Christy Altomare

Amazing.

And so you attended CCM, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, for musical theater around the same time as your good friend, Christy Altomare.

And then shortly after graduating in 2007, you booked the first long-running, open-ended L.A. company of Wicked as the Glinda Understudy.

And

It was the dream come true, the check off the bucket list, right? Yeah.

And I will just circle back to Christy.

She's my best college girlfriend.

We were roommates for three years and had quite vocal journeys together.

Amazing.

And so you attended CCM, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, for music theater around the same time as your good friend Christy Altomare, and then shortly after graduating in 2007, you booked the first long-running open-ended LA company of "Wicked" as the Glinda understudy.

Yeah.

Wow.

It was absolutely magical, to be honest.

It was the dream come true, the check off the bucket list, right? Um, yeah, and I will just circle back to Christy.

She's my best college girlfriend.

We were roommates for three years, and had-

And Dmitry's, like, the love interest, the main guy, and, uh, so I got to do his family tree.

Christy Altomare played Anastasia.

She was fantastic.

She played it for so long on Broadway.

And he's like, "Oh," they, they're like, "Yeah, come on in." John got him, sh- gave him a tour around the stage, had him meet all the people, took photos with all the people.

So my kid is, like, young, in his early 20s, like, "Mom, I just met all these people, and I, maybe someday I'll be on that stage." Like, it was just the most magical thing that somehow my job, my weird job and awesome job, got to bleed into that a little bit, and that was all because of my family history connection with John, telling him about his story.

So I got to tell Christy Altomare about her ancestor from Italy.

Her great-grandfather was the original Carlo on Carlo's of Cake Boss.