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) 70mm prints. The Super Technirama 70 prints were equipped with six-track stereophonic sound; some CinemaScope-compatible 35mm Technirama prints were released in four-track stereo, and others had monaural soundtracks. On the initial run, "Sleeping Beauty" was paired with the short musical/documentary film "Grand Canyon" which won an Academy Award. During its original release in January 1959, "Sleeping Beauty" grossed approximately $5.3 million in theater rentals (the distributor's share of the box office gross). "Sleeping Beauty's" production costs, which totaled $6 million, made it the most expensive Disney film up to that point, and over twice as expensive as each of the