Evan and I decided to make signs and dress in green in order to:
A. Properly celebrate St. Patty's Day.
B. Get noticed by our favorite performer/judge.
and
C. Get on TV.
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Still can't get over how much Evan looks like Bobby.
We got to CBS, where the show is being filmed, and the line was insane. Outside, and around the block.
Happily I brought my cripplewheels and we got to skip all that nonsense and go in through the friends and family/handicapped entrance.
And, because I'm "unable to do stairs", we pretty much sat in front. 2nd row left.
Right behind all the families of the contestants.
It was country night. And everyone sounded AMAZING live.
Also, the stage is ENORMOUS.
They only ever show the bottom half on TV because the band sits in the top half.
The cheering and loud music really helps to hide a bad performance, because later on when we watched it back on West Coast feed, we definitely noticed some not-awesomeness that was not apparent during the live taping.
During commercial breaks, Simon turned and waved and blew kisses at us constantly. He really liked our poster.
They also had a little audience wrangler who keeps everyone's energy up by being kind of funny, kind of douchey, bringing people on stage to sing (Lil Rounds's sister below), and passing out awesome free stuff.
Stupid Evan almost won an iPod Touch when he claimed to be "The Biggest Country Music Fan EVER." But when asked to name three Randy Travis songs (Randy was the mentor that night) he totally failed to name even one.
Randy was not pleased.
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After the taping, we got a special performance by Carrie Underwood and Randy Travis.
Evan really was the biggest country music fan though, and knew like every song.
When I got home, we were sitting on the couch when Eric called me.
He was with the kids at their Bel Air mansion and he put Kris on the line!
So cool!
Kinda awkward.
But so cool!
After we chatted, Eric came back on and said he had a "huge favor" to ask of me.
He had two tickets for tomorrow's show that he couldn't get rid of.
Looks like we're going back for the results show!
So awesome.
AND...we were all over the telecast!
I think for the results show I'll bring a big "DKHeadshots.com"sign.
30 million people...there's gotta be a headshot client or two in there somewhere...
Two questions (and forgive my American Idol cluelessness):
ReplyDelete1.) when does it air? (Or was it live?)
and
2.) You should totally do headshots of my adorable daughters. (They ARE adorable, are they not?!)
And, as much as I hate this gimpy stuff, I DO love being let into shows and stuff. We went to Kat's performance through the backstage area, coming out ON STAGE! Had I been able to do more than hobble, I might have done a dance before finding a seat!
Carol (fellow Kripple)