The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) of the storyline of the film, the sorcerer's final anger with his apprentice which appears in "Fantasia" does not appear in Goethe's source poem, "Der Zauberlehrling". The popularity of the musical piece in "Fantasia" led to it being used again in "Fantasia 2000". A decade prior to "Fantasia", in 1930 William Cameron Menzies directed and Joseph M. Schenck produced a series of four short films of classical music. One of the four, based on the Dukas music, was titled "The Wizard's Apprentice"; this short film has been released on DVD and shown on Classic Arts Showcase. In 1931, the Dukas
The Sorcerer The spell broken, the villagers pair off according to their true feelings, and celebrate with another feast (reprise of "Now to the banquet we press"). "The Sorcerer" opened on 17 November 1877 at the Opera Comique, preceded by "Dora's Dream", a curtain-raiser composed by Sullivan's assistant Alfred Cellier, with words by Arthur Cecil, a friend of both Gilbert's and Sullivan's. Busy with last-minute cuts and changes the day before the show opened, Sullivan had no time to write an overture and used the "Graceful Dance" music from his incidental music to "Henry VIII", together with a few measures of music