[music playing]
MIKEY: Well, hello everyone.
Hi! Look at you!
I made it all the way from LA to the land of Oz.
HOLLY: Today, we're all together at a dance facility
in Adelaide.
And while we're in one room preparing Nia for her event,
Abby is in the other room next door,
preparing her girls for their event.
This should be interesting.
Hi, guys.
ALL: Hi.
- I am Mikey Minden. - Oh, hi, Mike.
I'm like-- 'cause you have an American accent.
Honey, I am born and raised in LA.
MELISSA: Oh, hi, Mike.
- I'm as American as it gets. - Oh, yay.
We are too. MIKEY: I love it.
Mikey Minden has worked with Usher.
He's worked with Pink.
If Abby doesn't want to use her as a dancer, guess what.
Mikey could definitely promote her as a music artist.
We've set up a huge performance for you, Nia,
at Federation Square, Friday night in Melbourne.
I have a whole team of people coming--
dancers, costumes, hair and makeup, the whole Mikey Minden
treatment.
And JoJo, I have a special dance breakdown that you're going
to come out for with Miss Nia.
We decided to include JoJo in Nia's performance,
because, honestly, I never think it's right to exclude
someone from anything.
So I'm going to take you two now,
and start rehearsal with you.
Yeah, our girls-- we're going to take our girls to rehearsal.
Because they have to learn a dance.
MIKEY: Fantastic. Well--
But it was nice meeting you.
Come on, gals. - Likewise.
And I'll see you guys soon.
OK, Mikey, we heard enough from you.
So see ya.
ABBY: Hi, girls.
Hi.
WOMAN: Oh, this is nice.
Hi, Abby.
Abby, did you get a chance to meet Mikey yet?
- Hi. - Mikey Minden, this is Abby.
- Mikey Minden. - Hi.
How are you? - Pleasure.
Nice to meet you.
I think we may have meet at, um, Robin's?
Yeah? - Yes, good friends with Robin.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Girls, you go get dressed quick!
All right. Have a great rehearsal.
- Thanks, honey. - Mm-hmm.
Come on, you guys.
I guess we'll follow you. I don't know where we're going.
OK. We're going to go this way.
This country has amazing dance instructors and choreographers.
Why did Nia need to bring somebody all the way here?
You should be able to work with any choreographer
that you're given, Nia.
What do you think of Mikey Minden being here?
ABBY: I think there must not be too much work in LA.
[laughs]
JILL: But don't you think it's funny?
JoJo and Nia didn't invite our kids
to go perform in their event.
Because they would make them look bad.
That's it. You know that.
So-- - But that's not the--
I don't want to be the bad guy and say that.
But you know that.
That's not the point.
I wish Holly could have worked her schedule
so that all of the children could
be a part of Nia's performance.
But I guess she just wanted JoJo.
You're going to be the point of the pyramid.
You're at the top of the pyramid!
What a concept!
OK?
The tone is so different.
When we walk in there, you could feel the tension.
Could you just feel the vibe was not as--
you walk in and like, [inaudible]..
Mackenzie!
You want me to yell it?
I'll yell it.
You don't want me yell it, fix it.
Five, six, seven.
This is one, two, three.
OK, so why isn't Kalani here?
What happened with that?
I understand if she has to go do her schoolwork, but--
She still has to learn the dance.
So is she not in the number then?
She does have to learn the dance.
But she's the star of the dance.
So she's not doing the same parts they're doing.
Get it? - I do.
But I also don't think you should make her the star if she
didn't show up for rehearsal.
Well, she'd be sitting in here right now,
or playing the music.
Because we're doing their part.
Oh, OK.
ABBY: That's what I'm trying to say.
OK.
We need to learn this performance in two days,
and Abby wants to make it seem like it's no big deal that Kira
and Kalani aren't here.
But that's how we're going to look bad.
And hear, we've got Mikey and Holly doing
their thing in the other room.
The last thing Abby would want is
to feel that she's being shown up
by Nia and JoJo's performance. - Work it!
Work it!
[vocalizing] Circle, circle!
Five, six, seven, eight!
HOLLY: He's focused.
He's attentive to-- and he has an assistant too.
But he is engaged, talking to them, working with,
start to finish.
He hasn't picked up his phone one time either.
That's true. He hasn't.
I don't even know where his phone is.
MELISSA: Holly likes the way things are.
Sorry. - I know.
It's almost like, OK, if I can't--
I'm not going to be a part of this,
I'm going to do this and make it bigger and better.
That's so not what Holly used to be like though.
She's changed.
She didn't used to be that person.
I think Holly is doing what Holly feels
she has to do to get Nia ahead.
But this affects the team.
Because by the time we get to LA,
our girls need to be a united front.