Grab a drink and a Mickey pretzel and head for a seat alongside the lagoon and listen to some great music at any of the concert series that call the stage home. The Candlelight Processional in tech rehearsal at Epcot's America Gardens Theater. While I don't imagine I'll ever get to see Bruce or the Dead play in the America Gardens Theater, it is a heck of a place to see a show. I've often heard Phil Lesh, bass player for The Grateful Dead, say the following about the legendary Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York, "You can just feel the history dripping from the walls can't you?" And my other rock hero, Bruce Springsteen has been very vocal about his love of the old, weird, cramped hockey and basketball arenas that he grew up playing in rather than today's more sleek and polished venues. Any band can play in any venue anywhere, but there are some venues that have a distinct feeling. I find myself thinking, "What would it be like to see a show here?" I'm big on atmosphere. I'm always curious about performance spaces. I'm a big concertgoer, and have been since I was 14. Let's take a closer look with my Top 5 things to see in Epcot's American Adventure. That isn't to say that there's nothing to see here. Unless we have a specific reason for stopping, we typically don't. More often than not it's something we pass by on the way to the neighboring nations. I owned up to being Italian and not spending too much time in the Italy pavilion, and now I'm going to own up to being American and not spending too much time in the American pavilion. The current placement makes much more sense. That notion created what I would imagine would have been major traffic flow problems, not to mention how it would potentially obstruct the view across the lagoon. You would have exited Spaceship Earth, walked past what is now the fountain area, and you'd be faced with a large building celebrating America.
I've seen concept art that actually had an American pavilion of sorts on the other side of the lagoon. The American Adventure has no full-service restaurant, only one small shop, and lacks a "village" area like many of the other pavilions have. The host nation needs its own special place and that place is dead center hallway between your "visiting" nations. Now, in this writer's personal opinion, The American Adventure isn't actually a country pavilion like the other nations that surround World Showcase Lagoon. And what is it that you find halfway around the lagoon? The American Adventure in all its patriotic splendor. Last time, we were in Italy on our sojourn around Epcot's World Showcase and that means that we've hit the middle. We're here to talk about Walt Disney World aren't we? And that's where I'll end the political discussion for today.
Sometimes, actually it seems all too often, as a nation, we lose sight of that. Freedom, real freedom, as it was espoused and celebrated in our country's formative years, takes a lot of work and a lot of patience. It's a whole lot more than flying a flag on my front lawn, or wearing a flag lapel pin on my suit jacket. The ideals of America run deeper then that for me. But, I've never been one for wearing shirts with our flag on them and that sort of thing. I do love this country even though it drives me crazy sometimes. I've never been an overly patriotic type.
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