Disney Night returned to “Dancing With the Stars” with a Broadway-inspired theme, featuring performances based on Disney stories and their stage adaptations. The episode included tributes to classics such as “Mary Poppins,” “The Little Mermaid,” “Tangled” and “Beauty and the Beast.” Cynthia Erivo joined the ballroom as guest judge.
The episode also brought back team dances, with co-hosts Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough taking part in the group performances. After the first dance, Hough announced that the couple leading the leaderboard after the individual routines would receive immunity from the following week’s dance-off.
Among the solo scores released, Harry Shum Jr. and Jenna Johnson received a perfect 40 out of 40. Amber Glenn and Pasha Pashkov scored 34, Tatyana Ali and Jan Ravnik earned 33, and Maura Higgins and Mark Ballas received 32. The listed scores for Julia Stiles and Ezra Sosa, Jenna Dewan and Val Chmerkovskiy, Connor Wood and Rylee Arnold, and Ezra Frech and Daniella Karagach were not provided.
The group performances were Team Slaytopia, led by Tatyana Ali and joined by Maura Higgins, Amber Glenn and Julia Stiles, and Team Wildcats, led by Connor Wood and featuring Ezra Frech, Jenna Dewan and Harry Shum Jr. The source did not provide the teams’ scores or the episode’s elimination result.
The remaining celebrities named in the season 35 competition were Tatyana Ali, Jenna Dewan, Ezra Frech, Amber Glenn, Maura Higgins, Harry Shum Jr., Julia Stiles and Connor Wood. The series airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on ABC and Disney+, with episodes streaming the following day on Hulu.
Sources: The Hollywood Reporter.