For years, Bruce Broughton’s music has been a backbone of numerous Disney experiences, from attractions, to sitting areas and walkways, to hotel lobbies and gift shops. “Ellen’s Energy Adventure,” “Spaceship Earth” (the current version), “It’s Tough to Be a Bug,” and “Honey, I Shrunk the Audience!” are just some of Broughton’s memorable and timeless contributions that live on even when the attraction doesn’t.

As part of Disneyland’s 70th anniversary celebration, the long-lived animatronic show, “Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln,” is now sharing a newly rotating stage with “Walt Disney – A Magical Life” featuring the visionary himself. As one would expect, the technology of animatronics has come a long way since the 16th president of the United States impressively and believably rose to his feet from a seated position and began to speak.

For many, though, it’s Bruce Broughton’s score that rises to the top, featuring new arrangements from his original score for the short film, “Walt Disney: One Man’s Dream,” which played at Walt Disney World’s Disney’s Hollywood Studios from 2001–2017. To quote from Brit Tuttle’s review in Disneyland News Today, “Our favorite finding was that Bruce Broughton returned to create new arrangements of the “Walt Disney: One Man’s Dream” score. Bruce has contributed some legendary pieces of music to Disney Parks…always delivering something that we can never remove from our memory. The One Man’s Dream score has been one of those pieces for us, so to hear it in a new way is very exciting.

Broughton’s contribution to the new show can be heard in full in this WDW News Today video.