Walt Disney World "bloodbath" - layoffs slash entertainment, leaving big shows in limbo.

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https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/arts-and-theater/os-disney-world-actors-laid-off-shows-20201028-kj25sqz7fnfjhekptminkzjfey-story.htmlWalt Disney World laid off entertainers from its highest-profile shows Tuesday night in what some described as a “bloodbath” as the scale of the layoffs rocked the Central Florida arts community.

The deluge of pink slips showed the theme park has no foreseeable plans to remount marquee attractions such as “Festival of the Lion King” or “Finding Nemo: The Musical,” both of which have been dark since COVID-19 shut the parks this spring.

Even the cast of the venerable “Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue” dinner show, which has run since 1974, wasn’t immune from the latest round of Disney dismissals.

“Claire DeLune, you were a dream come true,” wrote performer Nicolette Quintero, referring to one of the “Hoop-Dee-Doo” characters.

“My dream role at my dream company on one of my favorite stages,” Quintero posted on Facebook. “Today is a very hard day.”

The entertainment cuts — which number in the hundreds — are part of the 28,000 companywide layoffs announced by Disney in late September. As more and more performers took to social media to report receiving “that email” from Disney, the mood turned grim. One commenter likened it to the Red Wedding — the notoriously horrifying massacre from “Game of Thrones.”


Among those cut: Performers who chatted with guests on Main Street USA in the Magic Kingdom and performed as the Citizens of Hollywood at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Some who lost their jobs reported that nearly the entire cast and crew of such attractions as “Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor” at Magic Kingdom and “Beauty and the Beast — Live on Stage” and “Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular,” both at Hollywood Studios, had been laid off.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/arts-and-theater/os-disney-world-actors-laid-off-shows-20201028-kj25sqz7fnfjhekptminkzjfey-story.html

[Blue Owl]

1. Thanks, Donald

[TheRealNorth]

2. Biden needs to pre-emptively blame this on Trump fucking up the Covid response

And I mean issue a statement tonight.

Otherwise, Trump is going to try to blame the layoff on Democrats who are taking Covid seriously.

Biden needs to put Trump on the defensive, and not the other way around.