Miss America 2008!

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 1/26/08 at 8:48pm

Who is watching!??! 2 of my friends are semi-finalists. GO VIRGINIA AND NC!!!

TOP 16

MI
IA
NC
TN
CA
IN
SC
GA
WA
AR
VA
TX
WI
FL
MS
people's choice: UT

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/26/08 at 8:54pm

Diva, I wish you gave me a headsup! I wonder if Dottie's watching?

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 1/26/08 at 9:02pm

Probably! Both my friends made top 10! yay!

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/26/08 at 9:14pm

Oy vey the one who just sang made me think of the AI auditions!

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/26/08 at 9:25pm

Oh my, folks-they "modernized" the Miss America pageant and it is so sick! They have the 10 finalists on the stage in their costumes ready to do their talent segment. In the middle of this, they announce that one of them will not be performing, and that she must walk over to the "loser" side of the stage. (all the parents are also sitting on the stage.) The baton twirler was eliminated, but they made her twirl a few batons to take them into the commercial break.

I hope they are aiming for "so bad it's good".

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 1/26/08 at 11:44pm

Apparently, talent no longer counts. The winner was one of the worst singers I've ever heard.

[singtopher]

Posted: 1/26/08 at 11:48pm

OMG!!! I'm freaking out.

Kirsten is the younger sister of one of my best friends!! We were all watching here and just started screaming when she won. YIKES!!

I wish she danced because she is an incredible dancer.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 12:43am

Jane2, I wasn't able to watch. I taped the ice skating as I had tickets to the ballet this evening in DC. I'm hoping that TLC re-airs it like CMT did last year.

Updated On: 1/27/08 at 12:43 AM

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 12:51am

I thought of you immediately Dottie! Don't have any high expectations when you watch the show. It's drastically changed and doesn't resemble the old pageant one iota.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 12:53am

I was at the pageant Dottie! TLC is running it tomorrow (Sun.) at 2pm and I'm sure they will run it several times during the week. I hope so, because it's always different on television than it is here in the theater. I was in the sixth row center, though!

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 12:55am

SOMMS, was this the first time you attended Miss America live? How is it?

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 12:59am

Miss America, figure skating, the ballet?! Dottie, you're a gay man trapped in a woman's body!
Updated On: 1/27/08 at 12:59 AM

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 1:01am

LOL!!! Now you know it was killing me that I was missing some of these things live, too. The Kirov was wonderful though. What an enjoyable evening I had.

By the way, I ain't no woman!

Updated On: 1/27/08 at 01:01 AM

[DG]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 1:19am

Dottie - SOMMS has a LONG and storied history with Miss A

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 1:28am

Yeah, Dottie. SOMMS has been at every Miss America Pageant since the first in 1921!

[nitsua]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 1:28am

Was it filmed in Vegas?

I had no idea!

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 3:39pm

Watching the talent portion of the rebroadcast. I'm speechless. Some of this talent is downright embarassing.

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 3:41pm

Yep! Dottie, the first singer (Over the Rainbow) was what reminded me of an American Idol audition. ouch, my ears!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 3:43pm

Once Bert Parks went, it was never the same.Hell, it ain't even in Atlantic City anymore.

I always wanted one of them to say , instead of world peace or helping others etc etc, that they wanted to become a domanatrix or sell drugs or something. How about livening it up?

Have a contestant sing a Wildhorn ditty or have one warble something from Lestat.I'd watch that.

Updated On: 1/27/08 at 03:43 PM

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 8:24pm

Dottie, this was my 32 year attending the Miss America Pageant. As Miss P said, I have a long and storied relationship with MA.
I sat with all the formers again this year. Lee Merriweather sends her regards!

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 8:54pm

So what did you think of the new format?

[The Boy From Ohio]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 9:32pm

So "Over The Rainbow" girl won? I had to stop watching after her. Ouch is right!

[supportivemom]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 9:33pm

This whole format was so demeaning to these college educated women! Eliminating contestants on stage- while their parents were sitting on stage was just ridiculous. Props to Miss Utah for doing her push-ups- that was so funny! What's interesting to me is that they did this whole reality show to make sure they chose a modern MA, yet the girl who won had big blonde hair and full dresses. She sang Somewhere Over the Rainbow- a very old song. I was really hoping for Miss Washington because she sang a contemporary song and has a gay parent. She would have been such a great spokeswoman for gay rights. To me, the girl that won looked similar to last year's winner. Very disappointed in the way they produced this entire pageant. I hated how they let the public ask the questions and then the women had to "fight" for the right to answer the question- ugh! At least we got to see 8 talents. How hard was it for the last girl to do her talent knowing that she came so close to elimination? I wonder how the ratings were?

[Elphaba]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 9:46pm

wow, I didn't know anyone still watched......

[Elphaba]

Posted: 1/27/08 at 9:59pm

yikes, she's from Farmington Hills? That's where my former company has it's HQ