This holiday season, a new stage show and a new lighting spectacle are combining to turn Cinderella’s Castle at Disney’s Magic Kingdom into a glimmering, shimmering ice palace! It all begins with the “Show before the Glow,” an all new holiday fairy tale featuring Mickey, Minnie and all the Disney characters on stage in front of the castle on Main Street USA.  While the characters debate what to do with the dark, unadorned castle for the holidays…the fairy Godmother appears and insists that Cinderella should make the decision.  When Cinderella appears, she wants her castle to sparkle like her glass slippers – and with a wave of fairy Godmother’s wand, her wish comes true asthe castle lights up with 200,000 tiny white lights, creating a shimmering look of ice and snow! This visual spectacular takes place at 5:45 pm nightly throughout the holiday season.

To mark the special 50th Anniversary of Dr. Seuss’s beloved Christmas story, Universal Studios is pulling out all the stops on a brand new, live musical starring The Grinch™ running Dec. 7, 2007 thru Jan. 1, 2008.

 This fun-filled retelling of “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” will have you singing and dancing along with Dr. Seuss’s classic holiday tale. Then you’ll have an opportunity to stroll around the Who-ville Wonky Tree Lot and take in the whimsical new decorations. It’s all part of the mischievous holiday celebrations at Grinchmas in Universal’s Islands of Adventure.Visitors to the Orlando theme park can even meet The Grinch up close and personal!  You can get an autograph, shake his hand, or have your photo taken with the mean, green one himself for a truly one-of-a-kind holiday memento! Character meeting times are listed on the park map.