ABBY LEE MILLER: And on the top of the pyramid is Maddie.
Nobody seems too happy about that.
It's just predictable these days.
Isn't that sad?
Moving on to this week.
We will be traveling to Fort Wayne, Indiana.
We will be attending Masters of Dance Arts.
The group routine is entitled, The Bite.
My Junior League competition team
has won seven consecutive competitions in a row.
This week, I hope they're going to make it eight.
All right, now, obviously, Maddie is not here.
She is doing a job in L.A. I'm looking
for the child who can be my Maddie when Maddie's not here.
Ladies, we're going to have a little competition.
I want everybody to improv.
And then the moms are going to pick
the kid they think wow them.
Here's the little catch.
You cannot pick your own child.
Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Two, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Kendall. ABBY LEE MILLER: Kendall.
NIA SIOUX: Kendall.
ABBY LEE MILLER: Kendall. - Kendall.
ABBY LEE MILLER: Kendall, you have been
chosen to take her position.
I'm so excited.
I knew Kendall was going to win the improv.
Now, maybe, since Kendall got the lead in the dance,
Abby will have to pay attention to her.
Maddie, since you weren't here yesterday,
I put Kendall in charge.
So, respectfully, I want you to let her continue today, OK?
Just you worry about you and your parts.
All righty?
Yeah.
Five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four, and five, six, seven, eight.
ABBY LEE MILLER: The group routine this week is called,
The Bite.
It's very dark and driven.
Kalani, you're going to come out first.
Then my next set is Kendall and Maddie.
Maddie, get in that window.
ABBY LEE MILLER: This is when Maddie leaves.
I don't think that Kendall is the lead.
I think Kalani's the lead.
Abby, wasn't that the role you just gave to Kendall?
She just earned that spot, and now you're giving it to Kalani.
Abby, you're not even pretending to stand by your word
and I think it's ridiculous.
Maddie has the prop.
HOLLY: And she has a pop, and so your eye is drawn--
I mean, the bright red apple that your eye goes to.
Where is the prop?
She doesn't have it now.
She goes off and gets it brings it on.
I kind of think Kendall should have been biting the apple
and dying.
Or doing this spooky witch part to give Kalani the apple,
because she won the dance off.
ABBY LEE MILLER: It's not cute.
It's, like, big.
And I want you to reach your teeth out and bite it.
Look in the mirror.
Yes, go.
You need to make a big deal.
It needs to be evil, like you have fangs.
JILL: Well, I think it's established,
Kendall is not the lead, didn't get a special part,
and doesn't carry the apple.
It's just funny that the apple didn't
show up until Maddie did.
We had learned the dance without Maddie, and then Maddie came.
I know.
Melissa, I'm just saying.
We didn't know there was an apple
until Maddie was holding it.
JILL: So, Abby, I just have a quick question.
You know, when Kendall won the competition that we had,
what was her special part again?
She was dance captain, she still is.
OK, but before that you said it was for a special part.
- No I didn't. - Yes you did.
I don't think Maddie or Kalani do anything that Kendall
couldn't have done, so what would it have hurt you
to not feature Maddie for once?
ABBY LEE MILLER: Never once did I hear Kendall open
her damn mouth and say, Miss Abby, I
really want the special part.
Please let me try it.
Why would she do that?
If she wants it so bad-- that's what a kid does.
It would be great.
ANNOUNCER: Up next in the Junior Small Group division.
This is entry number 76, entitled The Bite.
JILL: I thought the group was great,
however, there was nothing that Maddie or Kalani
did that Kendall couldn't do.
ANNOUNCER: Top three highest Elite Junior Small Group.
In second place, act number 57, Schoolin'.
And in first place, act number 76, The Bite.
ABBY LEE MILLER: I played this stinking competition
like a harp from hell.
Woo-hoo!
I cannot be beaten.