Fritz is one of the masters-of-ceremony from Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room.
History[]
Background[]
Origins[]
Michael as an enchanted, talking parrot who lives in the Enchanted Tiki Room of Polynesia in the 20th century. He had a German accent and serves as one of the four masters of ceremony for the Tiki Room's musical revues, being accompanied in this position by three other parrots named Michael, Pierre and José.
By the 1930s, the Enchanted Tiki Room boomed in popularity as a musical-revue show, partly thanks to business from the Jungle Navigation Company. The company's founding-family the Falls would seemingly hang a chandelier in their mansion's parlour depicting the four masters of ceremony. The show also had a connection to Walt Disney who became the namesake of the Tiki Room's revue, "Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room".
Later history[]
According to José and Fritz, the Tiki Room would establish a routine in 1963 that went unchanged for decades. At some point around the 1990s (implied to be after the June of 1994), the Tiki Room was purchased by Hollywood executives and sold by the agent birds William and Morris to the birds Iago and Zazu. Iago intended on transforming the Tiki Room into a revue centred around himself, only to anger the goddess of disaster, Uh-Oa. Uh-Oa maimed Iago as punishment and it is likely that following this, the two birds revoked or reduced their management of the Tiki Room.
Following these events, the four masters-of-ceremony seemingly left their positions for new birds such as Danno, Scats, Buddy, and Lava around the 2000s.
Jungle Cruise appearances[]
Skipper Canteen[]
In the Falls family parlour of the Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen is a chandelier modelled after the four masters of ceremony of the Tiki room.
Other connections[]
Magic of Disney Animation[]
The film Mouse Pacific credits choreographer Fritz Ravenscroft.
Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room[]
Fritz is one of the four masters of ceremony in this show.
The Enchanted Tiki Room: Under New Management[]
Other appearances[]
Disney's Hollywood Hotel[]
Trivia[]
- Fritz's voice-actor was Thurl Ravenscroft, who among other Disney roles, voiced the skipper in the 1968 Disneyland Records product, "The Enchanted Tiki Room & the Adventurous Jungle Cruise".
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