[cheering]
Oh my god.
Love that.
Shangela would be proud.
Can we see the drag walk now?
I'm really excited Nia and Asia have this duet this week.
They look really great together.
But this is the first time they had a duet,
and so I know they're going to need to run it a few times
before they go on stage.
All right, let's go.
Let's go. - They're not going on.
The duo's not going on.
Not yet.
We've got to get moving.
But we'll come back to the duet?
Yes.
'Cause I didn't have a chance to get pins.
they're not finished getting dressed.
Maddie and Chloe's solos are coming up next
and we're all rushing to try to get out of the room,
but we haven't run Nia and Asia's duet yet
and I'm getting really nervous.
[music continuing]
Before I go on stage for my solo,
I'm just a little, tiny bit nervous,
but I just want to go out there and show to Miss Abby
that I can do it.
ANNOUNCER: Our next entry is entry number 27, Chloe,
performing to "About Mother."
[applause]
[MUSIC - CLAIRE HAYEK, "WHAT ABOUT (MOTHER)"]
Mother, tell me, Mother.
How do silence my mind?
Show me, show me, Mother, how to, follow the signs.
'Cause you see right through me and you can heal my pain.
What about the air we breathe?
All the pain we feel?
What about you and me?
What about?
What about green and the blue, all that we've been through?
What about you and me?
What about?
[cheering]
I think Chloe should be really proud of herself
because I think it would be so hard to hear just
negative things all the time and go out there and rise
to the occasion and dance your heart out.
So I give her a lot of credit for this dance today
because I think she looks amazing.
There's always pressure on Maddie.
I mean, there's pressure on all the kids.
But you know, she wants to please Miss Abby.
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, our next entry
is number 30, Maddie performing to "They'll Never Change."
[cheering]
[MUSIC - TATIANA MOROZ, "THEY'LL NEVER CHANGE"]
Another day, another way to get thrown out of home.
But does it really matter what we say or who started it all?
No, they'll never change, even if we want them to.
They'll never change.
I don't want to disappoint, but really what's
the point when we're not getting very much love at all.
I'm not getting very much love at all.
They'll never change.
I think Maddie's beautiful on stage and it was flawless.
ANNOUNCER: All right, our next entry is number 44,
"Move You Too."
All of a sudden I hear the competition announce
that the duet is up next, and there
was supposed to be 14 numbers between Asia
and Nia's duet and Maddie's solo.
Asia and Nia never had a chance to rehearse a duet.
They didn't run the duet.
I think they ran it backstage.
No, they did not.
In this duet, Nia has an extremely difficult lift
with Asia where she picks her up over her head.
She hasn't even had a chance to practice it.
They haven't even stretched.
They are totally unprepared.
We didn't even warm up or anything.
We didn't practice at all, and that's not fair to Asia and I.
ANNOUNCER: Our next entry is number 44, "Move You Too."
[applause]
[music - lacy baby, "move ya"]
1, 2, 1, 2, 3, get funky.
I've got something to tell you and I think ought to know.
It's time to get down to business.
Come on, ready, set, go. 'Cause we grinding.
No, not yet.
We putting out the show.
You think you know, but you have no idea me and the band,
we about to make you feel something so, so unreal.
We are the real deal.
Whoo.
Y'all ready to have some fun and let everything else go?
Ha.
I like that.
Me, too.
Let me show you how we do it, do it, do it.
[applause]
Way to go, girls.
The duet ended up looking pretty good.
Was it their best?
No, but Nia was able to lift Asia with no difficulty,
so I'm pretty happy with that.
What I'm not happy with is with Abby.
She was reckless and she totally was
unprepared in rehearsing those girls
before they went on stage.
Holly and Christi are really upset right now
because Abby was so busy having them do their drag queen walk
that she forgot to have them run the dance.
I think they did a nice job.
I think they could have been better prepared.
- They weren't stretched. - They weren't stretched.
They weren't stretched.
I could tell they weren't stretched.
Being in a costume does not mean
that you're ready to perform. - I agree.
There was time for the girls to rehearse
and she didn't use that time.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
What?
Who told the girls to go on if there were like 14 numbers?
What?
They never practiced in their costume like everybody else.
They didn't even run anything. They didn't even stretch.
Most importantly, they weren't warmed up.
Regardless, the ability to adapt quickly to change,
they need to be on that.
Because when your kid goes to an audition,
they could be number 185, and 183 and 184 dropped out
and your kid's saying, well, wait a minute.
I have six more minutes before I step out
there to do my audition.
No, you don't.
When you're in an audition, you just need to be ready,
and that's a fact.
I was worried about the lift.
The lift was great.
They practiced the lift backstage.
What else did they do that required all this warm up?
A roundoff back handspring.
Well, a back handspring, since you know everything, Dr. Holly,
is done with a straight back.
But it's not funny or cute to throw a kid on stage
and them not be warmed up.
Once again, Abby deflects the blame
and turns this all into a lesson about being prepared.
Regardless, this lesson could have been disastrous.
Abby is lucky the duet performed as well as they did.
[music continuing]