Back from the talent contest - I have no idea who won because this show, which was supposed to last an hour, lasted at least two hours and fifteen minutes - not because of the 23 contestants - they did exactly as they were told and performed three minutes or under. They were professional. The adults, those self-serving adults who make these things all about them and their self-important crap are the problem. Hiring a director would have helped immeasurably, but these hopeless people (their hearts are in the right place) don't know how to put on a show and they allowed it to become a bore. That is unfair to the kids participating and the adults should be ashamed of themselves. Especially the host - some former mayor of San Gabriel - you couldn't have chosen worse than this guy. Not only did he take up the first twenty-five minutes of the show with his endless blather (and introducing some other adults who had their own blather - really, we understand why we're there and who you are), he then announces each and ever judge, and there were at least ten of them, AND read their bios from the program. Is he out of his cotton-pickin' mind? We HAVE the program, Mr. Ex-Mayor, and we can read it for ourselves, and no, we don't need to hear the judges' names because they're - IN THE PROGRAM. Then he does all the introductions of the kids from off-stage, but in the program they've each written a small paragraph about why they love performing - sweet idea, but Mr. Ex-Mayor decided to read THAT, too - then they had a ten-minute intermission that lasted twenty minutes, and the girl I was there to see they put on third to last. That's fine had we not had to endure the yokel-fest that took up all that time in completely unnecessary ways. As soon as the girl was through, I had to run to my car and I barely made my six-thirty dinner meeting.
That was fun, the dinner meeting.
