Summary
The attraction is a live show featuring dogs, cats, birds, pigs, and other animals in a covered outdoor theatre. This show integrates video segments with live sketches, jokes, and animal tricks performed onstage. A human trainer acts as the show's host, explaining how the animals are conditioned to perform the tricks. Several of the animals are veteran actors of TV and film productions, many who were rescued from shelters. The show usually makes use of audience volunteers, mostly children, during several of its training segments. After the show, guests are invited to meet and pet some of the animals. The show's rotation of animals has varied throughout the years, including otters, horses, orangutans, and skunks. Animal performers that have appeared throughout the attraction's run have starred as: * Babe * Beethoven * Marley from Marley & Me * Max from The Grinch * Frank the Pug from Men In Black * Additional animals from Evan Almighty, Night at the Museum,History
The attraction opened in Hollywood as "Animal Actors School Stage" in 1970, in Florida as "Animal Actors Stage" in 1990, and in Japan as "Animal Actors Stage" in 2001. Both US versions of the attraction received an Animal Planet-sponsored theming from 2001 to 2006. The Japanese iteration of the attraction was rethemed to "Toto & Friends"'','' as part of the Land of Oz area in 2006, until being closed for the construction of the Universal Wonderland area in 2011. The Hollywood incarnation of the attraction, known as "Universal's Animal Actors," will close on January 8, 2023 and be replaced by what is rumored to be a Fast & the Furious-themed rollercoaster.References
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