ABBY: All right, let's get Paige in here
and find out what's going on.
What's the deal with the solo?
It's time for the last solo rehearsal of the day,
and it's Paige.
I told you at pyramid, that you were doing a solo.
Everybody clapped.
Now you don't want to do the dance.
Your mother doesn't want you to do the dance.
I don't know what's going on.
I've heard some grumblings about Kelly
not being happy that Paige has a new solo.
Well, Kelly is never really happy, is she?
Every single week, we get to a competition,
and everybody learns a new dance.
In a new solo, if you forget what to do, if you mess up,
nobody knows but your teachers.
Kelly would rather Paige do one of her old solos,
that she can't remember and never did well to begin with.
So what's the point?
Let her do something that's new, simple, easy,
and she looks gorgeous doing it.
Let Paige go out on stage and shine, Kelly.
You just have to tell me right now,
are we doing a new number that you're doing on Sunday?
Or are you not?
[dramatic music]
I thought I was doing an old number.
I just gave Paige a golden opportunity,
but Paige would rather play it safe.
Big mistake, kid. Big.
I said that I would rather do "Get Up,
Get Loud, and get Tough," because I've practiced it.
And it's better.
I don't feel like Paige should have to go up on stage
and do a new solo.
If she's the only one picked to do a new solo,
and she's not comfortable with it,
I think she should be able to do an old one,
just like everybody else is.
You do whatever you want to do, peanut, OK?
If that's what you want to do, that's what you do.
The big day for the annual dance concert
is fast approaching, and some of these kids
have never performed for that many people in their life.
This is going to be a big day.
OK, girls, thank you. Dismissed.
You want to exit stage left, props stage right.
This group routine is a mess.
They have a lot of cleaning to do.
But right now, there's another issue I have to take care of.
Paige was chosen at pyramid to do a new solo.
She would prefer not to do a new solo.
So I'm offering it to somebody else.
Would anybody else like to do a new number?
Wait.
Did Abby just pull Paige's solo from this recital?
Someone raise your hand.
Maddie, you have your survivor number that you learned.
Oh, yeah.
Abby really wants Maddie to do her solo of "Survivor."
She's never done it in Pittsburgh,
and Abby wants some new numbers.
So if Paige doesn't want to do a new solo, Maddie can.
I love how you volunteered her.
You noticed whenever you asked people, nobody volunteered.
She did not volunteer.
You volunteered her.
When any one of these kids were asked to do a new solo,
none of them chose to.
That's all I have to say.
Right, they didn't.
So let's do it again.
I'm gonna ask again.
And then you say, me.
I'll do "Survivor."
Would anyone like to take the place and do a solo?
Anybody? Maddie, what?
Never in 40 years of being in the Abby Lee Dance Company
has anyone been giving a solo the day of the [bleep] recital,
ever! - You're out.
You're out. Call the police.
Good, I'm done.
This whole thing just isn't fair.
If Abby wants to play her games, that's fine.
But me and my girls are leaving. Please, take me.
ABBY: Get her out of here. Get her out--
Let's go. Let's go.
ABBY: --of this auditorium.
Let's go.
You're out. Goodbye.
Thank you.