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Book early for Disney’s most popular “chow-and-cheer” night. The jokes are silly, the stars dress in costumes from Broadway’s Oklahoma! , and if you don’t join in the sing-along fun, the actors and audience will keep on at you until you do. Dinner is all-you-can-eat fried-chicken and barbecue ribs; a vegetarian menu is available with 24 hours’ notice.

Horses steal this show. Several breeds such as chiseled Arabians and muscular Belgians thunder through a performance including Wild West trick riding, chariot races, a little slapstick comedy, and bareback daredevilry. Horse fans can pet the four-legged stars after the show.

Horses take a secondary role at this spectacle. Instead, the action heroes are knights who get into sword fights, joust, and otherwise raise the roof while you feast on the likes of barbecued ribs, and roasted chicken with your fingers (after all, this is the 11th century). If you arrive early, you can tour a re-created medieval village.

High-energy performers from Hawaii, New Zealand, and Tahiti show off their hula, ceremonial, and fire-dancing in an open-air theater. Meanwhile, tuck into the all-you-can-eat meal, which includes roast pork and chicken, fried rice, vegetables, and fruit. Learn how to make leis and do the hula in the pre-show.

The swashbuckling actors entertain with comedy, drama, and music, on a set that is is a full-size pirate ship on a water-filled “lagoon”. The dinner buffet features roast chicken, braised beef, herbed rice, and more. After the show, there’s a Buccaneer Bash Dance Party to help you burn a few of those spare calories.

The Hawaiian Rhythms dance troupe delivers a song-and-fire-dance show. The luau is one of the better meals on the Orlando dinner-show circuit. The menu includes mahi mahi (dolphin fish) in pina colada sauce, sweet-and-sour chicken, smoked pork, vegetables, rice, dessert, and beverages including one cocktail. The show is inside the park, but theme-park admission is not required.

The theater’s cast stages eight different shows over the course of a month, all with a suspicious death and a twist before the mystery is uncovered. Meals include hors d’oeuvres before the show, then your choice of honey-glazed Cornish game hen, prime rib, or lasagna with side dishes, dessert, and unlimited beer, wine, and sodas.

Settle into the 1930s and visit Al Capone’s notorious speakeasy, a place where pseudo-mobsters and their molls entertain guests with a lot of song and dance. The all-you-can-eat buffet offers pasta, sausage with peppers and onions, baked chicken and ham, vegetables, potatoes, and whatever beer, wine, coffee, iced tea and sodas you care to drink.

In a twist on the normal murder mystery, the cast here acts out four possible endings to the story; the audience has to figure out which one is the correct plot. The crimes take place in a 19th-century-style restaurant, while guests partake of a buffet of prime rib, pasta, and more.

Broadway fans love this place, with songs by Rodgers & Hammerstein, George M. Cohan, and other legends. It’s no rival to the London or New York stages, but it’s a good show. A varied menu feeds the parts the songs can’t reach.