WEBVTT - misSTEPPING: A Wicked Good Recap: DWTS Week 6 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:14.240 Miss Spelling with Tory Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast. Hi everyone, 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:18.759 welcome to Misstepping. I know I'm not Toy. I sincerely apologize, 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:22.920 but I assure you I am one of Toy's closest friends. 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:25.720 My name is Easton. I am a sound engineer here 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:29.720 on Misstepping, and if you've been listening the last couple 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.599 of weeks, I have joined Tory on this adventure through 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:35.080 Dancing with the Star of season thirty four. I am 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.680 here to take over to recap Wicked Night for you. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.000 It was such a good show. I'm so excited. I 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.280 have so many thoughts to share. Before we get into 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:49.160 Wicked Night, I just want to apologize from the bottom 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.520 of my heart, from me to you. We are close friends, 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.240 and I am apologizing to you. We did not get 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:59.120 last week Dedication Night. We missed it and I'm so 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.360 sorry about that. So really quick, before we get into 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.520 the wickedness of it all, before we journey to OZ, 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.640 I just want to share a few thoughts from Dedication Night. 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.520 This is night five. My god, what an emotional night. 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:14.960 Right If you guys watch this, the the dedications were 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:19.120 so touching that I cried doing almost every single intro package. 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:22.640 It was remarkable how many tears I shed during this show. 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.760 I really enjoyed Kim Johnson as the guest host. I 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.720 thought something I really liked about her was she gave 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:33.160 like practical tips at the end of her of her judgment, 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.800 she was like for one of them, she she had 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.120 this move where's like, oh, hold a pen in your fingers, 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.600 like that will keep your hands straight as you move. 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:43.959 I thought that was like, I'm not a dancer, obviously, 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.240 but like, I thought that was really cool. I really 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:52.400 enjoyed her her style of judging. She was great. The 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.600 Robert or Win dance. I mean, what a highlight, incredible, 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.520 not a dry eye in the house, just such a 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.560 such a sweet tribute to his mother, and what an 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:02.640 incredible dance to. 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.480 The only thing I got it that I that I 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:07.200 didn't like. 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.239 I was really sad with how little attention they gave 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:15.440 my beloved Daniel Offischal and Pasha Pashakav. She brought in 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:19.080 Bill Daniels, the legendary William Daniels. He was night writer 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.200 on Or, he was kit on night Writer, he was 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.240 mister Feene. It was just cool to see him up 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.200 there and he wasn't acknowledged at all by. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.519 The judges, which was very upsetting. 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.280 But Dedication Night was so good, and then the no 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.600 elimination caught me by surprise. 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.160 I was caught completely off guard. 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.400 I thought that was a sweet move to do because 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.959 so many people had their like children there and their 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.880 their family members. I understand this is the first time 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.600 in Dance with Stars history that the dedicated the people 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.639 they're dedicating to are part of the dance. Usually it's 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.120 just they say, I'm doing this dance for you, but 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.920 this time, so many people were on the floor with them, 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:03.960 dancing incredibly by the way. I mean, Lisa and Walter 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.000 just had it, got all those moves it. It was 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.679 so cool seeing like Jordan Childs and her dad out 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.680 there and knowing like, oh, this guy probably only had 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.000 a few days to rehearse this. They all did such 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:20.880 a good job, so cool that they didn't eliminate anyone. 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.080 But also, you know, I was also like a come on, 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:28.639 let's thin the herd a little bit. Which brings us 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:34.200 to Wicked Night. This is night night six of season 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:38.360 thirty four. We have another special guest host, John m 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:43.240 chu the director of Wicked. It's joined joined the judge's table. 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.440 This man is clearly a Dancing with the Stars fan. 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.280 That is something I was really excited about. He is 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.560 ready to ready to judge. He has a lot of 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:55.760 thoughts and he's ready to promote Wicked. Tonight is sponsored 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.480 by Wicked for Good in theaters November twenty first. 0:03:58.480 --> 0:03:59.280 It's rated PG. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:05.880 I'm really excited about tonight. The opening number was so crazy, 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:10.320 just with all the every dancer participating, and when they 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:14.120 got to the judge's table, Derek Huff jumped off the 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:14.600 top of it. 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.480 I thought that he joined the dance. That was really 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:17.119 fun to see. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:22.720 I really enjoyed that opening number, and right off the bat, 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.040 I think John m Cheu just giving great energy as 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:29.080 a judge. Really excited. So let's dive in our first dance. 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.520 Scott Hoying from Pentatonics and Riley Arnold dancing to the 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:36.720 Wizard and I. 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.560 Something about these this week. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:42.039 I'm really I noticed this right off the bat in 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.760 the intro package when they're showing the practicing the rehearsal 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:51.160 from the previous week, Riley really hits the critiques that 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:55.640 they got and you can see her implementing that criticism 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.760 into how they're practicing and how they're rehearsing. I thought 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.120 that was really cool because that's something I think about 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.279 a lot when I watched the show and I see 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:08.840 the judges. I think sometimes they give very specific criticism, 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.040 sometimes it's more broad. But I'm like, how are they 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:12.920 thinking about this as they head into the next week? 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.240 Are they like taking that Like, I'm so curious how 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.040 that works. And we got a little window into that 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.719 with Riley and Scott as they prepare for their dance 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:26.400 to the Wizard and I really great dance. I thought, crazy, 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:31.040 high energy, but every single judge had a critique. 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.680 They were really going hard right off the bat. 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:39.840 Just everybody had had something to say for Scott and Riley. 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:46.280 And something else I really enjoyed was if you go 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:50.600 back and watch this when Derek is giving his critiques, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.560 there were two people behind him that didn't know that 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.720 they had to sit down at that point, and they 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.560 so they're the only ones standing and then they sit down, 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.240 they both make like a oops kind of a face, 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.960 and that was really funny to see. But you know, 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:10.240 Bruno said he he loved watching Scott let loose and 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.080 Carrie Anne. I gave them a seven as well. They're 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.479 just straight sevens across the board and Scott has a 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.040 seven seven seven tattoo on his wrist. He's really excited 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:26.200 to see a straight sevens. But yeah, they had They 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.279 had a lot of critiques from the judges. So we 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.360 shall see what happens as we move forward. And next 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:36.840 up Alex Earl and Val Schmerkowsky dancing to what is 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:42.720 this feeling? And something I like about this dance? This 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.160 dance was so good. They're so good. Alex Earl is 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.039 really coming to the front of the pack for me 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.200 in terms of the dancers I like and I think 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.000 could go all the way. I really have enjoyed her 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.000 more and more each week. But the fact that they 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.680 chose this song I really really liked for two reasons. 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:04.440 So there are there's a chatter. 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.320 Online, there are rumors, there's social media and stuff about 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:11.160 how they don't get along Alex and Val they do 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:15.200 not like each other. They did speak out and squash 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.400 those rumors. They say they like each other quite a bit. 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.120 They get along very well. They're very locked in when 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.160 it comes to the dance and comes to practicing, so 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.680 that you know, if people think they're not getting along 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.160 they're just very into the craft. 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:31.160 But this dance is about two characters. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:32.280 That don't get along, so that was kind of a 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.640 we felt like they were leaning into that about how 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.440 they just really don't like each other. They are really 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.440 great toss in this dance. I loved seeing Alex get 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.880 into the air. And also it was fun because if 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:46.680 you know this song, and if you know this part 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.800 of the Wicked movie, there's a part where they're in 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:51.920 the dance where they're like walking with a book. They're 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:53.840 stacked like, you know, kind of marching towards the camera 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.440 and doing this cool like arm movement with their textbooks. 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:00.640 And that was a huge TikTok moment earlier this year. 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.480 And so you know, Alex is like the TikTok queen, 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.280 so that was very fun to see her take on 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.560 that dance. I mean, when it got to that part 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.520 of the song, it was very traumatic for me because 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.640 I tried to do that dance on TikTok and it 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:20.480 was really really hard. But just almost straight nines for them. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:25.360 There was one. There was one eight from John m 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:29.640 Chu gave them an eight. He appreciated their storytelling, but 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.640 everyone else gave him a nine. Carrie Ann said it 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:37.840 was Alex's best dance yet. Bruto Bruto called the routine delicious. 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:42.120 We love Bruno's reactions. Really great showing from Alex Earl 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:46.920 and Val Schmurkowsky. We're moving on to another. There's so 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.240 many good people this season. My god, you guys, there's 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.720 so many good dancers, and we're hitting with another superstar, 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:57.559 Robert Irwin and Whitney Carson again. I'm really enjoying these 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:02.240 intro packages because I kind of complained a bit during 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.200 Disney Night because we didn't I like watching them practice. 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.200 I like watching them rehearse, and Disney Night we just 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.439 you know, it's like, oh cool, they're there on It's 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:11.560 a small world after all. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:12.880 But like we kind of. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:17.000 Got we didn't get our practice movements from Disney Night. 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.600 We're making up for it now. I really enjoyed watching 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.920 Robert just wipe out during this rehearsal package. It was 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:28.040 really fun seeing how he's so good and I feel 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.000 like he's one of those guys where he's just everything 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.880 comes to him easily and naturally. He's just such a 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.800 He's such a talented, good looking young man. I love 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.640 watching him struggle. It's like no, he is human. And 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.600 it also it reminds you how much work he's putting 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.680 into this. This is hard stuff to do and he 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.720 is nailing it so well. But that is just from 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.280 just hard work. This guy is practicing so hard. This 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:55.640 was such an ambitious dance. They absolutely nailed it. Just incredible. 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.840 They're right back up to the top of the leaderboard. 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.480 I think they're just really it just incredible. John m 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.640 Chew said, I know how hard it is to walk 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.080 on books, and that made me laugh. They also talked 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.559 about how this dance had a lot of book aography, 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.920 which I believe is choreography with books and not something 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:16.480 else with books, but straight nines across the board. 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.680 They loved this dance. It was so good. I really 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:22.480 loved Derek saying. 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:24.600 Hey, Alre, you got to change out your hiking boots 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:25.640 for some Broadway shoes. 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:27.160 That was funny. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.199 And also, I would like to see I like to 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:30.880 see Robert on Broadway. I think he's got a break 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:32.600 career as a dancer ahead of him after this. This 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.960 guy's got so much talent. I am just so impressed 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:40.199 with Robert Irwin. God, you know, is he gonna take 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:41.880 home the mirror Ball, I don't know. We're gonna have 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:46.880 to see. We're moving on to Whitney Levitt and Mark Ballas. 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.200 I mean, my god, just three in a row of 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.160 people that I might put money down to win this 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:57.880 whole thing. They danced to Popular, one of if not 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:02.200 the most popular, well, I mean probably define Gravity's probably 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.680 the most popular song, but but popular is up there 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:09.240 in terms of popularity when it comes to Wicked. Very 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:14.080 very excited for them to dance to Popular. They they 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.880 did such a good job. Again, I keep going back 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.880 to these intro packages from rehearsing. I really enjoyed them, 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.520 and you can see in theirs that being ahead of 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.120 the music really got to Whitney. She was really bothered 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.360 by this. But they were locked in this week. They 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:35.240 put in so much work. They did such an incredible dance. 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.800 This was one We're gonna go back and watch this 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:39.160 more multiple times. 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.679 What an incredible dance. We just loved it. 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.760 They were using props from the actual movie, which was incredible. 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:52.720 They were so so present, so locked in, just I 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:57.440 mean speechless, like like I keep saying, like Alex Earl 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:59.120 Robert or when Whitney love Those are the ones I 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.679 think that like they're going all the way. But after 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.800 seeing Whitney's dance this week, I'm like, oh, she is 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.480 winning this entire thing. She with no doubt in my 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.640 mind at this point, she and Mark are winning this 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:15.320 whole competition. John m chu said he got lost in 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.200 the dance and almost forgot he was judging. I mean, 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.840 what a great compliment from the guy that directed the movie. 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:28.160 Just incredible. He gave them a ten, and Bruno also 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:33.080 loved the routine. He gave them another ten, and Carrie 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.800 Anne said that the dance was unhinged all the right 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:39.320 ways gave them also a ten. The first tens of 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:43.079 the season. Wow, and almost straight tens across the board. 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:48.600 What a ride. It's just crazy. I mean, it was nuts. 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.520 Was something about the judging during this part though, that 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:56.120 I just really locked onto. Was somebody's mic was on 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.840 when Bruno was speaking. I think it was Juli Ann. 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:02.480 I watched this part a couple of times. It was 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.680 trying to feel what was happening, but somebody's mic was on. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.080 You can hear them just kind of making small talk 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:10.120 like they weren't like. It was really distracting, and I 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.000 felt so bad for whoever was in the control room 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:16.160 because they probably got in a lot of trouble. All right, next, 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.480 let's move on to these dancers are all so good. 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:23.720 There's another's I love them all so much, Dylan Ephron 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.520 and Daniella Ketterer. Gosh, we love Dylan and Daniella. They 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.480 are just so fun to watch. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.000 They danced too. I'm not that girl. 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.840 They're hey, they they're coming off a high. They're at 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:40.079 the top of the leaderboard. But last week I wasn't 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.720 in dedication. It was a sweet dance. I loved seeing 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:47.080 him dance with his young sister, but I wasn't that impressed. 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.280 But this time they brought it, baby, Oh, they brought 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:54.600 it great control. The spin they did was so cool, 0:13:54.920 --> 0:14:01.880 so fun, I mean truly flying, crazy spin. And they 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:05.280 have such great chemistry as dancers. I really love watching them. 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.040 They just seem like they get along so well. They're 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:12.480 having such a fun time. And during the judging portion, 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.640 Derek called dancing with Danielle as trying to dance with 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.280 a ferrari or something like that, and they all really 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.680 locked onto that metaphor. They called her the the rest 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.880 of the portion, there but a great dance. I'm really 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:32.480 impressed with them, but Carrie Anne was excited about how 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:38.200 Dylan has grown as a dancer, but also she and 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:42.040 Bruno mentioned that Dylan would lose control of the fluidity. 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:47.520 They both gave him an eight, and Derek said that 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.880 Danielle is that is that girl and gave her an 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:55.960 eight as well. Congratulations to Dylan and Danielle. They're so 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.760 fun to watch. Can't wait for next week and coming 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:03.960 up we have Andy Richter and Emma Slater so much 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:04.600 fun to watch. 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:05.480 They embody. 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.000 Andy just really embodies the spirit of this show and 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.480 we're going to get into that right after this break 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:22.840 stick around. It's misstepping. This is misstepping. I am not 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.000 Tory spelling. My name is Easton Allen. I am Tory's 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.960 sound engineer. Hold your applause, people, hold your applause. I 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.160 know it's crazy. How did they get me? How did 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.280 they free up time in my schedule to do this? 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:35.920 The world shall never know. 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:37.080 No. 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.360 I love toy so so much, and she has dearly missed. 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:41.760 I hope you're having fun with. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:45.960 Me today as we recap Wicked Night on season thirty 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.240 four Dancing with the Stars, We're going to dance right 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.800 into our next couple here, Andy Richter and Emma Slater. 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.240 Andy the dark horse for this season. We thought he 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.000 was going to go home. The first week. I was like, 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:02.840 I'm sorry, the first first elimination, it's gonna be Andy 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.000 and Corey Feldman. I'm so sorry you guys. I love 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.200 you both, but I did not think they were gonna 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.920 make it that far. We're over halfway through. We're halfway 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.240 through the season and Andy is here. 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.480 People. He is the people's princess. Everyone loves Andy Richter. 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.880 They're really voting him on because they want to see 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:22.960 how much he improves it dancing and they want to 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.400 see him go all the way. It is really fun 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.440 to watch him get more and more excited about dancing, 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:31.880 and he's just putting so much work into it. They 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.600 danced to One Short Day, and they danced a jazz 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:39.480 to One Short Day, and their costumes blew my mind. 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.680 I love their costumes so much. They were in these 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:47.800 emerald emerald colored costumes for the Emerald City. So fun 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.720 to watch them. And also they had the troop with them, 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:53.040 which I thought was really fun. They had all these 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.120 background dancers and I thought Andy did such a great 0:16:56.200 --> 0:17:00.760 job with those background dancers or know, with the troop, 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.960 I don't want to diminish them, but he did such 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.800 a good job like interacting with them, and his dance 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.240 was so good, you know, a little low energy, but 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.800 that's you know, he's an older guy. I don't want 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.000 him to have to do these crazy flips or anything. 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:21.359 But in the intro package showing them rehearse, Emma was 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.200 saying that she wanted to lean into Andy's like showmanship, 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:29.040 because he is such a he's such a performer, he's 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.119 so funny. He's got such presence and that is and 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.200 personality is an important part of jazz that I'm learning 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.240 as a non dance expert myself, but I'm learning that 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:45.080 watching this, watching this go Bruno very enthusiastic about Andy's timing. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:46.080 He gave him a seven. 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:51.880 Carry Anne also loved their energy and really loved M's choreography. 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:58.119 So great compliments from carry Anne and Derek a little rougher. 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:02.600 He called the dance fantastic and uh, something I thought 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:06.640 was funny is uh Derek gives them a six and 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:10.160 he during his comments, he was like, you know, I'd 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:11.960 love to see more, but we'll. 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.119 We'll have to we'll have to see. Okay, Like, well, 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:14.800 we'll see how goes. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.200 Buddy, Like he was like, we're You're not stick around 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:18.800 much longer. 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:19.240 Okay. 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.560 Uh, not a vote of confidence from Derek huff John 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:26.080 him chew again. This man has to hammer that Wicked 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.399 is sponsoring tonight and Wicked Foregod is coming out. And 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:31.200 so he reminds us the Wicked is all about being 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:31.760 the underdog. 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:33.200 And uh. 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:37.600 He gave Andy and Emma a seven. But they did 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:38.560 they did a good job. 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:41.120 They're really hanging in there. At this point. 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.240 I'm like, oh God, tonight might be the night though 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.320 where we might be saying goodbye to Andy. We'll have 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.320 to We'll have to wait and see what happens. You're 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:48.760 gonna have to stick around to see. 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:49.520 Uh. 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:54.520 Now we have Elaine Hendrix and Allen Burston. They danced 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:58.600 to define Gravity. How I'm so curious. I know that, 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:00.560 like Torris told us, like, they get to pick the 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:04.080 songs from a list, and obviously these are all songs 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.159 from Wicked. But I feel like everybody wanted to do 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.040 define Gravity, right. I mean, that's the song, that is 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:11.800 the song, but also it comes with a lot of 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.640 pressure because it's the song. Are they gonna be able 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.800 to nail this. Who knows, but Elaine Hendricks and Allen 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:22.879 Burston got to dance to define gravity. I've been really 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:27.520 enjoying the intro packages, but something that bothers me on. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.240 I don't know if this bothers anyone else, but this 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.080 happens every week. But like they they have these they 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:35.520 get these shots of them in the rehearsal space, and 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:39.640 they have to have the pros, in my opinion, awkwardly 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:46.200 and stiltedly say it's Wicked night. We're dancing to define gravity. 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:48.360 Like they just it does not feel natural at all, 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.040 and it drives me crazy. 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.119 I like, I almost. 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:53.720 It's just like they have to sit there on a 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:55.800 couch and just awkwardly announce what the theme of the 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:57.520 night is and it's. 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.440 How you set it up. But I don't know, get 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:01.760 me in there. 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.080 I got some transitions for that would be a lot 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:08.000 more natural, I think. Anyway, Alan reminds us it is 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:11.359 Wicked night, and uh, they were not happy about their 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.840 scores last week. We saw a lot of flashbacks to 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:19.000 Dedication Night. They were not happy with with the comments 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:23.679 they got, and we're reminded that Elaine had gotten to 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.440 a really crazy car accident a number of years ago 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.320 and has a titanium rod in her foot, in her toe, 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:34.560 and it means dancing especially very painful, very difficult. And 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.679 I knew that she was in an she had an injury, 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.439 but I was not really familiar with the extent of 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:47.560 it until now. But I mean incredible, Like she's got 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:51.320 such energy, and you can they show her just really 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:54.720 struggling during these during these rehearsals, and I am just 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:58.600 so blown away at her perseverance and how she's breaking 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:02.320 through that pain to put on this dance. What a dance. 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:05.800 Oh my god. This may have been my favorite of 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:09.840 the night. It was so incredible. They did this flying 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.359 spin thing that I thought was the coolest thing in 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:12.800 the world. 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:14.879 I loved that. It was just so nuts. 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:17.760 And then they do this move where like Alan is 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:20.760 fighting off like members of the troop. They're trying to 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:24.040 like attack them, and Elaine somehow does like a costume 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:26.760 change and gets into a rig that rises up above 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:29.040 the dance floor with this giant dress. She's wearing, the hat, 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:32.280 she's got the broom. She's Alpha Bah. I can't believe it. 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:35.680 She's she's up high she's this gigantic witch and she's 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:37.560 you know, a dance. 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:38.720 You know, you can't dance a. 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:41.040 Lot when you're in a big like special effect like that. 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:42.000 But she's dancing with. 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:45.360 Her arms and they're doing the big note from from 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:51.040 Defying Gravity. Though. It was so fun, what an incredible dance. 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:52.760 It was so great. 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:53.879 John M. 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:57.200 Chu the director of Wicked in Theaters November twenty first 0:21:57.280 --> 0:21:59.840