Muto: A Drug-free Hallucination Experience

For those of you who want to hallucinate without taking drugs, I thought I'd share a video I received from a friend.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

WWS Hats Summoned Using Shaman Magic

Each guest at Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show receives a free cowboy hat, roughly 10 million so far, each one created by a member of the Wild West Show staff using a shamanic technique practiced by aboriginal tribes for centuries but virtually unknown in modern society until now. The video below contains never-before-seen footage of this extremely rare and delicate art form, called "summoning," which involves channeling the natural forces of the universe. With hundreds of hats to summon nightly, the process is virtually never-ending. This video was shot following a recent informal dinner engagement with friends.

Happy Thanksgiving from Wild West Show Cast Members

This video is of some of the Americans and their French colleagues who work at Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (La Legende de Buffalo Bill) Disney Village, Disneyland Resort Paris France, sharing their thoughts about Thanksgiving. The first part of the video was taped in and around Plymouth and Plimoth Planatation in Massachusetts during a family holiday there last summmer.

(Revised) Christian Starr Featured on ESPN

Christian Starr, one of the newest members of what used to be called the "Stunt Team" (now called "The Supporting Actors") has returned to the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (La Legende de Buffalo Bill, Disney Village, Disneyland Paris France) following several months spent back in the states waiting for his working papers to be processed. While in the states, Christianfeatured in an ESPN lead-in to a big college game in Colorado. Here is the video captured from the ESPN feed.


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On a side-note, I agree that perhaps "Stunt Team" may not be the most differentiating description of the team to which Christian belongs. Most Wild West Show performers engage in stunts -- in many cases more dangerous stunts than the "Stunt Team. " However "Supporting Actor" differentiates even less since virtually all non-principal performers are Supporting Actors, whether or not they have audible lines of text. Moreover, excluding the cowboys and Indians from the category of "Supporting Actors" risks having the effect of making them feel that management respects less their contribution. This serves no purpose but to lower morale. Cowboys, Indians, Stunts, and arguably Musicians, are all supporting actors in the show.

In my view at least two things differentiate the team to which Christian belongs:
1) three among the team have microphone-enhanced text which drives the show forward in the text-based scenes where no principal actor is present and
2) every intentionally comedic moment in the show is performed by the "Stunt Team"

So if "Stunt Team" is to be discarded, I think this team should be called "The Comedy Team" or "The Comedians" or, to highlight the fact three of four are wired with microphones on any given night "The Wired Team". Then if Jason ever came back again, considering he's dyslexic, we could call it "The Weird Team". When he's here, it fits so nicely..

CPR Training Using Live Actors

The stunts performed in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (La Legende de Buffalo Bill), Disney Village, Disneyland Paris France are dangerous enough that regulations require a set number cast members be trained to perform CPR. In fact all teams at Disneyland Paris are required to have CPR-certified employees on duty, so I guess accounting has its risks as well. I thought it might be of interest to The Casual Reporter readers to view a video of the CPR training process here at the Wild West Show using live actors, taught by a German company. Here it is:

Music Video of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

YouTube member eurowest74 has posted 17 YouTube videos on his profile, most of which feature the cast of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Content ranges from talent reels to footage of the show set to modern music. Some, like the Rodeo Road series, have video embedding disabled so you'll have to click through to see them. Others, like the one here, I will post as I find time. Enjoy!

Video: Auguste Love Burro Longtime

Several years ago Cacahuete (Peanut), a burro in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Disney Village, Disneyland Paris Resort, whose sole job is to serve as character Auguste Durand Rouel's mount during his second entrance, was a "whole man". Cacahuete spent (and spends) much of his life in his own private stall backstage, alone, his breeding instinct consequently frustrated. On several occasions Cacahuete's need for love has challenged the PG rating of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, but none more so than at the moment shown in the video featured here, which accidentally verges on taboo by western society's standards, all in front of an unsuspecting Disney audience.

The actor playing Auguste is Didier Courquet. I was performing in the Blue Moon ranch when this happened, very near the angle from which this video was taken. Shawn Hogue, who was playing Sitting Bull on the day, told me that after Cacahuete was pulled off Didier he ran upstage in front of the judges stand, stopped, turned towards the audience, and let out a loud BRAAAYYY! A few weeks later Cacahuete received an operation to remove those parts of his anatomy responsible for his amorous behavior, although a photo of Didier framed within a hand-drawn heart, complete with cupid's arrow, remained in Cacahuete's stall for years.

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Regis Goes Skiing

I received this via a long list of email forwards. Confidence without competence is a dangerous thing.

Thanks Regis, whoever you are.

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Video 3 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show c.1999

Here's Jim McMullan in the starring role and I think Kevin Dust as Sitting Bull.

Video 2 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show c. 2004

Of the many I've found, this is the only one that features yours truly. I couldn't resist..

Interesting to observe the differences between this one and the one c.1992. Watching those older performers like the late Peter MacLean, H.M. Wynant, Ivan Naranjo, and Ned (last name?) always humbles me.

Video 1 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show c.1992

A number of videos of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show are floating around on the web. I'll post some of my favorites, starting with this one. (Don't worry Tim, Shawn, and Devlin - I'm getting to yours!)

Circa 1992/1993

A blast from the past. This video features the late Peter MacLean and most of the original cast and the original entrance to the show back when "Disney Village" was called "Festival Disney". A warm-up pen and stables existed where Gaumont and Planet Hollywood now stand. French patrons review the show. Recognize anyone? Leave a comment! Reserve places by phone at: +33 (0) 1 60 45 71 00 or buy tickets online at France Billet or FNAC Spectacles.

Photos and Videos Coming Soon

Marc Veillard, our very kind and highly esteemed photographer, has agreed to let me use his photographs of Disneyland Paris Resort’s “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show”. I plan to use them in some of the articles and propose creating sections or pages for each member of our full-time cast. Pete Thias, one of five cast members who have been with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show since opening day on April 12, 1992, has also agreed to take some video footage of cast members in the show, which I plan to feature here.