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
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.
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE has announced their Top 4 finalists America and I’m one happy man! America got it right for a change and made My Top 4, Their Top 4 as well!
Top 4 Finalists competing for the title this Thursday night are: Neil Haskell, Sabra Johnson, Danny Tidwell, and Lacey Schwimmer
That means that Pasha and Lauren were sent packing. Kisses, hugs, but it had to be done! I feel shame in admitting this, but in that big empty auditorium I actually started to feel bad that Lauren was going home. I know in my heart that she and her baby fat face needed to go but with no one there to cheer on her demise, there was something lost in the moment. Seriously though, both Lauren and Pasha were champs when it came to how they handled going home and that’s all you want to see at this stage of the game. (more…)
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…)
First of all let me start by saying I was so happy to see Cat Deeley and the Top 14 kids back in action after that mini-holiday hiatus they took last week. It was like seeing an old friend again, putting on those comfy pajamas, or biting into a bing cherry for the first time all year. You know, things you love and are happy when they come back and they just make you giddy like a school girl…
Before I get into the show at all I want to say that I want to hug, squeeze, kiss, high five, dap, and maybe give a happy ending to Hairspray The Musical Director/Choreographer/This Week’s Guest Judge ADAM SHANKMAN for finally having the balls to say that Danny Tidwell acts like he’s way above this competition! In fact I think the words were, “you dance like you’ve already won this competition.” There was some calling out of sticks being up asses and cockiness and my paragraph has just gone to a whole new level of innuendo but seriously, I WAS SO HAPPY TO SEE SHANKMAN CALL HIM OUT! Amen brother man! Needed to be done but we’ll talk more about it later.
It’s been two very long weeks without my obsession for SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE being quenched. Luckily it’s back on Wednesday night and not only will I be watching with baited breath, I’ll be over at GMMR’s house watching and podcasting so it should be triple fun.
So wanna know who danced what tonight at the taping of So You Think You Can Dance Week 4? **SPOILERS AHEAD**
So You Think You Can… Predict who’s going home on this show each week? Hardly. Last night’s SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE results show was yet another shocker of a night for the dancers and for the audience. The contestant that just won’t go away is still kicking around and Mary Murphy’s jovial screams were probably sent into a pillow last night instead of into the audience.
As you’ve probably guessed by now, Cedric Gardner did not go home after the insistence from Mary Murphy and Nigel that he must. I knew this would happen. I knew that the way Mary and Nigel treated Cedric on Wednesday night would cause more people to vote for him out of sympathy and not. Oh you could just see Mary seething sitting there on her stoop. Suck on that Mary Murphy! Cedric Gardner is still on the Hot Tamale Train and he ain’t getting off anytime soon. Shauna girl, you deserved to stay as well, you worked that Mia routine like noone’s business.
Jessi was there in attendance and she looked great during both the opening number and when they allowed her to dance the routine she should have danced the night before with Pasha. Let me tell you, girl wiggled and writhed like a horny latin stripper! The routine had a different feel but hands down it was wonderful to watch. Regardless, she’s dancing for her life.
So You Think You Can Dance Week 3 started off with one hell of a bang! Not only did we get the best guest judge the shows ever had, we quite possibly got the best guest on any reality show, period! A dancer has an irregular heart and was replaced by an insane person. Nigel rips a dancer a new one and asks Cat to sit on his face. All this and more coming up on So You Think You Can Dance.
The Top 16 performed last night and the two hours hurled by like a whirlwind and I’m still left numb from all the awesomeness.
Guest Judge Debbie Allen (girl, you know I love me some FAME and beside all the gifts you brought to the show last night you also reminded these kids that Fame does cost and that up there on that stage is where they start payin’… in SWEAT!) is the shit! Never has there been nor will there ever be a Judge on SYTYCD like Ms. Debbie Allen.
She’s funny, professional, emotional, fierce, uplifting, generous, articulate, and honestly could there be someone who knows more about dance? Doubtful. The woman worked it out and the only thing missing from her performance was a guest spot from Felicia Rishad and some lip syncin’ Huxtables.
Before the dancing began, Mary told us that her favorite dancer is Dominic (and seriously he’s slowly becoming mine as well) and she gushed so much about him that I swear she’s got a blue dress and a beret somewhere in her closet. Nigel said he was very pleased with the show up to this point and loves the online chatter, even the person that called him “The ugly old guy with the dentures and the cat on his head.” when trying to correct the person he basically sexually harassed Cat. “And you’ve not been on my head Cat…” Oh no he didn’t!!!
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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Every Tuesday morning I wish I spent the night before in Los Angeles if only so I could have seen the taping of this week’s SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE. We’re entering Week 3 and I’m getting more excited as the time passes.
Last week we lost Jimmy and Faina, the week before Ricky and Ashlee and according to online sentiment this week we should be losing Cedric and Shauna (though Jessi is earning bad marks all around).
After reviewing the dances that will be performed on tomorrow night’s show I have to say I’m a little worried. Not to mention, people who attended the taping last night said it was a mess of a taping. Some girl fainted, they had to re-record a good amount, and the audience was out of control. To me, that sounds like money!
The dances and choreographers are revealed after the jump. (more…)
So You Think You Can Dance Week 2 was a hard one because each contestant was really great and tonight, I knew it was going to be a really rough elimination. I however wasn’t expecting the shock of LACEY and KAMERON going home!
I kid…
Though sadly some peeps would love to see that happen. How dare you!
Let’s get right to it. The Bottom 3 Girls were Jessi Peralta (wha wha what?), Shauna Noland, and Faina Savitch. I expected Shauna and Faina to be in the bottom three but really with Jessi? Mary wasn’t having it and again I was worrying we were going to have a Ricky moment from last week.
The Bottom 3 Guys were Pasha, Jimmy Arguello, and Cedric Gardner. Again, Jimmy and Cedric were expected but there was no way Pasha deserved the bottom 3.
Tonight we did lose two dancers that were not partnered and in doing so we’ve created our first Season 3 Frankendancers….
Wednesday is a good night. So You Think You Can Dance really makes me a happy camper and the show tonight started off with some incredible routines and some hot ass chemistry!
My BF Neil Haskell (yes, after tonight it is official) and Lauren Gottlieb danced to a Hip Hop routine by Choreographer Dave Scott. We got to learn a little more about both contestants (all the contestants really) which is great because it helped me fall more deeply into TV crush mode with Neil. We’ve got a special thing, me and Neil and his calves… Those calves are like two softballs in white socks (wait, what?) and I just want them wrapped around his ears me.
I loved that Neil came out during the opening of the show and did the trademark Travis Wall spins, that helped endear him to me, can’t lie. The choreography was insane for this routine and it really played to Neil’s height and lankyness. I absoloved the ass smak, the dive roll, and the kick Lauren gave Neil! Amazing! Such a great way to start the night.
Mia said Neil rocked her world. Get in line bitch! (more…)
So You Think You Can Dance groups numbers are either incredible or incredibly bad. Last night we were given yet another incredible treat from choreographer Wade Robson. Seriously, can I just have his babies already? Wait, that’s not possible and I so don’t want kids but you get the idea here.
The girls were like Laugh-In dancers meet Oompa Loompas and the men were just sleek and sexy hot! Everyone was on point, in sync, and representin’! Great way to open the show.
So You Think You Can Dance sent two contestants home tonight and one of them I’m sure will cause quite the shockwave. I’m still stunned at the decision the Judges came to tonight. I’m just gonna get it out of the way so, get ready…
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