Music of the Night
by The Nittany Turkey
Tuesday night, that is. American Idol night.
Let us take a break from Nittany Lion incarcerations, injuries, and insipidness over the Paterno situation; a break from the politics of Pennsylvania and the nation; a break from all else that is pressing on our cerebral cortices; and let’s get down to what is truly important: American Idol!
OK, I’m over the top there. But I just got done paying some bills and I’ve got heartburn.
With the painful elimination of lovely Kristy Lee Cook last week, this Turkey lost his favored eye candy. Not that she was going to get much farther—no way in hell would she have—but she was still nice to look at and each week of watching her was like a dividend. For her swan song, she splayed herself out on the judges’ desk and sang to Simon, torch song style. It was perhaps her best performance of the whole competition. Too bad it had to be her last.
I’ll get over it.
Tonight is Andrew Lloyd Webber night. Accordingly, we’ll be hearing some old, overplayed, obnoxious Broadway music. The Rt. Hon. Lord Lloyd-Webber, Baron of Sydmonton, has dominated musical theater for much of the 1980s and 1990s. We’ll get songs from Cats, Jesus Christ, Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita, and Phantom of the Opera.
The only thing I can think of that might redeem the evening will be seeing how David Cook manages to pull something out of this collection of smarmy show music and do a rock rendition. Everyone else will probably do a straight take on the material.
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April 22nd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Turkey in da house.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:01 pm
So is the Redhead!
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:03 pm
“The Important Musicals of Our Time”
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:05 pm
David Archuleta will be the baby Jesus.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Paula: “Duh…..”
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:06 pm
With few exceptions, I really detest Broadway musicals. Most of the stuff is insipid crap.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Years ago a friend of mine gave me a ticket to see Phantom of the Opera. This was my Christmas “gift.” Of course, I was obligated to go. It was one of the longest evenings of my life.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:08 pm
The dress wins it for me.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:08 pm
At least she’s not doing the Whitney thing. More singers should go down the jazz path but you can tell not doing the Whitney yodel is hard for her.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
One rock ‘n’ roll too minay.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
She hit a clunker there.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
She’s learning that singing in the jazz style is a lot harder than singing in that Whitney style.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Yeah….I’d vote for the dress!
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Randy is WAY off.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Paula’s in her happy place.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Did they just listen to the same singing I did?
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Yeah, exactly, Simon. I agree with him and Randy. She was hot and she sold the song (such as it is) to me.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
But I still don’t know what “too minay” means.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Yes, she was good performance-wise but not vocally.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Great smile, Syesha. She’ll be my new eye candy from now on.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:12 pm
So are you and I on the same page re: Broadway musicals? It seems so after reading your blog.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:13 pm
She keeps wearing outfits like that and I’ll forget Kristy real soon.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Yeah…buncha vacuous crap.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:14 pm
A couple of years ago when Bob and I met Geoff and his family in New York, we had to attend a Broadway musical–of Geoff and Karen’s choice. It was Mama Mia with the music of Abba. On the way our taxi passed the Beacon Theatre and Bob Dylan was performing. I nearly cried knowing I was missing Dylan for ABBA!!!
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Back in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, Broadway produced a lot of good music. After that, well, it sucked.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
You didn’t miss much.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Years ago I saw Les Miserables on Broadway. I know it was a hit and everybody in the world loved it. Well, everyone except me. I was so f–ing bored. What an overrated bunch of b.s. And I cannot remember one song from that show (which is probably a good thing).
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:16 pm
We’ll get this one over with. It was one I feared would happen tonight.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Yeah, I love Bernstein’s West Side Story (most of it). And there’s some good tunes from Rogers and Hammerstein, and of course, the older stuff. Then guys like Weber came along…end of story.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
I think I liked A Chorus Line because of the dancing.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Well, that HAD to do this one. Jason’s actually probably the best one to do this. The teen hearthrob thing and all. All those breathy sighs.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Jason is boring me.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:18 pm
I didn’t see A Chorus Line. I loved the dancing in West Side Story and I regret I never saw it onstage, just the film version.
The Jets are in gear!
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:19 pm
I think that was utterly cruise ship.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:19 pm
It wasn’t terrible but it wasn’t too good either.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Paula loved it, though, Randy.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Can a female be a “balladeer?”
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
I just looked it up and I guess they can.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Magic lead Toronto, 37-26. Take THAT, Alex English!
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Simon is hilarious!
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:21 pm
You sure it isn’t a “balladette”?
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:21 pm
But you’ve got to admit, my meeting and talking with Alex English was pretty damn cool.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Yes, and you didn’t even ask him for his autograph.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Let’s get Brooke over with.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Maybe Carly will take on Evita…or I Don’t Know How to Love Him.
Remember the musical Godspell? Another bad one.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I don’t do the autograph thing. Well, I did once when I met Chris Issak.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I was thinking that Carly would do Evita. She thinks she’s Madonna.
Hair…now that one had some music.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I got Pat Schroeder’s autograph when she signed her Visa slip. (:
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Hmmm if you do the (: backward, it doesn’t make a
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:25 pm
And Pat Schroeder annoys me.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:25 pm
You know, I liked some of the music from Hair. Three Dog Night did a good cover of People Can be Hard. Then there’s the very trippy Good Morning Starshine which pop singer Oliver crooned. I like those songs.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:26 pm
That’s “Easy to be Hard”
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:26 pm
She lives in Celebration now and heads up the Publishers Assoc. of America.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Yeah, Easy to be Hard. I knew that didn’t sound right
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Oh, hell…Brooke is going to get emotionally involved with the song again.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
This is from Evita.
Did you see the movie with Madonna. Now that was a piece of s–t.
And Madonna can’t sing.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Isn’t this the second time she’s done that?
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:28 pm
I think she’ll sell this pretty well. She’s a better singer than Madonna.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Altogether a major disaster…Paula will give her great credit for re-starting the song…but it lost the audience. We’re easily confused, you know.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I really don’t like this song, no matter who sings it.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I just want it to be over with.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:30 pm
The pain is over.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Brooke just has too many things happening to her. Every week it’s something.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Paula draws a blank.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Ooooh, Paula said something negative!
Tough love, Simon.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Paula was right but at the same time, it did make it more dramatic.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Actually, I agree with Simon.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Maybe Brooke has a personality disorder. Or maybe she’s just a drama queen.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Brooke has a silly butterfly dress.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Yeah, it’s a dumb dress.
Having a snack tonight?
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
The Raptors are coming back. It’s 51-46.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:35 pm
I just had dinner.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:35 pm
What did you have for dinner?
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:35 pm
I had half of a chicken sub from Subway.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:36 pm
A pre-packaged NutriSystem salisbury steak and mushroom gravy over rice.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:36 pm
How was it?
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Not half bad, in fact.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:37 pm
When are you coming for lunch again?
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:37 pm
It’s a break from their usual red-sauce stuff.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Oh this guy will clean up with it.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:38 pm
I haven’t booked a day. I have a urologist appointment next Tuesday, so I’ll be in the neighborhood.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:38 pm
He’s great with the 11 year-olds. My friend Susan in Vermont has vowed to give up American Idol if the kid wins.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Math Guy gave his final exam today. School is over once he grades the tests!
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I’ll send him an email about Tuesday, or you can just ask him if that works.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 pm
This is a cake walk for this guy.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Yes, I’ll ask him.
He’s got the girl vote, most def.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I’m not into this. He’s doing nothing for me.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:41 pm
From the wire: “PA vote too close to call.”
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Yeah, boring stuff.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Crappy song. I don’t think it helped him or hurt him.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
He’s technically good but boring.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
From the O’Rena: Magic 55, Raptors 50.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
I agree wholeheartedly with Simon. Blahhh.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Carly….I’m taking bets: Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina or I Don’t Know How to Love Him? Or Music of the Night?
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Where’s the secret sex house? I wanna see Fox 35 News at 10 with that funny looking blonde.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:45 pm
I Don’t Know How to Love Him.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:46 pm
What’s the Rocker Guy gonna do? HE should do Don’t Cry for Me…that would be interesting.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:47 pm
But Don’t Cry is kind of a Carly song so that might be the one for her.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:47 pm
It’s Magic 59, Raptors 57, at the half. Not exactly what I would call playoffs defense!
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Wouldn’t have guessed this one…but then the show has had a sort of Jesus theme this season.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:48 pm
This is a Passover song. It’s traditionally sung by the Hasidim after the Seder.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Finally, she’s showing me something.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:49 pm
I could do without the band guy getting into the act.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:50 pm
This is also the most relaxed I’ve seen her.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Yeah, Carly’s always been the best of the women. She’s just picked dumbass songs. She needed Lord Lloyd-Webber to fix her ass and pick for her.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Too much yelling over the band.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Yeah, that was good, from this old Turkey’s perspective.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Yeah, Weber did her a favor.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:52 pm
It was MY favorite performance of the night, Simon. Who else is memorable?
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Haha!
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:52 pm
It was the most spirited (pun intended).
(:
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:53 pm
NBC: “Clinton Wins PA Primary.”
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Turkey to NBC: No shit, Sherlock!
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Who the hell was THAT? Ricki Lake?
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:55 pm
I thought you dug Syesha’s performance.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Well, someone had to sing this song.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Didn’t Weber get into some romantic and/or sexual trouble at some point?
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:56 pm
He’s going to do Music of the Night? Straight?
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Was Lord Weber flirting with David?
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:57 pm
He was married to Sarah Brightman for a while. I don’t know under what circumstances they parted.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:57 pm
I hate this already. It sounds like he’s doing it straight. Come on, dude, turn this into a hip-hop moment.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:58 pm
I think this is a clunker for him.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Weber and Brightman made a weird looking couple.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:58 pm
He hit the high note. And he articulates the soft passages. Hmmm…I didn’t think I’d like this but I think I do.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Man, he’s slowed this down and made it even worse than it should be.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:59 pm
David and violins are strange bedfellows, but he did a credible job, IMHO.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Paula has seen his “instrument”?
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I didn’t dig it. IMHO it was not the bomb.
Thank you, Simon.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Turkey agrees with Simon.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I think we both know that Brooke is gone this week.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Jason is also in trouble.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:01 pm
I place them in this order for tonight: Carly, Syesha, David & David
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Brooke, get started on your packing tonight.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Jason or Brooke must go. She fucked up, so it’ll probably be she.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I’m back to the Magic game. See you tomorrow!
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 pm
We’ll find out tomorrow night. I predict Brooke but I’ve been wrong a lot lately.
See you on the morrow.