Thirty Leaving Las Vegas

Thirty Leaving Las Vegas… in Tears by Roxanne McDonald

The top 20 are determined, while the remaining thirty leave defeated, disappointed, or collapsed in exhausted heaps.

No, wait, that’s a top 20 finalist, collapsing…before she even knows the results of her dance for her life performances.

That’s Faina, who, it turns out, had collapsed from

dehydration. You may not be eating much, girl, but at least drink something!

Champagne, for starters.

Each of the fifty remaining dancers, also mostly exhausted, worn out, and occasionally complaining, tries one more time with a solo and style of his or her choice—to impress the judges.

A big group is called onstage, and dismissed—thanked for all their hard work, Lynn Burt, Talia Marina, Olivia Usey, Jeff Gonzalez, Colette Williams, Anthony Bryan, Jackie Ford, and Kalen Gray are dismissed.

Kevin Hunt is also called up onstage, as the first single…to be told no go.

Then there’s the token nasty contestant all we bloggers will be getting good print time with: Danny Tidwell. He is good but cocky. He is adopted brother to last season’s runner up, Travis W.. And he is so smug that after the judges tell him he has a talent but a problem—an ego problem—he just shrugs off the stage ungratefully, inciting Shane’s instant regret. Shane says he “just walked away like he was god’s gift to the world.� Nigel has lectured Danny on having the

opportunity to be one of the best of the best, and now just placates Shae with some comment about the “journey� that is the show and how it will be interesting to watch. Yep. That’s the ticket right there. Too bad the Lindy Hopper(s) couldn’t have taken Danny Do-it-up’s place. As Mia said, he has a reputation of brilliance that he is not living up to. The Lindy Hoppers were living up more than well.

Okay, so rather than rag on the decisions by the judges (or complain that we don’t get to vote yet—probably good, as you know we take personality into account), I will just go into what the long hour of recapping of rejections misplaced (that really really pretty Heather went bye-bye, for example) and acceptance confirmed resulted in…and maybe plug in a little comment here and there:

The Top 10 Boys
Cedric (the Sweet) Gardner
Danny (aka Vanity Dan) Tidwell
Dominic “D-Trix� with the B-trix Sandoval
Hokuto “Hok� (Hok the Humble) Konishi
Perfect Ricky Palomino
Smiling Jesus Solorio
Jimmy Arguello
Kameron Bink
Neil Haskell
Pleasant Pasha Kovalev

The Top 10 Girls

Anya the Amazing Garnis
Ashlee the Hottee Langas
Fainting Faina Savich
Jamie Goodwin
Just-oiled Jessi Peralta
Lacey with a lot to live up to Schwimmer
Lauren the Lovely “Misha� Gottlieb
Sabra Johnson
Sara Von in da house Gillern
Shauna Noland

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