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• Wally Boag feted at Golden Horseshoe event

  Ron Schneider's back with a blow-by-blow account of last month's celebration. When over 300 fans & luminaries turned out to honor the life & times of this Disney Legend Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:00 AM | 5 Comments Filed under: theme park, performers, Disney, Disney enthusiasts, Disney enthusiast, Walt Disney Company, theme park fan, theme park fans , traveling salesman, Wally Boag , stage show, live stage show , Disneyland , Disneyland Park, music , musician, The Golden Horseshoe Revue, performance , The World’s Longest Running Live Stage Show, World's Longest Running Live Stage Show, Walt Disney, ventriloquist , ventriloquist dummy, audience, Clown Prince of Disneyland, Disneyland cast member, California, stage, show, trouper, Fulton Burley , Betty Taylor , Dana Daniels, Dick Hardwick , Frontierland, understudy, understudies, Disneyland alumni, on-stage , theater , Golden Horseshoe Event, Ape Pen Publishing , entertainer, the Golden Horseshoe , gags, can-can dancers, stand-up comic

• 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

• The toughest critter west of the Alamo: The one, the only, Wally Boag

  In his JHM debut column, Ron Schneider pays tribute to the Disney Legend who inspired him to pursue a career in performing Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:00 AM | 8 Comments Filed under: themed entertainment , Dreamfinder , The Dreamfinder, EPCOT, EPCOT Center, LeapFrog Fountain , Journey into Imagination pavilion, Journey into Imagination, Figment, WDW, Imagineers , Imagineer, WED, dragon, Marx Brothers, Universal Studios Florida, Universal Studios Orlando, Universal , Universal tour, studio theme park, Hollywood Boulevard, the Magic Kingdom , Magic Mountain , Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags, Disney enthusiasts, Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Productions, theme park fan, behind-the-scenes , themed entertainment industry, Wally Boag , theme parks, franchise, music , Golden Horseshoe Revue, popular, 1986, Walt Disney, singer , Australia, bagpipes, eccentric dancing , nightclub act, mature audience, Clown Prince of Disneyland, the Clown Prince of Disneyland, Backstage Disneyland magazine, Backstage Disneyland , Disneyland cast member, cast member, cast members, 1964 Winter Olympics, cameo, movie, Disney films, reference model , Adventureland, Disney theme park attraction, Tokyo Disneyland , trouper, principals, Fulton Burley , 1995, Steve Martin, Dana Daniels, Dick Hardwick , Frontierland stage, Frontierland, 25th anniversary celebration, celebration, ponies , reunion , Golden Horseshoe Event, 2008, Ape Pen Publishing , "The Golden Horseshoe Dinner Show & Celebration" , Sheraton , Sheraton Anaheim, The Magic Makers