Tidbits 6/19

• A few mentions of "Idol: The Musical", a Broadway show which features a Clay Aiken like character. Read more about "Idol: The Musical" from CDD's earlier post.
• Buddy TV -

  A musical entitled “Idol: The Musical” is moving to an off-Broadway engagement on Manhattan's 45th street this July. The musical, about a group of teens who idolize former American Idol contestant Clay Aiken will begin a test run at the 45th Street Theatre on July 5th.

• Broadway World -

  'Idol' Musical Sets Open Calls for Clay-Loving Characters
  
  Auditions will be held for Idol: The Musical, a satirical new Off-Broadway musical described as "a show based on the woship of Clay Aiken."
  
  There are eight of them; all belonging to the same cult-like club that meets daily in a barn that doubles as a shrine to Clay Aiken...The story heats up when the mid-American leg of the 'Idol Tour,' starring Clay Aiken, is announced to be playing Chicago, Memphis, Louisville, Scranton, Charleston, Greensboro, Roanoke and...Steubenville."
  
  Emily: "She is the leader of the band of misfits, standing stoic at her emperor like podium and speaking down to the others with a wound-up, school marm sense of order and protocol. A beehive on her head and dressed like a reject from a late night Cinemax movie, her passion for Clay often overwhelms her, throwing her into frenzied fits of unbridled lust, even in public places. Behind her closeted exterior, a dormant dominatrix lies, only brought out in private moments between her and her bust of Clay Aiken, her one and only love, or so she thinks."

• Playbill -

  Idol: The Musical, which is based on the idol worship of former "American Idol" contestant Clay Aiken is headed Off-Broadway.
  
  "There are eight of them; all belonging to the same cult-like club that meets daily in a barn that doubles as a shrine to Clay Aiken. They are actively ridiculed by the rest of Steubenville; a humiliating situation that doesn't deter their quest for all things Clay. They are victims of A.D.D., Ritalin, their misguided obsessions and their innocent longing for their elusive '15 minutes.' One of them pumps gas. One of them is home-schooled. One of them is a genius. And one of them is a basketball phenom who would rather be a Chippendales dancer. The other four have equally bizarre back-stories too complicated to tell here; but suffice it to know that the real bad-guy of the piece is a total harpy named Adrienne. She gives new meaning to the word villain. The story heats up when the mid-American leg of the ‘Idol Tour,’ starring Clay Aiken, is announced to be playing Chicago, Memphis, Louisville, Scranton, Charleston, Greensboro, Roanoke and Steubenville. Steubenville! False idols are a tricky bunch. Especially those that have lost national singing contests. Go ask Clay. I think he'll know."
  

• Inside Bay Area on America's "original" idols -

  Original Idols Live! (June 22): What did folks listen to before Taylor Hicks, Clay Aiken and the rest of the "American Idol" crew came around? You'll find out when the Bay City Rollers, Leif Garrett, Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, the Cowsills and Barry Williams (Greg from "The Brady Bunch") come to the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton. Let's hope Williams sings that old Brady Bunch cut about it being "time to change."

• KNAC - really random Clay mention in metal rock article/site.

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