(upbeat music) - Next on "You Oughta Know".

The stage is set for The Performance Garage's latest presentation, highlighting the area's creative performers.

To Delaware we go to get the scoop on the popularity of curling and the "Journey in Oz" takes a turn through the streets of Philly.

(upbeat music) Welcome to "You Oughta Know", I'm Shirley Min.

There's been a lot of talk about "The Wiz" Revival on Broadway.

Well now there is "The Journey in Oz", this local production with 11 original songs and a cast of 30 kids will have you wanting more from Arts Without Boundaries Youth Community Theater.

♪ In the Land of Oz you made it ♪ ♪ Your journey's done and now you're safe and going home ♪ ♪ Where you belong ♪ - When I was younger I was really afraid to get on stage.

I was really afraid to do like anything on stage 'cause I didn't really have confidence in my abilities and confidence in like myself.

And so I feel like from then I've grown.

- I play Unc, I play Ensemble as Buzzer five, and I play "The Wiz".

I can't do this anymore, I'm not real wiz.

(actor gasping) No, "The Wiz" is my favorite part.

At first I talk at like a deep voice, right?

Like I talked somewhere down here and then like during the end, like I reveal myself.

I'm from a small town right outside Oz called Nowhere.

- [Speaker] So let's take that from Madison.

- I'm sorry to tell you, she's gone.

I am also Ensemble, I'm an elder munchkin in a disco light and my lead role is Queen Gracious.

As like Queen Gracious, it's just I'm there to have someone to look up to, someone to be like, "Wow, I want that role."

So I wanna be the best version of myself as Queen Gracious, so that younger kids can look up to me and think, "Wow, that's something I want to do."

- Are you already out?

- I discovered musical theater, which is the first show I ever saw with my aunt, which was "The Wiz".

Seeing someone who looked like me on stage, I was like, "I'm going to do that, I wanna do that."

- You just keep.

- [Speaker] There we go.

- Keep that awkward clap going.

- [Speaker] Better, better.

- [Speaker] My first experience was Freedom Theater and I did that up until I graduated high school.

(actor singing) - [Speaker] Another breath.

- [Speaker] Breath.

(actor singing) - [Speaker] Not a growl.

(laughing) - When I got into Berkeley College of Music, I was a professional music major and so our final project was you could do a album or you could do a project.

(actor singing) I think I wanna create like a program for kids of color who maybe don't have the exposure or people aren't willing to come into certain spaces because they feel like it's not needed.

The joy that I felt working with kids was way different.

I felt like I was able to kind of leave a lasting impact in a different way.

We really wanted to focus on the Youth Community Theater.

The mission of Arts Without Boundaries was to make sure that there was programming that complimented the kids that we serve and that we don't always have to customize everything, but we can create things and curate experiences that are specifically for them and then they can take those experiences and build on them outside of the program.

I had planned on doing "The Wiz", but then the professional show "The Wiz" came out and so all the licensing was kind of halted.

I was just sitting down talking to my husband and I was just like, "I still wanna do it."

And we were just like, "We're gonna rewrite it and we're gonna make it complimentary to the kids that we serve."

And my husband was like, "We're gonna write the music too."

- In "Journey to Oz", I composed all of the music, she wrote pretty much all of the lyrics and then I wrote all of the music.

So my role has been just the composition of that music, the recording of it and the mixing of it and really building out the sound, all of the sound effects.

- The first day they came in, you could literally hear a pin drop.

Everyone's kind of quiet and timid and looking around.

Now, the kids come in, they're engaged, they're excited, they're rehearsing their lines, they're hugging each other, they're talking about their weekend.

I just see the confidence in the kids.

(upbeat music) - [Speaker] Here we go.

♪ Nobody can stop us, our dreams are ♪ - Theater was one of the places where I could like express myself and be able to like do things I liked without feeling like, oh people are gonna judge me.

- When I gave this idea and people told me, "No, Black kids don't do theater," or that, "I'm different because my voice doesn't sound like theater," or hearing stories from some of the kids that said in school their teachers pushed them to the side because they didn't look like the rule.

I'm just proud that I kept going because there were kids who needed this.

(group singing) (group clapping) ♪ So that they will make it.

♪ - From theater to dance, The Performance Garage is a place that allows dancers to expand their repertoire.

(upbeat music) - Philadelphia really needed a place for dancers to work.

- Dancers need studio space for people to actually move and circulate and build.

- To have a space that's dedicated to dance in Philadelphia is just a wonderful opportunity to take advantage of.

(upbeat music) - I started The Performance Garage back in 2000, had had a long career in New York with Martha Graham Dance Company and I felt a very strong sense of professionalism and I wanted people around me to have that same experience, make a studio that spoke to the integrity of being an artist and also to inspire.

And at that point my husband was extremely supportive and really he's the reason that so much of The Performance Garage here exists.

We purchased this first building, it started in 1865, an old horse stable and then it became an autobody garage and it had been bricked up and left unused and the neighborhood was really dicey and the whole facade was graffitied.

And once we got it all cleaned up, we started rehearsing in here and the room itself allowed me to make a stage that was as big as City Center in New York.

The stage is sprung so you don't injure your body.

The surface is a flooring that is made specifically for dance, when they come in here to actually create their work, since we have two spaces, they can sometimes interact.

- When you have a space where more than one person can use it at a time, is important to the fabric of our community.

Right now I'm rehearsing, but then Brian Sanders is rehearsing next door and Brian and I, we actually performed together once, we're in a piece together, but we haven't seen each other in years.

- There's classes and rehearsals and one of my favorite parts is that I'm meeting my peers in the community that I don't normally see.

So there's this sort of cultural exchange just connects us just a little bit more to our community, which can get really dispersed.

- [Meredith] It's been designed to feel good and if you feel good then you are a lot more relaxed.

If you're a lot more relaxed, you do a lot better, you're more vulnerable, you're more open, you dance better.

(bright music) - It's been my joy really to open it up to others.

We started a Dance Vision Resident Artist program in 2016.

I developed it in a way that was sort of nirvana to me as a choreographer.

They get a $10,000 stipend, they get the space for free, they get a lecture series about what it is they're thinking, what is it they're wanting to say?

They do a film, open rehearsals, let the audience come in and see you work.

They get a fully produced season and finally a masterclass.

We have a engagement program called YouthMoves that works with the students at Franklin Learning Center and they get a chance to have free classes and you just can't imagine how that opens up doors to those students.

(audience claps) (bright music) A space in Philadelphia that would foster the art form and nurture dancers, help them come into their own, help them believe that they are dancers, that there is a certain respect.

And when you walk into The Performance Garage, that's what I try to instill in everyone who comes through those doors and get a little closer to their dreams than they otherwise could have.

(warm music) - Breathing is something we do automatically without thinking about it.

But what if I told you we're probably all doing it wrong?

I recently met with Johnny Gillespie, founder of Empowered Wellness in Wilmington, Delaware, who says if we can learn to breathe the right way, the benefits are endless.

(soft music) (breath exhaling) - [Narrator] We breathe in and out every day, but are we doing it wrong?

- I would say most people are just breathing enough to keep themselves alive.

- Johnny Gillespie is the founder of Empowered Wellness in Wilmington, Delaware.

- Anything from like headaches to digestive issues to heart issues can all kind of arise from not learning how to breathe correctly.

How we breathe is going to affect our neurological system.

Most of us in the 21st century are walking around with a fair amount of anxiety and when we don't breathe correctly then we tend to make our nervous system more nervous.

- [Narrator] Johnny says, lying down on your back is a great place to start to become aware of how you're breathing.

(Johnny exhaling) (soft music) - [Johnny] Allow your knees to bend so you can place your feet on the ground and then take your thumbs to your lowest rib and your fingers to your hip points to the front, imprint your lower back down and then begin to consciously bring your attention to your breathing.

You wanna breathe in with the nose and kind of breathe out the mouth.

We're aiming to breathe in for about a five count and then when you exhale, exhale at least for a five, if not longer than a five second.

(soft music) (breath exhaling) So you want to feel that instead of elevating your rib cage up, that your rib cage is kind of extending more off to the sides, which is what's called east west breathing and then more into the back of the body so you can feel the lungs almost like pressing into the ground when you inhale.

Now, when you exhale, the belly button will move toward the spine and your core will activate as you exhale.

Even though like modern day science is really diving into this, these are really eastern practices that are brought to us by yoga, Tai Chi, Qigong, and these other martial arts.

So the eastern sciences really have already outlined all this stuff and I think western science now is just studying it and proving it to be accurate.

(soft music) (Johnny exhaling) Learning to control your breathing, it can change your life.

- Johnny recommends doing this breathing exercise first thing because it really sets you up for the day, even if it's only for five minutes and I've been doing it and it definitely works.

Okay, so what is this mysterious Olympic sport called curling all about anyway?

Well lucky for us, the first and only curling club in nearby Delaware prides itself on curling education and providing curling opportunities for all ages and abilities.

We stop by to see how it all works.

(upbeat music) - The Diamond State Curling Club is the only club in the state of Delaware and we are dedicated to promoting the sport of curling both for fun and for more serious curlers.

We just have leagues and we have learn to curl events in which anybody can come out and try curling for a two hour period.

We have curlers that range in age from 16 up to 83.

Anyone of any gender can play, any physical ability pretty much can play.

(upbeat music) In curling, there's a team of four players.

Each player throws two rocks and turns and alternates with the opposing team.

The skip is the quarterback of the team.

He's at the other end of the ice and he's dictating where and how hard you're throwing the rocks.

They are 42 pounds of granite and they have handles on the top and the object is to slide the rocks down the ice about 150 feet and end up inside of a circle called the house.

And there are two people to assist you with that effort and they're called sweepers and they have brooms and they sweep the ice in front of the rock.

The the brooms are typically some kind of fiberglass or light composite material and they have a broom head on them, which is a fabric material.

You're trying to put downward pressure on the ice, sweeping in front of the rock as it's moving down the ice to keep it going and make it go further.

(dramatic music) When you throw the rock, you have to release it before it crosses the hog line.

You have to throw the rock with the right amount of weight, the right amount of distance and the right amount of curl so that it ends up in the place you want it.

The sweepers can actually help that curvature to a minimum and it's the job of the skip to make sure that the rock is going to the place where he wanted it to go.

(upbeat music) The goal of each end, each inning is to end up with your rocks closer to the center of the ice than the opponent's rock.

And to do that you can, there's a variety of strategies.

You can either throw the rocks directly in the house or you can put rocks in front of the house so that the other team can't get around them or you can hit the other team's rocks out of the house.

You get one point if you're the closest rock to the center of the house.

You get multiple points if you have multiple rocks closer than the other team's rocks, - Most of it is supposed to be controlled by the players themselves, so you wanna make sure that they are doing that.

When I was doing it, if we saw players going over the hog line, we had to pull a stone.

- This is an amazing way to get out here, meet some new people, have some fun.

As you can see here, we've got folks of all experience levels, of all ages and I think that anyone who comes out here finds out that it's very accessible and easy sport to pick up and we're a lot of fun of people to hang out with.

In two hours we can teach you, you can come out and give it a try.

- [Speaker] There's no reason to be intimidated by curling.

- This is your sign to get out of the house and have a good time.

Who wouldn't have fun belting out tunes at Songbird Karaoke in Collingswood, New Jersey or hitting the links at Topgolf in Mount Laurel, New Jersey?

(golfer swinging) (upbeat music) - Topgolf started with twin brothers in England.

It eventually came to the United States in 2004.

We have a variety of experience levels that play here.

Topgolf's for everyone.

(upbeat music) When you come, you can expect a golf bay for up to six of your friends.

(upbeat music) You'll be given golf clubs and a bay host who can accommodate all of your food and beverage needs as well.

(upbeat music) To dispense a ball, you'll just wave your club over the red sensor and you'll dispense one ball at a time.

(upbeat music) Every ball has a microchip in it so it tracks the flight of your ball and ties to your particular score.

We also have high definition cameras, which will also track the flight of the ball.

We have a variety of virtual games.

We also have games embedded in our targets on the field.

(upbeat music) We have Angry Birds, which is a virtual course.

It's great for our younger guests that allows you to hit a virtual screen, just like you would the Angry Birds game.

We also have Topgolf, which is scoring through our target system.

And then we have virtual golf courses like Pebble Beach and things like that.

The skill level is secondary to you having a good time.

(upbeat music) We have traditional golfers that'll come in on a day that maybe the weather's not cooperating, so instead of going to a green grass course, they're gonna come hit some golf balls.

We do have a traditional driving range, but we also have a variety of games, food and beverage for those first time guests looking for a social atmosphere.

(upbeat music) On a Saturday night, you can expect a lot of events.

They range from bachelor parties to more social experiences.

We also host a ton of corporate outings as well.

(upbeat music) - [Speaker] We all need time to connect and decompress.

- Topgolf is a a great environment to do it.

We get to swing to clubs, eat good food, bond, there's a great place to sit, it's a really upbeat atmosphere.

(upbeat music) - [Brendan] In the summer months on the rooftop terrace, we'll have cornhole and connect four.

So there is a ton to do even if you're not golfing.

We also in the summer host a summer academy, part golf instruction part kids camp, and it's an opportunity for anyone ages six through 12 to get some golf instruction along with a little fun.

(upbeat music) The phrase, "Topgolf is for everyone" really resonates here at Mount Laurel.

And the community has embraced the venue and we're excited about the future.

♪ Thunder only happens when it's raining ♪ ♪ Players only love you when they're playing ♪ - We had the idea for opening a karaoke place in Collingswood because Michael actually used to live in Japan.

- Karaokes in Japan is very cultural.

(upbeat music) It's something that you do with your family, with your friends.

- We said we should open a place here and we found a great building and we refurbished it and here we are.

We show them back to their suite.

You get an iPad, tambourine, microphone.

So we show you how to use all of that.

Once you get in your suite, the vibe is just fun.

You can sing and have some drinks.

We have partnerships with restaurants in Collingswood and you can order right from us.

We'll go get the food, bring it back to your suite and you have everything you need.

♪ Let it go and I'll rise like the break of dawn ♪ ♪ Let it go let it go ♪ - It's just really a super fun time and give it a try.

You can do a party or you can come for a date night when people are leaving and saying goodbye, they're just so happy and that just makes us so happy.

(upbeat music) - All right, we're here at Crab and Claw Seafood.

I just want to show you guys what size crabs we got.

We have right here, super heavy males.

It's monster sized crabs right here.

We got endless supply of 'em, maybe not endless.

We are here at the number one seafood spot in Philadelphia, Crab and Claw on 78th and Ogontz.

We have these amazing blue crabs, live and cooked, beautiful butter garlic crab legs.

We have everything from fresh fish, fried platter, steamed platters, we have everything that you could possibly want.

Look at this crowd trying to get in.

- Crab and Claw, you just saw them in that Instagram video.

They are here today with a seafood feast.

I wanna welcome Andrew Min.

- Thank you - To the set.

We are not related, but we kind of are, but it's too long to explain.

(laughing) So we're kind of family.

But I do wanna talk about this beautiful spread you've brought.

But first let's talk about Crab and Claw because we found out about the restaurant on Instagram.

- [Andrew] Yes.

- So have you found that social media is the best strategy to get the word out?

- I think so, so after taking over my father's business, I was just thinking how can we really highlight all of our amazing product that we have at Crab and Claw in Philadelphia, right?

So I think social media is a huge thing.

I think digital marketing is a very underused platform and tool that I think business could really benefit from.

So I've been trying to come up with like creative, fun, just content on TikTok, Instagram, and just put it all out there and I think it's been doing really well.

- And it's under Crab and Claw.

- Yes.

- This is a family business.

You mentioned it was your father's.

Did you always plan to get into the business?

- I think so, so my father had always envisioned me taking over the business, but I think he just wanted it to be kind of my choice.

So he initially trained me for it.

I would work there on all the summers throughout high school, on all the weekends throughout college and I knew the business, but I ultimately graduated from Temple University's Fox School of Business and I got a job at KPMG and I was working in IT auditing, but then my father unexpectedly passed due to COVID.

So I was left with a pretty tough choice, but I ultimately decided to leave corporate America, take over the family business and I've just been rolling with it ever since, you know?

- [Shirley] Yeah.

- I think just trying to revamp the business with online ordering, delivery.

We're on DoorDash and GrubHub and just trying to create fun content and do collabs with influencers and chef celebrities and things of that nature.

- [Shirley] How do you think your menu differs from other seafood eateries?

- think there's a few things, but one, I think it's our long-term connections that we have with our seafood vendors.

We've been with them for over 30 years, so they provide us the best quality for the best price and so we can offer the best quality at the best price for our consumers then.

And also other things are, we have our own homemade seasonings and butter garlic sauce that you can't find anywhere else.

- Yeah, this looks crazy good.

(laughing) - Yeah, our homemade butter garlic sauce, me and my wife, it's our blood, sweat, and tears go into this sauce.

Seriously, like we labor so much.

- You know it's gonna be good.

- And our Cajun seasoning's all homemade as well, so people love our Cajun seafood salads.

Some people say it's a little spicy so they get the half and half, they mix it with the regular - Bring it, bring it, okay.

And I like this flounder hoagie.

That's an interesting concoction there.

- Yeah, people I think like, I don't know when it came about but I think people just really wanted a big fish hoagie.

So we came out with a flounder hoagie.

- [Shirley] Why not?

- [Andrew] It's a ton of meat.

People love it, people absolutely love it.

- I have a shrimp that I'm going to eat 'cause it's so good.

Why don't you tell our viewers while I'm eating how they can find you.

- Okay so yeah, we're on, we have a website, crabandclawseafood.com where you can place your orders ahead of time, so online ordering.

And we're also on delivery on DoorDash and GrubHub where you can order or you can just come in person.

We're on 7801 Ogontz Avenue in Philadelphia, so just come on in.

And we have everything from a fresh fish market, we do cooked foods, we cook anything and everything seafood related.

- [Shirley] Oh my gosh.

- [Andrew] We're a one time shop for seafood.

- This is so good.

The shrimp is really, really good.

- [Andrew] You gotta try the butter garlic sauce.

- You don't have to.

Oh my God.

- [Andrew] That's good, right?

- That's really good.

- That's really good, right?

It's really good, thank you.

- Yeah, no problem.

- That was really delicious.

Andrew, thank you so much for bringing this feast and for being on our show.

- Of course, thank you for having me.

- We wish you lots of luck.

Crabandclawseafood.com.

- Yep.

- Thank you everyone.

And I'm going to eat and we're gonna say goodnight.

Bye.

(upbeat music) This is really good.

♪ I'm the king of the jungle, you hear me roar ♪ ♪ A lion that you don't wanna mess with ♪ ♪ I'm hardcore, I got the eye, got the powerful (indistinct) ♪ ♪ Like a sea lion with silkiest mane ♪ ♪ Every step I take (indistinct) ♪ (upbeat music) (upbeat music)