Thank god this amazing performance from the So You Think You Can Dance kids was the opening number of the show because I didn’t start watching until almost 1:30am.
Amazing energy, amazing choreography, amazing Travis Wall… the only thing missing was Neil Haskell and some Cat Deeley! Hell, the show even had some Mary Murphy screaming, what wasn’t to love?
It’s a great week for all of us So You Think You Can Dancefans!!! First My 2007 Summer TV BF Neil Haskell scored himself a high profile gig in the Off-Broadway hit Altar Boyz and now it seems that a ton of the previous SYTYCD’ers will be strutting their stuff on tonight’s IDOL GIVES BACK special.
Here’s a picture courtesy of Celebrity Dirt that shows some Idol contestants wrapped around some Dance faves. I spy with my little eye: My 2006 Summer TV BF Travis Wall, Hammy McHamsalot Benji Schwimmer, Lacey Schwimmer, Hok, Danny Tidwell, my girl Donyelle, is that Cousin Heidi? Who else? Dmitry? Lauren’s stupid face with Jaymz… I think that’s Season 2’s Ashlee with her damn hat on the right. Is that Sabra with Archuleta all the way to the left?
I’ll try to find a higher-res photo. Until then though, how frakkin fun is that? Too bad I won’t be home to watch it tonight. Boooooo.
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Season 2 will be played all weekend on MTV starting tonight at 8pm. Re-live Tranji, My BF Travis Wall and Cousin Heidi’s bench dance, Jailbait Ivan and Alison’s umbrella routine and more.
Saturday night I was able to see the SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Tour in E. Rutherford, NJ. Hell I missed Albany and Boston so I had to do something. When my friends Matt and Armando who live in NYC let me know that they had an extra ticket, I was on my way! After all, they are as obsessed as I am about SYTYCD and their love for these kids knows little boundaries — perfect tour going partners, that and there was always the chance that they’d molest Neil so I didn’t have to make an ass out of myself.
So I’m in NYC eating at Kate’s Joint when I get a voicemail. When we leave I check my message and who is it? Oh, it’s a Neil Haskell sibling wanting me to call her back. So, I punched holes in my iPhone trying to dial Erin Haskell back as fast as I could to find out that Neil is hooking me up with backstage passes.
*record scratches*
Does everyone know that I wrote about attacking her brother all summer long? Granted, she knows its all tv blog crushing but whatevs, a little funny. So yeah, I currently heart The Haskell Family more than my own. Fact.
So, after telling Matt and Armando and resuscitating them we were gearing up for the show. Look out Jersey tweens, the bitches are on their way.
Problem #1: We get there and they tell us no camera. I point out that the website for the stadium says the cameras are allowed. They try to pull some crap about at the last minute, production said they didn’t want cameras. Pants on fire much? So we went back to the parking garage, put the camera’s in our crotches and walked back through.
All I could think was, here Lacey hold my camera and then her finding a pubic hair stuck on the lens or something. It was in my crotch afterall. I’m just sayin’…
Problem #2: Go to pick up our backstage passes and realize that as much as I think Neil Haskell is my new BFF, he’s so not. He misspells my last name. Who cares right? Call me Sally Sunshine if needed. I was ready to start saying I was Benji Schwimmer. Any. Means. Necessary.
We get our passes and head on up to our seats. After some borishly lame videos of the dancers telling us random Tour facts and acting quite poorly (I love you kids more than my parents but WOW), the show began.
Executive Producer and Judge Nigel Lythgoe intros the 5 worse auditions from Season 3, we laugh but really it’s just being polite because 5 is a manageable number. 6 and I would have been slapping little children.
Then the lights dimmed, Cat Deeley into’d the kids and the show began! Like I said in my pre-teaser yesterday, I didn’t take notes this year because I just wanted to sit back and enjoy the show. I wanted to take in all the choreography, study the dancers, and obviously be a catty little school girl.
There were a couple new routines just for the Tour, there were the usual favorites, there were solos by each of the Top 10 dancers, there were some dancer introductions, and there was plenty of screaming!
My favorite routine to watch live this year had to be ‘Hip Hip Chin Chin’ with Lacey and Danny. It was good on the show, but there was something about seeing Lacey work that sexual magic on stage that just made my sizzle. I know I’m gay as the day is long but sweet jesus…
I also loved the Imogen Heap number “The Moment I Said It” with Danny Tidwell half naked leading the rest of the cast. It was one of my favorites from the season and it did not disappoint or lose any of its impact in a large stadium. The number is sick! Here’s one of the two videos I took from E. Rutherford.
Watch Danny Tidwell and Cast Dance Imogen Heap’s “The Moment I Said It” Routine
Lacey Schwimmer, you were my girl all season. I loved you and your nasty ways while others tried to ruin your good name. Many thought you to be nothing more than Benji Schwimmer’s little sister. They cried Nepotism and crammed the boards with their disdain forgetting that you yourself are a Championship dancer in your own right.
Girl you made it to the Top 4 and Ducky loves ya! Here are some of my favorite moments of you from SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Season 3. Go on with your bad self.
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Season 3 Winner is…
SABRA JOHNSON!
Let’s rewind though shall we?
Before I get to writing this up I have to tell you all some shockingly bad news. I lost 45 minutes of the show tonight. Something happened with our power and from 8:33 to about 9:15 I missed SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE! A part of my soul is missing as well. Anyone who wants to fill me in step by step can in the comments section, help a brother out!
The show starts and Cat Deeley looks like a glorious Grecian Ostrich with her hair pulled back with the crown braid and that crazy poof of ruffles! She loves poof and she loves animal prints, so an Ostrich is actually semi-fitting for our beloved host.
The Top 20 are introduced in the order they were eliminated and the stage looks so insane with all of them there again! Everyone is in white and I’m having horrid nightmares of Idol’s All-White Angelic Charity Event Night(mare). I loved seeing everyone again because as the weeks go on and more happens, I actually tend to forget a face or two. Jessi looks really good, guess that heart of her’s is still holding out. Dominic and Sara got a huge response when they were shown and Pasha gave Lauren a version of the butt-bongos.
Then it was time for our Top 4 and it was glorious to see them up there, the envy of 16 others! Lacey Schwimmer, Neil Haskell, Sabra Johnson, and Danny Tidwell. This game is ON.
I feel like I was drugged, gang raped, and left in an alley in a pool of my own urine after watching the tour du force that was SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE’s Performance Finale tonight. It was two hours of dancing and awesomeness with extra awesome.
Can I make a confession though? I don’t know if I’m feeling overwhelmed or underwhelmed. I feel like so much happened yet nothing amazed me beyond belief and really, it left me feeling like this episode turned the whole competition on its ear and no one dancer has it in the bag.
Sabra seemed like the clear winner coming into tonight’s performance finale yet after the show ended I feel that she’s second if not third in line to win.
So who does that leave in the pole position? Get ready to call me a hypocrite and a late comer, but I have finally bought a ticket on the Hot Tamale Train with Danny Tidwell as Conductor and Lounge Act. *hides in shame and puts back to crowd with stones*
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Finale Part 1 airs tonight!
If you came looking for spoilers for tonight’s performance finale, I’m not posting them because I myself did not want to be spoiled as to which routines were performed tonight and which partnerships were formed.
I’m over the spoilers and ready to be shocked and amazed by Lacey Schwimmer, My BF Neil Haskell (semi-nude), Danny Tidwell and Sabra Johnson.
I’ll be watching tonight not from the confines of my own abode, but from the Woo with GMMR and a gaggle of other adoring fans. Should be one hell of a time! Here’s to hoping Wade works out some routines along with Mia Michaels and seriously, some Mandy Moore!
Who wants to take a stab at how many SYTYCD Alums will be in the house? Benji is a given, Travis Wall (and his lapdog Jailbait Ivan), Cousin Heidi will be lucky to get 10th row balcony they way they treat her, and possibly Nick Lazzarini?
Also, is it wrong that I want a DANCELIFE/ SYTYCD Cross-Over Series? God that would be amazing. Everyone already hates Blake, so it would make for some dramarama! Plus, Dancelife is on my mind because the Gossip Girl Preview plays the theme song which I seriously can’t stop dancing to in my underwear.
Ducky reader MELLIEMEL (hiding her real name for gangsta purposes I presume) was lucky enough to attend the taping of last night’s SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Top 10 performances. As she promised last week, she’s bringing us all the scoop from inside the house!
MellieMel will spoil you, she’ll treat us, and she’ll make you laugh when we go ON SET WITH MELLIEMEL! (more…)
Deborah Starr Seibel at TVGuide has been spending some seriously envious time with the So You Think You Can Dance crew and is reporting all the juicy gossip for us.
Why did Jessi Peralta go home? Nigel Lythgoe finally fesses up:
“For two weeks, Jessi was ill,” says Lythgoe. “The first week, we got her through it. But the second week she went to the hospital.” Lythgoe owns up to the charge that Peralta was sent packing in part because of her health. “I won’t speak for the other judges,” says Lythgoe, “but for me personally, yes, I did take that into account.”
Does Danny Tidwell have pierced genitalia?
The pinched expression on contemporary dancer Danny Tidwell’s face Wednesday night as the judges argued over whether his problem connecting with the audience was the result of his perceived arrogance. Tidwell’s expression had little to do with the discussion about his attitude — he was battling tremendous physical discomfort and his closed, tight face hid the fact that he probably wanted to scream. “He had four safety pins pricking his testicles because he’d split his pants,” explains executive producer and judge Nigel Lythgoe, shaking his head after tonight’s results show. “You never give a dancer safety pins, and he had four of them up there.”
Does Benji Schwimmer mind giving the spotlight up to his sister Lacey over technical ability?
“Not at all,” he says, hanging out backstage after the show. “I taught her, so that’s just a credit to my teaching abilities. Of course she’s more technical than I am, because she’s had one more teacher than I had — me.”
Deborah Starr Seibel at TVGuide has been spending some seriously envious time with the So You Think You Can Dance crew and is reporting all the juicy gossip for us.
Why did Jessi Peralta go home? Nigel Lythgoe finally fesses up:
“For two weeks, Jessi was ill,” says Lythgoe. “The first week, we got her through it. But the second week she went to the hospital.” Lythgoe owns up to the charge that Peralta was sent packing in part because of her health. “I won’t speak for the other judges,” says Lythgoe, “but for me personally, yes, I did take that into account.”
Does Danny Tidwell have pierced genitalia?
The pinched expression on contemporary dancer Danny Tidwell’s face Wednesday night as the judges argued over whether his problem connecting with the audience was the result of his perceived arrogance. Tidwell’s expression had little to do with the discussion about his attitude — he was battling tremendous physical discomfort and his closed, tight face hid the fact that he probably wanted to scream. “He had four safety pins pricking his testicles because he’d split his pants,” explains executive producer and judge Nigel Lythgoe, shaking his head after tonight’s results show. “You never give a dancer safety pins, and he had four of them up there.”
Does Benji Schwimmer mind giving the spotlight up to his sister Lacey over technical ability?
“Not at all,” he says, hanging out backstage after the show. “I taught her, so that’s just a credit to my teaching abilities. Of course she’s more technical than I am, because she’s had one more teacher than I had — me.”
Let’s not pussyfoot around. Shauna Noland and Cedric Garnder were sent home last night on a semi-bloated hour of So You Think You Can Dance.
Was it time for either or both to go? I’m not sure. I 100% believe it was time for Cedric to go home. He had learned a ton while on the show, he’d grown as a dancer, as a person and scored himself a sweet free ride to the Debbi Allen Dance Academy. Can’t beat that. I think he was proud of his performances and I think that he knew it was his time to go (two weeks ago)…
Shauna on the other hand was totally screwed. There’s a part of me that didn’t mind her going home, but then there was that part of me that thinks she got the short end of that dance stick. Nigel complained that she didn’t grow much during the course of the season and that she isn’t showing the potential needed to stay around at this stage of the game. That may fully be the case but come on… YOU GAVE HER CRAP PARTNERS!
Jimmy was a good dancer, but they had zero chemistry together and never connected. Cedric was like dancing with a first year at Hogwarts. Shauna was Hermione and Cedric, Neville Longbottom. It was never going to work and how could Hermione grow if she’s always left behind because of Neville’s shortcomings? What am I talking about here?
Farewell you two, good luck and sorry but we’ve got to move on!
I’d like to say I so called the Bottom 3, but patting myself on the back seems pointless when there’s more to chat about. (more…)
I was at GMMR’s all night watching the show and podcasting then podcasting again because we had a pretty major technical difficulty and I didn’t get home until well into the hours of Thursday.
That being said, I have watched last night’s SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE and will be working on a recap as best I can throughout the morning. Stay Tuned…
TV Podcast 10: Ducky and GMMR strap on their tankinis, floaties, and hit the pool to tackle the chaos of the summer television schedule in the sweltering heat.
Shows we’re watching:Age of Love, Top Chef, The Next Food Network Star, Kathy Griffin’s D-List, The Closer, Rescue Me, Traveler and obviously So You Think You Can Dance.
Shows we’re looking forward to: The return of Big Brother 8 and the premiere of Burn Notice.
Then we hit the news and crazy ass Isaiah Washington, Heroes casting, the return of Sark, Nip/Tuck, 24’s Female President, and we give big bear hugs to Kelly Clarkson. Oh yeah, and we talk The Office cast on the big screen.
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This clip from Season 2 of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE is in my mind because of the amazing song by Imogen Heap called “Hide and Seek.” Not only has the song been featured numerous times this season, it was played numerous times on my iPod this past weekend.
SYTYCD Choreographer Mia Michaels plotted out this routine featuring our faves from Season 2 and after rewatching it right now, I can only hope that this season can pull something out like this. There’s so much passion, artistry, and pain in this piece that its just simply beautiful. God I still love Travis and watching this makes me think noone can live up to that hype…
