The Big Apple
7th Avenue, Carroll Street and 57 St are all stops on this favorite and frequented train line of mine...
What is the F train?
Walt is the name most people think of when they hear Disney, but this older Disney brother co-founded the animation studio and headed up the business-side of the company even after Walt’s death.
Who is Roy Disney?
This show was the first ever musical I performed in at the ripe of 7 years old when I played the Barrister and “Featured Poppy Flower.”
What is Wizard of Oz?
I competed in this graceful sport on ice for a few years as a kid.
What is figure skating?
This live selling platform was founded in 2019 and is where Kate often sells secondhand clothing.
What is Whatnot?
This complex of theater and arts buildings on the Upper West Side is across the street from LaGuardia High School and was originally built as a result of an initiative by John B. Rockefeller in the 1950s.
What is Lincoln Center?
This 1940 Disney film was the third full-length animated film made by Disney following Snow White and Pinnochio and featured classical music and Mickey Mouse.
What is Fantasia?
I assistant directed a really bloody version of this Sondheim musical in the summer of 2021 and unexpectedly went on for one of the leads in a crazy turn of events.
What is Sweeney Todd?
My niece Grace recently got into PS 321 - the famous Park Slope public school - where she will start next fall in this grade
What is Kindergarten?
In 1920 the International Woman Suffrage Alliance led by suffragette Carrie Chapman Catt met for the first time since the start of World War I in this neutral country.
What is Switzerland?
The NQRW, though often colloquially referred to as the “yellow line,” was built to give access to Midtown Manhattan and is officially known by this name: “BMT ____ line.”
What is Broadway?
One of my favorite Disney attractions, this ride is themed and named for a Himalayan Mountain and is still the only roller coaster in Disney’s Animal Kingdom and the tallest at any Disney theme park.
What is Expedition Everest?
“I’m thirty three, I’m not decrepit” and “actually I was a double major - French and History” are lines in this musical.
What is The Hello Girls?
This highly sought after type of vintage item is a closet staple outerwear piece that many people would rather purchase secondhand and for which there are many cheap “vegan” versions of.
What is a leather jacket?
In the show “The Amazing Race” a leg (or episode) is concluded by the teams arriving at this meeting place where the host Phil is waiting for them on a mat.
What is the Pit Stop?
After graduating from Columbia in the mid 80s, this former US President lived on 2nd street in Park Slope, Brooklyn - just one block away from Kate’s family home.
Who is Barack Obama?
Featuring festivals and a world showcase, this Walt Disney World park was not originally supposed to be a theme park. It was a dream of Walt Disney’s to create this utopian “progress city” whose acronym “EPCOT” stands for this longer title.
What is the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow?
In addition to being in this show three times, a revival of this musical came to Broadway in 2012 directed by James Lapine and I (and all other 12 yo mt girls at the time) auditioned for that production of this musical.
What is Annie?
My sister and now brother-in-law reconnected and had sparks fly during a friend’s wedding weekend in their college city of Philadelphia while eating this famous sandwich
This “defunct” New York theme park only lasted four years, but was American themed and shaped and included a re-enactment of the Chicago Fire of 1871 every thirty minutes that kids could help to put out.
What is Freedomland?
Many people assume that the “Big Apple” nickname for New York comes from the fact that New York for a long time was the largest producer of apples in the U.S. But in fact the nickname was coined by a sportswriter in the 1920s who used it to refer to the big prizes awarded in this sport.
What is Horse Racing?
Today Disney has six Disney resorts around the world that serve an estimated 140 million people annually. The six resorts — each with their own castle — reside in these five countries/regions of the world.
What is USA, France, China, Hong Kong and Japan?
This Gershwin musical is largely made up of a collection of songs that were written for a different 1930s Gershwin musical and features fun characters such as Bela Zangler and Moose.
What is Crazy for You?
This German origin word translates to “cat distress” and is used as a noun to describe a bad hangover. Its plural was also the name of a co-ed Princeton acapella group.
What is Katzenjammer?
The BBC America show Orphan Black is famously about human cloning. The show’s star Tatiana Maslany won an Emmy in 2016 for playing this many different LEDA clones. (Guess the number)
What is 17?