Sorry.
Could someone post the results?
Top 4:
Poppycock, Grimm, Jackie, Fighting Gravity
Thanks.
You nailed it! I would have taken Grasso over Poppycock, but I like them both and they both have more of a stage presence for a Vegas show than the rest, with FG being the exception. I think FG will end up winning. Evanco has the most pure talent but how can a 12 year old stick to a Vegas act schedule? I guess it’s been done before with the likes of Brittany and Miley with similar schedules and life-styles. Evanco is a one trick pony (an extremely talented one at that) and unless she can start belting out some pop tunes or musical numbers she’s limiting her exposure and flexibility. I wonder if her voice changes with adolescence approaching?
Grimm could be the next James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen type of singer if he plays his cards right. We will hear from him again if he doesn’t win this thing.
Fighting Gravity will get bookings too if they don’t win. Those guys have a future somewhere. I’d pay to see them live.
And Poppycock? Hard to see me paying to see him, but I do enjoy his act. He’s my guilty pleasure.
So, if she sings only opera then she’s a one trick pony? Does that mean pop singers who won’t sing opera or musical numbers are one trick ponies too?
Yeah and I guess Fighting Gravity are one trick ponies as well, since they don’t do magic. And Grasso’s a one trick pony since he doesn’t sing showtunes.
Jackie is clearly the front runner to win.
Interesting final four - of which, 3 are singers (well, Poppycock is more than just a singer, but still…)
Regarding the whole “Las Vegas show” thing. I don’t believe it is written in stone that they have a showroom waiting for them for eternity. They will be performing, IRC, a few times at Bally’s in the Jubilee! show. If Fighting Gravity wins, I could see where they could possibly move to another theater later - but the others? Doubt it.
BTW, did anyone read that disclaimer on the $1 million dollar prize at the end of the show? Paid in annuities over 40 years! Otherwise, a much, much smaller payout of a lump sum - minus taxes - well, they will be lucky to buy a minivan with the winnings.
Not winning might be better for him. What’s Kevin Skinner up to these days?
I’m pretty convinced that all the competition shows I watch are rigged anyway, and feel as if all the signs are pointing to a Jackie Evancho win.
Throughout the season I haven’t really paid much attention to Studio One etc. because watching big dange groups doesn’t generally spin my wheels. (Rockettes excluded). I did watch them this week and was blown away by the stunt where the one woman did a series of back handsprings across half a dozen of her fellow dancers.
Nothing about the results show really surprised me.
Stoid, I agree with you about Poppycock’s Liberaceoscity.
My gut feeling is that she doesn’t have the type of talent that the American voters will vote for because opera isn’t as main-stream as the other stuff. Like magic, pop, and dancing. I personally think she has the talent to go all the way. She clearly has the voice to do other genres, she has great range and stage presence. That’s more to the point of what I meant.
Based on the theory that ABC will show the finalists in the order ABC wants them to place in the final votes (worst to first), I’m going to guess that tonight we’ll see Michael Grimm first, then Prince Poppycock, Fighting Gravity, and lastly Jackie.
I saw one place where people were pretty much giving the win to Jackie, and the show hasn’t even started yet. I’m hoping for a dark-horse victory from either Fighting Gravity or Poppycock.
I’m putting my chips in the Jackie pot. She’s gonna win because America loves a 10 year old who can do something neat.
I don’t think ABC cares very much…
Doublepost with the Poppycock thread: I completely agreed with Piers that Poppycock chose poorly tonight; he seemed tired and inspirationless. Tonight should have been something comic and unrestrained. I agreed with Sharon that Piers was an ass to X him since he couldn’t be eliminated now if he’d come on stage and peed while yodeling.
What was the mistake Fighting Gravity made that Piers referred to? Was it the cloth coming off the bottom door too early? (If so they made up for it by pulling both cloths.)
Michael Grimm- good but nothing stellar and I’m surprised he’s made it this far. He’s good enough to make the finals of American Idol but not “OMG this guy is gonna be huge!” good.
Jackie’s not only got colossal talent but is probably going to win. That said, is there something really sad about her to anybody else? I’m guessing she’s had no more childhood than the Jackson 5 or Shirley Temple.
Maybe.
But my guess was a door that was openned at the end but before their show was completely over revealing the backstage area because a light was turned on.
Heh. 0 for 4.
I think Jackie’s got this in the bag. I’d like to see Fighting Gravity win, but Jackie is such an immense talent that I’d be happy to see her win too. I don’t think Poppycock or Grimm really have a chance, although I do like them. Grimm is not my style of music, he’s talented but no more so than tons of other singers. Poppycock is unique and would do well with a Vegas show, but there’s just no way he’ll pass FG or Jackie in the votes.
Poppycock lost.
Nessun Dorma without a crescendo?
He never did rescue the princess
No camp
The scene was clearly inspired by the words, but how many people knew what the words meant?
I was actually thinking that PP would come out doing operatic “Ice Ice Baby”, but of course with his name it would be “Cock Cock Baby”.
Sure Fighting Gravity made a mistake, but given how little production/practice time there was, that’s not surprising. And for comparing them to Jackie- ummm Piers, it think what FG does is a little more complicated than singing Ave Maria.
My guess:
#1 Jackie Evancho (America’s Charlotte Church)
#2 Fighting Gravity
#3 Michael Grimm
#4 Prince Poppycock
I sort of agreed with what Piers M was saying about Prince Poppycock’s act last night, but did he really have to buzz him? It was a little too serious. I was more expecting him to be standing in a fountain, or wearing a fountain, lit with different colored lights. More toungue in cheek than what we saw.
Also, did it seem like maybe Prince P wasn’t hearing what he was supposed to through his ear piece? It looked to me as if there might have been some fiddling with that.
To me, last night’s was one of Jackie’s less ethereal and technically perfect performances. I still think the cards are stacked for a Jackie win, though. When she said she’s had o miss school because of singing do you think she meant because of the show, or does she have voice lessons and train the way some young atheletes do, such as Olympic skaters, and gymnasts?
I fast forwarded through Michael Grimm’s performance because the first few bars did not lead me to expect an innovative arrangement. It’s a good song for his range and I really do find him charming but is that worth a million dollar prize?
Is it possible that America will vote for Fighting Gravity? I go back and forth on whether I’d see a whold show of theirs. Ther first week my jaw dropped. After that less so, but they won me back a little with the lunar act, and I thought last night’s was another step up.
Did you vote?
Poppycock seemed to make the same mistake a few other acts made. He was serious and straightforward and didn’t have any of the fun or silliness his other performances had. And being fun and silly is what has won America over.
And I have to say that the variety act had me laughing all the way through. In a good way. I wouldn’t go pay to see it, but it was nice for a 4-5 minute break from the competition.
Jackie Evancho will be in the 25 city tour either way. That must be a major pain to producers to have a child that age on a long tour- I’m assuming a tutor and a parent/guardian have to travel along. I don’t know anything about her parents but I’m hoping any money she earns from it is protected just to be on the safe side since she is sacrificing a major part of her childhood. (The poor little thing looked like a child bride being last night in her white gown and garland.)
The Fighting Gravity team, like Diversity in last year’s UK version, would get next to nothing for winning considering it’s an annuity rather than $1 million in cash. Of course they’ll also cost the producers and promoters plenty on the tour.
Completely out of curiosity- something that has no bearing on my life certainly- I wonder if Michael Grimm and John Quale and the other single-acts would be allowed to bring a guest with them on the tour at the promoters expense since they’re paying for Jackie’s guardian and tutor and for the 8 members of FG and all, OR if each act is paid the same per diem and the expenses and lodging come out of that, which would also seem unfair as at, say, $1,000 per day Grimm and Quale would be banking $500 per day and FG would be begging for change and leftovers. I’m guessing that the lodging/food/transportation is provided by the promoters in the individual city. Anybody have any experience with promoting or touring who would have any idea how this works?
I wonder if Quale/Poppycock gets to keep the costumes he’s designed for the production. They’re certainly of no use to anybody else and they’re elaborate and expensive. If he does that and the exposure is almost prize enough in itself.
Michael Grimm is the real dark horse: YMMV but to me he’s just not in the same league as the others by way of talent or originality.