Sleeping Beauty (1959 film) glass windows and figures. Princess Aurora (and, to a lesser extent, Prince Phillip, Fauna, Flora and Merryweather, Maleficent and her goons) makes regular appearances in the parks and parades. Maleficent is featured as one of the villains in the nighttime show "Fantasmic!" at Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios. A scaled-down one act stage musical version of the film with the title "Disney's Sleeping Beauty KIDS" is often performed by schools and children's theaters. With book and additional lyrics by Marcy Heisler and Bryan Louiselle, the show is composed of twelve musical numbers, including the movie songs. In Walt Disney Pictures'
Sleeping Beauty (1959 film) preceding three Disney animated features: "Alice in Wonderland", "Peter Pan", and "Lady and the Tramp". The high production costs of "Sleeping Beauty", coupled with the underperformance of much of the rest of Disney's 1959–1960 release slate, resulted in the company posting its first annual loss in a decade for fiscal year 1960, and there were massive lay-offs throughout the animation department. Like "Alice in Wonderland" (1951), which was not initially successful either, "Sleeping Beauty" was never re-released theatrically in Walt Disney's lifetime. However, it had many re-releases in theaters over the decades. The film was re-released theatrically in 1970, where