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Post by londonmzfitz on Nov 28, 2023 11:03:50 GMT
Some hideous costumes this week. Annabelle, that yellow polka dot thing, dreadful. Ellie, the skirt part of that red dress looked so cheaply made. Layton… just vile. All three distracted me from the dancing which is presumably the last thing they’re supposed to do. Re the viewer voting share, proof yet again that people don’t like Layton for whatever reason. So given that he’s likely to be in the bottom two again who needs to be there with him to have him sent home? Agree re costumes - no comparison to the US Dancing With The Stars where the costumes are usually fabulous. I had a friend visiting whose daughter in LA is big in the professional ballroom dance world, she'd been involved in some of the choreography of their tribute to Len Goodman (it's on YouTube, worth a look, take tissues). I wish they still showed Dancing With The Stars in the UK ... I was in the local takeaway last weekend (Blackpool) and two randoms in the queue started a chat about Strictly - one said Leyton shouldn't be in Strictly because he's a trained dancer, and the other said she's been saying the same thing. I've seen similar remarks from Facebook "friends". Whereas I really want an hour or whatever of being entertained - *shudders at the memory of Anne Widdicombe being dragged around the floor by Anton ... |
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Post by ladidah on Nov 28, 2023 11:04:48 GMT
I think there is a much needed middle ground between a no-hoper like Anne W and a trained West End professional like Layton
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Post by vdcni on Nov 28, 2023 11:58:09 GMT
Contestants like Layton are great to have at the beginning at the show because they are good out of the gate and provide rare consistency.
By the end, they are still dancing well but aren't going to win because they didn't have a journey.
Occasionally you get someone with a dance background who starts well and who is also popular enough to win but it's rare. Jay is the one who comes to mind.
So why people get up in arms about dance experience I don't know. Those contestants hardly ever win and if they do it is because they have connected with the public so fair enough.
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Post by Matt on Nov 28, 2023 12:13:09 GMT
Bobby Brazier and Dianne Buswell will Salsa to 'I've Had the Time of My Life' from Dirty Dancing.
Nigel Harman and Katya Jones will dance the Charleston to 'Step in Time' from Mary Poppins.
Ellie Leach and Vito Coppola will perform a Quickstep to 'Belle' from Beauty and the Beast.
Annabel Croft and Johannes Radebe will Foxtrot to 'For Good' from Wicked.
Finally, Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin will perform a Paso Doble to 'Backstage Romance' from Moulin Rouge.
Dirty Dancing is not a musical. It’s a film with a soundtrack, and don’t bother mentioning that rubbish they had at the dominion, it’s not a musical.
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Post by karloscar on Nov 28, 2023 12:34:59 GMT
Bobby and Leyton for the dance off based on those choices. Step in Time's a crowd pleaser, For Good is a tearjerker, and Ellie and Vito as Belle and Gaston could be both sublime and hilarious judging by previous performances.
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Post by ladidah on Nov 28, 2023 14:30:23 GMT
Bobbie has the worst by far!
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Post by oxfordsimon on Nov 28, 2023 14:47:15 GMT
If they can pull off the platter lift, B&D might have a wow moment
Nigel needs to have a clean routine again to stand a chance of surviving
Fingers crossed for him
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2023 17:08:49 GMT
Step in Time is a real crowd pleaser but some many lonely older women like Time of My Life so those two could canvcel each other out. Layton and Nikita will need to be technically sound with their Passo.
For showdances I think Ellie and Layton would be best but what JoJo and Katya could do with Annabel and Nigel resperctively would be a close call.
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Post by justfran on Nov 28, 2023 19:02:54 GMT
some many lonely older women like Time of My Life What a charming generalisation. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Nov 28, 2023 21:39:33 GMT
Backstage Romance is a compilation number
"Bad Romance"
"Tainted Love"
"Seven Nation Army"
"Toxic"
"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
They can't feature all of that in 90 seconds
So which song will they actually feature?
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Post by ladidah on Nov 29, 2023 8:21:49 GMT
Either that, or it will, and it will be manic!
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Post by theatreian on Nov 29, 2023 9:48:02 GMT
Anyone know of any guest performances this week or group numbers?
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Post by erik24601 on Nov 29, 2023 17:09:21 GMT
Backstage Romance is a compilation number "Bad Romance" "Tainted Love" "Seven Nation Army" "Toxic" "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" They can't feature all of that in 90 seconds So which song will they actually feature? The dances are longer than 90 seconds at this stage aren't they? I thought they were more like 2-2.5mins? Regardless, what a snore fest choice of music - mainly movie-musicals..... How unoriginal. |
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Post by sophie92 on Nov 29, 2023 21:35:05 GMT
Anyone know of any guest performances this week or group numbers? Will put it in a spoiler just in case anyone doesn’t like to know ahead of time: Joss Stone singing something from The Time Traveller’s Wife on the results show, and My Fair Lady and A Chorus Line group dances |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2023 12:39:24 GMT
Annabel, Angela, Krishnan and Bobby announced for tour. Annabel will be dancing with Graziano as Johannes does his own tours and Krishnan will be partnered by Jowita as I assume Lauren is part of Giovanni's tour.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Dec 2, 2023 15:26:11 GMT
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Post by ladidah on Dec 2, 2023 16:00:56 GMT
Such a shame!
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Post by lou105 on Dec 2, 2023 16:21:11 GMT
A real shame and quite a problem for the BBC. I wonder if they will just carry the scores forward to next week. Shame they cant use musicals week to fill the gap in the programme with a performance or two but it's a bit late. And as for the 'live" results show...
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Post by oxfordsimon on Dec 2, 2023 16:29:30 GMT
Cracked rib isn't likely to heal in time for him to compete next week.
So we will see how this pans out
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Post by lou105 on Dec 2, 2023 16:37:54 GMT
No I didn't expect them to put Nigel into next week at this late stage of the competition, even if he were able to dance. But they could just score the others this week and carry all totals over, rather than eliminate anyone. Anyway we will see.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2023 17:39:56 GMT
As far as I understand Nigel has had to pull out of the series. To give a bye to last week's lowest scorer would have been unfair too. I guess they carry the voting forward to next week.
They can do a review of tonight's dances later on tonight when they record the results show. They can pad that out by possibly getting the musical act to do an extra number or maybe self proclaimed funniest man in the room Anton does a turn. They can cut time from the show with previews of Beeb Xmas schedule or next week's Dr Who etc.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Dec 2, 2023 19:20:05 GMT
I’m not suggesting it’s the case for a minute but if I were Nigel I would have realised I was just “fodder” and faked an injury to f*** the beeb producers off. It is so clearly a fix.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Dec 2, 2023 20:08:58 GMT
That was a show dance not a Paso. No matter how well staged, it was not a Paso.
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Post by vdcni on Dec 2, 2023 20:43:55 GMT
When Bobby gets 9s despite the lifts being a mess it seems odd to get bothered by Layton at least managing to be worth watching.
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Post by karloscar on Dec 2, 2023 21:01:24 GMT
For Good is a lovely song that's pretty easy to sing well if you learn the timing properly. Tonight's version was bloody terrible.
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