Over the Rainbow

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As it turned out, the rafters came into it quite a lot. At the start of the first programme (there were two) the final three Dorothys descended from them on swings; at the start of the second, Graham Norton sailed down from them on a bicycle, ET-style, complete with a stuffed version of Danergous Dave, the winning Toto, in his basket; and at the end the victorious Dorothy floated up there in a basket held aloft by multi-coloured balloons.


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The judges too were on sparkling form. Dreamworks animation Sheila Hancock got the biggest laugh of the night with her quip, after her fruity comment that she had thought Lauren Samuels was “a bit eyes, teeth and tits”, of, “excuse me, I don’t care, the show is finished, they can’t sack me.”
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Even John Partridge wasn’t as irritating as usual and, to borrow a phrase the judges are fond of themselves, Baby Einstein DVD SetCharlotte Church has blossomed over the series. Her increasingly astute comments about the girls’baby einstein dvd collection voices have been well worth noting since television can’t do justice to the finer points of vocal ability. baby einstein dvd box setThus her amazement at Samuels’sbaby einstein dvds divine rendition of My Fair Lady’s baby einstein dvdI Could Have Danced All Night was truly instructive – even if the voting public went on blithely to ignore her. baby einstein And what of the girls themselves? baby einstein collectionIn the first show they each sang a song Andrew Lloyd Webber had chosen. Sophie Evans got the pick of the bunch, the ultra-famous Tomorrow from Annie, which required her to do no dancing at all, at which she’s bad. Still, she muffed the opening and was off-key at the end but because this was Final night the judges couldn’t criticise her and thus, implicitly, the public’s choice should she win.


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Still, the right girl won in the end: Hope, who can act the socks off anyone who has American dad dvd appeared in any of Lloyd Webber’s shows. Her version of Over the Rainbow in the closing programme brought tears American dad dvdsto the eyes and suddenly made the song seem the new-minted piece of simple poetry it once was. Thank God –American dad dvd season or should we say the Lord – those crystal-covered red shoes fitted her when they eventually came out of their case.

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If you watch it a second time on the iPlayer this all becomes a lot clearer. And although I rather liked the epic left-field ambition of their apocalyptic game-plan, I do wish Graham and Pharoah had had enough courage in their idea to spell it out with something clearer than the unfinished, obfuscatory collection of knowing hints and allusions we got on Friday.