Disney: Neil Patrick Harris, other stars post Candlelight Processional memories

Celebrities are just like everyone else. They come to Walt Disney World over the holidays and then post about it on social media.

Granted, it’s a working vacation for people who accept narration duties at Epcot’s Candlelight Processional, such as actor Neil Patrick Harris, who completed his 10th time at the event this month.

Harris also attended the 500th performance of “Drawn to Life,” the Cirque du Soleil based at Disney Springs. He posted multiple videos from the show on his Instagram account, and Harris can be heard reacting to the acts, particularly for acrobatic stunts launched from a seesaw mechanism.

Harris posed with the “Drawn to Life” cast alongside husband David Burtka and their children Harper and Gideon.

“If you’re in Orlando, it’s a must-see event,” Harris wrote on Instagram. “The story is the perfect mix of Disney magic and Cirque magnificence.”

During one of his Candlelight Processional appearances, Harris joked that the Voices of Liberty group was, in fact, made up of animatronic figures.

Josh Gad, who voiced Olaf in Disney’s “Frozen” movie, also commented during Candlelight that the “hens” on Splash Mountain would soon be frogs, a reference to the Magic Kingdom ride’s impending metamorphosis into Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, based on characters from “The Princess and the Frog.”

Gad also posted onboard video on his Instagram account from Splash Mountain and neighboring Big Thunder Mountain Railroad as well as part of the “Frozen 2″ segment of the “Fantasmic” show at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

Mariska Hargitay (”Law & Order: SVU) posted an onboard photo from Epcot’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind coaster on her Instagram account along with other family scenes from Disney World. “Best ride in the galaxy,” she wrote.

Marie Osmond and Gloria Estefan posted videos featuring Voices of Liberty singing “We Wish You a Merry Christmas,” and Estefan and Gad both showed rehearsals of the mass choir backstage.

Hargitay, Gad and Estefan were all first-time narrators, along with Daymond John (“Shark Tank”), who posted a photo of himself at Candlelight wearing a top hat.

“I have sincerely enjoyed being here … maybe a little too much,” John told a Candlelight Processional audience.

The 2022 edition of Candlelight Processional, which is included in regular Epcot admission, wraps up Friday with narrator Angela Bassett.

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