ANNOUNCER: TONIGHT ON SHOWCASE WITH BARBARA KELLAR, FOUNDER OF THE BALLET TECH OF OHIO, CLAUDIA RUDOLF BARRETT, AND HER STUDENTS AND STARS OF NUTCRACKERS ULYSSES AND HOMER JANSON.

STAY TUNED, SHOWCASE STARTS RIGHT NOW.

[MUSIC] KELLAR: HI, I'M BARBARA KELLAR.

WELCOME TO A VERY SPECIAL SHOWCASE.

WE'RE HERE FOR A VERY SPECIAL REASON BECAUSE OUR SPECIAL GUESTS TODAY ARE CLAUDIA AND RUDOLF BARRETT AND TWO OF THE FOUR AMAZING BOYS WHO ARE GOING TO BE DISNEY STARS, I THINK.

RIGHT?

HOMER: WE WOULD HOPE SO.

KELLAR: YES, HOPE SO, HOMER AND ULYSSES, WHO ARE DANCERS AND THEY'RE STARRING IN A MOVIE THAT'S COMING OUT TOMORROW.

HOMER: TOMORROW IT'S GOING TO BE IN THEATERS.

AND, UM, THE 29TH IT'S GOING TO BE STREAMING ON HULU.

KELLAR: OKAY.

WELL LET'S SEE, CLAUDIA, YOU ARE THE MOTHER OF ALL THIS, RIGHT?

SO YOU'VE MADE THIS ALL HAPPEN?

CLAUDIA: YES.

I GUESS YOU COULD SAY THAT.

I STARTED THIS SCHOOL IN 19, UH, SORRY, 1993.

AND SO THIS IS OUR 31ST YEAR HERE, BALLET TECH OF OHIO.

BALLET TECH OF OHIO.

AND THAT'S WHERE YOU'VE TAKEN YOUR BALLET LESSONS.

SO TELL US ABOUT THIS MOVIE THAT'S SO EXCITING.

HOMER: SO THIS ALL CAME ABOUT BECAUSE OF OUR TALENT IN DANCE AND OUR PERSONALITIES.

ULYSSES: AND OUR MOM.

HOMER: YEAH, AND MOSTLY OUR MOM, TO BE HONEST.

SO OUR MOM WAS IN THE FILM INDUSTRY AND WENT TO COLLEGE WITH DAVID GORDON GREEN, THE DIRECTOR OF OUR MOVIE.

AND SHE HADN'T SEEN HIM FOR 12 YEARS.

SO SHE INVITES HIM OUT TO GET TO KNOW US AND SEE WHAT HIS COLLEAGUE'S LIFE HAS TURNED INTO WITH HER FOUR SONS.

SO HE COMES OUT, WE GET TO KNOW HIM.

WE SHOW HIM OUR ANIMALS, OUR PET LEECHES.

WE SWIM IN THE POND.

KELLAR: YEAH.

YOU LIVE ON A FARM?

ULYSSES: YES, YES.

HOMER: OKAY.

WE LIVE ON -- WE'RE FIFTH GENERATION ON OUR FAMILY FARM.

KELLAR: OH, WOW.

OKAY.

SO GO AHEAD.

HOMER: SO HE COMES OUT TO OUR FARM, WE SHOW HIM ALL OF OUR ANIMALS, OUR PET LEECHES.

WE SWIM IN THE POND AND WE DO ALL THIS FUN STUFF WITH HIM.

HE IMMEDIATELY FEELS LIKE FAMILY TO US.

ULYSSES: YEAH, HE'S LIKE AN UNCLE.

HOMER: YEAH.

SO HE COMES OUT, HE LEAVES OUR FARM, COMES BACK A COUPLE OF MONTHS LATER WITH LELAND DOUGLAS, THE WRITER OF THE MOVIE, AND HIS ASSISTANT CHELSEA.

AT THIS POINT, WE'RE KIND OF PUTTING TOGETHER SOMETHING'S HAPPENING HERE.

HE HAD MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT WRITING A MOVIE FOR US.

SO THEN RIGHT AFTER HIM AND LELAND AND CHELSEA VISIT OUR HOUSE, HE'S LIKE, A MOVIE'S GOING TO BE HAPPENING HERE IN A COUPLE MONTHS.

[INDISCERNIBLE CROSSTALK- HOMER: YEAH, YEAH, THE SCRIPT IS WRITTEN AND IT WILL BE ABOUT YOU FOUR AND BALLET AND YOUR UNCLE'S LIFE.

AND THE WHOLE ENTIRE PLOT IS FINDING PURPOSE IN AN UNEXPECTED PLACES.

AND IT'S BASICALLY THIS WORK DRIVEN, CRAZY MAN NAMED MIKE.

HIS SISTER AND HER HUSBAND DIES AND THEIR FOUR SONS ARE ABANDONED ON THEIR FAMILY FARM.

AND HE HAS TO COME OUT AND KIND OF IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM.

ULYSSES: HE'S THINKING LIKE, "OKAY, I'M WILLING TO BE HERE FOR TWO DAYS AND THEN KIND OF LEAVE THEM.

HOMER: WITH A FOSTER FAMILY.

WELL, HE DOESN'T KNOW, BUT HE'S GOING TO BE STAYING WITH US FOR A MONTH AT THIS POINT IN THE MOVIE.

AND THEN, MIKE, WE DO ALL THE STUFF TO HIM IN THE MOVIE.

WE TERRORIZE HIM.

CLAUDIA: DON'T TELL THEM TOO MUCH.

HOMER: YEAH.

AND WE TERRORIZE HIM.

AND THE WHOLE POINT OF THE MOVIE IS MIKE LEARNING TO LOVE US AND OUR RUGRAT WAYS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

CLAUDIA: AND BALLET.

HOMER: AND THEN BALLET.

KELLAR: AND WHAT DOES BALLET HAVE TO DO WITH THE MOVIE?

HOMER: WELL, YEAH.

IN THE MOVIE, HE FINDS OUT THAT WE DANCE AND WE DO BALLET, AND THEN HE HAS THIS IDEA -- OH, MOM.

ULYSSES: OH, MOM IS TECH IN THE MOVIE, THE OWNER OF THIS STUDIO.

KELLAR: OH, YOUR MOTHER OWNS THE BALLET STUDIO.

ULYSSES: SO, BECAUSE YEAH, LIKE, WE COME HERE AND WE'RE LIKE, "OH LOOK, ALL THIS STUFF'S STILL HERE."

AND THEN IT CONTINUES TO BEING GOING.

HOMER: HE FINDS OUT THAT WE'RE BALLET DANCERS AND HE HAS THIS IDEA, "WELL, ALL THESE FOSTER PARENTS WILL WANT TO ADOPT THEM IF THEY KNOW THEY CAN DO BALLET AND THEY CAN ACT AND DO ALL THIS STUFF IN THE MOVIE."

SO THEN WE PUT ON THE BALLET PERFORMANCE OF THE NUTCRACKER, YULEE'S OWN LITTLE VERSION HE MADE UP IN THE MOVIE.

SO THAT'S WHEN BALLET COMES INTO PLAY IN THE MOVIE.

THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED NUTCRACKERS.

KELLAR: OH, NUTCRACKERS PLURAL.

AND SO THEN YOU DO THE LITTLE BOW AND YOU CHOREOGRAPHED IT?

CLAUDIA: I DID, YES.

KELLAR: YOU CHOREOGRAPHED, YOU DID FOR THE BALLET.

YEAH.

CLAUDIA: NO, I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT BEFORE THEY DECIDED TO MAKE THE MOVIE THEY CAME OUT TO WATCH A REHEARSAL OF OUR PRODUCTION WE WERE DOING AT THE MURPHY THEATER.

YEAH.

KELLAR: AND THIS IS TIED TO DISNEY.

THIS IS A DISNEY MOVIE?

HOMER: SO IT WASN'T ATTACHED TO DISNEY WHATSOEVER.

IT WAS, THEY MADE IT THEMSELVES.

WE PREMIERED IT AT THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.

AND THEN DISNEY AND HULU BOUGHT IT FROM THERE.

SO NOW IT'S UNDER DISNEY.

ULYSSES: SO TECHNICALLY, DAVID, HE JUST DID SOME OTHER BIG FILMS.

SO HE'S LIKE, "OKAY, I WANT TO DO AN OXY FOXY FILM HERE WITH YOU GUYS IN IT.

SO THEN WE PREMIERED AT TIFF.

IT GOT BOUGHT.

IT WAS THE FIRST MOVIE THAT WAS SHOWN AT TIFF AS WELL.

HOMER: YEAH, IT WAS THE OPENING MOVIE TO THE TIFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, AND THEN DISNEY BOUGHT IT FROM THERE.

KELLAR: SO IS DISNEY GOING TO DISTRIBUTE IT?

HOMER: YES, YES.

SO INTERNATIONALLY, IT WILL BE DISTRIBUTED BY DISNEY AND THEN HULU WILL BE PLAYING IT IN THE AMERICAS.

YEAH.

AND THEN AFTER IT IS DONE STREAMING, YOU CAN WATCH IT ON DISNEY PLUS OR DISNEY.

KELLAR: CAN YOU WATCH IT ON HULU?

CLAUDIA: YES, YOU CAN.

KELLAR: NOW?

HOMER: YEAH.

WELL, NOVEMBER 29TH.

ULYSSES: 29TH.

HOMER: THE 29TH.

ULYSSES: 29TH.

KELLAR: OKAY.

CLAUDIA: IT WAS FILMED WITH 35 MILLIMETER.

ULYSSES: UH-HUH.

HOMER: YEAH, ON FILM.

ULYSSES: IT WAS FILMED ON FILM.

KELLAR: SO I'M NOT A TECHNICIAN.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

ULYSSES: THAT MEANS IT WASN'T DIGITAL.

IT WAS -- HOMER: IT WAS ACTUALLY FILMED.

CLAUDIA: IT WAS NOT ANIMATED OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

ULYSSES: LIKE THERE WERE NO STOCKS.

HOMER: THERE WERE NO -- THERE WAS NO GREEN SCREEN.

IT WAS ALL JUST.

ULYSSES: IT WAS ALL REAL.

HOMER: IT'S NOT LIKE MOVIES TODAY.

IT'S LIKE AN 80S MOVIE.

IT'S LIKE AN 80S MOVIE.

NO GREEN SCREEN.

IT WAS FILMED ON FILM, A 20 MILLIMETER, AND EVERYTHING'S LIKE REAL.

KELLAR: HOW'S IT GOING TO LOOK DIFFERENT TO A PERSON LIKE MYSELF WHO DOESN'T KNOW THE TECH?

ULYSSES: YOU AREN'T GOING TO SEE ANY, LIKE, FAKE EXPLOSIONS OR ANY OF THAT?

KELLAR: OH, NO.

HOMER: IF YOU'VE SEEN LIKE MISSION IMPOSSIBLE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, ALL THAT IS GREEN SCREEN.

KELLAR: RIGHT.

OH, NO, WE DON'T WANT THAT.

YEAH, RIGHT.

HOMER: THIS IS REAL.

KELLAR: THIS IS LIKE A DOCUMENTARY.

HOMER: YES.

SORT OF EXCEPT THERE'S A PLOT.

KELLAR: RIGHT.

IT'S NOT REALLY A DOCUMENTARY.

NO.

BUT.

HOMER: AND WE DO ALL OF OUR OWN STUNTS IN THE MOVIE.

KELLAR: WERE YOUR PARENTS ACTORS?

HOMER: UH, SO OUR MOM ACTUALLY HAS HER MASTER'S DEGREE IN CINEMATOGRAPHY.

SHE FILMED A LOT OF DAVID'S MOVIES AND TOOK LOTS OF PICTURES AND FILMED MANY DIFFERENT MOVIES AND COMMERCIALS THROUGH COLLEGE AND OUT OF COLLEGE WITH DAVID.

AND THEN OUR DAD IS JUST PLAIN OLD JEFF, OUR DAD.

KELLAR: YEAH.

CLAUDIA: THERE WAS SOMETHING I WANTED TO SAY THAT AS DANCERS, WE HAVE TO EXPRESS OURSELVES WITHOUT TALKING.

SO THEY LEARN TO DO THAT IN BALLETS, WHICH HELPS THEM WHEN THEY ACTUALLY ARE TALKING.

HOMER: YEAH, YEAH.

WHEN WE DON'T HAVE A LINE OUR, LIKE, EXPRESSIONS WHEN WE'RE DOING THAT, THAT HELPED A LOT.

KELLAR: YEAH.

SO YOU NEVER -- DID YOU EVER ACT BEFORE?

ULYSSES: NO.

HOMER: NO.

THIS IS ALL VERY NEW STUFF FOR US ALL.

ULYSSES: YEAH.

HOMER: WE'D NEVER EVEN BEEN ON A PLANE BEFORE HARDLY WHEN WE WENT OUT TO TIFF IN TORONTO TO DO THAT.

AND WE HAD NEVER WORN A TUX JACKET IN OUR LIVES WHEN WE WERE DOING THE RED CARPET THERE.

AND ALL THE STUFF IS SO NEW.

I MEAN, THIS IS SUPER DRESSY FOR US.

KELLAR: THIS SORT OF OPENED UP A TOTALLY NEW WORLD FOR YOU.

YOU GOT TO FLY SOMEWHERE.

ULYSSES: YEAH.

KELLAR: YOU GOT TO DRESS UP.

YEAH.

THE TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL.

WOW.

THAT'S BIG TIME.

HOMER: YEAH.

KELLAR: DID YOU GET THE PAPARAZZI WERE AFTER YOU?

HOMER: YEAH.

SO ACTUALLY -- SO THEY PICKED US UP IN THIS REALLY BIG, FANCY CAR, AND THEY DROVE AND THEY DROVE US OUT THERE.

AND WE WERE JUST THINKING WE WOULD WALK INTO THE BUILDING AND SEE OUR MOVIE.

ULYSSES: AND THERE WERE LINES, BECAUSE THAT WAS THE DAY AFTER WE SHOWED THE MOVIE IN TORONTO.

HOMER: YEAH, THERE WAS A RED CARPET AND, LIKE, HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WERE TAKING PICTURES OF US.

ULYSSES: SOMEHOW THEY FOUND US, THEY WHERE WE WERE.

HOMER: HUNDREDS PF PEOPLE WERE, AND EVERYBODY WAS LIKE, "HERE, COME ON, JANSON BROTHERS, COME HERE, DO AN INTERVIEW WITH US."

AND WE WENT THROUGH, LIKE, TEN DIFFERENT INTERVIEWERS.

AND BY THE END OF IT, I MEAN, ALL OF US WERE, LIKE, LOOKING ON ALL THE CAMERAS, EVERYBODY.

WE WERE TRYING TO PAY ATTENTION TO EVERYBODY, BUT THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE.

CLAUDIA: I WANTED TO TELL YOU, WHEN HOMER FIRST CAME TO THE SCHOOL, HE HAD BEEN WATCHING SERGEI POLUNIN.

HE WAS LIKE 4 OR 5 YEARS OLD.

HOMER: YEAH.

CLAUDIA: AND HE TOLD HIS MOM HE WANTED TO DANCE.

SO WHEN HE CAME HERE.

AND I KNOW ONE DAY, I THINK YOU WERE ABOUT EIGHT.

HE HAD A WALLET HE HAD MADE HIMSELF.

AND HE OPENED AND HE SAID, "MISS CLAUDIA, I WANT TO PAY YOU FOR THE CLASS."

AND HE WANTED TO PAY ME FROM HIS OWN WALLET, WHICH WAS NICE.

KELLAR: YOU ARE A SWEETHEART.

HOMER: MY INSPIRATION FOR DANCE WAS ACTUALLY SERGEI POLUNIN.

THE WHOLE STORY BEHIND IT WAS MY MOM WORKED WITH ONE OF HER COLLEAGUES, AND HE HAD DONE THIS VIDEO OF SERGEI POLUNIN DANCING IN THIS CHURCH.

AND SHE WAS LIKE, "LOOK AT WHAT MY COLLEAGUE DID.

HE FILMED THIS BALLET DANCER NAMED SERGEI POLUNIN IN THIS CHURCH DANCING."

AND I SAW HIM, AND I THOUGHT THAT HE WAS FLYING.

AND I WAS SO AMAZED BY IT.

AND I WATCHED THAT VIDEO MUST HAVE BEEN 40 TIMES.

AND BY THE END OF IT I WAS LIKE, "MOM, I HAVE TO DO THAT."

KELLAR: WOW.

HOMER: SO THEN I IMMEDIATELY CAME TO MISS CLAUDIA.

KELLAR: YEAH.

AND THE REST IS HISTORY.

ULYSSES: AND AT FIRST, AT FIRST, HOMER WAS JUST COMING BECAUSE I WAS LIKE, "OH, YEAH, THAT GUY IS REALLY GOOD AT DANCING."

AND THEN I WAS.

HOMER: LIKE, YOU GOT A LITTLE MORE INTO IT AFTER I STARTED.

ULYSSES: YEAH.

I GOT WAY INTO IT.

KELLAR: YEAH.

YOU'RE TALL FOR YOUR AGE, RIGHT?

HOMER: IT'S WEIRD FOR 13, YOU'RE EITHER REALLY SHORT OR YOU'RE, LIKE, SIX FOOT TALL.

IT'S SO FUNNY.

I'M JUST IN BETWEEN THERE.

KELLAR: BUT AS A TALL PERSON, CLAUDIA, YOU'RE VERY VALUABLE BECAUSE THE TALL DANCERS, WHEN THEY'RE ON POINT, THEY'RE EVEN TALLER.

AND THEY CAN'T DANCE BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE PARTNERS.

SO YOU WOULD BE A FABULOUS DANCER.

HOMER: I WOULD HOPE SO.

KELLAR: AS A SOLOIST, BUT ALSO PARTNERING PEOPLE LIKE ALEXANDRA DANILOVA.

HOMER: [INDISCERNIBLE] KELLAR: AS WE GO.

HOMER: I WAS JUST PARTNERING YESTERDAY WITH ONE OF MY PARTNERS, MARIA KANSKY.

AND I'M JUST GETTING TO THAT HEIGHT WHERE I CAN DO ALL THE BIG PRESS LIFTS AND ALL THE BIG, BIG KID LIFTS, I'M CALLING THEM.

KELLAR: YEAH.

DO EITHER OF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT WANT BALLET AS YOUR CAREER?

ULYSSES: YES.

I WANT BALLET AS MY CAREER.

HOMER: I WOULD LOVE TO BE A PROFESSIONAL DANCER.

AND I WOULD LOVE TO ALSO BE AN ACTOR.

I WOULD LOVE TO BE A TRIPLE THREAT: SING, DANCE AND ACT.

KELLAR: YOU'RE A BARYSHNIKOV.

HOMER: I WOULD LOVE TO BE.

KELLAR: YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO BE TRAVELING.

YOU'RE GOING TO BE SEEING -- YOU ARE.

YOU'RE GOING TO BE SEEING THE WORLD.

AND YOU WON'T BE SEEING IT WHILE YOU'RE PLAYING ON YOUR PHONES.

ULYSSES: YES.

KELLAR: YES YOU WILL.

I KNOW THAT BECAUSE JUST TALKING TO YOU THIS LONG, YOU WATCH, YOU PAY ATTENTION, YOU ASK QUESTIONS, YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.

AND THAT IS AN INCREDIBLE GIFT.

SO YOU THINK YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE A BALLET DANCER AS YOUR LIFETIME CAREER?

BOTH OF YOU?

ULYSSES: BALLET DANCER.

HOMER: BALLET DANCER, ACTOR.

I MEAN, I WOULD LOVE TO BE A TEACHER.

ANY OF THOSE OPTIONS.

I MEAN, JUST PERFORMER IN GENERAL.

I'LL DO ANY TYPE OF PERFORMING.

CLAUDIA: YOU CAN ALWAYS BE A TEACHER, BUT FIRST YOU HAVE TO DANCE.

HOMER: YES.

KELLAR: YEAH.

YOU HAVE TO BE DANCER.

YEAH.

HOMER: I GOTTA BE A DANCER.

KELLAR: YEAH.

EVERYBODY'S GOING TO GET TO SEE YOU DANCE AT THE END HERE.

BUT TELL US SOME OTHER THINGS ABOUT YOUR LIFE.

WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO BESIDES DANCE?

HOMER: WELL.

KELLAR: OH, YOU HAVE ANIMALS ON YOUR FARM.

ULYSSES: OH, YEAH, 5 CATS, 2 PIGS, 2 GOATS, LIKE 40 CHICKENS.

HOMER: 40 CHICKENS, 5 DUCKS.

ULYSSES: ONE PEACOCK.

HOMER: YEAH.

UM, FIVE -- ULYSSES: SIX GUINEA PIGS.

HOMER: NO, FIVE GUINEA PIGS.

ULYSSES: FIVE.

YES.

HOMER: FIVE GUINEA PIGS.

KELLAR: DO YOU TAKE CARE OF THEM?

HOMER: YES.

KELLAR: YOU DO?

YOU FEED THEM, YOU CLEAN OUT THEIR PLACES.

ULYSSES: YES.

WE ACTUALLY JUST DID A FULL CLEANING OF OUR BARN.

HOMER: YEAH, IT MUST HAVE BEEN A WEEK AGO.

KELLAR: DO THEY ALL STAY IN THE SAME BARN?

HOMER: YEAH.

SO WE HAVE ONE ANIMAL BARN.

WE HAVE TWO STALLS, ONE FOR THE PIGS, ONE FOR THE GOATS, AND THEN WE HAVE A GUINEA PIG HUTCH.

AND THEN THE CHICKENS STAY IN THE LITTLE COOP.

ULYSSES: A CHICKEN COOP.

KELLAR: YOU GET EGGS EVERY DAY.

ULYSSES: YES.

HOMER: YEAH.

WE ACTUALLY SOMETIMES WE HAVE SO MANY EGGS WE HAVE TO SELL THEM TO GET RID OF THEM TOO.

SO WE CAN HAVE -- KELLAR: YOU SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT SOME TODAY.

OH, MY GOODNESS.

HOMER: I'M SO SORRY.

WE DID NOT.

WE FORGOT.

ULYSSES: AND THEN WE HAVE LIKE A FENCED IN AREA FROM OUR BARN.

SO IT'S LIKE HALF OF THE ONE SIDE AND THEN THE WHOLE BACK IS FENCED IN.

HOMER: YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE ALL OF THEM IN THE MOVIE, IF YOU WATCH IT.

KELLAR: ARE THEY IN THE MOVIE?

HOMER: YEAH, ALL OF OUR ANIMALS, THEY DIDN'T BRING IN ANY OTHER ANIMALS, ALL OF THEM ARE OUR TRAINED ANIMALS.

KELLAR: YOUR REAL ANIMALS, AND THEY'RE TRAINED.

HOMER: TRAINED, MEANING THEY CAN MAYBE SIT IF YOU HAVE A BAGEL OR SOMETHING TO GIVE THEM.

KELLAR: OKAY.

THAT'S HOW MY DOGS ARE TRAINED.

YEAH.

CLAUDIA: I THINK YOU MENTIONED, YOUR MOM MENTIONED THAT BEN WAS LYING ON THE COUCH AND THE DOG WAS LYING ON TOP OF HIM, SO TO SPEAK.

THEY HAVE A THEY HAD A LONG -- HOMER: WHEN BEN CAME, BEN STILLER, THE MAN THAT PLAYED MIKE IN THE MOVIE.

WHEN HE CAME IN, YOU COULD SEE THAT HE WAS NEW TO HAVING TO STEP OVER ANIMALS WHEN HE WALKED INTO A HOUSE.

KELLAR: YEAH, YEAH.

HOMER: THERE WERE CATS, PIGS, DUCKS, CHICKENS, DOGS, CATS EVERYWHERE.

YEAH.

KELLAR: WELL, I AM THINKING OF YOU GUYS AS SUPERSTARS.

YEAH, I KNOW, I'M SURE OF IT.

AND CLAUDIA HAS HELPED YOU.

HOMER: YES.

KELLAR: I MEAN, I SORT OF -- CLAUDIA: I FEEL, I MEAN, VERY FORTUNATE BECAUSE I HAVE DANCERS HERE WHO REALLY WANT TO DO THE BEST THEY CAN.

AND THEY WORK REALLY HARD.

AND SOMETIMES THEY HAVE A LUNCH BREAK AND THEY'RE STILL REHEARSING BECAUSE THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY KNOW THEIR ROLES AND CAN DO THEM WELL.

AND THEY HELP EACH OTHER, WHICH IS WONDERFUL, YOU KNOW.

KELLAR: YOU WERE A WONDERFUL PART OF THE CINCINNATI BALLET.

AND THAT'S HOW WE KNOW EACH OTHER.

WE'VE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR MANY, MANY, MANY YEARS.

YEAH, AND SO YOU WENT FROM THAT CAREER TO THIS, TO BALLET TECH, BALLET TECH OHIO?

CLAUDIA: OF OHIO, YEAH.

KELLAR: SO WHAT WAS IT LIKE PRACTICING FOR THIS?

HOMER: SO YOU WANT TO GO FIRST?

ULYSSES: YEAH.

SO WHEN WE WERE GETTING READY FOR THE MOVIE TO BE SHOT, WE WERE, LIKE -- HOMER: KNEE DEEP IN NUTCRACKER REHEARSALS ALREADY.

ULYSSES: YEAH.

SO WE WERE LIKE, SO WE HAVE TO COME HERE TO DO OUR CLASSES, YOU KNOW.

AND THEY'RE LIKE, OKAY.

SO WE, AFTER ALL SHOOTING FROM WHATEVER TIME, WE WILL COME HERE AND REHEARSE THE NUTCRACKER.

HOMER: SO WE WOULD WAKE UP AT 6:00 IN THE MORNING, GO TO SET AT 7:00, OUR SET, WHICH IS OUR, OUR HOUSE, AND SHOOT THE MOVIE FROM 7:00 TO USUALLY 5:30.

AND THEN FROM 5:30 WE WOULD RUSH OVER HERE TO DO PRACTICE AND REHEARSALS TILL 9:00.

AND THEN WE START IT ALL OVER, BECAUSE WE ARE ALREADY DOING NUTCRACKER REHEARSALS.

SO WE HAD TO DO BOTH THINGS.

ULYSSES: AND ONE OF THE DAYS IT WAS LIKE ONE OF OUR BIG SHOOTS AND THE DIRECT, THAT WE JUST WRAPPED AND WE WERE LIKE, WE HAVE TO GO TO A DRESS REHEARSAL RIGHT NOW.

SO THE DIRECTOR AND HIS ASSISTANT, CHELSEA, DROVE US TO THE THEATER TO REHEARSE THE NUTCRACKER.

HOMER: YEAH.

KELLAR: WOW.

AND YOU AREN'T EVEN TIRED.

HOMER: YEAH, WE TOTALLY WEREN'T TIRED.

KELLAR: YOU WEREN'T EVEN TIRED, BUT I BET A FEW OTHER PEOPLE WERE VERY TIRED.

HOMER: YEAH.

KELLAR: YEAH.

SO THAT, AND CLAUDIA, YOU WERE SORT OF THE GRANDE DAME OF ALL THIS STUFF GOING ON.

CLAUDIA: YEAH.

KELLAR: WHAT WAS THAT LIKE?

CLAUDIA: WELL, IT WAS A BIT COMPLICATED, BUT I THINK I HAD TWO WEEKS TO PUT TOGETHER CHOREOGRAPHY.

AND SO DAVID HAD HIS WHOLE CREW COME AND SIT IN THE STUDIO AND WATCH.

AND THEY SEEMED TO REALLY ENJOY IT, WHICH WAS NICE.

AND WE HAD -- THEY FILMED SOME OF THE REHEARSALS.

AND THEN ALSO THERE'S A SEGMENT OF THE FILM THAT WAS JUST IN THE LOBBY WHERE BEN CAME IN WITH THE BOYS.

BUT AS FAR AS THE, I MEAN, THE PARKING AREA WAS COVERED WITH TRUCKS AND EQUIPMENT AND THERE WERE LIGHTS OUTSIDE THE BUILDING.

AND IT WAS VERY INTERESTING TO SEE ALL THE CAMERAS IN THE STUDIO.

I ACTUALLY GOT TO TALK TO LEELAND DOUGLAS A LITTLE BIT, WHICH WAS -- KELLAR: YEAH.

HOW LONG DID THIS ALL TAKE?

HOMER: OH, I THINK WE HAD THREE DAYS AT THE STUDIO.

RIGHT?

CLAUDIA: AT THE STUDIO, WELL, THE STUDIO WAS USED FOR ABOUT A WEEK TO GET EVERYTHING READY, BUT WE -- HOMER: WE SET UP KRAFT SERVICES AND STUFF.

CLAUDIA: SO REHEARSAL WAS TWO DAYS, I THINK.

IT WASN'T, IT WASN'T A LOT.

HOMER: YEAH, THEY SHOT FOR TWO DAYS HERE AND THEN A COUPLE OF DAYS SETTING UP.

AND THEN WE WENT TO THE MURPHY THEATER TO DO THE ACTUAL PERFORMANCE.

WE DID IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET AT NIGHT IN THE MOVIE.

ULYSSES: IT WAS LIKE NINE DEGREES OUT WHEN WE WERE THERE.

KELLAR: OH, GREAT.

CLAUDIA: IT WAS COLD.

IT WAS 22, BUT IT WAS COLD.

AND THEY WERE THERE TILL 2:45 IN THE MORNING.

HOMER: DANCING AROUND.

CLAUDIA: ACTUALLY, I WAS SURPRISED HOW THEY DIDN'T REALLY COMPLAIN VERY MUCH AND THEY DID A GREAT JOB.

KELLAR: THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE COMPLAINERS TO ME.

CLAUDIA: BUT I HAD ABOUT 13 DANCERS OUT THERE.

ULYSSES: OH YEAH, AND AFTER WE FILMED, WE GO INTO ALL THE VANS.

WE WERE ALL, LIKE, WELL, SOME OF US EVEN WENT IN OUR BREAK, IN OUR BREAKS.

WE WERE SOME OF US EVEN TOOK NAPS BECAUSE IT WAS -- HOMER: IT WAS SO LATE AT NIGHT THAT WE SHOT FOR LIKE EIGHT HOURS INTO THE NIGHT.

CLAUDIA: YEAH.

KELLAR: WOW.

HOMER: IT WAS PRETTY HARD, BUT IT WAS IT WAS ALSO, WE ONLY GOT ONE SHOT AT THIS, MIGHT AS WELL JUST HAVE FUN WHILE DOING IT.

ULYSSES: YEAH.

HOMER: SO I DID A PART, A PAS DE DEUX WITH MARIN, ONE OF THE GIRLS THAT DANCE HERE IN THE MOVIE, AND SHE WAS WONDERFUL DURING IT.

I WAS SURPRISED AT HOW WELL SHE COULD DANCE IN THE COLD AND AT NIGHT LIKE THAT.

CLAUDIA: I WAS SURPRISED HOW WELL THEY DID.

KELLAR: BECAUSE USUALLY IF THE TEMPERATURE HAS TO BE THE RIGHT.

I MEAN, YEAH.

HOMER: I MEAN, OUR MUSCLES GOT COLD WITHIN 10 SECONDS.

CLAUDIA: I KNOW.

KELLAR: BRINGS NEW MEANING TO WARM UPS.

CLAUDIA: RIGHT?

YES.

WELL, THEY HAD ALL THEIR BOOTS AND THEIR LEG WARMERS AND SWEATERS,\ BUT STILL THEY COULDN'T DO THAT WHEN THEY WERE BEING FILMED, OBVIOUSLY.

HOMER: YEAH, RIGHT.

ULYSSES: AND SOME OF US AND SOME OF THE GIRLS WERE WEARING TIGHTS TOO.

SO LIKE, THEY HAD THIS MUCH ON THEM AND WERE LIKE --- KELLAR: THAT MUST BE COLD, COLD, COLD.

CLAUDIA: AND OF COURSE, ALL THE SUPERS AT THE END WERE STANDING OUTSIDE AT TWO IN THE MORNING, TOO.

KELLAR: YEAH.

HOMER: MISS CLAUDIA GOT TO BE A PART OF THE MOVIE TOO.

KELLAR: OH, YOU WERE IN IT?

OKAY.

HOMER: SHE WAS IN THE AUDIENCE.

KELLAR: OH, YOU -- HOMER: SHE WAS WATCHING IN THE STREET LIKE THIS.

KELLAR: OKAY, WELL, YEAH.

CLAUDIA: I MEAN, AT THE END, EVERYBODY'S DANCING AT THE END.

KELLAR: IT WAS, IT SOUNDS LIKE AN INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCE FOR YOU GUYS.

HOMER: YEAH.

KELLAR: NOTHING ANYBODY ELSE HAS EVER GOTTEN TO DO.

HOMER: NO, THIS IS VERY NEW AND SPECIAL.

KELLAR: ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE.

WE COULD TALK ALL DAY.

I LOVE YOU.

I WISH I WERE CLOSER AND COULD WATCH YOU CLOSE, YOU KNOW, WITH ALL YOUR TALENT.

HOMER: THANK YOU.

KELLAR: OH, MY GOSH, YOU'RE JUST WONDERFUL KIDS.

ULYSSES: THANK YOU SO MUCH.

KELLAR: CONGRATULATIONS TO YOUR MOM AND DAD.

WOW.

HOMER: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING US.

ULYSSES: THANK YOU.

KELLAR: THEY MUST BE TERRIFIC PEOPLE.

HOMER: THEY ARE.

KELLAR: AND YEAH, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

YOU'RE JUST WONDERFUL.

AND I LOVE BEING WITH CLAUDIA AGAIN.

CLAUDIA: GREAT TO SEE YOU, BARBARA.

KELLAR: YEAH, WELL, IT WAS ABSOLUTELY MY PLEASURE.

AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO SEE YOU DANCE.

ANNOUNCER: JOIN US NEXT WEEK FOR ANOTHER EPISODE OF SHOWCASE WITH BARBARA KELLAR RIGHT HERE ON CET.

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