Hi there, Disney Fans!

     I know I just shared the booth menus for this year's Epcot International Festival of the Holidays, but it's already time to start talking about Epcot's other winter festival, the 2019 Epcot International Festival of the Arts! 2019 will be the Festival's 3rd year returning to the park, and it promises to be even bigger and better than ever before! This year's Festival will run from January 18th-February 25th, and just like in it's previous years, it will celebrate visual arts with gallery displays, topiaries and demonstrations, culinary arts with food booths similar to those of Food and Wine Festival, and performing arts with live performances from not only local schools and performers, but also from famous Broadway performers, in spectacular concerts on The American Gardens Stage. This year's performers have just been announced, so let's check them out!:

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- Kerry Butler originated the role of Belle with the Toronto company of "Beauty and the Beast". She is also known for originating both the roles of Penny Pingleton in "Hairspray" and Brenda Strong in "Catch Me If You Can". More recently, she appeared in "Mean Girls" on Broadway as Mrs. Norbury/Mrs. Heron/Mrs. George, and she is currently in the world premiere of "Beetlejuice" in Washington DC.
- Steve Blanchard originated the role of Joseph Pulitzer in the Broadway musical version of "Newsies" and also appeared in the live version that showed in movie theaters. He has also starred as King Triton in "The Little Mermaid" on Broadway and as Gaston in "Beauty and the Beast". He will be appearing at Epcot with his wife, Meredith Inglesby, whom he also starred in "Newsies" with.

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- Arielle Jacobs originated the roll of Nina in Lin Manuel Miranda's Broadway smash, "In The Heights". More recently she has been known to fans as Princess Jasmine in the Broadway production of "Aladdin". She will be performing at Epcot with her brother, Adam Jacobs, who originated the role of Aladdin on Broadway.

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- Adam Jacobs originated the starring roll in Disney's Broadway hit "Aladdin". He has also played Simba in "The Lion King" on Broadway and has also appeared in "Once on This Island". He will be performing at Epcot with his sister, Arielle Jacobs.

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- Gavin Lee is best known for originating the role of Burt in the Broadway production of"Mary Poppins". He also is known as Squidward from "Spongebob Squarepants: The Musical".

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- Josh Strickland originated the role of Tarzan when the show appeared on Broadway. He is friends with Holly Madison of "The Girl's Next Door" fame, and has also starred alongside her in her Vegas production, "Peepshow".

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- Kissy Simmons is a local native of her namesake hometown, Kissimmee. She starred on Broadway as Nala in "The Lion King", and also appeared on the Broadway-themed tv show, 'Smash".

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- Alton Fitzgerald White is known to many as Mufasa from Broadway's "The Lion King", but his background includes roles on stage in "Miss Saigon", "The Color Purple", "Smokey Joe's Cafe", and more. He is also the author of his autobiographical book, "My Pride".