Life is a cabaret for the Nancys
My spies tell me that Jessie, Jodie, Sam and the lord himself were spotted at one of Liza Minnelli’s gigs in London last week. Anyone who saw JB and the Lord on Jonathan Ross last night will know why. Liza coaches the girls tonight, well not literally, but the via the V.T as it has already happened.
It got me thinking really, as I am lucky enough to be reviewing one of Liza’s gigs on Monday night in Manchester. One of the reasons why I love this singer is that you feel when she is on stage that she is getting rid of some inner demons; she completely loses herself in the moment, just like her late mother, Judy Garland. Sure, she’s not as good as she used to be, but she still brings emotion to a song by the bowler hatful.
Now, I know that I’d Do Anything is ultimately a reality tv show, but sometimes the contestants are criticised for having “nothing behind the eyes”, “lack of depth”, or “not feeling the song.” But then you listen to them off stage and all you hear is “I have wanted this al my life!” Have they really? Since birth, all they have thought about is Nancy? It’s a very small part, why didn’t they aim higher?!
I digress, but the point I am making is that a true performer searches inside their soul to pull out a performance, in order to thrill an audience. Many of these wannabes state they have had a week from hell and they hope to put these bad times into their turn that week. ‘Week from hell’ translates into: “I was in the bottom two and I never wanna’ be there again!”
Hardly the same as being controlled by Bill Sykes or living your life in the media spotlight from an early age, like Ms Minnelli, is it?
Anyway, best of luck to all the girls. I just hope that Jodie takes Liza’s advice and doesn’t slip into Cabaret mode, after meeting the silver screen’s Sally Bowles!
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:33 am
I Hate it when people call shows like Joseph, Maria, Nancy, Come Dancing, Britains Got Talent, XFactor etc., etc. as reality shows, they are NOT reality shows - they are believe it or not ENTERTAINMENT SHOWS, especially in the latter stages, the earlier stages I cannot stand to see the dross that appear who think they have some sort of talent. You need talent to win these shows (obviously lies in the eye of the beholder as some of the past winners were horribly voted in by the very unpredicatable British voting public, who sometimes seemed to resemble the Eurovision Song Contest panel in their voting.
REALITY SHOWS are when people are subjected to basically 7/24 hours television on them and no talent is needed to be in them, at the beginning or at the end of the show, (supposedly famous seems the criteria - not talent).
Big Brother, Something or other Island, Hairdressers was one I think, and various off shoots of the same genre I would call Reality Television, very boring to watch generally, whats that about watching paint dry on the wall, I did watch a few at the beginning, then they eventually went down hill.
I suppose you could call The Apprentice, Dragons Den as reality shows as well as some of the people are brought to earth about their projects.
I suppose you would call the soaps, East Enders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale as reality shows rather than soaps, because they are not what you would generally call ENTERTAINMENT SHOWS and are nearer to what I think YOU class as Reality Shows, but they are really mini-series plays for want of a different description.
What do I mean by ENTERTAINMENT SHOWS, generally what reality shows are not, Entertainment is Music, Dancing, Singing, Comedy etc , The 2 Ronnies as an example, etc.
Please can you let me/us know what you define as the difference between Reality Shows and Entertainment Shows, or is Entertainment not in the modern descriptive vocabulary nowadays.