Today Disney announced on the Disney Parks’s TikTok page, “Finding Nemo: The Big Blue … and Beyond!” will debut Monday, 13 June 2022 at Theatre In the Wild at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park. It will be a Genie+ Lightning Lane selection.
The 25-minute staged musical, which has been closed since March 2020, has been reimagined. The new show picks up with a group of fish from Dr. P. Sherman’s office in “Finding Nemo,” who have made their way across the ocean to the Marine Life Institute. They tell Nemo’s story in this fully updated show, incorporating live performers and puppets, along with many of the beloved songs and production numbers from the original “Finding Nemo: The Musical.”
“In addition to a new script, the show will feature new scenic set pieces and a new LED video wall designed to visually extend the world created by the physical sets on stage,” stated Joey McElroy, Communication Manager, Disney Live Entertainment. “We aren’t talking small set pieces either. Be on the lookout for a 32-foot-long sunken submarine and a fish tank volcano standing nearly 15 feet tall!”
Disney Imagineers worked closely in collaboration with Pixar Animation Studios, artists, and designers at Disney Live Entertainment. They developed a new aesthetic for “Finding Nemo: The Big Blue… and Beyond!” inspired by layered, cut paper sculptures. The resulting look is fresh and unique to the show while staying true to the designs in the original film.
