American Tail Revue & Playland was an outdoor stage show from 1990 to 1997, featuring characters from the 1986 film "An American Tail." It was located where Despicable Me Minion Mayhem now stands, with the kid-friendly Fievel's Playland adjacent to the stage.
The set was designed to scale so that performers in mouse costumes appeared tiny. The lead mouse characters had animatronic eyes and mouths operated by the dancers via triggers in their gloves. Tiger the Cat was a mechanical puppet requiring three operators: one for each arm and a third seated in the torso. The torso operator controlled the head, mouth, eyes, and eyebrows using handlebars and cable triggers similar to bicycle brakes. The operator of Tiger's right arm also managed a cable control to open and close the lower two of Tiger's four fingers, allowing the cat to point and hold onto Fievel during parts of the show. The performance was set to a pre-recorded soundtrack.
Fievel still appears around the park as part of Streetmosphere.
ABOUT THE FILM
An American Tail is a 1986 animated musical adventure comedy-drama directed by Don Bluth with a screenplay by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss and a story by David Kirschner, Freudberg, and Geiss. Featuring voices by Phillip Glasser, John Finnegan, Amy Green, Nehemiah Persoff, Dom DeLuise, and Christopher Plummer, the film follows Fievel Mousekewitz and his family as they emigrate from Shostka to the United States for freedom, with Fievel getting lost and needing to reunite with them.
Released in the United States on November 21, 1986, by Universal Pictures, the film received mixed reviews. Still, it was a box office hit, becoming the highest-grossing non-Disney animated film of its time. Its success, along with that of The Land Before Time and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, led Steven Spielberg to establish his own animation studio, Amblimation, in London. The film spawned a franchise with a sequel, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991); a TV series, Fievel's American Tails (1992); and two direct-to-video sequels, An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island (1998) and An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster (1999).
A Fievel-themed playground, Fievel's Playland, was created at Universal Studios Florida. It features a giant water slide and oversized objects like books, glasses, and cowboy boots. A similar playground once existed at Universal Studios Hollywood, alongside a stage show based on the movies. Still, both were closed in 1997 and replaced by Coke Soak and Terminator 2 T2-3D: Battle Across Time. It remains the only such playground at any Universal Studios theme park.
MOTION PICTURE CAST
Erica Yohn - Mama Mousekewitz
Nehemiah Persoff - Papa Mousekewitz
Amy Green - Tanya Mousekewitz
Phillip Glasser - Fievel Mousekewitz
Christopher Plummer - Henri
John Finnegan - Warren T. Rat
Will Ryan - Digit
Hal Smith - Moe
Pat Musick - Tony Toponi
Cathianne Blore - Bridget
Neil Ross - Honest John
Madeline Kahn - Gussie Mausheimer
Dom DeLuise - Tiger
2019 Expanded edition tracklist
All lyrics are written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil; all music is composed by James Horner.
1. "Main Title" (score)
2. "The Cossack Cats" (score)
3. "Dissolve To Sea/Lullaby" (score)
4. "There Are No Cats In America" - Nehemiah Persoff, John Guarnieri, and Warren Hays
5. "The Storm" (score)
6. "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" (score)
7. "Never Say Never" - Phillip Glasser and Christopher Plummer
8. "Warren T. Rat/It Will Go Away" (score)
9. "Train Trestle" (score)
10. "The Market Place" (score)
11. "The Rumble" (score)
12. "Honest John And Gussie Mausheimer" (score)
13. "Somewhere Out There" - Phillip Glasser and Betsy Cathcart
14. "Building The Mouse Of Minsk" (score)
15. "Down In The Sewer/Chase In The Mauler's Den" (score)
16. "Gussie's Plan" (score)
17. "A Duo" - Phillip Glasser and Dom DeLuise
18. "Fievel's Escape" (score)
19. "Releasing The Secret Weapon" (score)
20. "The Great Fire" (score)
21. "Reunited" (score)
22. "Flying Away And End Credits" (score)
23. "Somewhere Out There" - Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram
24. "Poor Wandering One" (score) - Gilbert and Sullivan
25. "The Rally (Source)" (score)
26. "Somewhere Out There (Instrumental)"
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