I would have done Think of Me from Phantom of the Opera - you want the audience to think of you!
I think they weren’t allowed to choose from shows past a certain year. POTO premiered in, I think, 1987, so that was probably out. Shame, because I would have liked to see someone tackle “Memories” from Cats.
Interesting because Seacrest deliberately mentioned Phantom!
Yeah, but I think he was just prompting them. Because allegedly, according to him, the contestants didn’t know any of the shows they were given to choose from.
Which I still find hard to believe. Either he was just saying that (and I do believe he talks out of his ass quite a lot) or it’s true, in which case they should be ashamed of themselves. I don’t care how young they are (and the oldest contestants are only seven years younger than I am, and I know most of these shows!), if you’re going into a particular branch of the arts, you should know its history.
I thought all the songs beside ‘People’ werer boring. No more show tunes!
My sweetie Carie isn’t going home, and you hate her because you didn’t like her dress?? I don’t understand. I thought the music was way too loud and I could barely hear Connie, no big loss.
Scott, Nikko, & Anthony are lower rung, hey’re going home the next 3 weeks–Scott’s battery charge doesn’t help and puts him here because he hasn’t been here yet.
Y’all missed the funniest part of the show. The commercial. Life on a Stick. They have some woman from AI who I don’t remember and Rueben on, they’re singing, then one of the guys from the show says, “Is that Rueben and ______ singing ?” The other says “Yea, they’re singing but I found it a little pitchy”. har har har!
I was expecting so much more from Musical Night. sigh I found myself wandering away during commercials and forgetting to come back. I do know that Scott sucked ass, and he must be sent home. Please.
What an unfortunate theme to choose. I kind of understand that some of these kids don’t know musical theater; they are pop or rock singers and that’s a completely different vibe from the classic musical sensibility. I only know some of these because of my father’s cast-off albums; otherwise I grew up on rock and pop as well.
I have to say that I like Constantine the best, even with the overwhelming music behind him. It was really interesting and stylish.
“Climb Every Mountain”?? NOOOOOOO!!! No one should do this, especially not Anthony.
“One Hand One Heart”?? I love that song and was cringing at Nikko’s rendition.
“People” God I hate that song. But Vonzell’s dress was beautiful, like last week’s.
Paula: “The first step is admitting it [*…I’m high. I mean, * ]I’m falling in love with you, Constantine.”
Crappy theme, and thus one of the crappier shows of the season. I think Paula gave almost every singer a standing ovation, and I don’t know if that’s the uppers or the downers talking.
I’d like to see Scott go tonight. A-Fed kind of blew, too. I realized last night that Constantine’s going to be around for a long time, and I ought to get used to it already.
Why oh why oh why…didn’t Bo do “Hair”? It would’ve been fantastic!
I couldn’t really hear all of the performances (my baby boy likes to “sing” along), but in the snippets I caught it seemed like the orchestra was going berserko. Whoever was keeping the beat was okay & the rest of them were playing 3 different arrangements.
Well, God help me, too. I’m feeling dirty about it, but Connie was ::gag:: ::choke::…good.
I’m ready for Nikko to go. I don’t like his whiny-sounding voice. And I hate when he hits a bad note and goes into a run to cover it up. He did it last night and I said, “Nice save, slick.” :rolleyes:
My husband wants Carrie to win and I have to admit that she’s probably the best singer, but she doesn’t have…something, that would make it exciting if she were to win.
I don’t know. I guess I want Bo to win, but I’m afraid of what Diane Warren will write for him.
IMHO, in Hollywood they have a term for it, “f*ckability quotient”. She just doesn’t have it. Yeah, she’s cute in a middle-america milk-fed ivory-soap way, and that might be enough for her to succeed. But what’s missing is that sense that she’s had sex, she likes sex, she wants to have sex, and it might just be with you!
It’s not about getting all Brittney on us and shaking her ass, or anything like that. It’s just an inner thing that comes through in a performance. If it’s in her, she closes it off, and we in the audience can see that wall there.
I was wondering the same thing, although there are other songs from Hair besides the signature theme. He could also have done something from Tommy that suited his style better.
I think the theme was fine, some of the individual song selections sucked but it could have/should have been a great night.
I’m not understanding them not knowing any musical theater, years of public school choir were enough to familiarize me with lots of different shows, haven’t most of these contestants at least had high school chorus if not more extensive voice training? Simon has used “amusement park/cruise ship singer” as an insult a billion times, showtunes are what those guys do!
It’s like a contest for actors where the contestants can name the cast of Dawson’s Creek but are unfamiliar with Shakespeare, not that Pippen is comparable to Hamlet, but they oughta have a passing familiarity at least.
Tommy wasn’t reworked into a stage show until, I think, the late '80s. So it would have been too recent.
I always loved Fantasia. But I can understand those who don’t. But I picked her from the audition. I also love Macy Gray and she’s a waaaay better singer than her.
Hwwhhaaatt?
Well that was a curve ball. I feel bad for Scott, even though he sucked last night. I wanted Anthony to go.
Paula is so useless. So something that means something.
She’s been told to have a seat.
Say something that means something.
I do not understand why Vonzelle was in the bottom three while The Hole was sitting pretty up there. Even he said he sucked.