Jodi Benson

That's right.

And last year, my wife and I went to watch Jodi Benson.

We absolutely love her.

We have to do it again.

I was like, no, no, no, we don't need to go into the parks.

We're going to have a great time as a family just at the resort, blah, blah, blah.

And then I saw that Jodi Benson is doing Christmas night, and I was like, okay, what if I bought my own ticket just for me? All of a sudden, you guys are at San Angelo Inn, and Madison comes and sits by you, and you're like, welcome! It's literally Christmas Day, and I'm leaving my family.

Bye! Where

We, we have to consider that some of these people, we don't know who they are and there's been multiple voice actors.

So why do I care as much, even if I know who it is, why do I care as much, especially, you know, I, I think Jody Benson doing the voice of Ariel and signing is cool, but I, I do recognize and I connect Jody Benson with Ariel.

However, I don't Halle Berry or what is it? Haley, Haley Berry, Haley Berry.

Like I don't, I don't necessarily need a Haley Berry one, but I also don't have to have a Jody Benson one either.

I just want the aerial card.

You want like a

I like learned how to sing by imitating the singing of the characters.

So it's like I learned like phrasing and like breath support from Pocahontas, which I guess is Judy Kuhn, The Little Mermaid for Jodie Benson, and I think Pedro Herrera? for Beauty and the Beast, for Belle.

But yeah, so those three like shaped my singing voice without me realizing it until later I realized, oh, I've been imitating them my whole life.

No wonder those feel so comfortable to sing.

And we came out of those two days amazingly with a pretty solid basis for what was done in the movie.

Before we wrote the script, so when we wrote the script, this was while Howard was directing Smile, a musical called Smile starring Jodie Benson in New York.

We were writing the script.

We didn't have the songs yet, but we wrote kind of what we thought they would be from talking to Howard and kind of describing them.

Benson.

Jodie Benson.

What's Jodie Benson doing these days?

I don't know.

She did a really cool, she was at D23, she did a really cool cover of Poor Unfortunate Souls where she sounded just like the original Ursula.

okay i was i literally was sitting here

little mermaid i loved it i was i was i was like this these are some real big shoes to fill fins whatever because i am obsessed i love little mermaid i love jody benson and i i'm like but that movie the live action in my opinion made the animated better

Okay, so I was going to say a close, close second is Little Mermaid.

And it's because of three reasons.

Lacey Chabert is a new narrator this year, which makes sense because isn't she in that new Hallmark Christmas movie that was filmed at Disney last year? I could be wrong.

We've got Jodie Benson.

We've got Simu Liu and Eva Longoria.

So some really great options for narrators.

Listeners, tell me how the heck to pronounce that.

Um- Ralph Mac- uh, Macchio, Henry Winkler, Lacey Chabert, another one that I'm like, "Really? You've never done this before?" Jodi Benson, Simu Liu, and Eva Longoria.

So, uh, not that I can afford to fly across country again, but I wanna be there for December 10th through 12th for NPH, uh, and December 20th and 21st for Henry Winkler, and the 22nd and 23rd for Lacey.

So there is that, and then I thought I had something else.

Her.

Jodi Benson, Simu Lee, and Eva Longoria.

To round out the Candlelight Processional Celebrity Narrators, our family's going to try to see Jason Kelsey.

We will see if that ends up happening.