so random!

today was really fun! my friend's a canadian idol fan and she got us 4 tickets to the results show... balcony seats. we were all excited to go even though the rest of us didn't really know who's left in the competition but it would be a fun experience none the less... and it would deffinately a first for all of us. so we are getting past security and heading down into the lobby of the john basset theather when this woman asks us how many of us were together and then tells us to wait at the bottom of the escalator. so she meets up with us and says do you have tickets? and we show her our balcony tickets and she says... i'll take these from you...
because i'll be moving you up to the floor...
front row...
right behind the judges!

AHHH!

so the four of us look at eachother because we all realize... ahhhhh we are gonna be making our primetime network debut!!! we are gonna be on TV!! ahhhh!

haha it was so funny! it was so random! so they escort us to the front row all the while telling us the "rules"... don't chew your gum, don't look at the side screens cuz on camera it looks like you are looking away in space, be really enthusiastic and all that kinda stuff. then she looks at us... and decides where to place us ...anita is closest to the middle.. i'm to her left, alexis is to my left and kate is to alexis' left. i'm sitting right behind sass and zac! so with a few minutes before going to air we all whip out our cellphones and start calling our parents and friends to tell them to watch the show... hahaha i tried and tried but never got through to my parents or to steve. but i did get through to apryl's mom who did relay the message and apryl did watch the show! :O) yay

the judges were so close... about 1 meter in front of us... zac had his little son (around 6-8 yr) oh his lap and was spinning around on the chair. there were so many cute little kids with pieces of paper asking them for their autographs... i found zac and sass to be kinda obsessed about how they look... anytime the camera wasn't on her, sass had a makeup artist fixing her face... and did you know that behind the judges podium, zac has a sparkely hot pink mirror by his feet... which he whips out in commercial breaks to check on his hair!!! i kid you not! farley fex and jay seemed super nice... they didn't bother with the pampering once they were around the audience... they were busy signing and meeting the little fans. the host, ben, only talked to his row of friends... especially this young thin blond girl (probably his girlfriend) every time there was a commercial break and didn't really interact with the crowd very much.

and you would be surprised how small the theater really is... it seems so much larger on television but yeah... the stage and the auditorium seating area is really tiny... i'd say about 35% smaller than it appears on tv.... i think i found the most joy in actually seeing the camera men... the way they have to run across the stage to get that sweaping/panning shot they always use... and they have this grip guy holding a huge ring of wire cables swooping along right behind him! haha it's deffinately a team effort... i also really liked how close the canadian idols actually get to the camera when they do that in your face shot... it's literally in their faces! haha anyways, the idols actually sound better in the theater than they do on tv... they were pretty good live!.. and there really is a lot of love in that cast and crew... after the show ended or that commercial break between announcing the bottom two and who's going home the idols would huddle and try to comfort suzi and josh... you can see that they've gotten pretty tight during the competition. i was nice.

after the show we went out to dinner at jack asstor's and wouldn't you know it... the three remaining female idols showed up with there entourage of parents, family and friends. so kate and i got the top 10 collector cards that they give out to the audience at the show signed by them hahaha. i took the suzi rawn card cuz we have the exact same birthday! yay for virgos! they were pretty nice about it even though we were bothering them during their dinner.

in any case it, was funny how our luck went that night... first getting moved to front row and then them going to the same restaurant as us.

posted by :: sweet layer :: @ 5:15 AM