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8 comments

• Lily Bart says:

  Philistines!

  on July 15, 2009 at 5:48 PM
• mrmyster says:

  If you sing for philistines you have to sing
  philistine; Dorothy is smart enough to know
  that. She should have started right in with a
  mike voice, singing St Louis Woman or similar.

  on July 15, 2009 at 6:00 PM
• whatever says:

  hey!

  apologies in advance if we already knew this, but NYCO has castings posted on its website!

  on July 15, 2009 at 9:07 PM
• La Cieca says:

  Cher whatever (and others), when you’ve got a tidbit of news, La Cieca entreats you to click on the “SEND TIPS” button in the top nav bar or else to drop an email to lacieca@parterre.com. That way you can be sure that your doyenne will be able to share the news with all the cher public.

  on July 15, 2009 at 10:43 PM
• whatever says:

  mea culpa, cieca.

  has that button always been there, or is it a new feature with the new site?

  on July 16, 2009 at 12:37 AM
• Lindoro Almaviva says:

  I’m sorry, but I thought Miss Bishop had a lot better sense than that. She should have shown up with what her TRUE gimmick is: Her voice.

  on July 16, 2009 at 1:27 AM
• La Cieca says:

  Lindoro: Understand that the clip is heavily edited from the live performance. Since the point of the “story” is that Dorothy failed to make the cut, the edit kept only the moment when the crowd disapproved, the judges turned thumbs down and so forth. (I am sure this is true of any number of the rejected performers on this show, or for that matter of the ones who continue the competition, i.e., those clips are edited to highlight the best and showiest qualities of the performance.)

  on July 16, 2009 at 8:14 AM
• Gualtier M says:

  I actually attended the taping of this show at the Hammerstein Ballroom (once the fabled Hammerstein Opera House of Mary Garden et al.). Dorothy went on after 10 p.m. after an endless parade of weird and awful acts. The flash and trash factor had been exhausted and so were the judges.

  Dorothy came onstage and looked beautiful. She was forced to use an arrangement of the Bizet “Carmen” Habanera that the AGT people cooked up for her and submitted to her less than 48 hours before she went on. The opening part (not seen here) was pretty traditional opera and the audience seemed impressed. Then came the awkward and badly written transition into the disco section which Dorothy didn’t have in her voice really (the glissando is kind of rough). It wasn’t what she would have chosen, had she had a choice. The audience started to jeer and groan and Piers and the Hoff hit their “X” buzzers. Sharon Osbourne followed suit but somewhat reluctantly.

  I sensed that Sharon felt that there was talent there but the material wasn’t up to par. Sharon Osbourne also complimented Dorothy on her appearance. David Hasselhoff and Piers Morgan were more derisive saying that she looked like Batwoman and sound like a banshee or something. Piers was itching to really give it to her but Sharon made them move on.

  on July 16, 2009 at 3:14 PM