"Seventeen hundred costumes, 500 lights, 13 projectors, 10 snow machines, 12 confetti cannons, 100 automation axes, and 115 automation cues, all in just 60 minutes - those are the numbers that make up the Disney Destiny's brand-new stage performance of Hercules. Meena Shayesteh, stage manager for the Walt Disney Theater on board the company's newest cruise, acknowledges that it's a lot. But it's also "so, so, so much fun.""
"Remembering what drew him to the Walt Disney Company in the first place, Quinn says: "I saw Fantasmic! [in Disneyland Resort] the summer it opened in 1992 and it blew my mind. I had never seen a show outside before. When Hook's ship appears out of nowhere in that show, my jaw was on the floor. I knew then I had to work for Disney.""
Seventeen hundred costumes and extensive technical elements are used in a 60-minute Hercules stage show on the Disney Destiny cruise ship. Meena Shayesteh, stage manager for the Walt Disney Theater on board, says the scale is a lot and calls the production "so, so, so much fun." The adaptation premiered in 2019 at Central Park's Delacorte Theater, starred Roger Bart as Hades, and opened in London's West End in 2025. Matthew Patrick Quinn returns as Hades after working for Disney Cruise Line 13 years earlier and after playing Hades in Hadestown on Broadway and its national tour. Several cast members recall childhood Disney experiences and cultural connections to Hercules.
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