From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V6 #166 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Sunday, September 17 2006 Volume 06 : Number 166 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [chakram-refugees] duets recap ["Laconia" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:17:49 -0500 From: "Laconia" Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] duets recap Yet another excellent recap, almost as good as watching the actual show. Thanks! ************ - ----- Original Message ----- From: "KTL" To: Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 4:32 AM Subject: [chakram-refugees] duets recap > For those European buddies who haven't been able to see this yet... > > Duets week three. > > On the promo, they use Lucy singing with Kenny in a panel as they show the > faces of some of the competitors. > > Lucy is the first singer again. > > Again on the behind the scenes tape, they (and Lucy) point up that Lucy > might be a little intimidated. Lucy is SO goofy with the faces she makes. > She mentions that she'll be singing with a great diva and that the song > she has to sing is like the hardest song in the world to sing. > > Back to the hall. Lucy is walking along the front row down among the > audience and starts to sing, "The moment I wake up" settling in on the > corner of David's desk and giving him a little vamp, "Before I put on my > make-up" and I think in great surprise, "OH! IT'S. . ." and yes, as Lucy > introduces her and the diva walks out on stage I say out loud to my honey, > "Oh my god-it's Dionne Warwick!" YES! > > The audience is very excited. Lucy stands on the edge of the stage looking > up at Dionne and then turns back around to lead the audience in applauding > Dionne. > > Lucy's so humble. She's just a delight, to see how happy she is to be able > to do this. > > I like Lucy's voice in a lower register. (We find out later that David > doesn't.) > > And Lucy's right-this is a very hard song to sing. Dionne and Burt > Bacharach always collaborated on songs with these very quirky rhythms-like > this one and "Do You Know The Way To San Jose?" among others. > > Lucy and Dionne is a GREAT match! Dionne does a little dance step as she > comes across the stage to join Luce. > > They look really comfortable together. And Lucy is so joyous-she gives out > just a huge grin and bounces on her toes when they stop for a second for > one of the pauses in this staccato song. > > Oh she's good tonight-she is soooooooo good tonight. > > BEST! > > I think this is easily one of her best performances. It's up there with > the duet she did with Smokey, though they are very different in tone and > atmosphere. > > They voices blend so fine together on the final, "Youuuuuu" of the song. > > Dionne walks off and Wayne comes up to Lucy and squeals to her, "YOU GOT > TO SING WITH DIONNE WARWICK!!!" and Lucy's yowls out, "Wow!" (I THINK it's > "wow") back and slaps herself on the forehead. Then Wayne takes her to the > (Da Da Da Dum!) Judgement spot on stage. > > Who's Kristy Swanson? They show her in the audience and insert her name on > screen. > > Marie says, "I think you were a little bit timid". The audience is > outraged and lets out a big, "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" During the > booing, they take a close up shot of a big sign being held by a fan that > says, "We want a Xena movie!" Yay! Lucy sports a huge smile after the > booing. Marie jokes, "They love me". Nu-huh. Lucy was not intimidated. > Bullpucky. I think their rendition was very sophisticated and subtle. I > loved it. And so did the audience. Marie continues with "It was kind of in > your nose a little bit." And Lucy's giving her a look like "You dumb sh*t, > I just sung with Dionne Warwick-why the hell would I care what you think?" > > Wayne interrupts Marie saying, "Mr. Richard?" > > Little Richard says, "I love Lucy". GO GO RICHARD! Lucy gives him a > beaming smile. They cut to a guy waving a sign that says, "I love Lucy". > > Richard continues, "You've been in the coolant grrl, but you don't even > know the flavor." (Reviewing the tape, I hear that he actually said, > "You've been in the kool-aide-but for Little Richard, being in the coolant > wouldn't absolutely be not something he would say.) Lucy is laughing and > watching him affectionately now. He says, "You got to get out of the > rhythm and get some blues girl. And it's going to be alright for you. And > hold on-'cause I'm coming." Lucy barks out a short yelp and then gives a > very short Xena trill. > > David says, "I actually kind of liked that. I actually kind of liked your > performance." Lucy mouths out "Wow". "Out of all the singers, you have > been stuck with more genres than anybody else. You really have. And you've > really held up. You've got to ask when you're rehearsing to let you have a > higher harmony part so we can really hear you. I don't want to hear you > down low-I want to hear you where you can really sing. So tell them you > want to step it up a little bit, alright?" > > Shot of a "Lawless is Flawless" sign in the audience. > > Lucy listens with a serious face and then says, "Thank you. Will do." > > As Wayne explains that we can call and vote, Lucy spots someone in the > audience and waves to them with great excitement and then dips and arches > her back as she clenches her fists and throws her hands up in the air > while giving that little body shake people do when they're all excited. > Wayne drones on, Lucy blows a kiss to the audience, then gives them a > generic wave. And then obviously sees someone she knows again (or pretends > she does) and gives that "Hey-it's my buddy!" wave show folk do. > > The camera pans across various signs extolling Lucy's virtues as we got to > commercial. > > GREAT signs. > > I loved this duet. > > KT > ========================================================= > This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. > To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with > "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. > Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. > ========================================================= ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. 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