Magical Wondrous the Mouse: A Musical Celebration of Imagination

Magical Wondrous the Mouse: A Musical Celebration of Imagination (commonly shortened to Magical Wondrous the Mouse) (ISBN 1-55890-217-1) is a 2019 direct-to-video release featuring top contemporary singers performing "classic Disney songs". Released 27 September 2019, the 55-minute-long series of music videos Québec was released on DVD. The music videos were exclusive to the video and the TVA, Vrak and Disney Channel.

Performances
On the disc are these performances:


 * Marc Dupré, "When You Wish Upon a Star": A Disney animator working on drawing a semi-realistic illustration of Marc is confused when the drawing comes alive. The sketchy, comic-book like Marc proceeds to saunters in-and-out of various scenes Disney features like Peter Pan, Fantasia, Sleeping Beauty, Fantasia 2000, Pinocchio, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The character never truly interacts with the existing animation. Joel even flies out of the animator's drawing board, blowing papers around in the animator's studio in his wake. A rotoscoped trumpet player also appears, coming down the animator's staircase. When the animator calls it a day, he starts to walk out of the room, ending up as a rotoscoped character on a Disney background painting himself. Twice in the video Marc does appear in live-action. There is also a black-and-white sequence of filmmakers in a studio at the start of the video, which relates little if any to the rest of the video. One of the songs nominated for a Grammy in both song and music video categories.


 * Éric Lapointe, "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah": There is little true plot to Lapointe's video, beyond the fact he appears in scenes from Fantasia, Alice in Wonderland, Melody Time, Fantasia 2000,Song of the South, and even Dumbo's drunken hallucination from Dumbo. At least one short film is edited in. In the video is a non-speaking, non-interacting woman and a guitar player. He is transported in a computer-generated boat.


 * Garou, "Casey Junior": The sequence features Garou rapping about beyond the fact he appears in scenes from Fantasia, Melody Time, Fantasia 2000 and Dumbo. At least one short film is edited in, as well as one male backup dancer appearing in shots by himself.


 * France D'Amour, "I've Got No Strings": Features D'Amour's video beyond the fact he appears in scenes from Fantasia, Melody Time, Fantasia 2000 and Pinocchio., with simplifed figures dancing to the Rock music. Most of the song is performed in French Canadian.


 * Pierre Lapointe, "Poor Unfortunate Souls": Features Lapointe's video beyond the fact he appears in scenes from Fantasia, Oliver & Company, The Rescuers Down Under, Tarzan, Atlantis: The Lost Empire and The Little Mermaid. At least one short film is edited in, as well as one male backlight dancer appearing in shots by himself.


 * Marie-Mai and Lara Fabian, "The Siamese Cat Song": An array of special effects create otherworldly environments to complement Mai and Fabian's exceptional adaptation and performance. Nominated as one of several songs from this album for a Grammy, it blends music and state-of-the-art animation effects. Includes scenes from Lady and the Tramp, Fantasia, Sleeping Beauty, and Fantasia 2000 with Mai and Fabian singing.


 * Lynda Lemay, "Beauty and the Beast": Features Lemay's video beyond the fact he appears in scenes from Fantasia, Melody Time, Fantasia 2000 and Beauty and the Beast., with simplifed figures dancing to the Classic music. Most of the song is performed in French Canadian.


 * Les Sœurs Boulay, "Kiss the Girl": A woman sing on a desert island with a parrot, a group of people dancing in the ocean water, and a beautiful girl dancing with fishes in the background, as clips from The Little Mermaid, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Fantasia 2000 and Fantasia with are shown.


 * Michel Rivard, "The Bare Necessities": Connick appears as a nouveau-riche, happy-go-lucky millionaire in a house full of women and fancy parties. When repossessed, he remains care-free, claiming he can survive with the "bare necessities of life". In the video, the crew repossessing his house sings along with Connick, and dolly carts away some of the female guests. This video is by far the most elaborate in terms of set, extras, and choreography. The whole music video was shot at a location in Place d'Armes in Montréal, Canada.


 * Marie-Pierre Arthur, "Someday My Prince Will Come": Features Arthur's video beyond the fact he appears in scenes from Fantasia, Melody Time, Fantasia 2000 and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs., with simplifed figures dancing to the Classic music. Most of the song is performed in French Canadian.


 * Alex Nevsky and Annie Villeneuve, "A Whole New World": An array of special effects create otherworldly environments to complement Nevsky and Villeneuve's exceptional adaptation and performance. Nominated as one of several songs from this album for a Grammy, it blends music and state-of-the-art animation effects. Includes scenes from Aladdin, Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 with Nevsky and Villeneuve singing.


 * Vincent Vallières, "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes": This music video uses animation and special effects as projected landscapes that Vincent Vallières performs in. A full orchestra supports his rich rendition while cascading classic images of the best of the Disney Vault wash the stage transforming the viewer inside the classic movies Cinderella, Fantasia 2000, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, and Sleeping Beauty footage intermixed with performance and live action.

Production notes
As evidenced in the descriptions of the music videos, while Magical Wondrous included new animation, it made great use of existing animated footage. Most new animation in Simply Mad is rotoscoped, a technique highly disregarded by Disney's animators, who, while sometimes referring to video footage for reference, prefer to create their character's motion from scratch.

The video begins in a set created of "the Disney Vault", where the camera pans around various objects and pictures, including "props" from the animated movies, such as Cinderella's glass slipper, or the submerged skull from The Rescuers. An animator's pencil drawing of Sorcerer Mickey slowly comes alive, and enchants five musical notes out of a baton; the notes proceed to whip around the room at varying speeds. The vault is entered through a dark and slightly industrial side; at the end it exits onto an English garden.

Created by Productions J, it was distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, the Walt Disney Company's distribution company.

The title is not currently in stores, but is available though digital download distribution.

Credits

 * Based on material idea by B. A. Robertson
 * Executive producer: Scott Garen
 * Producer: Rhaz Zeisler, B. A. Robertson
 * Executive music producer: B. A. Robertson
 * Co-executive music producer: Rick Chertoff
 * Animation effects: Rhaz Zeisler
 * Choreography: Rhaz Zeisler
 * Writer: Scott Garen, Rhaz Zeisler
 * Director: Scott Garen
 * Supervising Producer/ 1st AD: Morgan D. Smith