Lisa Rinna Singing on Dancing with the Stars Now

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:26pm

Singing and Dancing "Roxie"....she's actually good....compared to a lot of the others. Updated On: 4/17/07 at 09:26 PM

[bwayfan3]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:27pm

You beat me to it!

I think she's pretty terrible.

[purpleprince101]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:28pm

not bad

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:28pm

I saw Melanie Griffith...now THAT was terrible.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:29pm

Eh. She was all right.

[purpleprince101]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:30pm

ohh don't get me started on melanie Griffith! Good thing i got tickets for free!

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:31pm

i wasn't too impressed, but i do think she'll improve after doing the tour. i will definitely see her in NY in june.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:34pm

I heard a bit of singing here and there... but is it cynical of me to think that her dancer/singers drowned her out to deflect her vocal limitations? Perish the thought... from RC in Austin, Texas

[Trish2]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:36pm

A pitiful performance-breasts and all. Those were some ugly looking men backing her up too . Whatever happened to class?

[cmleidi]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:38pm

I thought she did a fine job. She didn't have a strong voice, but then neither did Reinking. I think she'll do a good job.

[OOTI2004]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:38pm

I'm really suprised at how much I didn't like her. I always thought that she seemed fun when she was on the show, and if her singing wasn't all that great she would be able to carry her songs with personality, but there was no charisma in her performance.

[mateo]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:42pm

I cant stand her or her anorexic husband.

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:46pm

She did okay but I didn't care for it much.

[g4rat]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:48pm

She wasn't 100% bad. It looked like she was nervous, but at the same time, trying to put some personality into the role. I think that it's way to early to be judging her too harshly, I don't think the singing is gonna get that much better though.

All in all I'd probably give her like a C+. I can't wait to see what she does with the role.

Oh, bye the way, I like how they virtually changed all the actual choreography for that (not!).
Updated On: 4/17/07 at 09:48 PM

[To The Stage!]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:51pm

Ugh, she was horrible.

[LoringsGuy]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:56pm

Was anyone else as distracted by the big black man's chest as I was?

[ljay889]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:57pm

Not bad.

Kind of Brooke Shields style.

[Producer2]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 10:23pm

Looked like the movie choreography to rope people in.

[ljay889]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 10:29pm

^ Good point. It did seem like that. Somehow I doubt she'll actually use all of that choreography during the real show, they had to show her dance considering it was DWTS. Ann Reinking usually comes back to choreograph for new stars, and I don't see her allowing that movie-based choreo during the actual Broadway performances.

[bwayfan3]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 10:31pm

I had two different family members on two different performances (weeks apart) see Melanie Griffith and in both she fell when Roxie cartwheels. I've never laughed harder when my brother-in-law not one typically to chat about Broadway was like, If she's gonna be there, can't they just change the choreography for her?"

[ILUVTOMG]

Posted: 4/18/07 at 12:11am

she had the right attitude - it's a start. but who were the male dancers (besides greg butler)? from the tour?

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 4/18/07 at 12:15am

I find it ever-so endearing how everyone is analizing and critizing her very first public performance. She doesn't even begin her first FULL performance for another 2 MONTHS! Also, this version we saw tonight was especially choreographed for DANCING WITH THE STARS (hence those camera-prepped sections), it is NOT the version she'll be performing in the show -- either on tour or Broadway.

I give her full kudos for being ballsy enough to do this before she's even had a chance to 'get' the number and learn to 'feel' the number via a live audience reaction. Every other performer who's done "Roxie" on TV (Marilu Henner, for example), had been doing the show for several weeks before they performed "Roxie" on TV. Lisa Rinna is 2 months away from her first performance.

If she had been doing the show for a few weeks and did THIS, then all our attacks would be fully merited and valid.

Posted: 4/18/07 at 12:42am

I thougth she was pretty terrible too but as the performance went on for some reason I didn't hate it *as* much... I wish they had done the full talking bit so we coulda got more of a sense of her version of the role--and it's always nice to see the typically hot male Chicago dancers but... Yeah i think I'd be disappointed seeing her on stage (of course the last Roxie I saw on stage was Charlotte so hard to top...)

Brody I totally get your point but of course we're gonna criticize her (and yeah of course she's not gonna be perfect at this point)--it's what people on a forum do :P

I don't have the Reinking choreography version of this song memorised (what i'm most familiar with are the old home movie clips of the original version of Roxie done in out of town tryouts--with the men in polkadot brief underwear) but *most* of the routine is basically the Broadway version isn't it--or is it more the movie, which I didn'tliek as much and haven't seen as much? I knwo some part were staged differently for the cameras and it seemd there were more lifts and catches than I remember but who knows...

Meh my final verdict was she was alright--her little weird "mmhmms" and vocal ticks were a bit odd but I guess her take on Roxie is a pretty slinky one which is fine
Updated On: 4/18/07 at 12:42 AM

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 4/18/07 at 12:49am

I'll be posting several different takes on the "Roxie" number on that site tomorrow. Sandy Duncan's will be in 2-parts as her version is the LONGEST, with her ad-libs and pacing. The number, from the start of the monologue to her final pose at the complete end of the number generally runs about 9 minutes on average. Sandy's runs about 12 minutes.

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 4/18/07 at 12:49am

but is it cynical of me to think that her dancer/singers drowned her out to deflect her vocal limitations?

I caught that, too. She kind of talk-sung it, but then again, the song is kind of talk-sung anyway.