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[1:12] David Alpert: On this episode, I'm joined by a true Disneyland enthusiast, and she just so happens to be a Broadway star. Her Broadway credits include Glinda in Wicked, as well as on the National Tour, Hairspray, Cry-Baby, Hello Dolly, and Kimberly Akimbo.

[1:28] David Alpert: Just as they say on Peter Pan's flight, here we go. It's Alli Mauzey.

[1:57] Alli Mauzey: Thank you for joining me. Are you ready to talk about Disneyland?

[2:00] Alli Mauzey: I have to tell you, yes. And I have done this is a very busy week for me because my cast album was coming out for Kimberly Akimbo. So we've had a lot of press stuff. And this is when I'm this is not a Kimberly Akimbo related thing. I'm most excited to do this podcast today and talk about Disneyland.

[2:15] David Alpert: We are. And I I guess love how much you love Disneyland. I mean, I know for everyone on the podcast, we talk about how much we love the parks, but you are like me. We're like Disneyland is everything. Like it was if it felt like like an extension of my backyard because of where it well, and so let's talk about that. I mean, you you have such a fascinating connection to Disneyland, and you share with me that you practically grew up there. Can you tell me more about your family's connection to the park? Because I think this is so cool.

[2:42] Alli Mauzey: Yeah. So my mom, my grandparents bought a home where Disneyland is today. So before Disneyland was even on anybody's radar yet, they my my grandfather bought actually just land, and he built his um he had a mechanic uh business, uh, where he fixed cars and all that stuff, and they lived on the same lot. And the way my mom describes the land back then, it was all a massive amount of orange groves, and like where she was at, the houses there were like four homes and they were all very spread apart. Wasn't like track homes like like we're used to today. So she grew up there on that land, and so yeah, I mean, basically, she's got married, she was very young. I think the parks opened when they finally opened Disneyland.

She was probably like six or seven. So she just literally she just tells me flat out, she goes, No, I just watched it being built, and it was such a different time. She goes, I don't know what my mother was thinking. I would just walk out the house in the morning and walk to wherever they were building and just see what they were working on. And she was little, but there was like nobody else uh uh uh around, and um she's got fun stories of um like some of the workers if she'd been there long enough, like like she like that somebody would hand her half a sandwich or something like that, or like they used to tell her she goes in her little innocent mind, they used to tell her that the castle's being built for her, which she thought was like she'll to this day as an adult, she'll be, you know, that's my castle, you know, kind of a thing.

[4:12] David Alpert: That's sweet. But you know, she's even got memories, and it's interesting, and and um, and I do you know, because I love we love Disney so much, but she she definitely remembers with the city of Anaheim, I think it was like a big thing, Walt coming in and doing that, and these people owned homes that were right were theirs, right? So she does remember there being uh a lawsuit, right? And she she all she remembers is like the attorney sitting at the tables with her parents, right? But for her, she was meeting Walt Disney because he used to bring his cart to my grandfather's mechanic shop from time to time when he'd come like check out the work and all the things. Now I have a theory is like, oh, he's just coming to meet the locals.

Did he really need his car work done? I don't know. He's probably you know, he's doing his he's a businessman, but they that didn't stop my grandparents and my mom from bragging the fact that Walt Disney brings his car to their mechanic shop, and my my and he was my mom says he was so friendly to her, and he wouldn't she would get in the back and just crawl around in the back and they'd get to bag with it, brag to their friends that I got was in Walt Disney's car today, you know.

[5:13] David Alpert: That is so cool. You were the first person on this podcast to ever m have family members that met Walt Disney.

[5:19] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, yeah. She's got like she's almost defensive about how Walt Disney is perceived. Because her memory is so pleasant, and like even when the movie came out with Tom Hanks in it and like any sort of dark side to like Walt or like you might hear about like my mom's like, well no, like she's just got this very childlike view of of the park and him. And um, you know, so what's crazy is eventually, you know, they sold my my uh they sold and we know what that looks like today. My my mom tells me um her house was on Harbor, and I think maybe that's when I was growing up, I was told that was where the original um parking lot was before they built the deck and all that stuff. So the original parking lot where is where um uh California Adventure is today, right?

[6:06] David Alpert: That's pretty equivalent.

[6:07] Alli Mauzey: Yep, yep. Yeah. So her home would have been um somewhere in there. And you know, it's crazy is they didn't knock it down. They actually, um there's a picture somewhere of it of that they they just moved the house somewhere. They didn't my family didn't move with the house, but they literally moved the house somewhere else for somebody else to live and buy somewhere else in Anaheim. Um, so it like it's just my m it's kind of amazing to me that like my mom is just like, No, I just casually watched Disneyland getting built. And and she mentioned this in the escrow papers. She said she 'cause she has them somewhere, that my my grandfather was allowed to come to Disneyland for free any time.

[6:45] David Alpert: Well, that's the question. Yeah, did they get perks for this?

[6:48] Alli Mauzey: But I mean like Yes, the answer to that is yes, but my my mom did say, like, you know, he owned his own business. He was very busy and he had to kind of re up again when he had to like re s you know, start his business and move it. So he didn't really take advantage of at a time. That doesn't sound like him. I actually never got to meet my grandfather. He passed away before I was born. Um, but uh, but yeah, but they like he that was that wasn't actually in the escrow papers that they could go whenever they wanted.

[7:13] David Alpert: I know. No, I wish, yeah, that I mean, like, that's super cool. So, as a kid, did you ever like brag to your friends as well and be like, you know, this is where my grandparents used to live?

[7:21] Alli Mauzey: Well, yeah, I mean, I wouldn't like brag. I mean, if as I got older and I would meet fellow Disney fans, they find this all very fascinating that they're like, wait, what? Um, it's a very random story, you know, like that my family lived on the land um before Disneyland was there, and it's just farmland, you know. Um, and I think as I got older and more aware, I I think it was probably lost on me until I it was starting to get older. Like remember when you used to, I don't know if you can still do it, but you used to be able to buy the plaque thingies to go into the ground, like the bricks or whatever, and you can get them names.

[7:55] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, I have one.

[7:56] David Alpert: You do my family has one.

[7:57] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, I bought one for my family. We were gonna do one um in honor of my my grandparents. Um I honestly don't remember if we did it or not, if my sister ended up doing it or not, just like for our own family's sake to be like they once lived here. This was home, you know.

[8:10] David Alpert: Well, they definitely deserve like a main street window or like a tree dedicated to them.

[8:16] Alli Mauzey: Right? They should. That's that's they helped pave the way literally for Disneyland.

[8:19] David Alpert: Yeah, yeah. And you also shared that your grandparents then owned a motel about a half mile south of Disneyland.

[8:25] Alli Mauzey: The Hacienda Motel.

[8:26] David Alpert: Yes, so that's my dad's side. So um, basically, um, and and this has actually been so cool because like I I I did there were details that I didn't know about. Um I knew they owned the hotel, right? But I was like, but when what when was that? And all the things that and so my dad said, you know, you know, he's actually from you know, Oklahoma originally, and then they they migrated to the Midwest. And then my great aunt Leela was so wise in her investments um out uh and she's just made really smart choices, and she owned a trailer park half a mile from Disneyland. She convinced my her sister, my grandmother to sell everything they owned, everything they owned, and invest in this motel half a mile from Disneyland.

[9:08] Alli Mauzey: So they did. They sold house, boat, all the things. My dad said we sold everything and moved into the hotel.

[9:15] David Alpert: Wow.

[9:15] Alli Mauzey: My dad lived at that hotel for 10 years of his life. And um this story I I love because he said him and his brothers, he's the youngest of three, and you know, they did did a lot of the legwork. It was like a family-owned motel. They did a lot of the leg work and you know, and it was, I'll say my dad said it was a great, it was a great move because it was tour, it's a great area, not just because it is a land, we're by the beach, we've got other theme parks. Like it was a destination. It really, it thankfully paid off. But anyway, my dad said when people would check out of the hotel when they were done with their trip, they'd leave their tickets behind because back then it was those A B C D E tickets.

So it costs like he he said, he's like, I don't know, he costs like a buck fifty to get in the park. So they'd go into the rooms to go clean and they'd collect as many ride tickets as they could, pay the buck fifty to get into the park, and then ride as many rides as they could. Um, because what are the what are the tourists gonna do with their tickets if they leave, you know?

[10:10] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, right. So they benefited from it. I just asked them, just like, oh, you lived, you lived in the hotel? I mean, they had like their own like separate stuff, but like I didn't that was the part I did not know about my dad until recently.

[10:20] David Alpert: I love that you brought up e-tickets because when I named the podcast E Ticket to Broadway, people were like, electronic ticket. I was like, it's an e-ticket, it is the most exciting, but that makes sense. I mean, it's it's like what are they gonna do with it? And so I mean, that's I I think like that could be fun to to buy a motel near Disneyland, live there and just go to the parks when I walk.

[10:38] Alli Mauzey: Well, I mean, he he talks about it really fondly. He's like, you know, it was it was a lot of hard work, which is eventually why they sold it. You know, they wanted like my my grandparents just wanted to slow down and retire, but um because it was a lot of work. It was busy with tourists, you know. I think I sent you a picture of the postcard, but in that postcard, actually my my the blonde sitting at the pool is actually my mom. It was all like my grandparents in that photo and they're just like posing and my mom's in there. Because my parents met like in junior high in Anaheim.

[11:09] David Alpert: Yeah.

[11:09] Alli Mauzey: Um Wow. Yeah. I think about like my dad was born in Inglewood and he went with his brothers and his whole family, you know, like opening summer and and grew up there as well. But I think at the time it was like this is a cool place to go. It didn't it wasn't Disneyland yet. It was just this really cool destination. I love hearing those stories of when it first opened and Yeah, yeah. That's really cool.

[11:29] David Alpert: And tell me uh an a an additional family connection is the super hooper duper.

[11:35] Alli Mauzey: Yeah.

[11:35] Alli Mauzey: In nineteen eighty eight.

[11:36] Alli Mauzey: Yeah. My the so uh it was a promotional thing that Disneyland was doing and it was like a I think it was a throwback to like like the hula hoop being like a thing in the fifties, which is you know when Disneyland opened. So they anybody I the reason so basically there was uh it was so they would get in the d uh Guinness Book of World Records for the most people hula hooping at the same time in one place. And I don't know if any I don't actually know if anybody got to do it or if you had I don't think you had to buy a ticket to go in, right?

[12:08] Alli Mauzey: Um, but my sister and my mom participated. My sister's dance teacher at the time and my sister was like eight. My sister's dance local dance teacher at the time was a choreographer at Disney and also performed in the um one of those shows over in Frontierland, I don't think exists anymore. The like the hoop to do review. I have to think of the Golden Horseshoe. It was at the Golden horseshoe for sure, and I'm blinking on the name right now. But um Ter Terry Robbins was her name. But uh she asked a bunch of her dance students and their parents if they wanted to come participate. So, you know, so it did end up in the Guinness Book World Records. There's a fantastic photo of it. Uh we can't really pick out my family, my mom and my sister because they're back by the castle, and they're definitely zoomed in like up front, like Snow White is right there, and I think Sleepy is no, it's done it's dope.

[12:56] Alli Mauzey: Oh, it's dope. It's definitely dope.

[12:57] David Alpert: It's totally dope.

[12:58] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, because who I love. That's my favorite. But I saw that I was like, I I just think it's so cool. I mean, like, that's the thing, like it just was in your backyard. And and like, yeah, because I grew up I think yeah, my parents grew up there, but I grew up at Anaheim Hills, and and so I mean, I started my my dad's uh uh was a principal for many years, and every year his school would take their eighth grade graduation trip to Disneyland, and he'd always pull me and my siblings out of school and give us the extra tickets, and I'd at least minimum go to Disneyland like once a year when I was super little.

[13:28] Alli Mauzey: Um, and then you know, uh eventually we all just got annual passes and spent multiple times a week there. But um, yeah, I know. They end up like their names aren't in the Guinness Book of World Records, and I'm sure that record has been beat by now, but um but but that moment was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.

[13:47] David Alpert: Well, I think we should we should go back to Disneyland, get more people and set the new records. We should just do that. I mean, there was a few thousand people. They said they had to get there at like five in the morning, and there was so much waiting around, and it was dark, and they had to just like sit around until it was like time and they practiced a little bit.

[14:18] Alli Mauzey: Okay, so growing up in Anaheim, was it pretty common amongst your friends to be Disneyland obsessed? Or was there a time when you're, you know, everyone moved on and you were like, I still really love this? Was that just kind of the thing to do?

[14:31] David Alpert: Yeah.

[14:31] Alli Mauzey: But you know what? I don't even know if I would use the word obsessed, right? Because it felt so normal. It's just it's just felt so normal. It literally felt like if you, as we got old enough where we could hang out by ourselves, if you could get a ride to Disneyland and you had an annual pass, you just went to Disneyland as if you were gonna go to see a movie or go to the park with your friends or go to the mall. And um, so I think from junior uh junior high through high school, I mean, I would just pop it like literally in high school every Friday. That was the hang after school. It's like are you going to Disney like the choir friends? And our meeting spot was the wishing well. Yeah, our meeting spot was a wish well.

Meet you at the wishing well when you do the time and see that see you there, kind of a thing. And you know, I look back now, and that was pre-cell phones. And so you'd go and you'd hope that people would show up, right? That's right because you wouldn't get a last minute, I'm not coming, and some people would not come and some people would, or um, so it was so normal. And even my husband my husband didn't he thinks it's so cool that I I even like grew up as that that being normal. Uh because for him, he being in North Carolina, it was a massive destination and you saved up for it and your family did a thing. And for me, it was like I'll just gonna go on a Friday, or you know, when they used to have swing dancing at Carnation Plaza, I I used to go every Saturday with my friend Gabe, and we would just literally go to the park just to go swing dancing and then go home.

But that was the thing. I mean, like that was uh my my family has a lot of roots in LA and and we would go and and I remember my friends being like, Why don't you go to Disney World? I was like, Oh, I don't know, we just go to California. It was so normal and then but the question I have is like at what point did you realize like, oh, some of my friends have moved on from this, but I still love it. Did you have that moment?

[16:17] David Alpert: I don't know if my friends moved on.

[16:19] Alli Mauzey: Okay, fair good. Maybe that's why they're my friends. Um because I actually still have friends that work at Disneyland and they started in high school. And um I know people who met their spouse working at Disneyland to this day and they're still married. Um a lot of my friends from high school, not everybody, but my close friends, they still live in Orange County and and I feel like if you live in in and around Anaheim, it feels like you're connected, you know, in like some especially if you're in the in the performing arts, I think. So I don't know if I mean for me, maybe people did move on and I didn't realize it. I'm I I made a career choice and I moved to New York, right? So I don't get to go as often as I used to.

But you know, I still have friends who um kept their annual passes for as long as they could, you know. And I and honestly, when I when I left my first wicked contract and moved back to California, I it was like the first thing I did. Me and my friend Nicole Parker, I don't know if you know Nicole, but she was one of my alpha buzz. We left the show at the same time and we're both grew up near each other, didn't know each other until we did Wicked, but we both were like, We're getting annual passes and this is like our thing now. And we just would be like, Hey, like, want to go to Disneyland, you know? And we like sometimes he'd just pop in for like a meal. You know?

[17:30] Alli Mauzey: You know? Honestly, one of my favorite can I already go to like one of my favorite memories growing up? Like so my sister was in the original company of Phantasmic. And back in Pause. Yes. Pause. We have to talk about that. I mean, like. That's amazing.

[17:46] David Alpert: Yeah, I know. Do you remember what what track she had?

[17:49] Alli Mauzey: Yeah. She was a p so she played a few different characters. She well, she was a Snow White understudy. So anytime she went on a Snow White, as like sh when she got to go on, we were definitely there that night, you know? And we'd watch her on a Snow White. But her main track, she played a Pirates, and she played a a pedal, you know, the the pink like flower. So she was a pedal. And she played a um I think she oh god, I can't remember if she was dopey or sleepy, but she was one of the dwarfs, and I can't remember which one she was. So when they're like waving on the boat and they're doing the things at the end, she was actually just telling me a story, like rehearsing for that is like they'd bring the boat around during like tech rehearsals, and you'd have to do your tech rehearsals all through the night because it couldn't be when anybody was there.

And she goes, It was crazy. I'd work all night and then have to go to school, like she was in college, and she had to go to school the next day. But she said it was so cool. I was working at Disneyland in this brand new show. But she goes, she goes, I remember being on that boat, and they would just freeze the boat and we had to do that choreography so many times, you know, to get it right, and like they're in the tech booth giving notes and you know, all the things, but um yeah, she always and it's funny because she grew up like I did going to there often. So she's like, it was funny to finally be behind the scenes working at Disney.

[18:39] David Alpert: And she said, So just where we had to do our costume changes on Tom Sawyer's Island and like caves and stuff like that. Or she's like, if you had if you wanted to go smoke, you had to go over to like the cemetery area over at Tom Sorry's Island. And it's like so random, it's funny to see something like that in that light.

[19:16] Alli Mauzey: I l that's amazing. Anyway, I interrupted you, but Oh, so here's the deal. Like, first of all, Phantasmic is still one of my favorite shows. I still cry at the end when Mickey wins and like I like I like it. It chokes me up just like singing it right now. It's like it literally is my happy place.

[19:39] David Alpert: Same.

[19:39] Alli Mauzey: And so back then, you know, you didn't back then, so we would just so like on a random weekend night or whatever, me and my family, we'd bring a picnic blanket, we'd get sandwiches from outside the park, and we'd bring a deck of cards. We'd come into the park two hours before Phantasmic would start. We'd put our picnic blanket front and center to save our spot, which you cannot do today. And we'd save our spot, we'd eat sandwiches, we'd play cards. Like my parents would hang out, my brother and I would catch a ride, come back. Um, if we were feeling like spicy and wanted a treat, we'd get an apple fritter, you know, right across the way right there. And um, and then the show would start and we'd watch the show and we pack up and we leave, and that would be our evening.

And I just have such fond memories. The fact that you could you could do that back then. You just pick a spot and it was that's why I talk about like Disney was so like casual to me. Like I'm diehard into Disneyland, but like it was also just like, yeah, this is just what we do. We just go hang for a couple hours, you know.

[20:40] David Alpert: It's funny, as you talk about this, I'm so there with you. Like I know the the stones you're sitting on, and I'm like, oh wait, I'm I'm in New York right now. I and I just like it's such a clear like Phantasmic was my childhood as well. When they have you seen Phantasmic 2.0?

[20:54] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, well, I'm trying to think when I went back and saw it most recently. Um that I think was Phantasmic 2.0. It's hard because my memories are sitting front and center, and that last time I had to stand off to the side. I mean, I guess I put a splurge because I think you'd you can pay to get a decent seat.

[21:14] David Alpert: Well no, I mean like because like what I loved about it, like when I was a kid, it would be like you would you would watch the fireworks right at the entrance of uh Frontierland or Adventureland and then as soon as the fireworks were done, you would just go in as the first crowd was leaving, and you would just book it to that spot. But now there's like you have to get a lightning lane or whatever it is. Like it was so simple before. There were so many things that were so simple before. So when I do go back now, it is a little um depressing. Not in like a oh, I don't want to be here. Like, look, I still am going to go to Disneyland, but it was so simple before. Like, like I because I remember like I said, pre-cell phones, I'd get dropped off in junior high with my friends and brother, and we could get lost in the park and still run into each other and be like not have a cell phone, I'll be like, hey, where'd you end up?

We there was no and there was no fear about it. I was just like, eh, I'll find them somewhere. That's the thing like Disneyland is this the OG, it's the charm. It's like sometimes when they like they just brought in magic bands. I'm like, do we need magic bands in Disneyland? Can it just be the quintessential Waltz Park? I don't know.

[22:15] Alli Mauzey: Yeah. But when they when they changed Phantasmic, like they they removed Peter Pan and brought him Pirates of the Caribbean. I was like, that no, no, no, no.

[22:22] David Alpert: Oh, I guess you're right. It's a lot of things. When did 2.0 start? I'm trying to think if that's when did what start?

[22:29] Alli Mauzey: When did Phantasmic 2.0? When when when did that come in? I'm gonna guess it was around 2017 or 2000.

[22:35] David Alpert: Then I have not seen 2.0. Um, I haven't been since my kid was I've been back in Disneyland since my kid was born because I'm waiting for him to have an actual like memory if we're gonna like go. So uh no, I did not know that. And that makes me sad because Peter Pian is my favorite, is legitimate favorite ride at Disneyland.

[22:52] Alli Mauzey: I mean, I would say like I I can have a whole episode of my dramaturgical thoughts because it's like Phantasmic 1.0 was perfect. Yeah. And I can point out like now the crowd doesn't cheer as loudly when Mickey appears on top of the the island.

[23:06] David Alpert: What's the what's the actual house called?

[23:07] Alli Mauzey: The house. The the little hut on that's not a hut. Like like the cabin on Tom Speed. I didn't know I had a name. I just called the whole thing Tom Sparta's Island. I don't know if it does have a name. But anyway, when he appears on top, it's not the first time anymore. I've got a lot of thoughts.

[23:21] David Alpert: Yeah, yeah. But I love that you start talking about Peter Pan. I want to talk other parts of Disneyland and Disney. Did you have any favorite movies as a kid?

[23:28] Alli Mauzey: Uh yeah. Um, I mean, I definitely feel like that genre that came with Little Mermaid, um, Beauty and the Beast of Ladd and that whole thing um was like my generation. And I actually credit like singing along to Jodi Benson in The Little Mermaid as like figuring out like I remember singing along to a little mermaid little mermaid that my mom was driving, and I remember this look she gave me in the rear room mirror as if she perked up to be like, oh, my daughter can sing. Because I I was kind of a shy kid, so like I wouldn't outwardly just sing, but uh singing along to Jodi Benson, uh the you know, Ariel and the Little Mermaid, like just and I and I got to work with her later on. Um I did a a concert with her of Cinderella um in Nashville, and um we had been rehearsing one day and then she came in a day late, and I remember when she logged in, I turned and I was like, Ariel's character. Ariel's I was like starstruck.

[24:24] David Alpert: Yeah.

[24:25] Alli Mauzey: And she was lovely. You know?

[24:41] David Alpert: Besides those movies, like I need characters that you're like, this is my favorite character. I love them.

[24:45] Alli Mauzey: Oh gosh. Um I'm gonna point out for those of you that are listening in the background. I see a Donald, I see Chippendale, I see a Bambi swe sweater. I know. But here's the deal. These are all good. It's my life, I'll say why I like Bambi, even though it's so sad in the b in the opening. It's so tragic. All these Disney parents die in like the first 10 minutes. I know. It's just what it is. Um I just read something that in Hercules, his mother, Hera, is one of the few Disney mothers that is still alive throughout the entire movie.

[25:21] David Alpert: Also Sleeping Beauty.

[25:23] Alli Mauzey: Hercules wasn't um big on my right. I did see Hercules, but I was like, meh, about compared to some of the other ones. Do you know? I mean, I like Bambi because um my mom had a fondness for Bambi. She just that mother kid connection. So whenever I think or see Bambi like reminds me of, you know, uh my mom. So I have a fondness fondness for that. I also honestly just loved I loved when you know we talked about my mom growing up, you know, where Disneyland was built, like all those early movies that came out way before I was born. My mom had my mom showed those to me, you know, like she had a fondness for them. So I have a fondness for like Snow White and the really much older stuff. Recently, these dolls are my kids my kids because we got hooked on he's sadly not as into the Disney cartoons as I am.

There's still time. There's still time. There's still time, and I love him regardless. But I would say it is disappointing for me because uh my dream as a mom is to sit down and watch all the cartoons with him, and he's a very science and math brained, so we watch a lot of educational stuff. I'm like, okay, dude. But okay, Smarty Pants. Like, but we did get into the old Donald Duck shorts when Trippendale would like just rile them up.

[26:40] Alli Mauzey: And he thought that Donald Duck was hilarious. Um, I actually the story behind these actually hope this isn't okay story to tell because I don't want to get anybody in trouble. But um, I we were in Times Square and my kid and I, and we were doing, we were meeting a YouTube domino person that that he likes on YouTube because she was in town. And you know, I was like, you know what? I said, You want to go to the Disney store? I said, Mommy, I've been selling radar. I was like, I think we need to maybe get a Donald Duck stuffy. He loves stuffies, he was amped. We went to the store and they were closed. And um apparently it was like when weather was shifting outside and the heat had been on, but it got warmer outside, and they have to get the temperature just right, like for the legalities of New York City, so they couldn't allow anybody in until they re-regulated, because it's not like Disney, it's the whole building, it's not just Disney down there.

So I was like, really? I was like, I just wanted a Donald Duck. And he was like, You just want Donald Duck? And I said, Yeah. And he's like, Okay, hang on. And then he leaned and come back, he comes back, and then and like I d I only say this because this never happens. He goes, Are you Ali Mozzie? I said, I am, and he goes, Oh, I love he was talking about shows he had seen in. He's like, I think they can get you in. You just seen the Donald Duck. I was like, Oh my god, that'd be amazing. So I literally got to take my kid into the store. It was very warm, but um, no nobody was in there. Nobody was in there, and like as a Disney nerd, I was like, This is so cool. And then of course I was like, Oh my god, I feel like Beyonce right now.

I was like, Beyonce gets to do this like all the time. But for Ali Mozzie, it's a hot Times Square Disney store, which we love. I know. I love the story. I love that. I mean, like, no, I was gonna say, like, that is Disney magic. That is just like and if for your like that's just really cool. Well, I gotta tell you, like, my kid likes Disney. He doesn't he's not as infatuated as I am, but like, but I definitely felt like a cool mom. I was like, I am so cool right now, and I definitely the gentleman who let me in, I was like, you are my hero, and like you know, like thank you, thank you, thank you. You make me look so cool right now with my kids.

[29:08] David Alpert: Oh yeah, do you want to make a well it's warm? Hang on. It's like the Disney store in Times Square. Now, if I was gonna go to the Disney parks, I was on I had my cozy sweater on because it was cold today. If I was going go to the parks, oh we got into Monsters University as well. My kid, we love Monsters University, we love um Monsters Inc. and the new um series that they put out, and I'm hoping they're gonna do another one. But if I were to go to the park, like this is what I'd be rocking, I'd be rocking my old Captain Neo t-shirt, which is super old and faded, which I love, and I'd be like just in a ball cap like this. So I was like, this is the real like Disneyland Mozzie right there. There's the Disney log.

[29:45] Alli Mauzey: Okay, so speaking of Disneyland, what makes a perfect park day for you? Like what rides do you have to hit, foods you have to eat? What's the perfect day?

[29:52] Alli Mauzey: Okay, let's say we have food first. First of all, I have to start with a giant pickle. Like that's just like my giant pickle. I got a find a giant pickle. Um, which is usually I buy it like on the end of Main Street. Um you know, there was a massive amount of time where all we did I'd get the giant pickle, and I loved the clam chowder bread bowls. So yes, that's the big thing. That's all we that's all we eat. Um if we wanted to change it up. Do you remember when they had that Mexican restaurant over by um in Frontierland?

[30:24] David Alpert: Yeah.

[30:25] Alli Mauzey: They still do, they're still in that.

[30:26] David Alpert: Oh, okay.

[30:27] Alli Mauzey: It was like um super bland, but like I love their enchiladas. So it's really good for me. It was almost like if like we wanted like a fancy meal, like when we were kids. If we wanted a fan, if we didn't want to do like the bread bowls, if we wanted a fancy meal, we'd sit down and eat enchiladas, you know, at the Mexican restaurant. Um But I feel like I have to be honest, like I spent have spent way less time in California Adventure, and I think supposedly like the food is probably better over there, like um, possibly um I've had some decent salads over there. Um but like those are staples, like the pickle and the ca the the clam chowder bread bowls were like staples.

[31:08] Alli Mauzey: And then we always like a fritter. I actually preferred the regular fritter instead of the apple critter. Um so we time out our rides and where we were gonna be there around like the food and when like we wanted to eat and stuff. And you know, yeah, I'd go grab a burger at a convenience over in Tomorrowland uh, you know, a messy, a messy burger and just grab it on the go or something like that. Um gosh, favorite ride. So like staples, like, probably because also the lines were never crazy long. Like Pirates of the Caribbean. That always seemed like a quick line to go through considering like it. My favorite ride is Peter Pan, but that line is always so long.

[31:43] David Alpert: I know it's long. Why is that line so long?

[31:46] Alli Mauzey: It's that I mean look, I think that the magical ride, I love the little town. I loite for that moment where you fly over all the miniatures. That's why I love it. Have you seen, I don't know, uh depending on when you were last there, in they they kind of renovated it. They they added some, they've been sprucing up some of the Fantasyland rides. In Big Ben, there's a beautiful hidden Mickey. Like you can see now, you can see like Peter, Wendy, Michael, and John, like land on the on the, I think it's the minute hand. But then as you spin around, you can see Mickey in Big Ben. I love that.

[32:18] Alli Mauzey: I was never um I was late to the game with fighting the finding the hidden Mickeys, so there's a lot I don't know about. For sure.

[32:27] David Alpert: Okay.

[32:27] Alli Mauzey: Okay, so you're on Peter Pan's flight, you've just had your bread bowl. Are you trying to see any characters in the parks in terms of it?

[32:34] Alli Mauzey: No, like if we passed characters, we might grab a picture, but we didn't like seek them out. Um we love the Haunted Mansion. Like I actually feel like we spent a time a lot of over like Splash Mountain, Haunted Mansion, and um Pirates of the Caribbean, we'd always like loop in you know. Um, you know, and I always say, like, I'm actually not a roller coaster person.

[32:55] Alli Mauzey: Um I can't stand giant roller coasters, but Disney's roller coasters are just my speed.

[33:00] David Alpert: Yep, I hear you.

[33:01] Alli Mauzey: Space Mountain, um is like I'm like this is it. I also think because I've been there so many times, like I can I know exactly where it's going, so I don't get like that sickness I get when I go on a new roller coaster and it like I'm feeling like jarred. But like um Thunder Mountain and um the Matterhorn. I gotta tell you, that Matterhorn is still so rickety, right?

[33:28] David Alpert: But also like the weirdest ride to go on when you have to sit with someone you only like kind of know.

[33:35] Alli Mauzey: Well, that's I mean, like I remember like they've switched the ride vehicles, but you would have to like straddle the person. You were like, This is like intimate.

[33:41] David Alpert: I think yes, that's exactly what it is.

[33:43] Alli Mauzey: I was like, this is intimate. I um we're friends, but we're we're not that close. Like, I don't need to be sitting in between your legs right now. So I'd kind of scoot forward and they'd be respectful and all the things, and it's like janking you around, but you're just you know yeah, that that is gone.

[34:01] David Alpert: That's like the weird alternative trip to Disneyland. It's like we're gonna go get bread bowls, we're gonna go on the Matterhorn.

[34:05] Alli Mauzey: You're like, this is then we're gonna get a big pickle. It's like what a strange afternoon.

[34:09] David Alpert: Tell me this because like you you said you you worked rides at Disney at one point.

[34:13] Alli Mauzey: I in for the 50th anniversary summer, I left college for like it was in the summer, and I worked on the Autopia and did guest control. And I loved it. So my question is like, for some reason, when I look at all the people running the rides, why did it feel like the Matterhorn one felt the most mundane to me? Is that a true thing? Or am I just making that up?

[34:30] Alli Mauzey: I mean, I will say it is so fragmented, like the east side of the park versus the west side of the park, like you don't really interact with others. I will tell you, like Autopia was the most cast members because it's a it's the only guest controlled vehicle in the park, and like it's a huge ride. But I mean, like to get on one of those like push-button rides was like very fancy.

[34:49] David Alpert: Uh-huh.

[34:54] Alli Mauzey: But I think that one is like maybe they were just being fancy about it when I thought they were like bored, they were just like, and I'm now they probably like were well because with Matterhorns, like besides loading and unloading, what other positions are there?

[35:04] David Alpert: Yeah.

[35:05] Alli Mauzey: I mean, now there's like fast pass and greeter, but like with other attractions, like think of Haunted Mansion, like you're loading the elevators, then you're getting people on the Doom buggies, then you're gonna people, but Matterhorn's like you're kind of just loading and unloading the whole time.

[35:17] David Alpert: Mm-hmm.

[35:18] Alli Mauzey: Mm-hmm. No disrespect.

[35:20] David Alpert: Yeah, maybe that's why I just thought there wasn't m there wasn't a whole lot going on.

[35:23] Alli Mauzey: And I was like, I don't know, I wondered if this was like boring or not.

[35:26] David Alpert: I don't I didn't know, you know.

[35:27] Alli Mauzey: They were always very lovely and nice. Everybody who works there is very n very friendly to every time I was there, you know.

[35:33] David Alpert: I know that another supposed to be.

[35:35] Alli Mauzey: And speaking of trips to Disneyland, will you talk us talk to us briefly about the Pink Pizzazz soccer team?

[35:40] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, I mean that was just like another thing. Like no matter what soccer team I was on, and I was on Pink Pizzazz for like three years. And that was just like a day out where like we would do like team bonding and go to the park in our uniforms and just like hang on at Disneyland. The coach took us, you know. I remember doing a community theater production of Annie at the Urban Linda Forum, and the gentleman playing Rooster um had a whole other side job where he did very well for his himself and um he uh took the whole cast to Disneyland and it was the first time I got to go to Club 33. He took us to Club 33. That's what it is, right?

[36:19] David Alpert: Right.

[36:23] Alli Mauzey: I've only been one other time. And that felt like very fancy. And I remember it was the first time I tried.

[36:29] Alli Mauzey: So it was the whole cast, and so it was like a bunch of us young kids, like who the fancy food and all that stuff was probably like lost on us. But I remember trying caviar for the first time.

[36:38] David Alpert: Oh wow at like eight, and I was like, I'm pretty sure I spit it out. You know.

[36:44] Alli Mauzey: Um, but he was like, Yeah, it's like try like just try it, you know. Um, but I feel like like if you were in a day or like for example, like my choir every year would go sing at Carnage Place, like all the local schools got to go sing at Disneyland and then you just spend the day there.

[36:58] Alli Mauzey: So, like that pink Pizzazz picture, like that's just like what I was doing that year, and and the coach was like, We're going to Disneyland, you know.

[37:14] David Alpert: Alli, so no spoilers, but there's a moment in Kimberly Akimbo with a lovely nod to the Disney parks. Why do you think people love the parks so much? And why do you think that moment really hits us so hard?

[37:26] Alli Mauzey: I mean, we were talking earlier, right? About, you know, the people I don't know. I'll just say, like, when I go to Disneyland, it's about the feeling of it, right? Like, there's a feeling that happens to me that like when they say it's the happiest place on earth, to me, I literally feel like I walk into like the happiest place on earth in many ways. Like I enter a different world, um, and um I don't know, like, because it's funny, the reaction we get in Kimberly Akimbo when that moment happens, it's an audible reaction for a lot of people. It's like she wants to travel that's on her bucket list of things to do in her life, and it's actually so interesting to me to hear other people have the same reaction I would have. Like she you know, like without giving anything away, but like you want that for her, like that is a happy place.

[38:21] Alli Mauzey: Um, yeah, those parks that were were created, like Walt Disney that was his goal, right? Like a place where we can just be free and be happy. And I'd be lying if I didn't say, like, I feel that way when I go to Disneyland. And also, you know, I don't know how it is for other people, but like I said, like it's such a history in my family, and it feels like there's like a lineage there. So I feel a deep connection to m my family within that and a closeness and all the time I spent in the park with such close friends. Like, and you know, even if you were not somebody who who's going there, you know, day in and day out. Like when I went to Disney World for the first time with my my friend Nicole, and like I did that with like that was like an epic trip.

And I did that with Nicole, and it was a bonding thing, and it was exciting, and like it was a fantastic memory and fulfilling. And so, like, when I see Disney things, like, um, I just get that feeling. I don't know. There's like a feeling about it, you know.

[39:24] David Alpert: Agreed a hundred percent. I mean, Disney's been around a while now, right? Like, I think like it's it's amazing, right? The generation is a generation. You asked me earlier about favorite characters. I have to say I'm a big fan of Frozen. I loved Frozen 2. I loved Frozen. That was the one movie my kid got into for like two weeks, and we watched it, and I cried. Like, and mainly because I just I loved, you know, the movie and the story, and I I liked how serious it got at times.

[39:52] Alli Mauzey: Are you excited? They just announced Frozen 3.

[39:54] David Alpert: I did not know that.

[39:55] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, like a couple days ago.

[39:57] David Alpert: I didn't know that.

[39:58] Alli Mauzey: Oh, I know.

[39:59] David Alpert: Very exciting.

[40:00] Alli Mauzey: I just, you know, you never know when they do a sequel with any franchise how it's gonna go. And I thought Frozen 2 was awesome, and I loved the music, and um, that's exciting.

[40:12] David Alpert: Alli, most important question: who would you most want to go to a Disney park with? Glinda, Patty from Kimberly Akimbo, or Lenora from Cry-Baby?

[40:19] Alli Mauzey: Oh god, we can't take Lenora anywhere. So let's not go with Lenora. That does not sound like a good time.

[40:25] David Alpert: Glinda or Patty?

[40:27] Alli Mauzey: I think Patty could use some joy. Let's bring Patty. I think Patty needs it the most. Let's be honest.

[40:34] David Alpert: Got it.

[40:34] Alli Mauzey: Yeah.

[40:34] David Alpert: And also, if you were to get a job at the parks, what would you want to be doing?

[40:39] Alli Mauzey: I don't know. I never worked at the parks. I worked, I did work for Disney once. I did a reading of a um a musical. So we got to rehearse there, but for like a week. But God, a job? I don't really know. That's a hard question. I had to think. I mean, I mean, maybe like maybe I want to like perform on one of the stages, right? Sing some of my favorite Disney tunes. Like, I mean, I couldn't, I mean, look, I love Judy Kuhn's voice so much, and that would be problematic for me to sing Pocahontas, you know. But I do love that music and I love her voice. And got just I would say Ariel. Look, if I could just be part of your world somewhere in Disneyland, I would I'd be good.

[41:21] David Alpert: I'd be good.

[41:23] Alli Mauzey: Oh, sorry.

[41:25] David Alpert: We'll be right back.

[41:27] Alli Mauzey: Oh, what's the board?

[41:47] David Alpert: Okay, Alli, it's time for Fast Pass Answers. I'm gonna put 30 seconds on the clock after I ask you the first question for you to answer as many questions as possible.

[41:54] Alli Mauzey: Are you gonna put the clock? Are you gonna quit the clock where I can see it or no?

[41:58] David Alpert: No.

[41:59] Alli Mauzey: You don't have to.

[41:59] David Alpert: Okay, okay, okay, we're doing it.

[42:01] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, I know. But I don't want you to think about the time. I want you to think about the joy of Disney.

[42:05] David Alpert: Okay, ready?

[42:08] David Alpert: Alli, name any ride in Fantasyland.

[42:11] Alli Mauzey: Fantasyland? Oh, that's like the kid area, like like Peter Pan.

[42:15] David Alpert: Yeah.

[42:15] Alli Mauzey: Favorite Disney princess.

[42:17] Alli Mauzey: Ariel.

[42:19] David Alpert: Name a song from Hello Dolly.

[42:22] Alli Mauzey: Before the parade passes by.

[42:24] David Alpert: Favorite snack in the parks.

[42:26] Alli Mauzey: Pickle.

[42:27] Alli Mauzey: Giant.

[42:28] David Alpert: Name a character from Cinderella.

[42:30] Alli Mauzey: Cinderella, stepsisters. You know.

[42:33] David Alpert: Name a song from The Little Mermaid.

[42:36] Alli Mauzey: Uh, part of your world.

[42:39] David Alpert: Name a character who appears in Fantasmic.

[42:42] Alli Mauzey: Mickey.

[42:44] David Alpert: Time. I let you go over, but that was very exciting.

[42:47] Alli Mauzey: I like your answer.

[42:48] David Alpert: Pickle, giant.

[42:50] Alli Mauzey: It's so big. I actually have a picture I actually have a picture of me eating the pickle, but I refrain from sending it to you because it just like looks weird.

[42:58] David Alpert: It might be a little bit more. I talk about this a lot. I love when people's favorite snacks in the parks are like things you can get elsewhere. Like people are like, I love the popcorn, or I love the turkey leg, or I love the pickle. I was like, what about the Mickey Mouse ice cream sandwich? No, the pickle, but you know, it was lost on me that I could go get a giant pickle at like the deli at the grocery store. You know, I think for me it was like, oh, I go to Disneyland, I get a pickle.

[43:25] Alli Mauzey: Hold on, you're thinking ears.

[43:27] David Alpert: It's trivia time.

[43:28] Alli Mauzey: Oh boy.

[43:31] David Alpert: Alli, you have shared so many cool ties to Disneyland and Anaheim. One of which is that your grandparents owned the Hacienda Motel, just a half mile south of Disneyland, which I believe Walt Disney personally instructed guests to go to if the Disneyland Hotel was fully booked. Speaking of the Disneyland Hotel, which opened just three months after Disneyland opened its gates, how many rooms were available when the hotel first opened?

[43:55] Alli Mauzey: I have no idea. I'm gonna say 50.

[44:01] David Alpert: It is actually 104.

[44:03] Alli Mauzey: Okay.

[44:04] David Alpert: When the hotel first opened.

[44:05] Alli Mauzey: I truly believe that the 105th family who tried to check in went to the Hacienda.

[44:10] David Alpert: They had to have.

[44:11] Alli Mauzey: Is that a true story?

[44:13] David Alpert: No.

[44:14] Alli Mauzey: I just I was like, what?

[44:17] David Alpert: I mean, it could be.

[44:18] Alli Mauzey: I was like, why the Hacienda motel?

[44:21] David Alpert: I mean, they had a great pool, but yeah, they were like, they're like, you know, that blonde woman in the postcard looks so great. You definitely want to know this. And they have a they're gonna have a daughter one day who's gonna sing part of your world so beautiful. You should definitely say that.

[44:37] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, 104. I mean, clearly now there's three hotels on property and many more rooms, but 104 when it first opened.

[44:43] David Alpert: Yeah.

[44:57] Alli Mauzey: David, I clearly remember seeing you on Broadway in Cry-Baby, where you not only originated the role of Lenora, but also amazingly brought to life the song Screw Loose by Adam Schlesinger and David Javerbaum. I loved your performance, but I couldn't help but think there were so many coded references to Disney and Disneyland in the lyrics. So in this game, Screw Loose for Disney, I'm going to read you one of the lyrics and a corresponding trivia question. Are you ready?

[45:19] Alli Mauzey: Sure.

[45:21] David Alpert: Okay. So number one for Screw Loose for Disney. "Or maybe they think I'm not playing with a full deck" is of course a reference to Alice in Wonderland attraction that appears at how many Disney Parks worldwide?

[45:24] Alli Mauzey: How many Disney Parks worldwide? I don't know. Uh there's two.

[45:40] David Alpert: Have the Alice in Wonderland attraction.

[45:41] Alli Mauzey: Oh, that I do not know. I don't even I couldn't even tell you if Disney World has it.

[45:47] David Alpert: Like, can you tell me how many parks there are in the world?

[45:51] Alli Mauzey: There is. So there's Anaheim and Orlando, and then Tokyo and Paris and Shanghai and Hong Kong.

[46:00] David Alpert: Is there just one?

[46:01] Alli Mauzey: Is there just one that is?

[46:03] David Alpert: Yeah.

[46:05] Alli Mauzey: You want to ride it.

[46:05] David Alpert: It is just one.

[46:06] Alli Mauzey: It's only in Disneyland.

[46:06] David Alpert: Yeah, that makes sense to me.

[46:08] Alli Mauzey: I don't know why you would transfer that to any newer stuff.

[46:12] David Alpert: I also love that the attraction's actually called Alice in Wonderland. Not like Peter Pan's Flight or Mr. Toad's Wild Ride or Pinocchio's Daring Journey. It's like this is Alice in Wonderland.

[46:23] Alli Mauzey: So you're one for one.

[46:25] David Alpert: Great. Well done.

[46:26] Alli Mauzey: Here comes number two for Screw Loose for Disney. "Bonkers, that's what they're calling me," was definitely a reference to Bonkers, the Disney Channel show in the early 90s featuring a bobcat who went from show business to police work. Bonkers was voiced by Jim Cummings, who is the voice of Hondo Onaka in which Disney Parks attraction?

[46:45] Alli Mauzey: I have no idea.

[46:45] David Alpert: Hondo.

[46:47] Alli Mauzey: Rephrase that back question again.

[46:50] David Alpert: So the voice of Hondo Onaka, who is a big part of a ride at Disneyland, was voiced by Jim Cummings, who also voiced Bonkers. But what's the name of the ride?

[47:02] Alli Mauzey: It's a current ride.

[47:04] David Alpert: It's current.

[47:06] Alli Mauzey: That's his name.

[47:07] David Alpert: That's his name, or that's the name of the character.

[47:09] Alli Mauzey: That's the character's name. Hondo Onaka.

[47:12] David Alpert: It's Smugglers Run.

[47:14] Alli Mauzey: Okay, yeah.

[47:14] David Alpert: I actually haven't been to the park since Star Wars opened. I actually think now we're gearing up to taking my kid, especially because Star Stories is there, and I think it's gonna be a great fit.

[47:23] Alli Mauzey: Good, good, good.

[47:24] David Alpert: Okay, number three.

[47:26] David Alpert: "But they can't hear the voice in my brain" reminds me of the Pixar film Inside Out. Where can you find the attraction Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind?

[47:34] Alli Mauzey: Oh my gosh.

[47:36] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, I don't know. Is it in Florida?

[47:38] David Alpert: Do they have one in Florida?

[47:39] Alli Mauzey: No.

[47:41] David Alpert: It's actually Pixar Pier in Disney California Adventure Park.

[47:44] Alli Mauzey: Oh, I haven't seen it.

[47:45] David Alpert: But it's new. It's like tucked away. It's like back in the corner, but that's where that is.

[47:48] Alli Mauzey: Oh wow. Cool.

[47:50] David Alpert: Okay, number four for Screw Loose for Disney. "When Lenora sings about the Toys in the Belfry," she's clearly thinking of Toy Story's Midway Mania. How many different mini games do guests play throughout the ride after, of course, the one practice round?

[48:05] Alli Mauzey: Have you been on Midway Mania?

[48:06] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, that's been there a bit, quite, right?

[48:08] David Alpert: It's been there a bit, yeah.

[48:09] Alli Mauzey: I don't know. Is there six?

[48:11] David Alpert: You are so close. It's five.

[48:13] Alli Mauzey: Oh, it felt like it felt like not too long, not too short. Some remember.

[48:17] David Alpert: I know. You're probably just thinking of the practice round.

[48:19] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[48:21] David Alpert: Yeah, that's what that was.

[48:21] Alli Mauzey: Okay.

[48:22] David Alpert: Okay, number five.

[48:23] David Alpert: "And when she sings about bats in the attic," she's referencing the only mountain in Disneyland to feature bats in the attraction. Which mountain is it?

[48:31] Alli Mauzey: Oh.

[48:34] Alli Mauzey: Uh at Disneyland, you said?

[48:36] David Alpert: Yeah.

[48:36] Alli Mauzey: Uh are there bats in um in uh why am I blinking on the ride?

[48:42] David Alpert: We've already talked about it.

[48:43] Alli Mauzey: Um We did talk about it.

[48:45] David Alpert: You're right.

[48:47] Alli Mauzey: I don't know, I feel like I'm gonna get this one wrong, but uh uh Thunder, what's why am I blanking on the title of the thing?

[48:53] David Alpert: Thunder Mountain.

[48:53] Alli Mauzey: You are right, it's Big Thunder Mountain.

[48:59] David Alpert: Yes, you did it.

[49:01] Alli Mauzey: That's that's right.

[49:01] David Alpert: Okay.

[49:02] Alli Mauzey: They still do.

[49:03] David Alpert: Please keep your hands and arms inside the train.

[49:06] Alli Mauzey: What do they say?

[49:06] David Alpert: And because this is the wildest ride in the Wilderness.

[49:10] Alli Mauzey: The wilderness is about to say universe wild, it's riding the wilderness.

[49:13] David Alpert: They say, and don't and hold on to them hats and glasses.

[49:16] Alli Mauzey: Because the series in the wilderness, yeah.

[49:19] David Alpert: Go ahead.

[49:20] Alli Mauzey: Okay, number six.

[49:21] David Alpert: "But I just don't see the harm in carving your name in my arm" was her acknowledging a tree near Snow White's Grotto with the carved initials of which two characters from a Disney movie.

[49:32] Alli Mauzey: Oh, I don't know that.

[49:33] Alli Mauzey: I don't know if you've seen it. This I learned only a few years ago. Near Snow White's Grotto is a tree, and there's initials carved into one of the trees.

[49:41] David Alpert: Is it from um what's the one with Mandy Moore?

[49:44] Alli Mauzey: It's not from Tangled.

[49:45] Alli Mauzey: No, because I feel like there's there's plenty of trees in that movie, right?

[49:48] Alli Mauzey: I didn't even see Tangled.

[49:48] David Alpert: I'm gonna give you a hint.

[49:49] Alli Mauzey: Yeah.

[49:49] David Alpert: I'm gonna give you a hint. This tree is right next to your favorite Fantasyland attraction.

[49:55] Alli Mauzey: Oh, Peter Pan.

[49:57] Alli Mauzey: Oh, is it Wendy and Peter?

[49:59] David Alpert: It is Wendy and Peter.

[50:00] Alli Mauzey: Oh, I love that.

[50:02] David Alpert: Cool.

[50:03] Alli Mauzey: How long has that been there?

[50:05] David Alpert: I don't know.

[50:06] Alli Mauzey: A cast member told me that maybe in like 2017, 2018, and I was like, this is so cool.

[50:10] David Alpert: Yeah, that is cool.

[50:12] Alli Mauzey: Okay, only a few more for Screw Loose for Disney. You're killing it. Great.

[50:16] David Alpert: Okay.

[50:17] David Alpert: Number seven.

[50:18] David Alpert: "Darling, it's so hard to be 16," which Aurora would say, tell me about it. How many Disney Parks castles are Sleeping Beauties?

[50:27] Alli Mauzey: Oh gosh.

[50:30] Alli Mauzey: I don't know.

[50:32] Alli Mauzey: I wouldn't know that.

[50:33] Alli Mauzey: Um, I just assumed they all were.

[50:37] David Alpert: Well, that's I mean, to grow up at Disneyland, that's are they not all Aurora's castles?

[50:42] Alli Mauzey: They're not.

[50:42] David Alpert: So Disneyland, specifically Sleeping Beauty Castle, and also Disneyland Paris.

[50:47] Alli Mauzey: Because I would say like a I would assume they all are, but I could actually say, like, you know, to update everything for modern audiences, yeah, I could see why they wouldn't make it Auroras, but I wouldn't know which I wouldn't be able to tell you what it would be.

[51:00] David Alpert: So Florida and Tokyo are Cinderella.

[51:03] Alli Mauzey: Oh, cool.

[51:03] David Alpert: Duh.

[51:04] David Alpert: And then where Hong Kong used to be Sleeping Beauty, they updated it to be the Castle of Magical Dreams.

[51:09] Alli Mauzey: And then Shanghai is I'm gonna blank something like Enchanted Storybook.

[51:14] David Alpert: Okay.

[51:14] Alli Mauzey: But only two are Sleeping Beauties.

[51:16] David Alpert: All right.

[51:17] Alli Mauzey: But definitely.

[51:18] Alli Mauzey: How did I tell you? Like going through the castle at Disneyland with Sleeping Beauty, like it was like not on my like I yeah, I didn't need feel the need to go back, you know.

[51:26] David Alpert: I know.

[51:27] Alli Mauzey: I know I hear you.

[51:27] David Alpert: I just th every time I'm there, I'm like, I'm in the castle.

[51:29] Alli Mauzey: I'm in the castle.

[51:30] David Alpert: I know. Can I tell you a story? My roommate in college grew up, you know, and she's from New York, and so like she had only been to Disney World. So she when she visited me out in California on some break one time, I took her to Disneyland. She looked at the castle and she went, No.

[51:43] Alli Mauzey: That's it.

[51:44] David Alpert: Uh-huh.

[51:45] Alli Mauzey: And I said, This is the original.

[51:48] David Alpert: This is the original.

[51:49] Alli Mauzey: Now, when I did go to Disney World eventually in my adult life, I was like, oh, like I get it. I was like, I still prefer like I actually personally feel like the details at Disneyland are better than like um the Magic Kingdom.

[52:03] David Alpert: Um, because that's what that equivalency is, right?

[52:06] Alli Mauzey: I know things are different, but I actually feel like the details at Disneyland are are better.

[52:09] David Alpert: But I know the castle's smaller, but it's what are you gonna do? It's the original.

[52:11] Alli Mauzey: It's perfect.

[52:13] David Alpert: Yes.

[52:13] Alli Mauzey: I always say Disneyland is theater, Disney World is film.

[52:16] David Alpert: There you go.

[52:17] Alli Mauzey: Disneyland's original, it's artistic, it's quite um though I will say the Disneyland Paris Castle is stunning, it's really beautiful, and it's all like the topiaries and it's nice.

[52:25] David Alpert: Okay, only a few more.

[52:27] David Alpert: But I know it's worth the cost, which all of us listening would of course say the same about a day at Disney. How much did it cost to go to Disneyland during its opening summer?

[52:35] Alli Mauzey: You mentioned this earlier in the interview.

[52:37] Alli Mauzey: Well, I mean, my dad's memory, he kind of threw it out there. He said a buck fifty. I don't know if that's accurate or not.

[52:42] David Alpert: Was it even a buck fifty?

[52:43] Alli Mauzey: It's close.

[52:44] Alli Mauzey: Buck twenty-five?

[52:46] David Alpert: It was a buck.

[52:47] Alli Mauzey: It was one dollar, Bob.

[52:48] David Alpert: Okay.

[52:48] Alli Mauzey: One dollar.

[52:49] David Alpert: Yeah, it was weird, right? Like you paid a dollar to get in, but then right.

[52:52] Alli Mauzey: Did you have to pay for the e-tickets?

[52:54] David Alpert: Yeah.

[52:54] Alli Mauzey: You had to pay a little bit for the ticket box.

[52:56] David Alpert: And like some of the more fancier or like bigger rides were more money, right?

[53:00] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, the e-ticket rides.

[53:02] David Alpert: Yeah.

[53:02] Alli Mauzey: Which again, like Disney Imagineers will still use that expression. Like it's a new e-ticket ride, and I hope that younger fans would be like, what does that mean? It means like that was like the really cool extreme rides.

[53:15] David Alpert: They were looking for those E D tickets.

[53:17] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, look for those E-tickets.

[53:19] David Alpert: Okay, two more for Screw Loose for Disney. Lenora sings, "I've made up my mind, which I've lost." And which Disneyland attraction sings, "We're merrily on our way to nowhere at all"?

[53:34] Alli Mauzey: Oh god, I don't know.

[53:35] David Alpert: Amarily into nowhere at all.

[53:37] Alli Mauzey: That's not like in Splash Mountain, is it?

[53:40] David Alpert: It's not Splash Mountain.

[53:43] Alli Mauzey: Marily into nowhere.

[53:45] David Alpert: That's a current ride.

[53:47] Alli Mauzey: It's still running, yeah.

[53:51] David Alpert: Oh man. I might need a clue.

[53:55] Alli Mauzey: It's in Fantasyland.

[53:56] David Alpert: It's in Fantasyland.

[53:57] Alli Mauzey: Oh, American to know wall at all.

[54:02] David Alpert: I don't know.

[54:06] Alli Mauzey: I don't know.

[54:07] David Alpert: This is the one ride where you end up in hell.

[54:10] Alli Mauzey: Oh, I almost said, uh, Mr. Toad's. I almost said that, but I don't remember that part.

[54:14] David Alpert: I don't remember them saying that.

[54:17] Alli Mauzey: Do you know what my mom and my mom did one time when we were waiting in line for Mr. Toad? She got friends with this guy next to us who like had a cigarette. Say they was hilarious to put a cigarette in a Mr. Toad statue. So Mr. Toad was just sitting there with like a cigarette hanging out of his mouth as everybody was like walking around.

[54:33] David Alpert: That's the thing. Like, we've been to do that so many times, like we'd even we can get into start to get into trouble and do stuff like that.

[54:38] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep.

[54:40] David Alpert: Okay. Okay, last one. A panel of doctors try to lock me away. Maybe it was doctors trying to lock away some pirates. We're not totally sure. But in Disneyland's version of Pirates of the Caribbean, your boat goes past some jail cells where some pirates have also been locked away. And they're all trying to get the attention of a dog. Just how many living pirates, not skeletons, are in this scene?

[55:04] Alli Mauzey: Oh gosh. And I for the research, I watched the video last night. I thought it was a I thought it was this number, and then I was like, oh, there's actually it's not this one. I was gonna say two, but is there like three?

[55:17] David Alpert: It's more than three.

[55:20] Alli Mauzey: Because there are people like in the back of the jail cell. How many people are like through the gate through the bars though?

[55:26] David Alpert: Two?

[55:27] Alli Mauzey: So in the like the visual, there's three.

[55:29] David Alpert: Okay. But then like there's another cell right next to them, and there's three more. So there's six total.

[55:35] Alli Mauzey: Oh, I was saying I think I knew that. I think I knew that there were, I know there's more than two cells. I was thinking of the one cell, but I still would have been wrong because it would have said two right there.

[55:43] David Alpert: Right.

[55:44] Alli Mauzey: Oh my gosh. My favorite part of that ride is when you go under that guy off the bridge and his foot is so dirty.

[55:49] David Alpert: The foot.

[55:50] Alli Mauzey: That foot's so gross.

[55:51] David Alpert: The foot is good. Anyway, Alli, thank you for playing Screw Loose for Disney. You did wonderfully well. Thank you for your time.

[55:52] Alli Mauzey: Thank you.

[55:59] David Alpert: It's time for some tough choices. Let's play Tweedledee or Tweedledum.

[56:06] David Alpert: Alli, it's time for Tweedledee or Tweedledum. I'm gonna give you two options. You tell me which one you prefer. First one for Tweedledee or Tweedledum. It's a small world or the enchanted tiki room.

[56:15] Alli Mauzey: I have to say which one I prefer.

[56:17] David Alpert: Which one you prefer?

[56:18] Alli Mauzey: Small world.

[56:19] David Alpert: Okay. And you do you like Small World?

[56:22] Alli Mauzey: Uh I do. It's nostalgic. I actually like a lot of the old stuff. It's so um you see through all the cracks on that ride. You look right up and you're like, I'm just in a big room. I'm in a big room with dolls.

[57:04] David Alpert: Right. Okay, Tweedledee or Tweedledum. I think I know the answer. Epcot or California Adventure.

[57:04] Alli Mauzey: Oh gosh, yeah. I mean, I just I have to say California Adventure. I just know it better. I have been Epcot, but it was a quick quick turnaround.

[57:04] David Alpert: Yeah, I'm with you. And California Adventure continues to get better. When if I went when it first came out, I have to say when I got married two days after we um we got married in California and we went to Disneyland um and it was the first time it done all the cars stuff, that cars ride.

[57:04] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, yeah. That was awesome.

[57:02] David Alpert: So cool. I love it. Okay, Tweedledee or Tweedledum, Rope Drop or after midnight on Main Street.

[57:10] Alli Mauzey: I don't know if I know these references.

[57:12] David Alpert: So Rope Drop is getting there like first thing in the morning when they first let the guests in. Oh and then, or it's like when the park shuts down at midnight, but Main Street stays open an hour later. Do you prefer that early morning or that late night?

[57:24] Alli Mauzey: Oh, I don't think I've ever done the late night on Main Street. I didn't know if I knew that was a thing. I thought when the Main Street always stays open. I thought when the park closes, the park closes.

[57:36] David Alpert: So, like if it so if you're like in like if the park closes at midnight and you're in line at 11:59, even if the line is 30 minutes, you still get to go, but they'll stop the lines at midnight. But Main Street stores will stay open till 1 a.m.

[57:50] Alli Mauzey: Oh. You know, maybe I knew that, but I I never took advantage of it. I just kind of was like, all right, it's time to go home.

[57:56] David Alpert: I guess I would I s I mean I guess I kind of did that. I have slowly made my way out and made like last minute purchases of things. Um I mean back when I had like a pass, I wouldn't worry about getting it for a rope drop. I just like nowadays if I'm gonna spend the whole day there, I'm gonna get there like at the butt crack of dawn and just go.

[58:19] David Alpert: Okay, Tweedledee or Tweedledum, Space Mountain or Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.

[58:23] Alli Mauzey: Ooh. Um I saw Space Mountain. P.S. I'm gonna open my snacks right now. My space pretty Oh, we've got some cherry sour balls that has Mickey on it. My sister recently went to Disneyland with her choir. She's a choir teacher, and she sent me like a snack pack. She brought me like some Alice in Wonderland teas. And I haven't had these in so long. But these were also a staple as like a treat at Disneyland.

[58:48] David Alpert: Cherry sour balls. How was that?

[58:50] Alli Mauzey: They're good.

[58:51] David Alpert: Good. We love it. Okay, and final Tweedledee or Tweedledum for our Broadway fans. Screw Loose or Popular?

[58:55] Alli Mauzey: Screw Loose.

[59:00] David Alpert: Great. Well, you originated that one. But I have a fun with Popular. That's a hard question, but yeah.

[59:08] David Alpert: Now let's hear from some of you. Alli put on social media. Here are some Disney questions from your fans. The first one, Alana asks, what do you like to do for a quiet moment at the parks?

[59:26] Alli Mauzey: Um, what do I like to do for a quiet moment in at the parks? I don't know. I mean, I honestly I'm fine just sitting under a tree. I like to watch, you know, like I've been there so many times. I'm not always rushing around and I'll sit under a shady tree and just like people watch, you know?

[59:43] David Alpert: Yeah.

[59:44] Alli Mauzey: Eat a sna eat a snack.

[59:46] David Alpert: Eat a snack, get that pickle. Sit under a tree.

[59:49] Alli Mauzey: Yeah. Yep.

[59:51] David Alpert: Okay, this handle is sugar underscore cookies underscore by underscore Sarah. Which if you would like to send us cookies, Sarah, please do.

[1:00:00] Alli Mauzey: Send it to the booth theater.

[1:00:02] David Alpert: What can we inbo with?

[1:00:03] Alli Mauzey: I will happily accept.

[1:00:06] David Alpert: Yeah, we love cookies. Okay, um, they ask, what's your favorite Disney song to sing?

[1:00:11] Alli Mauzey: Oh, I do like singing "Part of Your World."

[1:00:14] David Alpert: Yeah.

[1:00:14] Alli Mauzey: I went in for Ariel on Broadway, and I was like, I just want to get this show so I can just sing that song. That's it.

[1:00:20] David Alpert: Yeah.

[1:00:21] Alli Mauzey: Um, but in concerts now, I sing it sometimes. It's great. And people love that song.

[1:00:28] David Alpert: That's great. Zara wonders if you could play any Disney character, who would you play?

[1:00:33] Alli Mauzey: Is it Ariel?

[1:00:35] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, I'd play I'd play Ariel. Do you know when I was in junior high, we did a Disney show and I really wanted to play um Sunga Gooduna Michael Bippity Baba T. I don't know. I liked that character.

[1:00:47] David Alpert: Who is that? What's her name?

[1:00:48] Alli Mauzey: The fairy god.

[1:00:50] David Alpert: Yeah, but like that, I like that little song. Put it together and what have you got. I'll sing that to my son sometimes when he thinks I'm crazy.

[1:00:57] David Alpert: Bethany asks, how has Disney inspired or influenced your love for musical theater?

[1:01:02] Alli Mauzey: Oh man, well, you know, I think like when those girls came out and that Disney sound came out with those princesses with like Jodi like Little Mermaid and um Belle and Um Leah Salonga, uh, that was like a sound I think that like fit that crossover to Broadway, I think fits so well. So I think like that gave me something to sing along to. I think. Um and being female, maybe like a girl of a certain age, and you know, I think I don't know, I feel like in some ways I found like my voice just singing along to those songs.

[1:01:35] David Alpert: For sure.

[1:01:36] Alli Mauzey: Thomas G would like to know your favorite attractions and characters.

[1:01:40] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, I love Peter Pan a whole lot. That's my favorite, but I have a fondness for like Pirates of Caribbean. In Kimberly and Kimbo, I skate in a circle with the guy who plays my husband, Steven Boyer, and I said, This reminds me of um in Pirates of Caribbean when the when the guy in the gal are going around, which I know now, like he's chasing food, but it used to be the girls. So sometimes I'm like, we're putting anyone on the Pirates of Caribbean.

[1:02:02] David Alpert: I know exactly that reference. I know what you're talking about.

[1:02:05] Alli Mauzey: Um okay, and this one's not a Disney question, but we really like Michael at Broadway.media, who wrote in when forming your Glinda, how did you root your comedy in reality? And he added that he's a huge fan of yours.

[1:02:16] Alli Mauzey: Oh my gosh, thank you. I don't know. I mean, that's the whole that's how you that's how I have to do my comedy. I don't really feel like there's another choice. Like the deeper I get into the reality, and the more honest I can play it. And I can honestly say, like, I'm always not honest playing it. But um, but I find it it's just funnier, you know. The I like so it's a it's um a practice of being like just get honest when you start pushing, it's not funny anymore. Don't want them like don't sweat too much, you know. It's just a daily practice because the ego gets involved, and you're like, Oh, I love those laughs. But feels good.

[1:03:14] Alli Mauzey: Allie, if you could describe the feelings you get when you look down Main Street and see that castle, what would you say those feelings are?

[1:03:22] Alli Mauzey: Oh. Um, because I want to say like magical, but I don't think that's a feeling. But like for me, there's like a um there's gotta be a more magical word than like satisfaction. Like it just feels like I'm coming home. It feels like uh like home. I feel very like centered. I feel joy. Um, and you know, when you walk in like that, I feel an incredible amount of excitement on what the day is going to be. Um yeah. Those those those feelings. And I don't know, there's like tears when I walk down Main Street because it's so dang magical. It's like this other world exists. Um, and it's like this well of um like I'm like so grateful to be there. I'm just like, gosh.

[1:04:19] David Alpert: That's a good answer.

[1:04:22] Alli Mauzey: It's a really good answer with you.

[1:04:24] David Alpert: And Alli, what's the first thing you're going to do the next time you go to a Disney park?

[1:04:28] Alli Mauzey: I think I'm gonna have to go check out Star Wars. Like my kids of age now and he's kind of taking an interest in it. So I think I just have to mentally prepare for what the parks are now. With all the things and the the people. There's so many people now, and it's not what it once was. So I just have to like get prepared. But that's why I didn't want to take my kid too young. I didn't want to deal with all of that and have like a little kid who could care less. That's you know. Um and it's possible that this will be the trip where they realize, oh my god, I love Disney. It could happen.

[1:04:58] David Alpert: It could happen. I know. What's the big because I'm not, I'm not um into Star Wars like my husband and my kid are, but like what's the big ship at Disneyland, the spaceship.

[1:05:08] Alli Mauzey: Well, there's the Millennium Falcon. So like in Galaxy's Edge, and like there's two rides in Disneyland. There's Rise of the Resistance, which is this huge, like 20-minute experience.

[1:05:17] David Alpert: Okay.

[1:05:18] Alli Mauzey: And then Smuggler's Run, which is kind of Star Tours esque. But it's also a little more interactive and Yeah.

[1:05:25] David Alpert: Yeah, Millennium. We want to go on the Millennium Falcon. We've already talked about it.

[1:05:29] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, so that's like Smuggler's Run. That's what we have to do.

[1:05:32] David Alpert: And in the queue, you'll hear the voice of Bonkers.

[1:05:35] Alli Mauzey: Jim Cummings.

[1:05:36] David Alpert: Oh, okay, cool.

[1:05:37] Alli Mauzey: Who is who's also the voice of Winnie the Pooh and saying Scar and Oh, okay, okay. Yeah, of course I know that voice.

[1:05:41] David Alpert: Oh wow.

[1:05:43] Alli Mauzey: Yeah, yeah. Yep. Well, Alli, thank you for joining me on E-Ticket to Broadway for sharing your love of Phantasmic and Peter Pan's Flight, The Little Mermaid, Giant Pickles and Clam Chowder Bread Bowls, Pirates of the Caribbean, Space Mountain, trying caviar Club 33 and Frozen. This has been delightful to chat with a fellow Disneyland enthusiast.

[1:06:00] Alli Mauzey: Likewise.

[1:06:01] David Alpert: Likewise. I like I want like I don't think I slept well as night because I was so excited.

[1:06:07] Alli Mauzey: Okay. Well, thank you for listening, and we'll see you at the parks.