 Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas! We have a wonderful season here at the Regent Theatre. Welcome to episode 4 of Regent TV. Tonight we are very excited to be filming on location here at the Regent Theatre Arlington Showplace of Entertainment since 1916. There's a lot of history here and last weekend well we had Elvis in the building and we're still recovering from that but we're very excited about our upcoming Christmas special the Calamari sisters Christmas Carol. I don't know if we're quite ready for it but that's what we're doing and since most of you are tuning in now in the heart of the Christmas season I want to wish everybody happy holidays, merry Christmas or whatever it is you celebrate and welcome to Regent TV once again. Thank you for coming and here are your tickets to January's featured shows. We kick off January in a big way with the Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra's annual New Year's Eve extravaganza. The future of classic rock starts here. January is also extremely special as we kick off 2020 with Magic Month, January's always magic month here at the Regent Theatre, a tradition of family fun live magic shows every Saturday morning. Also for families we've got the Belmont World Film 17th annual family film festival and that's the weekend of January 17th. Also duets, duos, Motown and Moor on January 18th, a great live show presented by the folks that it brought you the Aretha Franklin tribute, the Otis Redding tribute and much more. This is chapter 6, the great Leon Beale and Friends on January 18th. Also we've got some great school events coming up, the real school of music based in Burlington and Andover doing a live showcase on January 11th and two weeks later Arlington High School's Battle of the Bands on January 25th. Always a crazy time here we're looking forward to that. Not to mention an exclusive film event, the Boston premiere of the life and death of Brian Jones from the Rolling Stones. Enjoy. So here we are smack dab in the middle of the Regent Theatre stage, the historic Regent Theatre, about to make history I think because we're about to talk to the Calamari sisters right here the night before the show begins. It was the night before showtime and off through the house. Welcome. Thank you. You guys really don't need an introduction so I'll let you introduce yourself. Oh, right. I'm Delphine. And I'm Camilla. And we have the Calamari sisters. You might have seen us on a bus or two. Yeah. Broadside of a bus I would say probably. Broadside. And this isn't the first time you've been to the Regent Theatre, is it? Oh no, these are third at this point. I think it's number three. Yeah. Oh we love it here. I love Boston. Love it. What is it you love about Boston? Oh everything. I love the historic nature. I love all the like cobblestone-y feel to everything. Although I keep looking, I hear about this Boston Tea Party. It's famous. I love a good Earl Grey tea. I keep trying to explain what it was, didn't she? What is a party and everyone makes a lot of tea in them, in the waters or something. I don't know. I'm gonna figure it out though. I'm gonna find it. Well, I have a question. Have you ever opened a show before on a full moon? Because I just heard that there is a full moon happening tomorrow. Oh, that explains a lot. It does. Carmella has given a full moon on the opening of a show before. We were shut down, there was picketing. There was not a picketing. We had to pay a fine. Well, pretty strict laws around here, so hopefully that won't happen. But to answer your question, I think we actually probably have. Like we've been touring the country since 2009, and I'm sure at some point we've opened a show on a full moon with as many openings, don't even say it. As many openings as we've had. It's true, it's true. Although that sounds real creepy, a full moon. It's not the werewolves. It explains why girls in our family are a little hairy. What we're excited about or thrilled about is you're here right up through the end of the year, right through the holiday season, into the new year, 2020. 2020, I can't believe we're there. I know, it's like the future is now. So tell the audience, the Regent TV audience, what they might expect, maybe where you started, how did this come about food performance? The full history, you want to run down. Well, we have been, of course, a short story. We're from Bayridge, Brooklyn, you know that, though. We're from Bayridge, Brooklyn. And Camel and I have been singing and dancing in the kitchen with our mom, our grandmother, and a Stroni since we were just little girls. So that came naturally, joining cooking and music. Now our stage shows, we've been touring, like I said, since 2009, we have 11 different versions of our stage shows. The first one was cooking with the Calamari sisters, which we did right here, the Regent, two years ago at this point, right? And that was the first. That was the first. And people are still talking about. Oh, there you go. I hope they don't just talk, but I hope they come back. This is a brand new show from Nuts to Bolts, brand new show. They will be surprised at every turn, of course. We are reducing. We do dance and talk. We're the only all singing, all dancing, all cooking, cooking, show out. Yeah, of course. Exactly. Yeah. And of course, they can expect to laugh. The laughing is especially nowadays, laughter is what everybody needs. So important. They will laugh from beginning to end. They'll have a great time. And by the time they leave here, they'll feel like a part of the Calamari family. Yeah. And it's so great because the aisles of the Regent Theater were made for rolling in them. Yeah, but I hope you have waterproof scenes. You're going to laugh yourself silly. Wear your depends. You're going to install those right away. And of course, it is a Christmas theme show. Lots of holiday music, a holiday cheer, a couple of recipes that you might want to try in the holidays. Sure. I'll get you a sample, perhaps. How is it? I mean, we're looking at the stage now out here and you actually do real preparation. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. All right. What would a cooking show me without the cooking? It's a perfect Christmas gift. You know what? I think that everyone should run out and grab tickets and put them in the stockings. Oh, they mean great gifts, experiences are great. They don't take up much room. They don't take much room. They put all the other stuff in those stuff. Yes, exactly. Yeah. Yes. Give the gift of entertainment and there's no other entertainment like your show. And that's why we thought it was a great idea to run past the new year. So past Christmas, so that people could get the tickets for holiday, you know, for Christmas and the holidays and use them, you know, in January or the end of December. It's usually such a letdown on the season's end and this will just be building up. Well, ramp up, ramp up. Well, keep it going. Yeah. That's how it should be. We'll get you warm on a cold winter's night. May not ever be able to stop. All right. Where do you go next? Once you're gonna go back home. You know, we've been traveling to travel. I miss home. Yeah, we're gonna go back home. Got some men waiting for me. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, I'm I'm just I just I'm pretty much speechless because just looking at at I don't think we've ever had anyone so glamorous on our stage before. And really, that puts so much time and effort into a show. And the recent theater has a long history of vaudeville and so forth. And it seems to me that you're out of that. Oh, yeah, our show is a lot of vaudeville feel to it. Absolutely. Vaudeville, classic musical theater, and some, you know, with a contemporary flair. We I like to say that our show is very, very TV audience friendly. Yes. You know, so that and we engage a lot. It's not you don't just sit there and watch it. We engage with the audience the entire time. Interactive. Well, because you know, when you're doing a cooking show, they always have their audience here. They always have to be buying, you know, so we get to actually talk to people and do an address them directly. You don't have that. The fourth wall is that what they call it? The fourth wall doesn't exist in the calamari world. That's for sure. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I was thinking about this. I keep talking to Dylan about it. We get into the vaudeville thing. I was hoping for a little burlesque. Huh? What do you think? A Christmas holiday strip? No, I don't think so. No, I don't think so. I think it's great. I can do wooden spoon pasties. What do you think? Well, you know, we were we're all engines come a long way since the blue laws, you know, and we do serve beer and wine and hard cider here now for the past three years. They would eat plenty of drinking to watch that. Yeah, well, they were plenty. Do you prepare anything in the way of beverage or? Oh, we certainly do. We actually one of the things we do is as a holiday drink. But we're not going to get away. You gotta come and see it. We want. Okay. You know, it's very simple and audience members can take that recipe home and make it. And of course, it's Italian. The entire show's Italian. So the cocktails Italian, too. Yeah. I mean, a lot of the the songs are, you know, tried and true Christmas songs by all of our shows, you know, they're very Italian based because that's what we know. It's Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, Louis Prima, all the good ones, you know. So okay, so what is your all time favorite Christmas song? My all time favorite Christmas song. You have one already. Yeah. Say what yours is. Now what your favorite Christmas? No, I got a little town of Bethlehem. How still we see me tonight. That's one of my favorites. I think my favorite night. I wish it was very silent tonight. But no, my favorite. This is a difference. See, my favorite one is most wonderful time of the year. Love that song. But my favorite thing. My favorite songs are the ones that everybody kind of knows. But when you bring them up now, they kind of know the first phrase. And then they're like, it's like what's the king song? They don't try to think of good king but all we know is that first one. Yeah. And there's always 27 of them. No one knows. Even silent night, you get to verse two when people are like, they don't know it. Yeah. And like, and as you said, there's a lot of music and a lot of dancing and a lot of fun. It's not just Christmas music. We always say that our shows are everything in the kitchen saying, yes, I mean, it's cooking, you're in the kitchen, but it's singing, dancing. It's a it's a hoop and a how. Well, what I love to is it's just you gals are bringing people together during a season where families and friends get together. This is the kind of show you can bring everybody to and come back and mothers and mothers and fathers and grandparents and single man. I'd like to come together with some single man in town while I'm here. And as we go through the holiday season and into the new year, what are your thoughts or wishes as we get into are we talking resolutions? Are we heading into the resolution? You said it, not me. Oh, gosh. Well, I guess mine would be to try and be a little bit less obnoxious. And mine would be that Carmela is a little less obnoxious. And what do you have? What can you tell us about the future of the calamari sisters? Are you going to keep doing this? Do you have any plans to? We got to be the calamari sisters. Yeah, you know, we go with that. We know we go with the flow. We roll to the punches. You know, always have something going. Yeah. Sometimes always cooking is a good way to get on the back burner. I got puns. I got lots of puns that she does. She doesn't like puns. I like good puns. Yeah. Thank you so much for for coming to the Regent Theater and also for giving us the time to be on episode three of Regent TV. The first one we've done live on site here. Really? Yes. It's just the third episode. Yes. Monthly show and that you're actually taking time away from your dress rehearsal here. Oh, our pleasure. Thank you so much for having us. I don't know any of my lines. And and I think that my my Christmas wish would be to have you back on this show again next year. Oh, we would love that. Yes, let's make that happen. Let's make it happen. I want to come out of a big present. I got big. Yes, thanks. Well, we do. Yeah, I think well, you could almost fit in there. We're not doing that. Think, think about it.