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Ok, I have a story for you all............
Whilst breezing through my mother's copy of US magazine this afternoon, I came across a picture of this season's american idol cast. Now, I have never watched the show, except for once, because Barry Manillow was on it, but I digress.
So, Studying the faces of the next people to charm america, I come across one that is oddly familiar. Where have I seen this person before? I wonder. And then it clicks. Why, that boy played Roger when I saw RENT last year at the Shubert. I find him in the article, and surely enough, 'tis Constantine, ex-Roger.
At this point, I am still in denial. How could one desert RENT, and a life of theater, not to mention a struggling band, to join American Idol? I went on line, to, of all places the idol website. I feel unclean, but my curiosity has been tickled.
I look him up, and surely enough, there he is, staring at me in all of his shame.
Now, I met this boy, and I use the word boy despite his age of almost 30, because that is what he is. Anyway, I met him after the show last year, and spoke to him, and he was, to put it plainly, bizarre. He creeped me out. To see him on the street at night, I would have turned around and walked away.
So now he is there, on American Idol, and tonight I plan to watch said TV show, and then I will vote. I will not vote based on talent, or who deserves it, of course not. I will vote for him, many times, because I have met him. And wouldn't it be nice, years down the road, to say that I met an american idol, and supported his band before he was on idol?
And that, my friends is what our society has reduced me to.
And So it Goes..................
Whilst breezing through my mother's copy of US magazine this afternoon, I came across a picture of this season's american idol cast. Now, I have never watched the show, except for once, because Barry Manillow was on it, but I digress.
So, Studying the faces of the next people to charm america, I come across one that is oddly familiar. Where have I seen this person before? I wonder. And then it clicks. Why, that boy played Roger when I saw RENT last year at the Shubert. I find him in the article, and surely enough, 'tis Constantine, ex-Roger.
At this point, I am still in denial. How could one desert RENT, and a life of theater, not to mention a struggling band, to join American Idol? I went on line, to, of all places the idol website. I feel unclean, but my curiosity has been tickled.
I look him up, and surely enough, there he is, staring at me in all of his shame.
Now, I met this boy, and I use the word boy despite his age of almost 30, because that is what he is. Anyway, I met him after the show last year, and spoke to him, and he was, to put it plainly, bizarre. He creeped me out. To see him on the street at night, I would have turned around and walked away.
So now he is there, on American Idol, and tonight I plan to watch said TV show, and then I will vote. I will not vote based on talent, or who deserves it, of course not. I will vote for him, many times, because I have met him. And wouldn't it be nice, years down the road, to say that I met an american idol, and supported his band before he was on idol?
And that, my friends is what our society has reduced me to.
And So it Goes..................