Candlelight Processional: Henry Winkler, Jennifer Garner, Sheryl Lee Ralph to narrate

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Walt Disney World has announced the narrators for the 2025 Candlelight Processional, the long-running holiday event at Epcot. The list includes eight first-timers, including actors Henry Winkler, Jennifer Garner and Sheryl Lee Ralph.

The performances, part of the Epcot International Festival of the Holidays, include a mass choir, a 50-piece orchestra and a celebrity narrator telling the Christmas story.  Candlelight happens three times nightly, starting the day after Thanksgiving and running through Dec. 30.

Other new narrators this year include Constance Wu, Leslie Uggams, singer Lauren Daigle, Joel Smallbone (For King & Country) and Brie Larson, whose Disney credits include big-screen appearances as Captain Marvel.

Returning favorites include Gary Sinise, who will read for a record 14th time, and Marlee Matlin, who did not participate in the 2024 festivities but will be at Epcot this year for her 13th processional.

The complete 2025 Candlelight Processional narrator list, subject to change, is:

• Nov. 28-29 – Constance Wu

• Nov. 30-Dec. 2 – Jordan Fisher

• Dec. 3-4 – Jennifer Garner

• Dec. 5-6 – Ashley Eckstein

• Dec. 7-8 – Ralph Macchio

• Dec. 9-10 – Leslie Uggams

• Dec. 11-13 – Marlee Matlin

• Dec. 14-15 – Henry Winkler

• Dec. 16-17 – Lauren Daigle

• Dec. 18-19 – Gary Sinise

• Dec. 20-22 – Brendan Fraser

• Dec. 23-24 – Luis Fonsi

• Dec. 25-26 – Joel Smallbone

• Dec. 27-28 – Brie Larson

• Dec. 29-30 – Sheryl Lee Ralph

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Sheryl Lee Ralph, one of the stars of 'Abbott Elementary,' will be the final narrator of the 2025 Candlelight Processional. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Candelight start times are 5 p.m., 6:45 p.m., and 8:15 p.m. nightly at the America Gardens Theatre. It’s included with regular Epcot admission. Booking for dining packages, which include a reserved seating badge for a processional, go on sale Oct. 14.

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