(03-19-2015, 08:50 PM)thecommish27 Wrote: Just came home from supervising at the Holmes Middle School Variety Show…brought me back to when Haley sang Breakaway her 8th grade year and I thought American Idol, here she comes!

Quote:contestants who seemed utterly bland during her initial weeks on the show, gurgling through overplayed schlock like Alicia Keys‘ “Fallin'” and LeAnn Rimes‘ “Blue,” before

(03-16-2015, 07:35 PM)Himm2 Wrote: ^^ BEST ever IMHO. Especially with Harry on stage! And I'm convinced that the reason she tripped was because she was on the altered lyric of "Daddy, You Will..."..."Be Mine" as she looks up at Harry at that moment of non-doom and Misjudges the riser. (Ironic that she was "Misjudged" all season.

Quote:While growing up in New Hope, Devyn Rush always loved music – enough to want to make it a career -- but was conflicted about what kind she wanted to sing.

...Her love of contemporary music took her to New York right after her 2008 graduation from New Hope/Solebury High School and had her audition for FOX-TV’s “American Idol,” where on the 10th season in 2011 she became known as the ”singing waitress” and made it to the Hollywood rounds.

Lately, it took her to Los Angeles, where she now lives and hoped to make it as a recording artist.

“I came out here for one reason career-wise – to meet people and be a recording artist and continue my pop career,” Rush says in a telephone call from her Los Angeles home.“But something was just not clicking, and it’s been that way for a long time.

“Whenever I would sing pop music, I would feel like there’s something else that I need to get out and I can’t figure it out. And recently, I just threw up my hands and said, ‘You know what? I am not going to pigeonhole myself anymore. I’m not going to choose one type of music to sing.’ And I can’t do that, because no matter what I do, if I choose one thing, then another part of me doesn’t get to be expressed.”

Instead, Rush said to herself, “You know what? Screw it. I’m going to write a cabaret.”

At 7 p.m. today, March 22, Rush will debut that cabaret, “I’m Always True to Ourselves,” at The Rrazz Room in her home town of New Hope.

Rush said she though that by writing a cabaret, “I can sing whatever I want. I can sing all these things and I can make so many people happy because anybody can come to these shows and hear what they want to hear, and then maybe hear a new take on other songs that they’ve heard before and have that resonate with them, too.”

Rush wrote the show with her friend Joe Tex, a successful New York comedian, in New York. In it, Rush assumes different characters to tell “a true story, maybe an autobiography … through songs” as diverse as jazz, how tunes, contemporary pop and oldies – as well as two originals she says are very special to her.

...It’s a huge distance – figuratively and literally – from “Idol.” Rush says that after being eliminated from the show (and in the process losing her two-year job as a singing waitress at New York's Ellen's Stardust Diner), she returned to the Big Apple and immersed herself in the songwriting field.

Rush, 25, already had success playing regular New York City gigs with her band...

...But a year and a half ago, Rush says, she visited Los Angeles, and “my first thought was, ‘Oh my God, this place is huge and intimidating and I don’t know anybody here and they don’t know me. And I guess that means I have to move here,’” she says with a laugh.

Rush says the move “had everything to do with wanting to expand my comfort zone and get out of my comfort zone because I love New York so much.”

“And that definitely worked – I got really out of my comfort zone and it was really, really hard for the first year that I was here. And the past few months have been really, really rewarding and things are just getting more and more fulfillingly busy. It’s just been a really, really rough and exciting ride so far.”

She says she’s even re-connected with fellow “Idol” contestants Haley Reinhart (who placed third) and Casey Abrams , who finished sixth, and ironically last year played Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope and Levitt Pavilion in Bethlehem.

“I was bummed that I wasn’t there at the same time, ‘cause it would be fun to do something together,” Rush says.

Rush says she looks back on her “Idol” experience positively.

“It just seemed like really good timing, so I decided to do it, and I’m really glad that I did,” she says. “I don’t have to wonder what would have happened. I think overall just being on the show and having that experience is a good thing.

...And Rush also says she’s glad she didn’t win.

“When I say that, I mean that I think that if I had won, my life would be very different now and I think that I might be a little bit confused now,” she says.

“It’s about the journey to me, and I don’t want to skip a step. I want to have my experiences and land where I’m supposed to land as opposed to becoming an overnight success and not being able to handle it and have it fizzle out … I want to create my success and my career.”

(04-04-2015, 06:39 PM)Tusk Wrote: Interview done apparently before one of the last show of S10's tour, before the Phillipines (In Chicago? She says parents are there) (poor audio)