ABBY LEE: This is a really big week.
We are headed to New Jersey.
And we are attending In10sity Dance competition.
Unfortunately, Maddie is not going
to be with us this weekend at the competition.
She's going to be working with Sia again.
Mackenzie, you will be doing, of course,
a jazz acrobatic routine.
My second solo goes to a guest.
Say hi, girls.
Hi, everyone.
Nice to see you.
So JoJo, she will be filling in for Maddie.
Maddie is most known for lyrical.
So you will be performing a lyrical solo.
Yay.
Thank you, Abby.
Do you think I could replace Chloe?
Do you really want to dance and work hard at your craft?
You can replace anybody.
Well, anybody but my favorite.
[soft piano music]
This number is a beautiful lyrical piece.
The voice is light, and frail, and angelic.
JoJo is strong, and hard, and devilish.
Can she be light, and frail, and angelic?
We'll see.
Weren't you supposed to [inaudible] that leg?
Sickled right foot.
Look where you are.
Did you see where you are on your foot?
You're, like, on this side of your foot like this.
This is day 2.
And JoJo can't do this lyrical routine.
Let's try something different.
Is she learning a new solo then?
I can't imagine Abby doing that.
She's never done that before.
I found something that I think is much more suitable for JoJo.
She is going to do a routine entitled "Electricity."
It's contemporary.
It's strong.
She can be fast.
She can become the electricity.
Turn and slide on a jazz split right back down and roll.
Keep going.
Abby must really care about JoJo if she's changing her solo
and trying to make it her best.
That's JoJo's speciality.
[cheering]
So just real quick, Abby's not here yet.
She's still running late.
So I'm going to go turn in the music.
Just start getting ready for solos.
Start warming up.
I think the fact that Maddie's not here,
it's no surprise that Abby's not here.
Yes.
[applause] Hi.
I got this.
ANNOUNCER: This is entry number 38.
Please welcome to the stage, "Electricity."
[applause]
[MUSIC - NIK AMMAR AND OLIVER JACKSON, "ELECTRICITY"]
(SINGING) My circuitry will never be the same.
I'm burning in the rain.
[applause]
JOJO: [laughs] - Did it feel good?
JOJO: Yeah.
Hi, Abby.
You made it.
Thanks for coming.
So you missed the first two girls.
Abby, JoJo worked really hard on her solo.
I really wish you could have been here.
I really do.
Super, super disappointed.
Well, I can watch the tape.
ANNOUNCER: This is entry number 40.
Please welcome to the stage, "Boom Boom."
[applause]
[MUSIC - ANALOGUE REVOLUTION, "BOOM"]
(SINGING) Boom, boom, boom.
Do do do.
Boom, boom, boom.
Do, do, do.
Boom, boom, boom.
Here we go.
Do, do, do.
Boom, boom, boom.
[applause]
I think that Mackenzie does a lot of tricks.
I think tricks are good when you're young.
But as soon as you get older, like,
you better learn how to dance.
Those tricks aren't so cute anymore.
Here we go, your top elite junior soloists.
In third place, Miss JoJo, act number 38,
"Electricity," from the Abby Lee Dance Company.
Go JoJo!
Ladies and gentlemen, your highest scoring junior soloist
is Miss Mackenzie with act number 40,
"Boom, Boom" from the Abby Lee Dance Company.
[cheering]
I'm so excited that Mackenzie won.
She beat, like, 30 kids from age 10 to 12.
That is amazing.
I want you guys to make sure that you're never
looking for me in the audience.
Because I might not be there.
You think, that, like, since I'm your guest,
like, you feel, bad because, like, you
didn't get to see my solo?
No.
You are creating a monster.
Well, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
And Jess is a pretty big tree.