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• "Because if we get hit by a train, we're going to die and we're going to hell"

  Ron Schneider offers some tips about how a daddy & daughter can really make the most of their day at a Disney theme park Read More... Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 12:00 AM | 7 Comments Filed under: Dreamfinder , theme park, Magic Kingdom, memoirs, Disney, Disneyland , Disneyland Park, court jester, Disneyland cast member, Disneyland cast members, cast member, cast members, California, Adventureland, attraction, Disney theme park attraction, theme park attraction , Frontierland, Pecos Bill , costumed character , the Golden Horseshoe , daughter , Jim Hill , JHM, gall bladder , emergency room , heart palpitations , brownout, New Jersey , windstorm, New Hampshire , Father's Day , Ron Schneider , daddy , Mother Nature , hospital , Golden Horseshoe, birthday , Golden Horseshoe cast, Florida, Antelope Freeway , water slide , Fantasyland, Tomorrowland, Peter Pan's Flight, voyage of discovery , Snow White's Wishing Well, Captain Hook , Mr. Smee , pirates , curtsy, minuet, Main Street , Mickey, Minnie, costumes, "Circus Fantasy" , "Blast to the Past" , celebrity look-alikes , Superman, the Lone Ranger, Tonto, Mouseketeers, Lucy, Ricky Ricardo , Mark Twain , the Enchanted Tiki Room , Star Tours , Star Speeder , Injun Joe's Cave , Pirates of the Caribbean , Space Mountain , roller coaster , freeway, America, flights of fancy , Mr. Toad's Wild Ride , train, Hell, fireplace, tunnel , fatherly advice

• Filling some awfully big shoes at the Shoe

  As the Disneyana community gets ready for tomorrow night's Golden Horseshoe tribute event, Ron Schneider remembers what it felt like when he first went on as Wally Boag's understudy back in the Summer of 1980 Read More... Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 12:00 AM | 5 Comments Filed under: Disney World , theme park, performer, "Themes Dreams & Schemes: 40 Years Behind a Nametag" , book , Disney, traveling salesman, Wally Boag , Disney Legend, stage show, live stage show , Disneyland , Disneyland Park, Golden Horseshoe Revue, Boagaloons, audience, stage, Adventureland, show, Diamond Horseshoe, The Diamond Horseshoe, Fulton Burley , Betty Taylor , Dana Daniels, Frontierland stage, Frontierland, understudy, 25th anniversary, Pecos Bill , backstage , 2008, Ape Pen Publishing , "The Golden Horseshoe Dinner Show & Celebration" , Pinocchio , Stromboli, jungle , Lima beans , the Golden Horseshoe , Prof Samuel J Spillikin , dancers, can-can dancers

• How do you earn the right to perform in Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue? Make a left at Magic Mountain

  As the Disneyana community gets ready for next Saturday night's Golden Horseshoe tribute event, Ron Schneider tells you how he became Wally Boag's understudy back in the summer of 1980 Read More... Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:00 AM | 4 Comments Filed under: theme park, performers, performer, Anaheim, Magic Mountain , Six Flags Magic Mountain, 1970s, Disney, Walt Disney Productions, themed entertainment industry, traveling salesman, Wally Boag , appearance, Disney Legend, Disneyland , Disneyland Park, musician, musicians, The Golden Horseshoe Revue, Golden Horseshoe Revue, performance , comic, audition , auditions, act, audience, humor, show, guest, Steve Martin, Dana Daniels, Dick Hardwick , Frontierland, 1980, understudy, Pecos Bill , rehearsal, laugh , Golden Horseshoe Event, Ape Pen Publishing , "The Golden Horseshoe Dinner Show & Celebration" , entertainer, Magic Makers, timing , guest experience, actors, role , venue, the Golden Horseshoe , Prof Samuel J Spillikin , BS , MS , PhD, Professor Spillikin, Spillikin Corners Crafts Village, Spillikin Corners, Grandma Spillikin's Herbal Cure & Indian Elixir , crook , patter, Medicine Pitch, gags, trod the boards , headliner, job , comic performer , convention work , private parties, traveling case , Bud Abbott , Lou Costello , "Who's on First?", Poppy's Star Restaurant, Canoga Park , waiters, variety performers , Mitch Evans , "Niagara Falls" , Abbott & Costello, Chris Costello, daughter , 1979 , snake oil , Variety, dancers, practice, funny bit, rehearsal hall , cattle call , women , leotards , can-can dancers, dance routine , stand-up comic, trademark , Disneyland talent booking, Valencia, Mike Davis , Disneyland Administration Building