ABBY LEE MILLER: We're attending a new competition this weekend.
World Class Talent Competition in Rockville, Maryland.
[applause]
Now solos.
Maddie and Mackenzie will be competing against each other.
Mackenzie you are doing one of Maddie's old solos.
Maddie, you will be doing a tap routine.
This is the very first time that Maddie
and Mackenzie will be competing for the overall solo award.
What am I thinking?
Well, I'm thinking it's time for a change.
All right, let's go.
[music playing]
Maddie is doing a tap routine.
Is it risky to do a tap dance?
Sure.
But I think that Maddie is ready to roll the dice.
OK.
These look old to me.
MADDIE: That was my--
ABBY LEE MILLER: She can still get into this.
Here, move.
Mackenzie is doing one of Maddie's solos,
an iconic solo, called "Cry."
Now Mackenzie, are you going to fill Maddie's shoes?
And we step up to PK arabesque.
And then we jump.
We tour jete this one.
ABBY LEE MILLER: PK.
PK onto that foot.
Straight.
Pray. ABBY LEE MILLER: Uh-uh.
Uh-uh. You just did this again.
Just stop after--
ABBY LEE MILLER: With the top of your head.
Just stop after praying.
ABBY LEE MILLER: Don't pull your head down.
Pull your body down and your head up.
Arch your back.
Let's get Maddie in here and see if she remembers it.
That'll be interesting.
What do you think of Mackenzie dancing
under Maddie, or in the same category right up against her?
And she's doing her old solo.
I mean, it's going to happen.
That's how it is now, because they're 9 to 11.
ABBY LEE MILLER: When Maddie dances
she's a breath of fresh air.
You're like the stuff we spray in the bathroom.
There's a difference.
I'm pushing Mackenzie hard this week.
I don't want her just to win this week,
I want her to win big.
I want her to be a name, not just Maddie's little sister.
You are going up against your sister.
And if you don't step up to the plate pretty soon,
you're never going to catch up with Maddie.
Ever.
MADDIE: Are you excited to be doing "Cry?"
MACKENZIE: I'm excited, but I'm really scared, because I
don't want to mess it up.
MADDIE: So you need to just show Abby
that you can do more than just cheesy jazz and cutesy dances.
You have to do lyrical and emotion.
MACKENZIE: I know.
It's just she keeps saying I have to do it like you,
but I'm not you.
MADDIE: I'm just trying to help Mackenzie
because, after all, I won first place with that dance.
And I'm an expert at the Maddie face.
[cheering]
ABBY LEE MILLER: Show me the Maddie face.
It has to be like.
I don't know.
They all look the same.
They all look like Mackenzie, Mackenzie, Mackenzie.
But you go out there and you be Mackenzie.
You don't need to be Maddie.
Right?
Like you be Mackenzie, Mackenzie is just as good.
And it's better because you're your own special self, OK?
Up next we have act number 23, Maddie.
[cheering]
[MUSIC PLAYING - "THE GAME OF LOVE]
(SINGING) The object lesson of it
all is be prepared to take a fall.
That's the way to win the game of love.
[cheering]
Maddie looked like she was in a broadway show.
I was floored.
MADDIE: Just good luck.
Just be yourself.
No matter what anybody is saying,
you're going to do amazing, OK?
You have to use your face.
You have to use your pointed toes and pointed legs.
Or else you never know, OK?
So, you know, you're-- MACKENZIE: OK.
MADDIE: OK, I love you. Good luck.
Do great.
All right, moving right along we have act number
22, Mackenzie in "Cry."
[cheering]
[MUSIC PLAYING - ALEXX CALISE, "CRY"]
(SINGING) And I I don't want to do anything but cry.
[cheering]
She was beautiful.
Her faces were so sweet and she smiled when she had to.
And her turns were so good.
I didn't think of Maddie one time when Mackenzie
was doing the "Cry" solo.
Who's ready for some awards today?
Our second overall goes to contestant number 22, "Cry."
[cheering] And our first overall,
our highest scoring solo here is 23, "The Game of Love."
[cheering] You had the highest scoring solo.
Well done. Congratulations to you.
MADDIE: Thank you.