EPCOT Cancels Luminous Nighttime Fireworks Show on May 20

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Posted: Wednesday May 21, 2025 8:12pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

EPCOT’s nighttime spectacular Luminous The Symphony of Us was unexpectedly cancelled this evening, May 20, 2025. The show was scheduled for 9 pm, but Disney sent out a push notification via the My Disney Experience app at 8:10 pm notifying guests that it would not take place.

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The notification in My Disney Experience reads:

Important Update
Tonight's presentation of Luminous - The Symphony of Us has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Nighttime shows at Walt Disney World are typically very reliable and rarely cancelled. Cancellations usually occur only during extreme weather or due to fire risk. While today’s temperatures were high, there were no severe storms or lightning in the area that would have prevented the show from being loaded or fired. As of now, Disney has not provided a reason for the cancellation, but it would seem likely to be due to technical difficulties.

Luminous the Symphony of Us show

Luminous The Symphony of Us is currently still scheduled to run tomorrow, May 21, at 9 pm according to the official entertainment calendar.

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Chef idea Mickey`=21 days ago

Yup! I was there and actually decided to let go and leave because I felt some rain drops. As soon as I started walking toward the international gateway exit I heard the announcement saying Luminous has been delayed and not cancelled. For me I thought that was due to the weather only because I had not noticed the barges weren't out. It certainly was past 8:30 when I was standing there

peter1143521 days ago

This thread was created at 8:15 after it was announced at 8:10 that the show was cancelled. Are you saying that they played a delayed announcement at 9 even though they had already announced it was cancelled?

Chef idea Mickey`=21 days ago

I was there that evening to catch Luminous. It was right before it got to 9pm. They announced that Luminous has been delayed. Funny enough I was so focused on the concert that day that it didn't strike me that the barges weren't present also I was standing at the UK a new spot and must thought the barges were hidden behind the UK building from my vantage point.

peter1143521 days ago

What?

Chef idea Mickey`=21 days ago

For me it's more why keep saying it's delayed when it's 9pm. If your announcing at 9pm that the show has been delayed is then not a good sign because then at say 9:20 your then going to say Luminous has been cancelled for this evening when there's no bad weather and people think it was delayed not unable to perform...

Comped22 days ago

According to Don Dorsey (and former WDE Exec Ron Logan's book Walt Disney Entertainment: A Retrospective Look, highly worth a read if you can find it), it was as much to do with complaints from guests about the terrible views (and also from park management about the same) as it was a lack of financial gain. The old shows were terrible at Epcot because the tech and knowledge that got refined over literally a decade wasn't there when Epcot opened...

THEMEPARKPIONEER22 days ago

Because that show brings in money to the food establishments and retail, people leave to go see happily ever after at 6:00 it’s over, people stay to 8:10 they make their money. Thats also why they do the shows in the round because back then when the shows were viewed form the front the complaint was that they weren’t making money in the countries where the show wasn’t viewable.