A Brief Review of Mon. Sept.28 - Dancing with the Stars - Season 21 - ABC.

      The viewers and fans of Dancing with the Stars had a big surprise in terms of the eliminations at the end of the two hours which at times "drag" - but sometimes - people wait for the end of the show's eliminations instead of changing the channel. Kim Zolciak - a voluptuous blonde who was partnered with an outstanding dance professional Tony Devaloni - unfortunately - suffered a mild stroke at the age of 37; thank God - she will be all right - but since that couple got eliminated by default - nobody else was sent home this week.
     Lots of people were looking forward to Gary Busey finally leaving the show - according to the posts on the Facebook forum by DWTS space. He - however - surprised everybody by dancing a passable Tango with Anna Trebunskaya - his fabulous professional dancing partner. They both looked hilarious as Gomez and Morticia from "Addams Family" since the Monday night show presented the musical themes from popular TV shows.
     Tamar Braxton and Val Schmerkovski performed a terrific Tango from "Mad Men" - an advertising industry - "glorified" - soap opera which ran for many seasons until it totally ran out of steam. While we are on the subject of Tango - Alek Scarlatos and his professional partner - a good dancer named Lindsay - did a very entertaining, vampire Tango from "True Bloods".  Alek enjoys his big hero status everywhere - all over the place - and deservedly so since he and his two friends saved a lot of lives - recently - after they subdued a terrorist on an express train to Paris, France. 
       I - and several of my friends who do the entertainment reviewing - for a living - all agree that Alek Scarlatos also dances well - in addition to earning his status of an "internationally well liked - hero/role model." However as far as his dancing goes - his big boned structure distracts a bit from his dance moves. Everybody who watches DWTS remembers the 2011 champion - an ex-Pittsburgh Steeler - Hines Ward - who had a similar challenge - namely - while executing flawlessly elegant dance moves - since his massive bone structure - was getting in the way - a bit.
       Overall - tonight's show was entertaining enough so nobody switched the channel - while ABC keeps promoting the Muppets show - as if their last bottom line depended on its success.   

       One dance number - however - did not impress several of our professional reviewers - at all. Mark Ballas and his partner Alexa danced a piece from "Breaking Bad" - a popular TV drama about a teacher who "freaked out" and started to manufacture drugs in his make-shift lab thus the dancers' costumes consisted of yellow, ugly looking, hazmat (short for hazardous materials - explanation for our overseas audiences) - protective "skivvies" totally covering the dancers' bodies - with the music sounding bland and the dance moves' choreography - not looking like a good dancing at all. We couldn't believe how higly the judges praised that dance - while they scored that lame number - also - unusually high - according to many viewers expressing those kinds of views not only on YouTube's various forums but also - on the Facebook space by DWTS website.  Furthermore -the judges kept emphasizing the "finally achieved - connection" between Mark Ballas and Alexa as if their respective, massive costumes covering their entire bodies were somehow conducive to that purported "connection".                                      

       Alexa appeared surprised at first - at the judges' unusual reaction - but then she went along with them. That girl knows exactly which side of her bread slice gets - buttered.
      At any rate - don't forget to watch next Monday Oct. 5 - show and have a great week! As always - click here for our sparkling and provocative - review - next week!
    Coyright@L.Hadley and Associates - 2024
    

Insert of a Brief Review of an Evening of Russian Poetry, Songs and other Audiences' Favorite performance pieces - New Light Temple - Squirrel Hill, Pa. 15217.

      Pittsburgh has about ten thousand Russian speaking inhabitants - most of whom live close to Squirrel Hill and most are Jewish but some are non-Jewish Ukrainians and some other people from the ex-Soviet Union Asian republics.
      Squirrel Hill's New Light Temple with its decent acoustics and brightly colored stained glassed windows makes a pleasant, small concert hall. The M.C introduced each performer in a professional manner as he gave a brief summation of most performed pieces. Russia and Soviet Union has always been an enormous source of great talents in all artistic endeavors.
      The first couple of songs of the evening were Russian romances - fashioned on the French genre - chanson. The lady performer's mezzo soprano sounded professional but the accompanying piano player did a fine job since she enhanced the singer rather than overpower her.
      Rita Rostyashevskaya - skillfully and easily delivered a couple famous "oretki" an artistic form consisting of his verses accompanied by his music since Alexander Vertinsky - a very well known, versatile artist - specialized in that form. He is famous till today even if somewhat controversial - nevertheless Vertinsky is widely performed in Russia and abroad - mainly in the Russian emigrees' circles.
      A big, husky vocalist - a strong tenor - Lev Zanderberg - sang three classic pieces widely performed in Russia, Eastern Europe and even in the lower East side of Jewish New York - since they were made famous by a legendary Soviet band leader - Leonid Utesev - so "Bublitchki", "Papirosen" and the internationally famous, huge hit - "Sierdtse" or "My Heart" - a Tango sounded very familiar to the audience; my mother always loved "Serdse" Tango and sang it to me many times when I was a child. I like the way Mr. Zandenberg made the audience sing along. Many Russian performers make the audience participate just like Mr. Zanenberg does - since they exude a special spirit of fun.
     The internationally well known poetry of Anna Akhmatova - a famous Russian poet - sounded terrific when read by Rita Rostashevskaya.
     A young debutante Aria Pauzulina - a blond haired beauty - performed a couple of songs with a great deal of energy. The first one was a famous Claudia Shulzenko's all time favorite - a magnificent waltz with the second number - a Tango which sounded as if taken from famous Lubov Uspenskaya's repertoire. Pauzulina's youthful enthusiasm - more than makes up for her need to train her voice a bit more and she could also use more skill in phrazing - necessary to smoothly deliver lyrics - nevertheless she shows a lot of promise since her love for performing - comes through to the audience.
     An M.C, Lev Zandenberg and another older actor - performed a fragment of a new play which will have a premiere on Dec. 20 - 2015 at the Squirrel Hill - J.C.C. The play deals with Russia's older generation's conflict with the younger people shown through the prism of the deeply changing Russia - from the Soviet Union's dictatorial order into the challenging, dangerous freedoms of the new Russia - rife with many conflicting - at times dangerous - nationalistic factions.
    In a nutshell - the evening was a lot of fun so look forward to some more reviews of this talented, cabaret style group of performers.

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The Studio Audience is Unhappy with the Second Eliminations on Tues. Sept.22-15..

           We will start this conclusion from the end and move around the Mon.21 and Tues.22 - respective shows - in a zigzag fashion which should be fun. While most viewers expected Gary Busey to be eliminated - including him - we had a surprise of gigantic proportion when Victor Espinoza - a famous Mexican jockey sporting a charming, sparkling personality - got canned at the end of Sept. 22 - 15 - show. He danced a super good rhumba with his professional partner - Karina Smirnoff who  looked and danced great - even if her profoundly deeply cut dress left almost nothing to imagination. People - in the audience booed for quite a while - and similar sentiments were expressed in the comments by DWTS forum - in Facebook. Gary Busey should have been sent home instead of Victor Espinoza.
           While Monday session moved fast with Alexa Panageva dancing a lightning fast - salsa with a champion Mark Ballas - which stood out - notwithstanding Alexa's heavy facial make up to make a look like a cat/panther. People remember from the eighties how the musical "Cats" had everybody on every stages or screen in the U.S. wearing cats' make up and cats' costumes with the music from that show played so much that all that was coming out of peoples' ears for a long time.
          The Tues. Sept. 22 show had too many stupid props which didn't make much sense like the huge swords Gary Busey and Anna Portuanskaya - brandished while their Paso Double - set to Tchaikovsky's - "1812 Overture" - didn't make much sense - as well.
         On Tues. Sept. 22 - Carrie Ann Inaba - a glamorous, famous, long time judge - wore an adorable, red dress - however Mon. Sept. 21 - she could look a lot more elegant if she wore a stylish piece of garment - instead of sitting there half-naked. Even a beautiful woman like her - looks much better if she dresses accordingly. Only tens of millions of people from everywhere are watching this show.
         Don't forget to watch Mon. Sept. 28 and Tues. Sept. 29 - shows and click here for our popular Review and the Brief Conclusion on Mon. Sept. 28 and Wends. Sept. 30 - respectively.
    
     Have a great week everybody!

Copyrigh@L.Hadley and Associates 2019

Dancing with the Stars - Mon. Sept. 21 - 15 - Season 21 - First Eliminations - ABC Network.

       All the fanatics and fans of Dancing with the Stars - are waiting for the first eliminations since last week - Mon. Sept. 14 - nobody was "canned" so the Tues. Sept. 15 - the viewers endured the longest re-cap show - known to mankind - full of lousy dancing by some dancers who urgently needed be sent home. Normally some are eliminated during the first two sessions of this - enormously popular - ballroom dancing - competitions.
      We are predicting the following eliminations line up - 1. Gary Busey 2. Kim - a voluptuous partner of the outstanding dance professional - Tony Devaloni 3. Paula Dean.  4. Chaka Khan. All those above mentioned celebrities - may have tons of awards of every conceivable kind to their names - however - unfortunately - their ballroom dancing samples - leave a lot to be desired.
     Get ready to watch tonight and tomorrow night. Keep an eye on the judges as well. We will give a conclusion of the results - on Wends. Sept. 23 - 15 - which will comment on Mon. 21 and Tues. 22 - 15 - respectively.
     Have fun tonight and tomorrow!
     Don't forget to click here on Wends. 23 - 15 for the smoldering conclusion of Mon. and Tues. - shows!
     Happy fall - to all!

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Dancing with the Stars started season 21 with a huge Bang - not necessarily all that Dazzling! A Quick Review of the recap show - Tues. Sept. 15 - 2015.

     All the fanatics of Ballroom dancing and dancing in general - always expect the new season of Dancing with the Stars to bring some new excitement. As far as the judges go - this season - Len Goodman was not contracted since the show - probably - wants to attract younger audiences. So You Think You Can Dance - dance show also tried to grab all the youngsters this 12th Season which just ended - however - according to ratings - that strategy - backfired. They not only didn't get any more youngsters than they usually get - but a lot of viewers of diverse ages - expressed their big distaste for the new, youth oriented format - Stage vs. Street.
      Last night's show of DWTS - had some confusing moments - mainly connected with Gary Busey and his professional partner - Anna Tribunskaya who was doing all the fancy dancing while Gary Busey - unfortunately - came out looking grotesquely - unreal. We couldn't decide is he was slightly drunk or stoned. Either way - he didn't present to millions of people watching that popular show - any positive or attractive aspects of his persona.
      Tom Bergeron - one of the long time M.C's couldn't hide his slight sarcasm towards Mr. Busey - which was only mildly funny. Speaking of the MC's - Erin Andrews - the famous lady sportscaster - the other MC - needs to infuse a little more pep into her presentations. Cat Deeley - the famous Mistress of Ceremonies on So You Think You Can Dance - has received a lot of negative comments at the beginning of the season - regarding her exaggerated, fast and hyper - presentations - so she toned down and started to sound much better - even if her various types of clothing articles and humongous high heels - could be - in a better taste - as well. Erin - however - needs to get some life into her gig since during the last night's show she appeared slow.
      Carrie Ann Inaba - a long time judge - an enormously beautiful dancer/choreographer - might - probably - subdue her excessive admiration for young male dancers since we all saw how the viewers poured a stream of mean-spirited comments towards Paula Abdul - a dancer/choreographer, an ex-judge on So You Think You Can Dance - when she made tons of "sweet eyes" - as if the TV cameras didn't broadcast it all over the "world" - towards  some divinely handsome, young male dancers.
       We need to mention a famous, long time Dancing with the Stars - judge Bruno Tonioli - a famous dancer/choreographer - a handsome, knowledgeable authority on dancing - whose humorous, "on target" - comments - delivered in sexy, Italian accented - but excellent English - are most of the time - fun and informative. He looks the same way for the last ten years. Perhaps some discreet doses of facial Botox keep him eternally young looking?
      At any rate - watch the next Monday and Tuesday - Sept. 21 and 22 - 15 - respectively - since tons of dancers will be eliminated - so don't forget to click here for a brief review.

      Have a great week - officially the last week of summer and the beginning of fall!

      Copyright@L.Hadley and Associates - 2023

A Conclusion Review to the Finals of Season 12 - Episode 15 - So You Think You Can Dance - Fox Network - Sept. 14 - 15.

    Last night - all the loyal viewers of the finals of the season 12 - SYTYCD - had some good news and some bad news. Let's start from the bad news to get it out of the way - first. 
    1. Hailee Payne's make up looked massively washed out and her hair with the phony looking braid attested to the fact that the make-up person for the show - should not be nominated for any TV excellence awards anytime soon. It's a shame since Hailee had a good chance to be a top contender to win the coveted title "America's Most Favorite Dancer" and half a million dollars.
   2. The executive producer keeps talking about the Emmy awards garnered by different talents associated with SYTYCD - way too much - since the new format - appears to be extremely controversial.
   3. The show decided to favor - Gaby Diaz (a good dancer) - this year's winner; Congrats! We all know that she will have a good chemistry with a megastar - Jennifer Lopez in the coming up soon - Las Vegas Extravaganza.
    The good news - ladies and gents and everybody in between:
    1. The long time Mistress of Ceremonies - lovely and glamorous - Cat Deeley - finally wore a gorgeously gorgeous dress and shorter heels - while before - pretty much all during this season - she made everybody standing next to her - look like midgets - since she always wore her enormously high heels - not that she needs them so much since she appears to be very tall.
   2. The show presented clips of some glorious dancing - by the present top finalists, past champions and outside talents.
   3. Everybody seemed relaxed - the grueling season - was over - until the next summer. 
   4. The magnificently photographed clips of sexy dancers like Esav Goren and other great looking dancers looked like a lot of fun for everybody involved.
     
   Now keep watching Dancing with the Stars and keep clicking here for our sizzling and smoldering reviews. We start tomorrow - don't you dare missing our reviews!

   Copyright L.Hadley and Associates 2015
  
      

The Final Episode of Season 12 - Episode 16 - Will "Crown" the Most Favorite Dancer in America" - So You Think You Can Dance - Fox Broadcasting.

     Tomorrow night - "The Most Favorite Dancer in America" will be "crowned" - they will collect a million dollars and a spotlight next to - hyped to the max -  legandary Jennifer Lopez in the upcoming Las Vegas Extravaganza - full of Hoopla of every imaginable kind. 
     Tomorrow night's - last episode 17 of SYTYCD will be the last show for the season - so look for our Review of the Final Conclusion to season 12 appearing on Tues. Sept. 15 - 15.
     The whole season 12 progressed in a tumultuous mode since it was a first big departure from the steady format which the show kept for the past eleven seasons. That drastic change caused a lot of people to express - tons of disapproving comments placed in a forum next to Facebook spot of SYTYCD.
    "Dancing with the Stars" starts Monday as well - Sept. 14 - but we will give you a smoldering review on Wedns. Sept. 16 - 15 since we will have to watch Tues. Episode of DWTS. Don't forget to click here extra time during this crazy week as if those two shows could not coordinate their important events.

      To all our Jewish friends - we wish a Happy and Healthy New Year - 5776!

      Have fun watching the final of SYTYCD - tomorrow night!

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A Brief Conclusion of a Review of Episode 15 - So You Think You Can Dance - Fox Broadcasting - Season 12 - Mon. Sept. 7 - 8pm EST.

      Last night's most dance performances choreographed to the main strengths of the four finalists - received a mixed reactions from the viewers - as they expressed their opinions on the SYTYCD forum by their Facebook's space.
    One viewer asked a rhetorical question regarding the issue with the top finalists performing routines in the styles which were their specialty while Jim Nowakowski - a phenomenal ballet dancer - had to excel in the genres which were not his main style. The prevailing voices express a disappointment that Jim didn't make finals while Virgil did - he is also a fine dancer but whose over all dancing skills are not as advanced as those of Jim's executing of diverse dancing styles.
    At any rate - the four finalists appear enormously talented - so it's not fair that only one will be chosen. Why couldn't the judges/producers name two finalists - since they came up with this new for this season, controversial concept - Stage Vs. Street?
    Next week - the one "most popular dancer in the U.S and the rest of the world" will be "crowned" - He or she will receive one million dollars and a dancing part next to a legendary Jennifer Lopez - in her soon coming up - hyped to the max - Las Vegas Extravaganza.
    Don't forget not to skip the finals on Mon. Sept. 14 - 2015 and watch for our sizzling review! Have a great week!

     Copyright@L.Hadley and Associates - 2024
   

A Short Review of the Finals of So You Think You Dan Dance - Fox Broadcasting - Episode 15 - Season 12 - Sept. 7 - 2015.

      All the numerous and loyal fans of SYTYCD "reality" dance show are anxiously expecting tonight's finals. The viewers widely expressed their preferences regarding the judging system, the voting  and other factors connected with the drastic departure - in this season - from the established model of this popular show - held steady for the past eleven seasons. The public forum of the show by their Facebook space reflects the views of mostly - decently - educated Americans of various ages. We could unscientifically call that forum a snapshot of sorts of the United States' viewers - even if it's hard to imagine a lot of blue collar workers liking the dance show - but anything is possible.
     Before the finals - the contestants go through harsh eliminations with the judges weighing in. During this season - several contestants aroused a lot of adulation coupled with virulent hatred - a phenomenon familiar to all the great movie stars. Public forums present at times a danger that a well sounding - "closet" lunatic - will cause a big, "lynching" mob of irrational voices - to release its abhorrent torrent of hate.
      That was the case with an extremely good looking, bold and outspoken - Israeli contestant named Asaf Goren - a phenomenal break dancer - who aroused a lot of strong feelings of extreme kinds. After the "shower" of hatred - tons of support of all sorts - poured in. Only in America - folks.
      Tonight's finals are ready for the proverbial "pendulum" swing the other way in terms of a cute female dancer - Jaja - a talented foreigner - ready to be voted "the most popular dancer" in America. That title does not mean the best or the most versatile - which might be decided by the judges - but America votes. So they tell us.
      At any rate - watch the finals tonight and don't forget to click here for the short review of the conclusion to the finals. Have fun and have a great week - the Labor Day one - which marks the end of the summer - so the glorious fall could finally - arrive!

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A Brief Conclusion of Episode 14 - Season 12 - So You Think You Can Dance - Fox Broadcasting - Mon. Aug. 31 - 15 - Show.

       After watching the Mon. Aug.31 - Episode 14 - So You Think You Can You Can Dance - we came to conclusion that the numerous fans of this show received some good news and a bad news. Let's start from the bad news: Jim Nowakowski - got eliminated to most people's surprise - a virtuoso ballet dancer who could also more than hold his own in a hot Samba with a partner - a world class ballroom dancer Anya - who easily executed most advanced Samba steps.
       The public forum of SYTYCD space by Facebook simply buzzes with the viewer's various expressions of disappointment regarding this development. One viewer accurately observed that even though Jim has had to have received a lot more votes than Virgil who somehow got into the finals - a fine dancer but whose talents lend themselves a lot more towards the Broadway stage than to an American Ballet Company's - hiring/artistic director's office - still - the new format has to be partially to blame for Jim's big hurdle.  We will not even mention the fact that the judges/producers frequently unfairly picked on Jim - while they generously passed - other dancers' - mistakes.
       The good news - however - relates to Hailee - a gorgeous dancer with tons of talent and star qualities - who made it to the finals after the judges/producers - at first - frequently - "sniffed down their noses" with their biased criticisms of her dancing - while - again - they praised to "no end" some other - only adequately good - dancers.

      At any rate - don't forget to watch the finals on Mon. Sept. 7 and have a great Labor Day - everybody!

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