Okay…. tonight’s AI featured songs by Andrew Lloyd Weber. Love his stuff. I have the movie versions of both Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Cats. (Of those, Joseph is by far my favorite.) Have watched Phantom of the Opera; Emily has the soundtrack on her iPod, and just saw it on Broadway a couple of weeks ago. Evita? Eh… not really one of my favorites. My exposure to Jesus Christ, Superstar is limited, but I am familiar with a couple of songs from it.

So going into tonight, I tried to imagine what songs the finalists would choose, or what songs I thought would work for them. I had Carly pegged, and I think she totally rocked with the title song from Jesus Christ, Superstar.  Actually, tonight went pretty well for most of the gang except two: Brooke and Jason.

Poor Brooke. I knew this would be a tough night. If she’d only called me, though. I think I could have helped her out. I really think she would have fared much better if she had taken on “I Don’t Know How to Love Him.” (That’s another song from Jesus Christ, Superstar, for the uninitiated.) Yvonne Elliman sang this in the movie; here’s the clip from YouTube.

And Jason. Gee whiz. What was he thinking? I totally agreed with Simon when he said it was the longest 2 minutes of his life. I’m not sure what song Jason could have picked. But not Memory!

Syesha wowed me with a song I’d never heard before (One Rock and Roll Too Many). She could definitely make her living in theater.

David A…. interesting choice with Think of Me. Rearranging it as a pop ballad definitely worked for him, though. Before the show, I was picturing him singing Any Dream Will Do, from Joseph. That, or another song from the same show, Close Every Door. (Links are of Donny Osmond; the first is an actual clip from the movie.) But he didn’t ask my advice, and I guess this time it didn’t hurt.

I enjoyed David Cook’s handling of Music of the Night, but it didn’t wow me. It was nice to see him do something other than rock, though.

Favorite of the night: Syesha
Who should go: Jason or *sob* Brooke