1. Brandon
2. Kayla
3. Jeanine
4. Ade
-Who’s voting for Evan? Are there that many Broadway lovers out there? Or is this further proof that teenage girls shouldn’t be allowed to text? …Although his success makes me wish I could go back in time to high school to see if that “Aw shucks” face is really so effective.
-The case against Evan requires nothing more than looking at Melissa’s face when she drew his name from the hat this week. I feel comfortable predicting that next week’s weakest routines will involve him.
-A rarity for a Nigel Lithgoe production: Cat was hurrying the judges through their earliest comments, then Lil C had to extemporize for an extra minute toward the end to cover for time. However pervy Nigel is, his shows usually run like clockwork (witness the timing debacles of AI this season to see how much they miss him). Not sure what happened here.
-That “Send in the Clowns” number was hauntingly bananas. Oh no, I’ve liked multiple Tyce D’Orio routines this year. Is there something OTC I can take for that?
-For the hundredth episode, old contestants came back to perform, and in this week’s performance show, Nigel listed off several great dancers from previous seasons. In both cases, Sabra and Danny were conspicuously absent. What gives?
-Kayla and Brandon partnering for contemporary was almost unfair.
-You know how Michael Phelps is a great swimmer, but he’s spent so much time becoming a great swimmer that he doesn’t really seem to know anything about anything that’s not swimming? It’s great for the Olympics, but it probably means a dinner conversation with him would be pretty…unimpressive. Sometimes I think Michael Phelps and Kayla are similar.
-During the Top 8 performance show, Nigel mentioned that he had been disappointed with the hip hop routines this year. That’s on him. NappyTab do some interesting things, and I think they’ve been just as solid this year as they were last year. But they’re so stylized that they can’t be asked to pull all of the hip hop weight for a season. Find another dependable hip hop choreographer or two, continue to use Dave Scott and Shane Sparks every now and then, and let NappyTab shine as part of an ensemble.
-Speaking of ensembles:
-Oh, and did you realize that people remix performances? It looks ridiculously time-consuming.
