A Blog by Margaret Rose
Disneyland was not only a fun place to visit with my Dad; it became an inspiration to me as I found my way into a career as a storyteller. Walt Disney told stories with his movies and in the three-dimensional environmental story of a theme park; my chosen medium is musical theater, but the concepts of telling a story are similar. On one trip to Disneyland – as an adult, long after my childhood visits with my Dad – my best friend Annie introduced me to a little detail in Disneyland’s storytelling that impressed me, perhaps, more than any other.
So there we were, Annie and I,
I live in Orlando now, and spent seven magical years working at Walt Disney World. But my childhood was also spent at a Disney theme park. Every summer, I would go on a road trip with my Dad from my Northern California home, all the way south to Anaheim. We would spend an entire day at Disneyland, Dad and I, from park opening until
