When Your Post-Idol Career Fails….
Filed under: Broadway Babies > American Idol
There's always musical theater to turn to!
Ex-American Idol champ Taylor Hicks is heading to the Great White Way — just like fellow Idol alums Fantasia Barrino (The Color Purple), Clay Aiken (Spamalot), Diana DeGarmo (Hairspray), Frenchie (Rent) and Constantine Maroulis (The Wedding Singer).
Hicks is set to join the cast of Grease as Teen Angel starting June 6th.
He says he plans to add "soulful flavor" to his performance of "Beauty School Dropout." Gag.
The flashy role, he said, is "a classic fit for a classic performer."
He just called himself a classic performer!!!!!!!!!
By "classic" he means "hasbeen"!
[Image via Celebrity Babylon.]
Posted: May 16, 2008 at 10:45 am
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Aw, poor guy.
He really sucks! I felt sorry for him when he was on AI because he was so retarded and seemed like a nice guy…then he won and showed what a total asshole he is! Honey, you are NOT talented in any way shape or form. You are what is known as a sympathy case.
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:P 1st!
Just because you don't like his style it doesn't mean that he doesn't have a good voice.
HASBEEN!
Teen Angel isn't supposed to be SOULFUL. Puh-leeze.
Good for him. He is such a genuinely nice person.
Perez Loves Cock!
..give him a break. he's had more success than any of us perezhilton "commenters".. he came from absolutely nowhere to win one of the top shows in the business. i say good for him.. i wish him luck
i saw taylor hicks in the milwaukee airport in january and he was actually really good looking. he looked tall and thin and really handsome…almost like a young george clooney. i can't believe i just said that…
No idea how this creep won in the first place. Must have been rigged! LOL I can't stand his signing or his music.
Why did this guy win AI? Why did Fantasia win? They all SUCK. And, they need to get their egos in check. They think they are far better than they are. I wouldn't buy or even accept one of their alblums for free. Talentless hacks.
Love him! I'm kinda surprised that more people don't like his sound but what'ev, I do!
Taylor Hicks come out of the closet already! seriously it would help your career!
BARF. BORING. ICK.
I LOVE TAYLOR HICKS!
Why did he even win? No one remembers him and I doubt anyone ever bought his cd.. if he had one. And what was his first single? Oh yea thats right.. no one's ever heard it.
Heyyyyyy, I love me some Taylor. I think his first album suffered from Bo Bice syndrome - he had very little control over his first album (like Bice) and it showed. Bo Bice's second album is filled with the music that Bice loves - southern rock a la Skynyrd or the Allman Brothers. Taylor is very talented, but shouldn't be trying to make Top 40ish music….he needs to follow his own path and be the next Delbert McClinton.
he's sexxxxxxxxxxxxxxy in a grandpa kind of way
Frenchie was amazing in Rent and you forgot Tamyra Gray who joined Rent last May who is also amazing. Taylor is gonna suck though.
by classic performer he means copying joe cocker.
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K I hate T Hicks as much as the next and c'mon… I'm so sick of reality tv stars being on Broadway when there are hundreds of talented actors who are waiting tables. Seriously B-way get it right for once and leave the music theatre to people with talent who love it not d list celebs who are using it as a last resort!
Taylor's hot! I wish he was my boyfriend.
YOU GO TAYLOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Come on Perez…..just because the man is better looking than you, DON'T BE HATIN!
well usually when someone is in their 50's you can call them a "classic".
Taylor will bring down the house every night! He is a fantastic live performer. He belongs on Broadway or in Vegas!
The weakness of American Idol is that we vote for the best Live Entertainer, but the goal AFTER the show is to sell CD's. So, the best recording artist is not usually the best live performer. I love Taylor!
I got a mailing for traveling shows that come to my town and next year "THE VELVET TEDDY BEAR" RUBEN STUDDARD AND FRENCHIE DAVIS will be featured in the traveling show for Ain't Misbehavin'!!!! Wonder how many semis they will need for that production!
Okay fuck who we are talking about for a minute…are you fucking insinuating that being on BROADWAY is somehow a has been thing? are you infuckingsane? That just totally pissed me off and made me realize how little you know about what you talk about.
These drawings with cum dripping on the side of the mouth are stupid and classless. Act like an adult instead of a 13 year old brat.
I can't believe this is what America voted for! I think they need some rejects to win so they don't have to dish out more money! It should have been Katherine!!!
I love Taylor! Saw him perform in Baltimore and he was amazing. Too bad I hate Grease. But I do live in NYC now so maybe I will suck it up and see him.
you are so uninformed Perez. He has had a plat. record and 2 year concert tour that was extremely successful.
hah, he looks like an uglier version of george clooney!
I'D STILL DO HIM!
Tamyra Gray is also in Rent.
I hate this guy !!!!! No talent piece of SHIT.
it's that stupid open mouth grin that makes him look so challenged.
Just a little FYI folks…and this isn't even coming from a fan of Taylor…
He truly is a southern gentlemen & one of the nicest guys you would ever want to meet. He makes big bank every month on merchandise & still sells very well (tickets) at live shows. He is doing Grease for sake of doing it. The $ is sjut an added bonus. Lay off the guy, already. What the fuck has he ever done to any of you? Get a life!
You make it sound like going to Broadway signals failure. I think it's a step up.
I feel bad for him. He was my favorite on AI that season. Did AI not market him as much as they should have? I mean… did they even play his songs on the radio? It is quite a shame. He needs to keep trying. Blend soul with the mainstream!
I usually just enjoy looking at the pics, but for all of you that might not be musically inclined, Taylor is a very talented musician. He plays his own instruments(which would have been an obvious advantage to his "talentless" reputation on this years AI) and he did what any struggling musician that had a glimmer of hope to "make it" would have done, if they had any brains. Not to mention he is a very genuine and stand up guy. So all of you haters(losers), watch out for his next album that is sure to be Fantastic and True to this unbelievable musician!
is it just me or he kinda look like george clooney to you too?…hahhahaha
I want him to come swishing down the stairs wearing big fluffy wings, carrying a little beaded purse. The whole thing is supposed to be camp, right? He might as well just be himself.
Yeah he should have never beaten McPhee anyway. Shes hot & sings better and he's a grey haired average singer I mean come on.
Maybe he will wear that ugly purple jacket like he did on AI. Only this time maybe he will look even queerer
Re: tlm7609 – tlm, it is obvious that the people that write that Taylor doesn't have a good voice aren't the only ones that feel that way! If enough people had felt differently, he wouldn't have been dropped from his record label and would have been able to at least MAKE if not release a second record and he wouldn't be resorting to musicals to make money!
NO SHIT….BUT DISGUSTING TALENTLESS HAS BEEN WOULD BE EVEN MORE APPROPRIATE !!!! HOW MUCH YOU WANT TO BET THAT "GREASE" WILL CLOSE BY JULY WITH HIS UGLY ASS IN IT !!!! NOW…PUT CHRIS DAUGHTRY IN A REVIVAL OF "THE KING AND I" AND I'D BE WILLING TO FLY IN FROM TEXAS TO SEE IT !!!
Worst Idol winner ever (closely followed by Studdard and Barrino). WHat a loser.
Well now I have no desire to see Grease on Broadway.
OOOH, yeah! Chris Daughtry in the King and I would be AWESOME!
Of course they all failed ,THEY HAVE NO TALENT!
Idol is just a glorified karaoke contest
Re: Brooklyn Diva – GOING FROM WINNING IDOL ,TO NOT EVEN SELLING A MILLION COPIES OF YOUR DEBUT CD, THEN HAVING YOUR CONTRACT DROPPED, AND ENDING UP IN WHAT IS TRULY A VERY SMALL PART IN THE MUSICAL "GREASE" IS A SURE FIRE SIGN OF A HAS BEEN… AND "GREASE" IS GUILTY OF STUNT CASTING WHICH SEEMS TO BE ALL THE RAGE ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY THESE DAYS !
Loved this guy when he was AI, and I went to a few shows. He puts on a great live show, but I must say his album stunk. Maybe worst album put out by someone out of AI, well, until Blake released his. His original pre-idol stuff is wonderful though. Hopefully the album he is talking about in the press today allows him to go back to his roots. Plus, he doesn't need to sell a million copies and never will, he just isn't that kind of artist.
All I can say is I am glad I gave up on American Idol last season. Have not watched one episode this year. Its such a crap show.
Re: Fo Realz – Ditto!
Entertainment is a crowded field. There's no shame in this, heck, they've all line up successful gigs. This is NY's Broadway, the Great White Way, not just "musical theatre." I wish the guy success.
I'm no Idolizer, but why shouldn't these talented singers be rewarded?
I thought the guy who played the teen angel in Grease was really good (when I saw it in November). Why are they replacing him with Hicks? He is the best teen angel in all Grease history.
Oh please he's not a has been he's a never was! Soulful my ass.
FAILURE!
Oh My Head, Taylor on Broadway. I can see him now squatting and spinning and SWEATING all over the stage. He will ruin that song for sure.
better a has been then a bitter never was, eh? Jealous of actual talent much "Perez"?
Yawn…
First of all, this dude looks like he's in his 50s. He should have never won AI, he is a karaoke act if I ever saw one. How he beat out Chris and Elliot, I'll never understand. People from Idol said he was a demanding, arrogant ass offstage.
I love Taylor. He didn't work out but he reminds me of everything dive bar I hung out in drinkin and having fun. Love the enegy.
Yay! Ticket presales for Grease just went through the roof!
that white stuff on his lips suits him well he is no teen angel
All of you are just jealous cuz Taylor gets to star as a teen angel, while your favorite Idol is off somewhere selling millions of records. You all act like the most important thing in an artists career is to sell records and get their music heard, when that ain't the case at all. I've talked to every artist in the business and every one of them told me that what they would trade all their platinum records and Grammy's, if they could just spend five minutes up on a stage wearing a pair of sweaty angel wings and singing about someone that Dropped out of Beauty School. That just shows you how admired Taylor is by all of them.
Diana DeGarmo was the shit in Hairspray. She was fucking hilarious. I love that chick, she's so hot!
Jesus chryst someone take this chapped nob out. He's repulsive.
Boring, sad, bland, middle-America disaster with NO TALENT WHATSOEVER.
Represents the kind of stinking pieces of shit that live in Jesusland and
voted for W.- the worst president we've ever had.
Go away foetid faker and shut your "SOUL HOLE"- cause it ain't
Simon hated him for a reason…..he was NASTY as hell off camera cursing at the production staff and makeup people. The guy is a tool.
PH115,
Why would anyone be jealous because their favorite is selling millions of albums instead of singing a 3 minute song on Broadway for 3 months?
"Your future's so unclear now….
What's left of your career now?…"
haha oh Taylor Hicks…
If he dyed his hair, I feel like everything could have changed for him. He has a nice voice with the wrong image, sorry friend this is show business not show friends!
LOL @ Alyssa!
How many people get a chance to perform on Broadway? Producers put on shows to make money and if they think he will earn some money for them then they must know something. I like his voice. So he's not "cool". He's doing something he loves. Go Taylor.
Who's the idiot who thought this dork was going to sells any records?
You forgot about Tamyra Grey…(im to lazy to go get my playbill at the moment…forgive me) just saw her as MiMi in RENT and was horribly upset. She was off key, overacted…even for Broadway, and was miscast…its my fave show and everyone else was pretty damn good but she ruined it a bit for me…
and Broadway isn't something that "has-been's" do…it is an Amazing exp. and people are lucky to do it, some thrive on it where they can't make it otherwise…
Re: yo – Amen about Diana. That girl can belt the shit out of songs!