Disney has announced this year’s celebrity narrators for the 2017 Candlelight Processional, which include Disney legend Kurt Russell, who has grown up in Disney films from the 1960s through this year’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.”
Other big time celebrities who agreed to read the Christmas story are gold- and silver-medal-winning gymnast Laurie Hernandez, daytime television host Pat Sajak and Jodi Benson, voice of Ariel in Disney’s “The Little Mermaid.”
The annual procession is part of the Epcot International Festival of the Holidays. It presents the traditional Christmas story with a celebrity narrator, a 50-piece orchestra and a massed choir.
The processional is performed at 5, 6:45 and 8:15 p.m. nightly at the America Gardens Theatre. Dinner packages, available on select nights, include a meal and a guaranteed seat for one of the performances.
Here is the list of narrators, which is subject to change:
Nov. 24- 26 – Laurie Hernandez
Nov. 27-28 – Matt Bomer
Nov. 29 – 30 – Ana Gasteyer
Dec. 1-3 – Whoopi Goldberg
Dec. 4-5 – Pat Sajak
Dec. 6-8 – Jodi Benson
Dec. 9-11 – Kurt Russell
Dec. 12-14 – Warwick Davis
Dec. 15-17 – Trace Adkins
Dec. 18-21 – Neil Patrick Harris
Dec. 22-24 – CCH Pounder
Dec. 25-27 – Jaci Velasquez
Dec. 28-30 – Chandra Wilson