He had some strong feelings about Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room 😳
The concept of birds and cages that sing came from Disneyland’s lost Chinatown. They were in the planned Chinese restaurant, which would have had a show with singing mechanical nightingale birds in cages on the stage. Wally Boag wrote the script and did character voices for that show, and because he did such a good job, even though that project was scrapped, Walt put him on the Tiki room project. That is why he does the voice of the MacAudio José.
As for John Hench, he said in an interview with Alain Littaye in 1996, “The show would have come to life very gradually. But with no restaurant, you can’t make a show like that. It must have an overture. And we tried to fix that right up until the last minute before the tiki room’s official opening. We had to pretend that the birds were asleep… and we started the show that way which was very bad. I was always embarrassed about this. Because you can’t design a show for one operation and then make a change so radically.”
For the record, John Hench also hated the Offenbach instrumental piece that was in the middle. I think he would approve of the fact that it doesn’t exist in the show today 😂 But if you still want to hear it, just listen carefully when seated in the Tropical Hideaway area 😉
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