Monday, July 5, 2010

Every Little Step

We watched Every Little Step last night, which is a documentary about the tryouts for the recent revival of A Chorus Line on Broadway.* It was actually very interesting, as it was essentially an entire season of a reality competition in an hour and a half (perhaps the appropriate length of time for one of those seasons), but also actually real.

What was hilarious was one of the people trying out. He was trying out for the "Mike" character, which is the guy who sings "I can do that" in the show, with regards to his sister's dance classes when we was a child. The auditioner was a certain man named Tyce Diorio, better known in some (rather small) circles as a choreographer for So You Think You Can Dance. He choreographs very good contemporary routines and exceedingly terrible Broadway routines for the show. He is also extremely irritating.

Watching him in this documentary I realized two things. First, he is an amazing dancer. Secondly, I hate him even more.

First of all, he kept acting like he was just doing this audition for himself and that he didn't care if he got it. This overly confident attitude is annoying, especially when one could easily be confident and not an ass. He has that cocky persona that tries to pretend like everything that happens to him is exactly what he wants. And it drives me nuts.

Luckily I knew he didn't get the part and when he was told he had that air of "I don't really care about this anyway." At least now I can think about his miserable failure for that show and chuckle next time I see him on SYTYCD.
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* Just take a minute for that to sink in.

by Topher at 11:12 AM |