A few weeks before my younger son was born, I discovered this show on Fox. I was hugely pregnant and very tired. There was nothing good on TV. I was channel surfing when I caught the beginning of the first show of the second season. I admit that I started watching it as a joke. In fact I think I even called by husband in the room to laugh at the idea of it. I thought it was a bunch of random people who they were going to teach to dance. However, by the end of the episode I found myself setting up Tivo to record it the next week. As much as I was amused by the opening dances, I was very impressed with the actual dances the couples had to do and how much training and talent they had before even coming on the show. I had no idea there were so many different dance styles. In fact, I even let my boys watch the show this summer so that they could see that there is more than ballet, jazz and tap.
The Big Giraffe and I were trying to figure out what to do to celebrate our ten year anniversary this past August when we saw an ad for tickets for the Live Tour. We just knew that that would be the perfect way to celebrate so we went ahead and got them. Ever since then I joked that the audience would consist of thousands of teenagers and us. Sure enough when we were on the T, a teenager asked us for directions to the BU arena. After giving them we asked her if she was going to SYTYCD. Sure enough she was! Yep, the youth and me because you know I'm just so hip and cool like that. However, when we actually got to the arena, I noticed there were a lot of old farts people my age there. I also noticed that they were selling programs, and you just know I had to get one because like OMG!!! Joshua's picture was in there!!! My program, my 16 year old multiple personality, and my husband all found our seats and realized that everyone around us was our age and also had programs. They also looked like they were on a date night! And I thought we were so original. For our generation anyhow. I did sit next to an octogenarian.
Of course there were a lot of young people too and also a lot of people with their kids. I sort of wished that we had brought our older son. The key words being "sort of" because then it obviously wouldn't have been a date night and as much as I like exposing my children to the arts, date nights are starting to become like eclipses in that they seem to be a once in a year or two opportunity. Not wanting to be outdone by the teenagers I did the obvious thing; pulled out my Blackberry to Twitter where I was of course!
The show started, and it was very good. Our seats on the other hand were not, but we still enjoyed it. I saw all the numbers I was hoping to see. The audience was enthusiastic about everything, and it was nice to be able to yell for something other than preventing one of my kids from whacking the other one on the head or dashing across a parking lot. Intermission came, and I grabbed my Blackberry because I noticed the light was flashing. Obviously someone was sending me a personal email about my Twitter status! Bad guess! It was a text message from our babysitter saying that MIL had arrived at our house. We weren't expecting her until Friday, so needless to say we were very surprised. Not as surprised though as they both where; our sitter because she didn't know my MIL and my MIL because some woman who wasn't me opened the door to my house.
Although the awesome Samba number with Katee and Joshua and the Bollywood number, which combines traditional and modern Indian dance into a really fun-looking combination, were both in the first act, I still found the second act to be a lot better. Twitch and Katee performed their my fav number involving "the door", and we also got to see the dance with the briefcase. The octogenarian was clapping with the rest of us. During the door number, she also clapped her knees back and forth and I swear let out a few hoots and hollers.
A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: You don't have to think you can dance to enjoy So You Think You Can Dance.
Leighann said that in Chicago, Katee was injured and had to sit out several dances. Kerrington filled in the "Door" dance. Glad we both got to see Katee!
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I enjoy watching that show too.