Disney Jollywood Nights opened its 2026 season at Disney’s Hollywood Studios on November 7 with three new faces inside “Glisten”: Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, and Genie. AllEars independently confirmed the change on November 8, while WDWNT reports that “Jingle Bell, Jingle BAM” is back at 10 p.m. on party nights.
This is a much more interesting entertainment update than simply moving a showtime on the map. “Glisten” is the party’s elegant little outlier, a real skating production in front of the Chinese Theater, and dropping Donald, Daisy, and Genie onto the ice gives Disney characters a new job without turning the whole thing into another meet-and-greet.
“Glisten” has three new faces and a quiet little gamble
“Glisten” pairs champion skaters with a holiday soundtrack of Disney songs and original music. For 2026, Donald, Daisy, and Genie appear in the production for the first time.
The idea is adorable on paper. Donald Duck on skates is practically a complete pitch deck by himself. The more curious choice is that the characters do not speak, according to AllEars’ opening-night report. That leaves the skaters and choreography carrying the transitions, with the costumed characters working as visual punctuation rather than hosts.
That distinction is exactly what Disney fans will clock. A character cameo can give a returning show a fresh pulse; three silent cameos can also tug focus away from the athletes doing the hard, sparkly work. No source reports a new runtime or a rewritten story for the 2026 version, so this is a cast addition, not a claim that Disney rebuilt “Glisten” from the ice up.
“Jingle Bell, Jingle BAM” still owns the 10 p.m. slot
The party’s biggest returning punctuation mark remains “Jingle Bell, Jingle BAM.” WDWNT reports that the 14-minute nighttime spectacular is scheduled for 10 p.m. on event dates, combining fireworks, lasers, lighting, projection mapping, and holiday music at the Chinese Theater.
That 10 p.m. placement is the useful anchor in a five-hour party running from 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. It gives the night a proper center of gravity; “Glisten” and the other live offerings can orbit it, but BAM is the appointment with the sky.
Disney Jollywood Nights runs on select dates from November 7, 2026, through January 5, 2027, and requires a separate ticket. Neither same-day AllEars reporting nor WDWNT’s “Glisten” report supplies a complete performance schedule for the skating show. AllEars directs guests to the event map or My Disney Experience on the night of their visit, and that is the honest boundary here: the new trio is confirmed, the 10 p.m. fireworks slot is reported, and the rest of the evening still needs a date-specific look before anyone starts choreographing a holiday sprint across Hollywood Boulevard.
