emergency landing near Cleveland , and so , too , our intrepid Adventurers carried on .
Janosko remembered , “ Robert Croskery pulled me aside and said that with the fifth anniversary of the club ’ s closing , we had to have a huge event to celebrate the Club .” So Janosko teamed up with fellow explorers , including Robert Croskery , to form Adventurers in Charity .
And these new Adventurers Club meetings reached for a higher purpose . Each club actor represented a charity for the event ( e . g ., The Actors Fund , Leukemia and Lymphoma Society , A Better Life Pet Rescue ), and each charity received a portion of the funds raised . As Disney no longer allowed the Adventurers Club characters to be portrayed at events , the actors were instead invited to enjoy the festivities as themselves . And that night , Ian Janosko stepped into the shoes of a very prominent club member that Disney had not stipulated in its donot-use policy . Janosko remembered , “ Club Founder Merriweather Adam Pleasure , played by yours truly , led the room in the Club Salute , the Club Creed , and The All-Purpose Club Theme Song .”
The Adventurers in Charity event went on for six years . Janosko described the last gathering in 2018 : “... [ I ] t was almost like we had gone through the final night at the club . Emotions were high , the actors were in top form , and we had raised a fantastic amount of money for the actors ’ charities .”
Over the course of its sixyear run , Adventurers in Charity raised over $ 40,000 for charities including the American Heart Association , Red Cross , and the American Cancer Society . Not a bad legacy for a long-gone lounge with nonsensical shows and Jungle Cruise-style puns .
KUNGALOOSH ! When I asked Janosko if he thought the Adventurers Club fandom was slowly dying out over time , he exclaimed , “ The club will never die ! The fans of it are still out there and very vocal !” Disney has kept the
Colonel Critchlow Sunchbench and Samantha have a word . PHOTO COURTESY OF IAN JANOSKO