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Disneyana Convention: 1995
(Convention Theme for '95: Happy Birthday, Donald!)
 My
first Disneyana Convention had to start a little late, due
to some graduate college classes I had to attend beforehand. Fortunately,
I did not have classes for the remainder of the week, and could attend the
entire last half of the convention! Unfortunately, one of the events I
missed was a Theme Night, held in the Magic Kingdom's
TomorrowLand! Darn; I missed it!
 The final banquet night was fantastic. It was devoted to a salute to
the late Howard Ashman, the other half of the Ashman & (Alan) Menken
duo that created the music to The Little Mermaid, Beauty & the
Beast,
and Aladdin. Sadly, Howard passed away, soon before Aladdin was
completed. Guests sang his award-winning songs, live, including many of
the original voices of the characters from those films:  Jodi Benson (Ariel
from The Little Mermaid), Samuel E. Wright (who played Ariel's friend,
Sebastian the Crab), and Paige O'Hara (Belle from Beauty & the Beast).
A salute to one of Disney Studio's best modern songwriters was one thing;
in-person, live cameos of the singing talent from those films, made it
even more spectacular.
While my stay was short that year, it was enough to make me go again
the very next year...and the year after...and the year after that! While
the free, ceramic Donald Duck statue offered on Banquet Night was a little too
fragile for its own good, the theme of "Donald's Birthday" was a
lot of fun, and the salute to Howard Ashman was worth the whole trip in
itself.
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