They Made a Mistake....

Things have been really slow lately. But It's Tuesday, so that means it's time to recap last night's episode of "Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods". This was supposed to be a very tough week- the audition centered on the very dramatic title ballad with Emmett, played by Andy Karl (WHY they didn't have Christian Borle is beyond me...). This week's episode was also makeover day. Autumn and Natalie underwent the most drastic changes since they were not blondes to begin with. Two of the original blondes (Bailey and Lauren) seemed to feel threatened by Natalie's and Autumn's makeover. This week's challenge was a photo shoot for a promo ad for the show. Natalie won (I thought her idea to stand on the books was cute, but not standout), and she got go to dinner with Andy Karl (once again, why no Christian?). Now it's audition time

Autumn was absolutely on fire last night. She nailed the song and the emotion-everything was so raw and real. Tesley even got chills! The breakthrough during rehearsal and the advice from Seth really seemed to take it's effect.

Lauren had the vocals. She absolutely rocked the song (as much as you can rock a ballad...) but the emotion was not up to par with Autumn. But then again, you have to realize she is only 18 years old.

Bailey seemed to have an off night. Every other audition, she has been great, but the seriousness of the scene seemed to throw her off. The emotion she needed to display in the song was not there until the judge's critique. 

Natalie breezed through the song, but the book part of the scene seemed very stiff. This was strange because she had been doing so well up to this point. Of course the vocals were great. Tesley even told her she had a Broadway powerhouse voice.

Rhiannon(I can never spell her name) was just mediocre. The book was decent, but her vocals were way off last night. She had the emotion in the scene, but I think her voice suffered because of that. 

The bottom 3 was what I predicted(Bailey, Natalie, and Rhiannon) but I wholly disagreed with who they sent home. Because of her poor performance in the audition, I knew they were going to send Rhiannon home. Apparently shaky vocals are preferable to a Broadway powerhouse voice, because Natalie was the one sent home. 

More to come later