The Candlelight Processional is a staple of Walt Disney World’s holiday season. It’s popular every year, and Dining Packages for the show have been selling out fast. Disney just shared a new update on the celebrity narrator lineup.
Following a previous removal, a replacement celebrity narrator has been announced for the EPCOT Candlelight Processional. We have details and dates for the new addition and the entire roster for this year’s event. Mickey Visit brings you the latest Disney news and planning resources, including Disney’s quiet clues for Tally the Elf potentially returning for this year’s holiday season and Disney working on a new Halloweentown movie 20 years after the last film.
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Disney Completes EPCOT Candlelight Processional Narrators List
The Candlelight Processional will return to Walt Disney World as part of the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays, performing three times nightly from November 27 through December 30, 2026. It’s a grand Christmas pageant led by a celebrity narrator reading the Nativity story of Jesus’s birth, accompanied by dozens of vocalists and a live orchestra.
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Disney previously announced that Auli’i Cravalho, the voice of Moana, would be the Candlelight Processional’s celebrity narrator on November 27 and November 28. Later, Cravalho was quietly removed from the schedule, with her dates listed with a TBA narrator. We now know who will replace her, completing the lineup of 2026’s narrators.
Jordan Fisher will narrate EPCOT’s Candlelight Processional on November 27 and November 28, returning to the event for his third year. His previous stints were in 2023 and 2025.
Fisher replacing Cravalho’s dates is coincidentally appropriate, considering Fisher sang the radio version of “You’re Welcome,” along with Lin-Manuel Miranda, on the Moana soundtrack.
Among Disney theme park fans, Fisher is perhaps best known for performing the vocals for “Happily Ever After,” the titular song of Magic Kingdom‘s fireworks show, which he sings with Angie K. When he’s hosted the Candlelight Processional in years past, Fisher has even started the show by singing the familiar “Happily Ever After” refrain of “Ready to begin…”
Fisher is a huge Disney fan, and he and his wife Ellie Woods got married at Walt Disney World. His other Disney connections include appearances in Teen Beach Movie, Liv and Maddie, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, and Star Wars: Visions, plus winning Dancing With the Stars in 2017.
With Fisher’s reveal, here’s the full list of EPCOT Candlelight Processional narrators for 2026:
- November 27 & 28: Jordan Fisher
- November 29 & 30 and December 1: Gary Sinise
- December 2 & 3: Benjamin Bratt (New for 2026)
- December 4 & 5: Whoopi Goldberg
- December 6 & 7: Robin Roberts (New for 2026)
- December 8 & 9: Jason Kelce (New for 2026)
- December 10, 11, & 12: Neil Patrick Harris
- December 13 & 14: Josh Groban (New for 2026)
- December 15 & 16: Lauren Daigle
- December 17, 18, & 19: Ralph Macchio
- December 20 & 21: Henry Winkler
- December 22 & 23: Lacey Chabert (New for 2026)
- December 24 & 25: Jodi Benson
- December 26 & 27: Simu Liu
- December 28, 29, & 30: Eva Longoria
Reservations for Candlelight Processional Dining Packages launched on October 15 for the first few dates, and have been continuing to roll out since then on a day-by-day basis in accordance with Disney’s 60-day-ahead dining reservations procedure. Dining Packages are selling out fast, with some of our readers commenting that their preferred dates are gone even at the 60-day mark, as Disney resort guests get a head start. See more about Candlelight Processional Dining Packages and the reservation process.
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The Candlelight Processional is one component of the park-wide EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays from November 27 through December 30. The event happens during regular park hours rather than taking place as a separately ticketed party. Beyond the Candlelight Processional, highlights include cultural holiday storytellers in each World Showcase pavilion, gospel choir performances, Christmas lights inside the greenhouses of the Living With the Land boat ride, and dozens of unique food and beverage items. Disney hasn’t revealed the menus for this year’s festival yet.
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