It opened on May 27, 2025. The theater it calls home previously belonged to a different live show also based on the iconic film, Voyage of the Little Mermaid. That production ran from 1992 to 2020.

If you’re a fan of The Little Mermaid, this updated production is entering the entertainment options with new digital puppetry, dazzling effects, and even a few fresh songs added to the lineup.

Voyage of the Little Mermaid closed — along with the rest of Walt Disney World — in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But this show was one that never reopened.

Disney World delayed its new Little Mermaid musical to summer 2025 and announced various closures and updates, including transforming Dinoland USA and refurbishing Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.

A “Little Mermaid” stage show will debut next year at Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park, four years after “Voyage of the Little Mermaid” closed during the pandemic.

ORLANDO -- When "The Little Mermaid -- A Musical Adventure" opens later this year at Disney's Hollywood Studios, the production will blend live performers, real set pieces, puppets and digital ...

Three cheers for the new “Little Mermaid” and “Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After” shows at Disney World, adding to theater in the parks.

Ariel sits among her possessions during "The Little Mermaid — A Musical Adventure," a new stage show at Disney's Hollywood Studios. (Dewayne Bevil/Orlando Sentinel/TNS) ...

The new show replaces “Voyage of the Little Mermaid,” which opened in 1992—back when the park was known as Disney-MGM Studios. It closed in early 2020 during the pandemic but never reopened.