Philly Recap And Video!!!

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From: etendue
To: ALL

10-06-06 PHILLY SHOW SPOILERS PART ONE!!!! WARNING: LONNGGGG POST

Okay, I’ve gotten a little sleep and some coffee so here’s my spoiler. I’ll do the Benjelle stuff first, then do a second post with my thoughts on the rest of the show. I have a few vids that I am still working on. Bear with me – I know next to nothing about video processing, editing, file conversion, etc. so I’m muddling through. I have one so far, linked below. This is part 1 of my spoilers with just Benjelle stuff. General show review will be in part 2.

NOW THE BENJELLE STUFF:

I was eager to see this, since it was the first show since Benji announced that he had someone special in his life. Mostly though, I didn’t see anything too unusual in the onstage vibe with him and D. That is, they weren’t more affectionate/shippy than in previous shows. But there was one point where I noticed a BIG difference….

Tango Intro: okay, you probably know from previous spoilers that they do a little scripted flirty thing while introducing Allison & Ivan’s tango routine. D climbs her fingers up B’s arm and drapes her leg over him, talking in a sexy voice saying they (Benjelle) never got to do the Argentine tango together. That part was the same as previous vid spoilers I’ve seen. BUT…I was pretty much blown away by B’s reaction this time!

In vids from the early part of the tour, B acts geeky and nervously backs away from D after she touches him. Later in the tour, the vids have shown him standing there more calmly like he can take it. This time…when she gets on him and caresses his arm, he actually looks at her all macho-like, shaking his head kind of slowly and smiling with a look on his face like “Yeah, you’re hot, but I’m wise to you…it’s gonna take more than that to shake me up”. Then he steps away from her a little while she’s caressing his back with her right hand. She starts to remove her hand and he…get this…actually jerks his arm away from her. His vibe was very player, like “okay, baby, save that for later, I’ll tell you when I want it.” Wow! Wasn’t expecting that from B. Apparently D wasn’t either. When he jerked his arm away, she kept smiling, but looked down for a moment, just like she did at after the VFW stare on the show. Dang..B had his game on for sure.

So I know you want to see this for yourself. Here’s the link to watch online:
http://www.veoh.com/videoDetails.html?v=e131670P2rw3k3A
When you get to the page, there's also a link to download the file.

As for VW…
B’s intro wasn’t super different than before, i.e. he didn’t mention anything that would relate to his announcement Friday that he has a “special someone”. Here's his speech, transcribed:

“getting personal…many people asked me while on the show, Hey Benji, ‘you know, ah, what is it between you and Donyelle?’ and all I can say is this: I don’t know. …But…(puts his hand in his pocket here) what I truthfully can say is: from the moment that we started dancing together, in practice and rehearsals, there was…a spark. There was (removes hand from pocket) a connection. There was something magical between us and um…(here, the audience collectively said aaaaawwwwwwww… to tell him they thought that was sweet) but you know, one of the most memorable experiences we had on the show was when we got to dance the Viennese waltz, or as Donyelle says, the Vietnamese waltz. It was such a wonderful memory, we’d be stupid not to do it for all of you tonight. So, please, welcome to the floor..my magical partner, miss donyelle”

I thought saying “Miss Donyelle” was a little odd, I thought that’s mainly a Southern thing and neither of them is Southern. Other than that, it was very clear that the “I don’t know” part of the speech was delivered as a throwaway, stagey type of line like “okay, the script tells me I have to say this, but I totally don’t believe it”. When B moved on to saying “truthfully”, his voice tone changed completely to being very sincere. I took the hand in the pocket to indicate he was a little nervous when he started the truthful part.

And the ending…B kissed her on the cheek in the final dip before the end. At the ending pose, they stayed together a good long time and kind of swayed a little together. Don’t know if you’d call it a sexy grind exactly, but it was noticeable to me. I couldn’t see their faces real well during the ending pose and my video isn’t good, but definitely no kiss during it, just the cheek kiss during the dip. I don’t have the video online for this yet, but I will warn you the quality is not great, plus I forgot to pan the camera so short parts of the routine are off camera (the parts where the are on one side of the stage).

The dance was lovely, of course, but I was distracted and annoyed by frequent loud, piercing screams from some of the fangirls. Why they would shriek during a waltz is beyond me, but it kind of spoiled the beautiful and romantic mood of the dance, unfortunately.

TMB ROUTINE:

Not much to report here, though I think they may have kissed behind the screen before taking the stage. I watched the screen carefully but it was still kind of hard to tell. Their bodies definitely came together/toward each other, that much I’m clear. The routine itself was super energetic. Nothing interesting to report about the ending; he pulled her up as usual but they didn’t hug for super long or anything. Video to come later.

BROADWAY:

I think B gave D a booty slap at the beginning but I am not 100% positive. I had glanced away for a moment; I just remember his hand moving toward her. Sorry, I don’t have it on video. Did notice that B really jumped wide in the leapfrog move to avoid hitting her like he did with his knee earlier in the tour.

ONE OTHER SUPER BIT OF BENJELLE NEWS:

I got to meet the dancers afterward and told Benji I hoped that he and Donyelle would dance together after the tour was over. He said they would be in a couple of shows, yay!! He wasn’t specific, but at least we have more Benjelle to look forward to.

Okay guys, so, in case you're too lazy to go to the link : D, here's the video:



Okay, so I believe some (perhaps all) of this was mentioned in the recap, but my memory sucks, so here's what I noticed in the video:

• Obviously (Well, for those who have watched all the other versions), they're beginning to adlib.
• He's plays up the confidance with his littleshrug, as if to say, "Ha! Like Dmitry has a chance with you : D"
• When she says "Tango", he smiles and shakes his head a little.
• She looks down after he pulls away, still smiling.
• It doesn't sound as though the fact that he stepped and then jerked away would be a good thing, but you can tell he's just playing around.
• At the end, she walks off with her hand in her pocket, like, "Did I really just do that?" lol (She was definitely stepping up the schmexay ; D)

Yeah, so you can easily see all that for yourself... : D

Much love!

~ Moosey ~