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Backstage Bite: ANASTASIA's Altomare & Klena Bake Profiteroles Fit for a Princess!
Nov 4, 2022
In this latest episode, we bring you not one, but two very special guests from Anastasia- Christy Altomare and Derek Klena! For the recipe for Katie's Princess Profiteroles, visit: www.backstagebite.com.
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I thought filming today's episode in Russia would be fun, but who knew it was pleasant season
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Maybe I'll try Paris instead. I'm Kitty Lynch, and this is a backstage fight
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Heart don't fail me now
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Courage don't desert me. We have Christy Altamore and Derek, Klenna, both Anastasia and Dimitri coming into the
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kitchen today. I am so excited from Anastasia on Broadway. Yes! Once upon a December
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Have you heard? There's a rumor in Katie's kitchen. Hello. Oh my gosh
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She's very tall. It's going to be cropped out of frame. My head's just going to be full
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I am so excited for you guys to be here. This is like a dream come true for me
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Anastasia, as a kid, it was my everything. Totally. My generation grew up with Anastasia
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I feel like Journey to the Past and Once Upon a December were like the let it go from our generation
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I saw Anastasia in the theater, and it was incredible. And I have the dolls, and I used to dance around, and I had Journey to the Past in my audition book for many, many years
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How much do you guys know about cooking and baking? The last two years, I've developed a very strong love for cooking and baking
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You're a little baby, aren't you? Oh, yes. I've heard. I love cooking meals, but I'm not so much of a baker
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Well, today we are actually doing a traditional French dish. We are doing princess profiteroles or princess cream puffs
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All right. With homemade whipped cream. That's amazing. It's going to be delicious
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Do we get to taste it afterwards? Yes. Yes. And you get to bring it backstage
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Super excited. What? Oh my gosh. Yes. Cass, you're welcome. And I think we should get started
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I believe in us. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. I win. He won
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Now you get to do the milk. Master Scooper. One cup of milk, please
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So many audience questions for you guys. This is from Sincerely Colton Ryan
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What was your best stage door experience? There's one that happened a couple days ago, actually
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One of our fan stages, Juju, put together this scrapbook of all of these pictures of me with fans
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And then also a little paragraph that they sent in that was just really nice things
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And she put this whole book together and everybody was involved. So that was like one of the nicest, most amazing gifts
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that I've ever received at the stage door. So shout out to Juju. So many
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Okay, so mine I guess would be a lot of times if someone tells me it is their birthday
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I would sing happy birthday to them at the stage door. We're like the Marilyn Monroe of Anastasia
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No but so I started doing this as like just like for fun for a period of time And then for my birthday I walked out of the stage door and the entire crowd sang happy birthday to me
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All of them. And I just like, I lost it. That's amazing
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Christy, can you please do one stick of butter into your warmup
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All right. Okay, so I just throw it in. Full stick. Now, I would like both of you to give me a pinch of salt
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I want you to make your most salty of sounds. Mmm. Mmm
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It's time to mix these together. And it's time to mix them
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Guys. I'm pretty proud about that. I just mixed belted with two women
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You did our mix experience. All right, so it's my turn. You guys are such Anastasia experts
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What are your favorite additions that they've made to the show? I love that they added more elements of the real story of what happened to Anastasia and the Romanoff
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It's just so beautiful. I love the new songs that they added. I mean, our show has 16 new songs
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Also, Gleb is a new character. He's the soldier of the revolution
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We're so lucky to have Ravine. He's so incredible. His voice is so dumb
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It's amazing to have that cool character in this show. and I feel like it grounds it in a certain, like
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it just humanizes the whole story. Yeah, if we had dancing skeletons and dancing bugs
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in the Rasputin scene, it would have been fun, but I prefer our version
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Constantly stirring. We need one cup of flour. This is beautiful. All right
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Coating the bottom. That's what you want. That's what you want to see, guys. Four eggs into the bowl with your dough
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Piping hot. Piping hot. Who knows how to crack an egg with one hand
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Mix this together. This is beautiful. You guys did an amazing job
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Now, we are going to scoop this out and start to bake them using melon ballers
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I want you guys to scoop me your perfect princess profiteroles. This is from Jeremy and Jordan fans
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What things do you miss most about home? My dog. A little dog
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A Morkie named Penny. I miss her all the time. I miss the beach
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And drive honestly The beach and drive It the little things Nothing like rolling up to like an In I agree One in the morning I agree Taco Bell
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Oh, yeah. Taco Bell. Full and perfect and ready to go into the oven
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At 425 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes. And while these cook, we are going to play quick fire questions
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Alright. What? 15 seconds on the clock. Ready? Set. Go. Favorite holiday
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Halloween. Best friend's name? Ian. Mexican, Italian, or Chinese food? Mexican. East Coast or West Coast
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West Coast. Backyard or rooftop access? Backyard. How do you like your steak cooked
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Medium. Middle name? Anthony. Go to audition song! Oh! That was pretty good
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Oh, that was really good! Goodbye. Ready? Ready. Set. Go. Favorite color
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Blue. Mac or PC? Mac. Morning person or night owl? Morning. Peanut butter or jelly
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Peanut. How do you take your bagel? Hot. They're like little music boxes
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Oh my God. And in every good animated movie out there, the princess always has an animal sidekick
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If you had an animal sidekick in real life, what animal would it be? What would his name be
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And would he talk and if he did, what would he sound like? An owl named Icarus
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He's like super wise, but also like super playful. I've thought about this
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Dickers totally talks, but like, unlike some sidekicks, like he's really smart and he gives me advice
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and he like, he helps me. They're shoulder sounds like dish. Oh my God
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I've thought about this multiple times. So mine would have to be a monkey
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Queen monkeys. Queen monkeys, one on each shoulder. Chester's the smart one
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He would be keeping me in check constantly. You would have the voice of like Ian McKellen. Oh
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What do you see, Derek? I don't think you should do that. And Hickory's just like the mischievous one
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You don't want M&Ms. You want them sour stuff. Ooh. It's just whipping it
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We need one cup of cold heavy cream. Jump on it. Jump on it
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Jump on it. You know that song? I do. That's perfect. We need to do one tablespoon of powdered sugar
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A fourth a teaspoon of vanilla. I'm one for like just adding extra vanilla to everything
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so everything tastes super fun. So do I Now you are going to fill your music boxes What the most special part of this journey for you guys
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I'd say getting to work with this incredible group of people. It's so great to be a part of a cast that everybody is just cheering each other on
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There's so much support backstage. I feel like getting to originate a musical that was once an animated film is kind of cool
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Especially an animated musical. It's kind of like recreating already a classic
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Which is cool We made our own soundtrack And now we're the new voices
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That people will listen to when they look up Anastasia Oh my god
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Final step! We get to make it snow like in Russia! Oh my god! I love it
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This is from Amanda Cesario, and she would like to know if you had to live in another country alone for a year, where would it be
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It's a good question, right? I'm a United Kingdom in England. I love London and also went to Edinburgh in January and technically that's like the United Kingdom
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So I could definitely live there for a year This is hard Westeros
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You don't live there now. There's dragons and stuff. It's crazy. There's a lot of them. Maybe after the after winter
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That's amazing. No, that's not really an answer. I don't know like Hogwarts
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Okay, I don't know about you, but I'm ready to eat. Oh my gosh Please. Don't say that
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Artwork. Dancing bears. Painted wings. Oh my god. Homemade whipped cream is everything
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I love them. I'm going to have to stop myself from eating all of them
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You guys are cracking me up today. How do I follow you guys
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Chrissy Altomar on Instagram or Twitter. I'm just Derek Clenna. At Anastasia B.O.S
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So follow us. Follow the show. We're on Facebook, Instagram. Twitter, YouTube, at Backstage Fight
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Everyone, I'm not joking. You need to go see Christy and Derek melt your heart
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as Anastasia and Dimitri and Anastasia on Broadway. I've been Broadheart's theater
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Thank you so much for coming on the show. Thanks for having us. We love you. Yay
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See you next time! On Backstage Vibe
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