Ready for a Swinging Summer?

  The sparkling lights twinkle down from above while the sound of syncopated swing and burning brass fills the summer air.  As dancers jump, jitter and lindy across the floor to the strains of some of Southern California’s swinging-est big bands, couples stroll outside to catch a quick evening breeze.  Sounds like a great way to spend a summer date night, doesn’t it?  Disney recently announced that Saturday, June 15th will mark the first Jump, Jive, Boogie Swing Party of {Read More}

24-Hours of Disney Parks Magic!

Disney’s Monstrous summer kicks off bright and early tomorrow morning as three theme parks open their turnstiles at 6:00 a.m. at the start of 24-straight hours of Disney magic.  The last time Disney hosted an all-nighter was with it’s “One More Disney Day” celebration on February 29, 2012 in honor of leap year.  After Disneyland closed to capacity during that event, Disney decided to extend the Monstrous Summer party to Disney’s California Adventure park as a way to spread out {Read More}

Disneyland’s Dazzling New Musical

With the Princesses comfortably settled into their new home at Fantasy Faire, Fantasyland Theatre at Disneyland is scheduled to reopen with a spectacular new show on May 25th!  Since it first opened at Disneyland in 1985 (under the name Videopolis), the newly refurbished Fantasyland Theater has hosted a huge array of performances, the most recent being Snow White-An Enchanting Musical which closed in 2006 when the Princesses moved in.  Since that time, live theater at Disneyland has been greatly missed, {Read More}

Disney’s Monstrous Summer!

Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort will kick off a Monstrous Summer by keeping three theme parks open for 24 hours nonstop on Memorial Day Weekend, the traditional start of the family travel season. The Magic Kingdom Park in Florida and Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park in California will stay open from 6 a.m., May 24 to 6 a.m., May 25, 2013, local time* marking the beginning of a summer of fun inspired by the upcoming Disney•Pixar {Read More}

MNSSHP & MVMCP on Sale Now!

Tickets for Mickey’s Not so Scary Halloween Party and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party are now available for purchase!  If you have never been to one of these events, they are a great way to add some magic to your Disney vacation. Both parties are “hard ticket” events which means that a separate ticket for the party must be purchased for each guest. However, if you enter the Magic Kingdom after 4 p.m. on the day of the party, you {Read More}

The Dapper Dans

Our family loves everything that has to do with music.  My husband is a professional piano player and band teacher.  The girls play violin, piano and cello and participate in a kids’ musical theater troupe.  We play “Name that Tune” around the dinner table at night and most of the songs we choose are from old musicals.  And you can add to that list that we all LOVE barbershop. A colleague of my husband’s is a member of the Westchester {Read More}