Sometimes you watch someone on TV or in a movie and you think you know them. But in the case of Dancing with the Stars’ Karina Smirnoff, you’d be wrong.

Yes, Karina is beautiful, and talented, and competitive. But until you meet her, you have no idea how bubbly and fun-loving she is. Getting to know her has been such a treat.

Recently Forever Tango announced that Karina and fellow DWTS pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy will be starring on Broadway for three weeks starting July 9. I’ll be in the audience at least once.

Extended through August 11. Buy tickets here.

K, welcome to NYC!

OneChicklette: Your favorite qualities in a love interest

@KarinaSmirnoff: Confidence, loyalty, great sense of humor

OneChicklette: Your chief characteristic (one word)

@KarinaSmirnoff: Fairness

OneChicklette: What you appreciate most in your friends

@KarinaSmirnoff: Understanding and honesty

OneChicklette: Your idea of happiness

@KarinaSmirnoff: When you wake up in the morning and you smile big because you can’t wait for a day to start. Also a day with the family!

OneChicklette: Your idea of misery

@KarinaSmirnoff: Stuck in traffic, when you are in a rush and you are behind someone who is moving at a snail’s speed, or when you are on the plane and want to take a nap and the person next to you won’t stop trying to make a conversation. Also a day with the family. (LOL)

OneChicklette: Your favorite fictional character

@KarinaSmirnoff: Jessica Rabbit

OneChicklette: Your favorite thing to eat, and also to drink

@KarinaSmirnoff: Eat: chocolate. Drink: coffee

OneChicklette: Five tangible things you can’t live without

@KarinaSmirnoff: My smart phone, dark chocolate, mascara, high heel shoes, coffee.

OneChicklette: What’s the number one item on your bucket list? (question via @SaraLang)

@KarinaSmirnoff: Spend a day with former President Bill Clinton and Oscar winner Daniel Day Lewis. Cage dive with great white sharks in South Africa.

@OneChicklette: Who do you know via social media that you’re dying to meet in real life?  (this question came via @Tammy)

@KarinaSmirnoff: Seth MacFarlane

OneChicklette: A question I should ask the next participant

@KarinaSmirnoff: What was the hardest lesson you learned in life?

OneChicklette: Random shout out

@KarinaSmirnoff: First, my manager/best friend Lindsay Rielly. Then please visit my web sites KarinaSmirnoff.com and KarinaSmirnoffDance.com