Fantasia Barrino

By noreply@blogger.com (Idol Thoughts) After Season 3 champ Fantasia wow'ed audiences with her performance in The Color Purple, that season's runner-up, Diana Degarmo, will now star opposite Gavin Creel in this summer's revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell. Go Diana!

By noreply@blogger.com (Idol Thoughts) Theater and reality TV is sometimes a delicious mix (Fantasia in The Color Purple, MTV's current Legally Blonde: The Search For Elle Woods) and other times a total disaster (Grease: You're the One That I Want). So I went into last night's performance of the long-running Off-Broadway hit A...

By noreply@blogger.com (Idol Thoughts) I managed to watch each of the performances online, and while David Archuleta gave the more traditional Idol-winning performance, a la Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks and Jordin Sparks, I still don't think he's a shoo-in to take home the crown. Sure, it's easy to picture h...

As my post 'Am I Wrong For Dreading the American Idol Auditions?' illustrates, I'm not the biggest fan of the initial audition round of American Idol. Having said that, there have been some truly fantastic initial auditions, and I thought I'd pay tribute to those now.

About seven months after the end of the last season of American Idol, and with under two weeks to go until Season 7 gets going, the question remains... With Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Daughtry and Jennifer Hudson under their belt, there's no doubt the show has already produced huge st...