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Day 4 - Part 4
As described in the last chapter, Lauren and I returned from our quick ride on the Tower of Terror elevators and rejoined the rest of the family at the doors to enter American Idol, where tonight's performance would be "PChef Idol". There were a few television screens hanging from the ceiling with the American Idol logo displayed, and I took a picture knowing full well that I’d want to put it in my trip report.
Then a cameraman and an interviewer-guy came out to shoot some footage to be used later in the show. They interviewed a little boy who provided some appropriately cute comment that I can’t remember now. Then the interviewer told the crowd that one of the contestant’s names is someone-or-other and on the count of three he wanted us all to yell, “We love you someone-or-other!” and scream “Wooo!”. We, like good sheep, followed directions and were filmed screaming in support of someone-or-other. (I think that’s how a certain Vice Presidential candidate got her start too, but I digress.) I figured that they would ask us to do the same thing for the other contestants, but no, after they got that footage they went back inside.
I mentioned in the previous chapter that the husband of one of Judy’s down-line directors was going to be in the show. While Lauren and I were off doing Tower of Terror, Judy saw the wife of this guy and she (the wife) was disappointed that she didn’t have a better camera, so Judy told her that I had a good camera and would be happy to take lots of pictures. So, now I had a mission, as if I needed any more motivation than writing this trip report. Step 1: Get a good seat. Step 2: Take lots of pictures.
As the doors opened, we realized that we had a slight problem. The bad thing about being first in line at these Disney shows is that when you enter the theater you have to go all the way across, to the end of the row. Not a good seat for taking pictures. So we, kind of on purpose, hemmed and hawed over which row we wanted, and let other people go past. Then we picked a row about 4 or 5 rows from the front, moved across to the next available seats, and were pretty close to the middle. Heh, heh, heh.
I decided that I’d need to put my zoom lens on the camera for the show, but before I did, I took one last shot with the regular lens to give you a sense of what the stage looked like.
Pretty soon a guy came out to warm up the crowd. He reminded us of Spencer, Carly’s older brother on the Nickelodeon show “iCarly” (for all you folks with ‘tween-aged kids). He was pretty hilarious. He showed us how we could show our appreciation to the performers.
Somewhere in the midst of all that I took a picture of the AI sign.
Then the warm-up guy showed us how to work the voting buttons. He sat down in the front row and we could see him on the monitor. He demonstrated several techniques, such as “the hammer”, which had the elbow staying stationary as a pivot point and the index-finger coming down upon the buttons in a hammer-like fashion. Then there was “the crossover” where the left hand was used to push the buttons on the right-hand armrest, as demonstrated in this picture of the monitor.
I forget the name of the next method, but it was probably the “buddy system” or something like that, where you get your neighbor to push a button for you. The lady next to him wasn’t cooperating and wouldn’t look at him. It was a hoot.
The last thing the warm-up guy did was to pick a guy out of the crowd who was designated to stand up and yell “What’re you talkin’ about judge?!” if there was a negative review that the audience disagreed with.
Then the show started. I liked our host much better than Ryan Seacrest.
Although, she looks like a fembot in this picture (I’m talking “Bionic Woman” fembots, not “Austin Powers” fembots, just for clarity).
They showed some video of the tryouts and the cute kid outside the theater before the doors opened, but we didn’t see Marlene in the video montage. She was okay with it.
Then they brought the contestants out.
The guy we were rooting for worked the crowd when he was introduced.
And then they brought in the judges. “Paula” kind of looked like Paula, and really acted whacky, so she was good. “Simon” didn’t look a whole lot like Simon, but was good at playing the part of a jerk, so he was pretty good. The “Randy” guy had me doing double-takes. He looked and sounded like Randy; I almost thought they got the real one to appear.
This first lady sang “Colors Of The Wind” from the Disney movie, "Pocahontas".
The “Paula” judge said, “When you sing, baby angels fly out of your mouth carrying PChef corn cob knobs.” That got a big laugh from the crowd.
I don’t remember what “Simon” said exactly, but the guy in the audience had an opportunity to jump up and yell, “What’re you talkin’ about judge?!”
Then came our guy. (Get ready for a whole bunch of pictures. I was on a mission, remember?)
And they briefly showed his wife and kids on the monitor.
The music started and he tried to get the crowd into it. He sang “I Don’t Want To Be” by Gavin DeGraw.
This one’s a little blurry, but I thought it was pretty cool with the cameraman in the shot.
When he was done, it was time to hear from the judges.
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As described in the last chapter, Lauren and I returned from our quick ride on the Tower of Terror elevators and rejoined the rest of the family at the doors to enter American Idol, where tonight's performance would be "PChef Idol". There were a few television screens hanging from the ceiling with the American Idol logo displayed, and I took a picture knowing full well that I’d want to put it in my trip report.
Then a cameraman and an interviewer-guy came out to shoot some footage to be used later in the show. They interviewed a little boy who provided some appropriately cute comment that I can’t remember now. Then the interviewer told the crowd that one of the contestant’s names is someone-or-other and on the count of three he wanted us all to yell, “We love you someone-or-other!” and scream “Wooo!”. We, like good sheep, followed directions and were filmed screaming in support of someone-or-other. (I think that’s how a certain Vice Presidential candidate got her start too, but I digress.) I figured that they would ask us to do the same thing for the other contestants, but no, after they got that footage they went back inside.
I mentioned in the previous chapter that the husband of one of Judy’s down-line directors was going to be in the show. While Lauren and I were off doing Tower of Terror, Judy saw the wife of this guy and she (the wife) was disappointed that she didn’t have a better camera, so Judy told her that I had a good camera and would be happy to take lots of pictures. So, now I had a mission, as if I needed any more motivation than writing this trip report. Step 1: Get a good seat. Step 2: Take lots of pictures.
As the doors opened, we realized that we had a slight problem. The bad thing about being first in line at these Disney shows is that when you enter the theater you have to go all the way across, to the end of the row. Not a good seat for taking pictures. So we, kind of on purpose, hemmed and hawed over which row we wanted, and let other people go past. Then we picked a row about 4 or 5 rows from the front, moved across to the next available seats, and were pretty close to the middle. Heh, heh, heh.
I decided that I’d need to put my zoom lens on the camera for the show, but before I did, I took one last shot with the regular lens to give you a sense of what the stage looked like.
Pretty soon a guy came out to warm up the crowd. He reminded us of Spencer, Carly’s older brother on the Nickelodeon show “iCarly” (for all you folks with ‘tween-aged kids). He was pretty hilarious. He showed us how we could show our appreciation to the performers.
Somewhere in the midst of all that I took a picture of the AI sign.
Then the warm-up guy showed us how to work the voting buttons. He sat down in the front row and we could see him on the monitor. He demonstrated several techniques, such as “the hammer”, which had the elbow staying stationary as a pivot point and the index-finger coming down upon the buttons in a hammer-like fashion. Then there was “the crossover” where the left hand was used to push the buttons on the right-hand armrest, as demonstrated in this picture of the monitor.
I forget the name of the next method, but it was probably the “buddy system” or something like that, where you get your neighbor to push a button for you. The lady next to him wasn’t cooperating and wouldn’t look at him. It was a hoot.
The last thing the warm-up guy did was to pick a guy out of the crowd who was designated to stand up and yell “What’re you talkin’ about judge?!” if there was a negative review that the audience disagreed with.
Then the show started. I liked our host much better than Ryan Seacrest.
Although, she looks like a fembot in this picture (I’m talking “Bionic Woman” fembots, not “Austin Powers” fembots, just for clarity).
They showed some video of the tryouts and the cute kid outside the theater before the doors opened, but we didn’t see Marlene in the video montage. She was okay with it.
Then they brought the contestants out.
The guy we were rooting for worked the crowd when he was introduced.
And then they brought in the judges. “Paula” kind of looked like Paula, and really acted whacky, so she was good. “Simon” didn’t look a whole lot like Simon, but was good at playing the part of a jerk, so he was pretty good. The “Randy” guy had me doing double-takes. He looked and sounded like Randy; I almost thought they got the real one to appear.
This first lady sang “Colors Of The Wind” from the Disney movie, "Pocahontas".
The “Paula” judge said, “When you sing, baby angels fly out of your mouth carrying PChef corn cob knobs.” That got a big laugh from the crowd.
I don’t remember what “Simon” said exactly, but the guy in the audience had an opportunity to jump up and yell, “What’re you talkin’ about judge?!”
Then came our guy. (Get ready for a whole bunch of pictures. I was on a mission, remember?)
And they briefly showed his wife and kids on the monitor.
The music started and he tried to get the crowd into it. He sang “I Don’t Want To Be” by Gavin DeGraw.
This one’s a little blurry, but I thought it was pretty cool with the cameraman in the shot.
When he was done, it was time to hear from the judges.
Continued in next post
Link to next post
). I'm not a fan of American Idol at all, but you've convinced me I should try the one at DHS the next time we visit. Sorry your guy didn't win. 
How about some idea for a song ?????
