"Grease" Recap

Congrats to Derek Keeling for not only doing well in the voting, but turning in a strong performance in a song-and-dance number in tonight's show. He was picked at the end of the show as the favorite of two of the four judges - one of whom was someone who knows a little bit about the theatre - Andrew Lloyd Webber! Impressive!

I can't say I'm crazy about the elimination method the show uses. The bottom four vote-getters (two males and two females) have a "sing-off" where they take turns singing lines from a song - then the judges decide which male and female to send home. Uh, why bother having people vote if you're just going to overturn their choice? One assumes this is to keep the audience from sending home the wrong person - or perhaps it's an attempt to make the show different from "America Idol" - but it seems to defeat the purpose of having a vote.