Whale of a Tale

Back to the Barre

Christi Lukasiak & Kelly Hyland

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

"Me? I'm the biggest bitch of them all," says Dance Moms choreographer Ed Phelan on this episode of Back at the Barre. Ed has been choreographing for over 25 years, including working with Abby well before Dance Moms was conceived.

As someone who was there at the beginning; Ed offers insight into why he thinks the show could have only worked with this group of moms and girls. He addresses many of his concerns going in and how producers originally pitched him as Abby's villainous foil.

Christi and Kelly cite Ed as the one responsible for some of their favorite routines. Ed gives a little backstory on those dances, including what Abby contributed and what she took credit for (and how that got her kicked out of Dance Masters). Ed could actually teach kids how to dance whereas Abby never taught them anything, though credit is given for her skills as a choreographer.

Also, how many Big Macs could Abby fit under one car seat? The answer may shock you, though it certainly didn't shock these three.

Quotes

“People. They'll talk about the show and things that they think they know and I'm like you don't even know these ladies, they were like my buddies. We used to go out and have a good time. It was so laid back when we were all together. Abby would usually ruin it with some kind of tantrum.” (15:01 -15:18 | Ed)
“Those were the five kids on the show because those were the five kids left in that class.” (17:33-17:36 | Ed)
“Wait you got Abby thrown out of Dance Masters? Well when they were thrown out of Dance Masters it really had nothing to do with Dance Moms, that was just the icing on the cake.” (21:30-21:37 | Christi and Ed)
“Listen, I was married. I have a gorgeous ex-wife. If I'm going to be with a woman I'm going back there.” (42:03-42:08 | Ed)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Baby, let's just dance, dance, let's just dance. Baby, I just wanna dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, baby, baby.
0:07.3	Can you feel it? Can you take it? Can you come and breathe it?
0:11.9	All of it, electricity, do it right now, pop, pop, pop, now.
0:17.3	Turn the volume up, lock it me up, electricity.
0:21.6	Hello, Bichettes. Welcome back to the bar. This is your favorite bitch,
0:25.4	Christy and bitch number two, Kelly. And we have a special guest.
0:30.4	Third bitch. Do you get mad if people call you a bitch?
0:33.2	No, I mean, I'm the biggest bitch of a mall.
0:35.6	All right. Well, joining us today, we have a very special guest, Ed Falen. Hi, Ed.
0:41.6	How are you? Good, ladies.
0:43.4	Excited to have you here. We talked about you a lot on the show.
0:47.0	We do. We'll tell everybody how you choreographed all the girls cute little dances.
0:51.7	That's why I brought my whale during today because it's going to be a whale of a tail.
0:54.4	Cheers, ladies, cheers. Cheers to that one.
0:59.0	Somebody else, you know, might have been a whale, but I don't know what that was.
1:01.6	Next. Um, well, I believe Kelly called somebody a Shamu outfit.
1:06.4	I did. She had a Shamu outfit on the one day.
1:09.2	Yes. Oh my god. She's exactly like Shamu.
1:12.1	Oh my god. Well, okay. Before we get into the whale of it all,
1:15.9	we have to start off by thanking our patrons.
1:18.1	These are people who went over to patreon.com slash back to the bar and joined
1:22.4	our exclusive Patreon channel where they get access to our after party.
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