjunction with the release of the film so that was exciting and now we have

Headed into Paris proper uh we just went to the shigal uh etal Metro station yes which has a million and one exit this has C us out before uh so if you’re heading to the Leo dur par which is where we are going now to see a

Funny Thing Happened on the Way The Forum you want exit one for the Sha um and also in terms of land marks it is nearby to as you can see behind me big old Arc the Triumph yeah is it which translates to big arch it’s not actually

That’s not actually what I promise I do speak more French than that um but yes we’re going to head over to the theater now and tell you more about our stagey day look how fancy this Cartier store is these fancy decorations ooh we’re spending relatively little like almost

No time in Paris proper this time cuz I always say Disney feels like when you go to those parts of Belgium that are owned by other countries like it barely feels like you’re in France it’s just like the Disney Embassy um but yeah we’re not spending much time in Paris I consistent

Feel like I don’t have enough wealth just to be in Paris because everything is very pretty and very very F I like that yeah and like there is absolutely a Paris beyond the shop and and Beyond the the shiny fancy things and all of the stores and all of

That stuff but well we did we did explore it more last time we walked around a lot yeah watch the previous video what is what is that oh yes last time we came to Paris made video about um doing a stagy walking tour of all the spots ever featured in musicals

Basically so this is what I was just pointing out is it’s a Louis Vuitton thing it’s a Louis Vuitton case the building exterior is made to look like a Louis Vuitton case that’s cool like those giant buckles is that like I don’t know if that looks like

Temporary it kind of looks temporary cuz it’s got scaffolding behind it it’s a present to it I mean that’s a lot of effort a gift from to you listen we’re on the shum this is this is what happens so the Leo dur par which is so named

Because it’s like the second it used to be a cabaret venue it’s only recently started producing musicals uh the first one was Cabaret fittingly cuz it worked very well in the space and they’ve had a little bit of a interior refurbishment which we’re very excited to hopefully

Show you more of today um but it’s like their second venue there was another one before lightwise it’s called the Leo 2o no it was because it originally was called the Leo Paris so oh they just the rebirth she’s back she’s back there there you go but this time with book

Musicals I have this terrible cough that I’m hoping goes away uh and doesn’t bother anyone during the show myself included I just need to drink some champagne maybe that’ll do it get some some angry stairs fine here it is the Leo de Parry big old screen there advertising a Funny

Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum which if you don’t know is a musical by Steven stime at the leader de par entrance down below we’re going to go inside and go and get our tickets so post security this is the new entrance way LED screen

On the right hand side and on the roof this as far as I can tell has nothing really to do with the show but it’s all lucrative lucrative ad space but it’s very fancy entrance way nonetheless if they were doing something like dare I say pseudo immersive in

Here just think of the possibilities I’m also kind of obsessed with this carpet throughout it looks very like comic book art pop art to me it’s just very fun and colorful and then elsewhere the aesthetic is very like Reds and Golds and mirrors lots and lots of mirror is

Hello I’m wearing my uh old friend’s jumper from mer Roll Along on Broadway also a mirror on the ceiling oh my God it does make it look bigger everywhere it does thoughts on the redesign it’s gorgeous that opening Corridor felt a lot more spacious yeah like and it kind of worked for Cabaret

Because it was kind of like dark and mysterious and more like you were going into like a nightclub space but it’s just a lot more open it also means they can change the vibe when change the vibe are you getting like Forum Vibes yet I was getting Christmasy Vibes there to I

Think that’s what they’re going for fine fine I mean that’ll do that’ll do um just went to the restroom as well um uh which is not well sign posted I will say but the staff are very helpful and their English is much better than my French um but didn’t film in there obviously

However I will say stunning stunning like DOL and toilets red just very stylish deeply stylish deeply stylish do I need to redesign my bathroom I don’t know perhaps so sha has just bought a program from the bar that can be found inside the auditorium this

Is €1 the front is just the house style for the Leo de par and then you have the artwork for the show cast information here these are the performers you may be seeing a lot of familiar uh British names Ru Hound John Owen Jones Josh Sinclair um Harriet Watson from six uh

Some information about the show and then um heck it’s one of the more substantial programs that you will find it is also in French uh so that is that is worth noting oh no I lied English translation page there you go that’s why the program’s so thick everything has to be

Printed twice um although as we go through is everything duplicated I don’t know that it is no okay a lot of this a lot of this does seem to be French but for the French we have some lovely context here about son time and forum and the show’s

History also worth noting this excellent page in the middle here with this lovely promotional photo of the car look at Jon o and Jones there looking gladiatorial very nice very nice what are you drinking Aaron James we both have hat hair yellow peach nectar yellow peach nectar it’s like peach juice but like

Actually like you have like apple or orange juice where it’s pork that sounds like something you would have in a cocktail but you can also just drink it by itself I enjoy I don’t want to show anyone’s face but that polka dot shirt you just saw that is the the the staff

Outfit that’s the uniform thank you our brains just did the same thing the uniform uh for the staff members here I enjoy it very much it’s very I think it would be fun to wear I would absolutely wear that it is one of the few things they’ve retained

The aesthetic of of this place has otherwise been very revamped but the uniforms remain the same so L it’s very I haven’t shown them the auditorium yet so this is what we’re seeing here um the seats are everything is Cabaret seating so we are at a little table we have two

Tables for the three of us which is more more than enough space cuz I have a nice sort of corner here but you can see more tables down there this one’s a little booth area here more tables extending down towards the stage more going back

Up there um and we are in F which is the tier sort of going back the we on is f tables 18 and 16 other details to note uh this lovely chandelier here in fact there are two of them and the red and gold aesthetic continues with these gold

Tabletops and then this red pattern on the floors and the backs of the chairs giving you feathers very theatrical lovely to see unless you’re Gwen verden for which I imagine it could be very triggering there is also Circle seating you can see kind of the loes coming down

On the side there and then this is a circle up there it’s not the distance from the stage or the height I’m worried about it’s the low ceiling I wonder if that gives you a little bit of a letter box effect but I mean it’s not really an

Overhang so much as just the ceiling is there but um we didn’t sit up there for cabry we were sort of where we are but over on the left now the band for this production has split across two sides of the stage you can see some of them over

There and then across the other side of the stage more of them over here oh that’s a harp love that this is the back of the program and this is an advert uh the French advert that says to and that literally translates to All Is Possible or everything is possible which

Is a stime lyric and I’m choosing to believe that that is not a coincidence even though it definitely is let’s talk briefly about the set design itself we can see these rouched curtains and these Roman style pillars with lighting coming from inside them I think and I mean this

Is a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum exemplified theatrical Roost curtains and Roman columns that’s just that’s the show in a nutshell so from a design perspective I I’m I’m already uh quite comforted by that there’s also an army of lights up ahead look at all of

Those I think I think we might have some lighting in this show so I’m filming this now for before and after because I don’t think I’m going to actually be able to capture the moment it happens but we’ve been told about something that happens in the auditorium to do with

This production and I just want you to like beyond that wall there all of these heads here make a note of where they are kind of at the same level of us uh slightly down uh but we can’t really see the floor of the set um and that I have

It on good authority is going to change when the production begins I will explain perhaps more after I’ve witnessed it okay so after a 90-minute First Act let’s do a little compare and contrast Can you spot the difference maybe if I show you over there that whole first section of the audience I

Guess tiers a through e all lowered down on a big hydraulic uh platform and all sunk down to a lower level as the Overture began uh which means everyone gets a much better view of the stage now you can see the stage look we have these lovely house sets that have come

Forwards those turn around they have Interiors they have split levels they have doors and windows they’re very clever actually they are the three houses over which uh the plays we’re going to call it a plot uh takes place um and aon’s noticed one of my other favorite details about this set I’m

Going to zoom in and try and show you this you see those little uh feet at the at the foot of the stage they are of course the foot lights but they’re actual feet they’re lights in feet which are foot lights I mean that’s I love a visual pun yeah w [Applause] W [Applause] W Just picking up our coats that we uh stored for free coats and bags in the cloak room before the show my ticket number is which is nothing like 24601 but it scans well in French so I’ve decided it it it works leaving the Le Perry via the Same Led Corridor through which we

Arrived show came down at about 5:40 making it 2 hours and 40 minutes long and then the process of getting things from the cloak room we raced there so as not to get stuck in a queue but need have worried very easy very easy very

Well managed so yes we just saw a piece of theater in Paris and you may be wondering to yourselves Mickey Aaron were it French no answer is no um so very tiny bits of French but it was in English it it varies in terms of the

Theater here in Paris and as we were discussing with one of the members of the creative team during uh interval I question well interval in in the UK intermission on Broadway what what do the French say an Miss I don’t know what the I don’t know I’m going to have to

Google this answers answers on the postcard comment down below I mean cuz they they call it on trct when in the show when when they’re starting to Mission interval they say on and time for on track that’s true he said on trct but on trct to us is the piece of music

That plays when the so maybe I don’t know we’re learning a lot here on the streets of Paris but what was the question what was I talking about um oh yes there is less theater theater going is less of a thing there is less theater in France but uh there are some theaters

Here there islet which we uh which produces um Opera and occasional um English language musicals but also playing right now in Paris is the French musical nraam Paris and The Lion King which is in French and The Lion King in French French with English s titles is

Playing here with English sir titles um so this production was English with French sir titles uh translated for the French audience members but with various opportunities where they had added French language jokes and like French improv and like English actors doing French comically badly at various points throughout and like extensive enough

That if you don’t speak French those like did we get those jokes people who don’t spitch on S photos when they did the the French language moments did you get all of those jokes or I did not they were making fun of us if that’s if that

Wasn’t what you were getting but um yeah so there’s there’s much for um audiences of of of both languages to enjoy but predominantly it’s in English with French s titles up above U we’re going to head back to the station now to go and get on the handy Eurostar we flew here yesterday

Day before yesterday time is a blur and has lost all meaning uh we’re going to get the train back uh which is I think even more chill than flying cuz yeah you just you just relax sitting on a train you can it’s fine it’s chill so we’re

Going to go get some train snacks and go back to the UK thank you for joining us for a few days in Paris to come and see some the it’s been very nice it’s been lovely having You I’m micke Jo theater oh my God hey thanks for watching have a stagey day subscribe