(Music) good morning everyone I'm Olga Villaverde and
I'm Amber Milt, welcome to The Balancing Act.
Olga, do you have a passport?
I do.
Okay because we are going to take a
trip today to the Kingdom of Siam.
I know we're you"re going.
We're going with the
King and I. It's a East meets West musical
extravaganza and the Tony award-winning
musical revival is hitting the road.
And Iv'e got to be honest, I have
never seen this.
Ohh.
the songs, (Snging) Getting to know you
getting to know all about you.
Oh my gosh, she sings so pretty.
Alright so not to brush you off, Amber
but I'm gonna also learn the secret behind,
dry brushing.
You guys do it in The Northeast.
it's so great for your skin up there
and we've got Chef Ralph in the
house.
MMMM!
We've got all this and more and it
all starts?
Right now.
(Music) Broadway Balances
America brought to you by Broadway Across America,
bringing the best of Broadway to a city near you.
Time now for another installment of Broadway
Balances America, I love This!
Oh, it's so much fun and this time, The Tony award winning
revival, Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King
and I. It tells the story of a schoolteacher who
travels from England to Siam to serve as governess to the king's
many children.
East meets West in this stunning new production.
You're not gonna want to miss
it.
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From screen to stage this Rodgers and Hammerstein
classic has been beautifully re-imagined and based on the
1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam, by Margaret Landon.
It carries us away to a foreign
land full of dazzling song and dance and features strong female
characters who realize the possibility of change.
And it really is this kind of strange
mid-19th century story about King in a kingdom that's in
transition.
It's changing from a more traditional culture to a
modern culture.
He's beseeched by outsiders, the English, the
French, the whoever trying to take over his country, and he
feels he has to kind of modernize his country so he
hires the schoolteacher to teach all the children English and
educate them.
So you have the schoolteacher from England,
meeting the great King of Siam, and you begin a story between
the two of them.
And what a story it is!
Broadway star, Laura Michelle Kelly, plays Anna
the strong willed schoolteacher.
So Anna leaves her home to come to this crazy conflict ridden
country to change the lives of all of these people so she's
coming out of it with a very strong mind and she knows what
she wants and what she is doing and what she wants to say.
And Lady Thaing has her own opinions
herself about how things should be run and she almost is in
opposite mind to Anna.
She's very strong and I love that you
know celebrating two powerful female roles and her support for
the king is in one way is as equally important but very
different from Anna's.
(music) Joan Almedilla plays the King's
head wife, Lady Thiang.
I believe Lady Thiang she is a
puppet master not in a manipulative way.
She has a system.
She works systematically.
Her moves are calculated and also if it was an
orchestra she is the conductor and she knows when something is
off in the palace and she fixes it and she knows when and how to
deal with Mrs Anna because the king likes to be challenged and
Mrs Anna challenges the king and because of that it makes the
king a better person.
(music) And the King in the middle of
these dynamic ladies, is played by Jose Llana.
One of the biggest things in the show is
empathy.
You know how can you bridge a gap is by maybe putting
yourself in the shoes of a person you feel like you have in
conflict with but I think once Anna and the King and even Lady
Thaing as well they're able to form these friendships because
they see the other side and maybe they can empathize with
them.
That's where those friendships are formed and then
we all really want the same thing.
We all wants safety, we all want love, we all want
community and I think that's where the friendship really
becomes strengthened in the story.
(music) The
story and show in this grand new
production are truly opulent.
This was such a big production in New York.
Are you bringing this same excitement on the
road?
I think that the quality of it in a more intimate
surrounding actually makes it feel more luxurious and richer
than it did in New York.
This is a very general, one of the
general sets.
It all takes place basically with in the surround
of the royal palace of Siam.
You're basiclly seeing some columns that move around.
You're seeing a statue, an enormous statue of The Budda.
The curtain which actually frames the whole show,
is a Gold Leaf on Red China silk.
When you walk into the theater, we call it a jaw
dropper because people aren't expecting it.
It gives a richness to the production.
It's almost magical, the way it reflects the light.
The palace was actually surrounded
by a white wall with these pickets on the top of it so we
decided that with all of the gold it was nice to have the
purity of the white wall at the back.
It's always there.
As for the tony award winning
costumes...
This is one of the largest shows I have ever worked
on.
There are over 350 costumes in the show and they're all
custom-made, specifically built for the actor, there are silks
and satins and linen and beading and it's just huge.
When people come to see the King and I they
expect a certain production value.
Anna has seven big lavish dresses.
The king has seven or eight different looks.
Designed by Tony Award winner Katherine
Zubber who won her sixth Tony for this production.
It's a very royal look and when the king
first enters the top of the stage and all you see is this
beautiful robe reflecting.
And it shows the royalty and the expence of The King.
It's very heavy.
It weighs probably about 10 or 15 pounds when it's all
put together.
And it's only a one of a kind.
There are no other one's made of this.
This is the iconic ball gown for Anna
when she goes to dance with the King.
It is made of 25 yards of silk satin just in the skirt
alone.
The bodice itself is built as a corset and it's on
top of a corset.
Each of the beaded fringe are all hand done.
The whole dress weighs about 40 pounds.
So there is one, two, three, four layers that go into
the dress.
(music) Just as there
are many layers to the story...
It's funny, from the first scene when she comes in and we meet
the king is thrown off balance because he's not used to a women
kind of standing up to him the way that she does.
And for the rest of the show it becomes this
kind of challenging kind of balance of power she constantly
proves her intelligence to him and that she has the ability to
help him if he allows her.
And I think through that they form
this friendship.
And there's a little flirtation involved in
there too and I think the flirtation and the possibilities
of exchanging ideas and having a little fun while they're doing
it.
Is there a favorite moment in the play, is there a favorite
song that you have?
I mean "Shall We Dance" is probably
engrained in my mind from the very first moment I watched it
in the movies from when I was growing up.
To have that moment on stage is amazing.
When the king and Anna first accidentally
they collide.
The first time they've ever had an intimacy or
even been alone to connect like that.
And that's as close as they get to a kiss.
It's powerful, it's a powerful moment
and that's one of my favorites.
It is really about the possibility of change.
You know the King learns from her, and
she learns from the King, and it's a very sophisticated
relationship between the two of them.
It's a great family show
especially for kids in the age of 6 or 7 or up.
They get to experiance the great music of Rodgers and Hammerstein
Go to a foreign, crazy place they have never been, They
get to see this amazing ballet in the middle of the show.
And emurse themselves in a period, the 19th century.
Any you know, when you have kids you to bring them to
experiances which both elevate them, make them feel smart.
And at the same time actually make them happy.
And it does that.
The North American Tour of Rodgers and Hammersteins the
King and I is coming soon to a theater near you.
Check out Broadway Across America,
Broadway Balances America or you could always go to our website
the balancing act.com for all of the show information, tour dates
and more!
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[Music] Okay ladies before you get your
morning started it's time to brush up on
some beauty secrets you'll see what I
mean Olga has more.
What if i told you there was a simple
wellness trick that only takes five
minutes a day cost nothing and helps
cleanse your body inside and out wow it's called dry skin
brushing you talk about their health benefit
is Jeff Van Hecke national sales manager
from Yerba Prima.
Good morning.
Can you see I'm excited.
You are.
Inside and out cleanse your body.
That's right.
This is great!
Alright Jeff.
What is dry brushing?
Well it's exactly what it sounds like.
Okay well it's exactly what it sounds
like.
Dry brushing the skin and it's in a
certain pattern to help stimulate the
lymphatic system and kick toxins out of
the body.
So why would people do this?
Brush their skin?
well it's very important because the
lymphatic system has no central pumping
mechanism.
Ok so it has to travel backwards in an
upward motion towards the heart and when
you move it along with the dry brush it;
had actually helps to stimulate them
part of that process removing toxins
from the body.
And the benefits are the?
Benefits are healthier happier body
ok going to help to remove those toxins
those unwanted toxins from the body
it also helps to exfoliate the dead skin
cells which is very important because
you're opening up the pores and you're
bringing the new cells to the light of
day.
And of course i'm going to bring to
life something that many women worry
about which is cellulite, like not that I
have anything ok, But just in case I do,
just show me how this works and how it would
improve cellulite.
Ok well let you know this
is actually being used by a lot of
salons and alternative health practitioners throughout the
country for detox and also for cellulite as
a beauty brush.
Ok And what you want to do is you
want to start on the outer parts of the
body so you would start with the hands and the feet, you would go
with up your legs, you want to come up
your arms brush your back and then do your
torso and you want to start very
gently because you don't want to
irritate the skin especially if you've never
done a dry skin brush before but it's,
get over time this will actually get
softer and you can adjust the amount of
pressure that you need.
And I would do this
before bathroom or after I would assume before.
You would do it before showering
and it'll help you feel you feel invigorated after doing it
usually use it for about two to three
minutes and get in the shower is going to
help to wash away all the dead skin
cells and it's also
going to help to get rid of those toxins.
And what about wrinkles and I use it
here.
No you would not want to use it on your
face.
Not on my face.
Not the waist, the breast or
the groin.
Okay yeah those are good areas not to do it
and after I do it what would I notice?
I'm gonna try it.
Your going to
notice your skin is going to feel much
better.
You're going to just going to
feel more supple, you're actually, you're
kicking out to toxins so you're going to
feel invigorated that way and overall
you're going to be improving your health.
And what do you tell the skeptics out there, that
say, Come on!
Come on!
A dry brush?
I'll tell you, dry dry brushing is actually
been used by cultures around the world
for hundreds if not thousands of years
and so this is not a new concept by any
stretch and we've actually we invented
the category of cleansing whole body
detoxing over 35 years ago in the
natural foods industry so I tell my
skeptics you can count on Yerba Prima.
Ok, thank you so much.
That was of great
information.
Can keep it?
Absolutely.
I'm going to try dry brushing
tonight.
All by myself and this
has been a great segment.
To find out
more information about dry brushing and
where you can find this.
Stop making me laugh.
Find this skin brush go to YerbaPrima.com
That's YerbaPrima.com and go to our
website thebalancingact.com this is kind
of cool.
(Music) (Music)
You know there's nothing yummier than
GUI grilled cheese.
Oh my goodness, I
could not agree more.
But if you
want to up the ante and your grilled cheese,
Chef Pagano is in the kitchen
with a new noodaly twist.
Want to check this out
(Music) Insanely awesome grilled cheese.
Not just any grilled cheese.
Welcome to my kitchen, This is
QuickBytes with me Chef Ralph Pagano.
I'm gonna be replacing
boring bread with Marachan Ramen Noodles.
Throwing some sauteed mushrooms
and arugula and this will be the most
amazing we gooey cheesy deliciousness
you've ever tasted.
Let's get started so here's what I got.
I got a couple of eggs that I've
already cracked I'm gonna whisk them
together.
Right over here, the Maruchan noodles
already cooked.
You can use the flavor
pouch or not use the pouch depending on
your flavor.
Spin it together with the
eggs and drop it in these noodles right here.
This is simple as it's going to get.
We're going to toss these models
around with the egg and then we'll take this
ramekin it's a porcelain ramekin.
Probably got one in your cupboard.
Mix it around.
Alright All mixed up it is, here's the
ramekin.
We're going to take a little bit about
two ounces worth of this noodle drop it
inside the ramekin.
Then get a piece of
plastic just like this.
Now I grab this
can of soup, place it right on top of the
noodle and that's going to get the egg
and the noodle to get altogether.
Gonna pop in the frigerator let it set
up and it's going to be perfect.
I've already done a couple and I've got
one right here.
I got my oil on I'm gonna
pop out this ramekin.
This beautiful
easy Marushan ramen noodle bread.
Why these are cooking i'm going to
add some cheese to this grilled cheese
experience.
I got aged cheddar right here it's so
delicious and melts nice.
I love it so.
Ok so over here my cheese is melted I got
some sauteed mushrooms.
I sauteed a
little bit of butter, little bit of salt
and his white button mushrooms.
You want to use shiitake, knock yourself
out.
Porcini, Oh, your"e fancy.
Right now a little bit of
arugula now my handy-dandy fish spatula
going to put this grilled cheese put
this piece on top.
Well my my my.
This ain't your mama's
grilled cheese my friends it's going to
be crispy gooey cheesy and delicious.
Alright, so now, check it out.
We're going to flip it
over right here and get a golden brown
and delicious and it's going to be great.
Think outside the box.
Replace the
the bread in your next sandwich with Maruchan Romin Noodles.
it doesn't matter what flavor you choose.
Choose the one you love the most.
Me, I love the oriental flavor with my
arugula and mushrooms.
I'm going to slide it right over here
and give it a taste test because this
mouth loves some of these noodles.
Oh man look at that it's melty and gooey
and cheezy and this by right here got my
name written all over it.
Hey, for more about
Maruchan noodles, check out Maruchan.com.
Or visit our website thebalancingact.com.
Remember this has been a QuickByte.
But chew slowly.
Wow!
That's good!
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I really enjoyed watching a little bit of the King and I.
And the dress and the set!
And the kids that they bring to every
show and everything city.
It's amazing, absolutely amazing what
a production.
So when it comes to Miami.
I want to be there!
You're gonna have to see it
Will be there.
And remember guys if you
want to know more about the King and I
are anything you saw today show you can
head to our Facebook page and our
website and of course you can always
follow us on twitter because we've got
lots more there.
Thanks for watching
everyone have a great day we'll see you
next time.
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