Tidbit 6/21

• Claymates have commented on this post from TV Squad which is about Jimmy Kimmel's emergency appendectomy... get well soon Jimmy!
  
• New Orleans Time Picayune - music has endured...

  And the songs endure. In 2003, Clay Aiken warbled "Open Arms" during an "American Idol" semi-final round. In 2004, the Boston Red Sox adopted "Don't Stop Believin' " as the theme for their improbable World Series comeback. The following season, "Believin' " rallied the Chicago White Sox.

• Underground Online - TV shows that should become video games -

  The View
  If ABC licensed the ongoing train wreck morning show The View to game designers, we see it being a great success. After vanquishing the other three foes is when you enter the championship round and face mano a mano against The Barbara: a beast so vile and hideous just listening to her mispronounce words causes massive loss of life. Weapons used include Donald Trump's hair, Clay Aiken's hand and a tiny, drunken Danny DeVito.

• Concierage.com - vacation blog describes "a laconic, henna-haired boy with a lazy charm but a middle running towards fat; and a scurrying tall thin person with a narrow, rodentlike face and a burst of hair who looked something like a Japanese Clay Aiken."
  
• More mentions of Claymates being portrayed in "Idol: The Musical" which opens in NYC next month:
• Rolling Stone -

  A satirical musical Idol: The Musical, which is to open Off Broadway in New York City on July 5. The play looks at the lives of a bunch of Clay Aiken-obsessives and explores how their lives are ruined by Claymania.
  

• MTV -

  "American Idol" is headed to Broadway — well, off-Broadway. Playbill.com reports that "Idol: The Musical," a satire based on the dedication of one group of Clay Aiken fans, will begin previews at New York's 45th Street Theatre on July 5. The play recently opened in Syracuse, New York. ...

• Star Pulse, Contact Music, PR-Inside -

  American Idol star Clay Aiken's fans have inspired a new Broadway musical. The 'Claymates' will be the focus of a new stage show, called Idol: The Musical. The project is described as "a satirical musical comedy that focuses on the outrageous and delusional fan base of American Idol".

• NY Post -

  Attention, Claymates: You're not invisible anymore.
  
  Todd Ellis, a drama teacher at Syracuse Civic Theatre, has invested his savings in an eight-week, off-Broadway production called "Idol: The Musical," inspired by hysterical Clay Aiken fans.
  
  The play will take over the 45th Street Theatre in Times Square and will run in July and August. "There is so much hysteria surrounding the Claymates," said Ellis. "He's godlike. The ones that are devoted to him are really devoted."

• Spinner.com -

  Clay Aiken Gets the Broadway Treatment
  'Idol: The Musical,' which is to open Off Broadway in New York City on July 5, is described as "a satirical look" at the phenomena known as Clay-Mania -- a thumbnail that strikes us as being almost as redundant as "a soporific rendition of 'You Light Up My Life.'"

• Daily Texan - Clay mention... local news - "During my six years in Austin, I've never lived outside of West Campus, and one look at my picture at the top of this column will show you that I'm whiter than Clay Aiken. However, I have met a woman who makes a great voice for the people who are disenchanted with the police department."
• AlterNet - (negative) ... FOX News ... "And having those three loons on Fox & Friends spout hateful lies with racist overtones is like music -- sweet Clay Aiken music."

• The ConCLAYve - funny skit... Clay, Kimmel, London and Paris

  Clay: Hola!
  Kimmel (bad British accent): Cheerio, old boy. Pip pip and all that. D’you have Prince Albert in a can?
  Clay (mystified): Do Ah have WHO in a WHAT?
  Kimmel (normal voice): Clay, didn’t you make crank phone calls as a kid?

• Southern Girl - a question of luck... who will get to meet Mr. Aiken himself this summer?