What is Cat wearing? It's like a spider spun a doily out of leftover X-mas tinsel.

I'm watching again.

msbelle,

I think they will cast katie's best friend for the Fall season - they need to create buzz for that.

on rewatch -

loved the first dance

the difference btw Tyce dance #1 and #2 could not be wider.

I didn't get any connection btw the two dancer in the Bway - Asuka and Vitolio

I thought the girl in the chacha was hot (Karla, right?), but didn't she push out her chest when extending her arms back.

On a second watch, I like the second Napoleon/Tabitha dance a lot better than I did initially - I think the first half was good and fun - it was sloppy though, right? and then the last third just lost my interest.

Damn Tasty Oreo. Someone please steal that man's copy of the Chicago score. Can he choreograph from any other Broadway show? And it was ridiculous choreo anyway. Any halfway decent dancer in an intermediate/advanced class at your local studio could've done it. There was no there there.

Damn NappyTab. Typically overly literal interpretation of that Ne-Yo song. It's not mime, NappyTab. Eh. I'm meh on the first two, although Chbeeb and Jeanine killed it.

Cha Cha to Poker Face? Really, Tony? And what happened to Melanie? I know she would not have let it go down like that. Once I got past the distracting music, I enjoyed. Her hip action was awesome, but Shankdaddy was right that Jonathan's hip action left a little to be desired. And he barely made it through on that split through the legs. Still and all, it was a fun routine, and they did hit some lovely lines.

Nigel can stuff it with all the "under the radar" crap. Whose fault is it that they didn't have any camera time during early audtion rounds, the tooth fairy?

2nd half rewatch

bollywood - she was behind or he was rushed in a couple of places that threw me off. it is so fun to watch, but I don't think it was near as clean as the one last year.

foxtrot - ok. fine, good, I dunno

wade dance - liked it on rewatch, really liked the girl in that a lot.

mandy dance - loved omg loved there was a bit in the middle where the take steps backward that I really liked- wtf richard marx though.

last dance - the other latin one - yeah that was fun. she is fun to watch.

Evan and Randi. Wow. I am blown away. I really, really did not like Miss Thing and her unitards in the early rounds. She was a total hair flinger. But here, she was exquisite. Amazing body control. And that first attitude turn? Lovely center. Both of them were great. And this is the thing that makes me so frustrated with Tasty. As long as he's not choreographing Broadway, he can bring it. His lyrical pieces are always some of my favorites, and this one was sexy, sultry . . . wow. First wow routine of the night for me. Also, that blue dress was gorgeous.

see, they should take Tyce off B'way and bring in Ryan.

I just thought that Asuka number was choreographed too ... slow for that music? Like, it should have been even brighter, even more steps or something.

Exactly my problem with that routine. I thought the weakest routine of the night in terms of performance was Tony and Paris's hip hop number, but that silent film number was just weak from the get-go, and the dancers couldn't really recover from it. I don't know who will be the third of the bottom three--maybe the cha-cha? Even though that split through her legs was a great move, upon rewatching I thought it was definitely weaker than that last number of the night.

I'm having a hard time pinning down my favorite of the evening--probably a toss-up between the contemp number with the ballet dancer and Ade (?--I think that's who that was, the Gentle Giant guy), Brandon and the salsa dancer's foxtrot (really lovely!), and the crash test dummies (she was amazing in it, and he really brought the character).