This blog entry was emailed to me from a viewer. read on to learn about her American Idol audition experience in New Jersey. Enjoy, Nicole Livas
MY AMERICAN IDOL
EXPERIENCE
By Cocoanut
Lady
Finally, after days of vying against
17,000 auditioners, sitting through about 30 hours of auditions (about 45 all
together including the final day) proposing to producers, singing the ?Banana
Boat Song', and playing me lil' steel pan, juggling coconuts, it was my turn to
appear in front of the big guns Simon and crew on American idol. Believe it or not ah was nervous. Hard to
believe Cocoanut Lady could be nervous, eh? Well ah was clad in me Cocoanut hat,
bright flowered colored Tourist shirt, green skirt, leis and pink sneakers (and
tree girdles to keep me figure in), I stepped inside that room, walked the line
and walked out onto the stage I had seen so many times before on TV in front of
Simon, Randy, Paula and new judge Kara.
And in a voice that sounded like the late Eartha Kitt on helium, I belted
out a medley of songs. I even sang a
song to Simon. The judges eventually
sent me on my way, after they said I was too old.
The New York auditions finally showed on
Thursday January 29th at 8PM on FOX and with excitement and nervousness, me and
me family and friends waited and waited...and waited and no Cocoanut Lady. The reason is still a mystery...after all
that not even 5 seconds? Very strange. Could it be that they were already on
time restraints. They had to cover two
cities in one hour that night. Could it
be that I was like Cyndi Lauper...too unusual? Anyway the experience was
amazing, ah got to meet Simon, Paula Abdul, Randy and Brian Seacrest and new
Judge Kara. It was a wonderful
experience. I got to meet a lot of nice people and it was a experience I will
not soon forget.
CL
If you want to
see what happened in my crazy audition and all me other antics, contact Fox at marcy.ross@fox.com cc mike.darnell@fox.com and cc idol.web@fox.com
and/OR call 310-369-1000 X 32800 Amy Cohen secretary to
president of Programming Mike Darnell
Fox Viewer hotline: 1-800-369-6848.
Comment Voice Mail: 1-310-369-3066.
TELL THEM YOU WANT
TO SEE COCOANUT LADY.
Cocoanut Lady has
already begun to take bookings for parties, Anansi Story Telling, etc. for
the spring and summer and
Call
757-454-6355 www.myspace.com/cocoanutlady
It was an afternoon full of silliness on Friday, March 28, 2008.
Main Street in downtown Norfolk was filled with people who came out during the lunch hour to watch residents and local business people in their goofiest costumes, participate in the annual Doo Dah Parade.
The perfect event just before April Fool's Day!
PETA, The Salvation Army, and The Norfolk Convention And Visitor's Bureau were just some of the participants. The Norfolk CVB actually won first prize for creativity and of course, silliness.
Check out some of the pictures. Oh, and yours truly was one of the judges again this year. How do you like my hat and sunglasses?
Come out next year and act a fool with us!
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hi again,
here's a picture of me and constantine from american idol. i caught up with him at 94.9the point when he was on the morning show. shout out to chuck, jenna & woo-woo.
that was fun. constantine is still as cool as he was when i interviewed him in hollywood during the season 5 finale. did you know he's got a job with garnier hair products?
he and chuck talked about their jersey backgrounds. he even spoke to woo-woo about his 'relationship' with season 5's kellie pickler. interesting....
season 7 auditions have wrapped up in philadelphia- now, we must wait for the show to begin in january.
Ok, did y'all see the show last night? The blonde bombshell gets a reality show lesson on being a tv newscaster. Wow. I have to admit- parts of the show reminded me of people I have worked with in my 16 years of on-air experience- but gimme a break. It's funny how many people say they want to be a news reporter because of what they see on the air. They really don't realize it's just a fraction of our job. Once they see what goes on behind the scenes, hopefully folks will have a better appreciation of what we do. And those paychecks? Let's just say when I worked in a market the size of Tyler, Texas- I made the about the same amount of money I made as a waitress at Darryl's Restaurant in Norfolk. But, I wouldn't change a thing- I really was passionate about the news business and I worked (not flirted) my way up the ladder. ;-)
I do plan to watch the show again next week- because although it was annoying at times, it was actually entertaining, too.
