Grand Finals Sneak Peeks

OMG Grand Finals Semi-spoilers...
*not really that spoiler laaa*
But if you reaaaally prefer to not be kaypoh and be totally surprised by tonight's performances, you can stop reading now :) This post has behind-the-scenes vids of Sunday's rehearsals and pictures from last night's full dress. There's still plenty more to see on the show, this just gives you an idea of what to expect and ...hopefully...whet your appetitie for tonight's show!


Let's start with Sunday rehearsals. Check out this vid of CJ Crew's first rehearsal for Zaki's assistant Pam. Zaki wasn't in town on Sunday, so Pam sat in for him.



Next up, here's a vid of IFLY mucking about before rehearsals. They're pretending to be Luminiq. The moves they're doing is a segment of Luminiq's choreo from the opening sequence. Not bad right?



Last but not least, here's a sneak of a segment of one of Luminiq's items for the night. I love it. Spyro plays Luminiq drums.



After rehearsals on Sunday, IFLY headed to wardrobe for their imaging session and it took quite a while to get eleven people kitted out for two items plus group items.

Check out what IFLY boys are wearing...tiger prints, very jungle er chic...

Vincent Yeo looking like he's just stepped out of Lion King.

We have quite a few Georges of the Jungle :) 

Girls being girls, are left to sort out what belongs to who for the boys...

There, everything nicely folded and labeled after the girls are done!

IFLY boys trying on their second outfit, a bit 'shy' about something poking through their shirts! LOL!

Vincent Yeo chillaxing across the corridor....imaging for 11 takes forever!

Here are pics from last night's full dress rehearsals at the theatre. Before we started the full run through for the night, we celebrated a few OMG birthdays ;) Today's birthdays are Azmi from Luminiq Crew, Jessy from Desert Roses and Vincent Fok from IFLY. Sophia's birthday is next week so she joined in too to cut the cake.

Chillaxing while waiting for the birthday people to arrive...

 

 

 

 

Sean raced over for rehearsals the minute he was released from camp!

 

Ok, that wraps up the Performance show rehearsals, time to rehearse the Results Show stuff, here are the pics ....

 

 

Check out these two OMG monkeys :)

Well, the show's not really over, there's still a long debrief, as usual, after the full dress rehearsals, and everyone's slumped over...

Overall, the show's lookin' good, everyone looked real spiffy in their hair/makeup/wardrobe. Hope the pics got you guys excited about tonight's show. I'm even more excited now after posting them haha. 

Of course, here's what I'm actually looking forward to in tonight's show ...apart from the results I mean ....

Judge Swoon will be guesting on tonight's finale yay!

Am sure you guys are just as excited as I am about Tay Ping Hui coming back to the show :) Apart from the swoon factor, I seriously think he was the best guest judge on the show - constantly giving detailed and constructive and honest criticism. So it only makes sense that he would be invited to rejoin the show at the Grand Finals.

Okay guys, am off to pack my cameraS and bag for the show. If you see me, stay clear, cos I have a bad runny nose and a cough - I'm sicky :*( - BUUUUT....please feel free to follow my tweets and twitpics as I update you on what's happening in real time backstage and on the show!

AND DON'T FORGET TO VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! Voting deets in the left sidebar!

If you haven't already, check out your grand finalists' profiles here (click on each link to go to their profile!) : 

IFLY prodigy

Jill-Marie Thomas

Luminiq Crew

Sean Harrison

CJ Crew

Gah! So eggciting! Wooot! It's the Grand Finals y'all OMG!

xoxo, s.

Happy OMG Grand Finals Day!

D-Day Is Here!
Its been two long weeks of waiting while the OMG Grand Finals have been busy gearing up for that one last battle (last two rounds actually considering each of them are gonna be perfoming two items on the show).

Will it be Singers vs Dancers or Old vs New?
Is tonight gonna be the night where the physical dance trumps emotional vocals? IFLY, CJ Crew and Luminiq Crew have all prepared fast-paced, energy pumping, music-thumping routines, while Jill-Marie Thomas and Sean Harrison are pulling out all stops on the emo train vocally.












Here's a vid featuring the singers performing together (along with the Singapore Char Siew Baos!) at the Charity Special (episode 13).



Here's a far out vid of the dancers collaborating for that same Charity Special. (Thanks Vik for posting!)



Or will lines be drawn based on 'old' vs 'new'; Jill + Luminiq Crew, part of the original Top 8, vs the newbies CJ Crew, Sean and IFLY who came in as Challengers?


Who will the night belong to? 
Who do you think will win the $50,000?

It all happens tonight! 8pm Performance Show and 10pm Results Show. Remember, lines open at 8pm when the show starts. Here are the voting deets.


For IFLY prodigy
Call 1900 112 1201 or sms '1' to 71199

For Jill-Marie Thomas

Call 1900 112 1202 or sms '2' to 71199

For Luminiq Crew

Call 1900 112 1203 or sms '3' to 71199

For Sean Harrison

Call 1900 112 1204 or sms '4' to 71199

For CJ Crew

Call 1900 112 1205 or sms '5' to 71199 

Voting lines close at the beginning of the Results Show, so keep voting even throughout News, cos every single vote counts! Vote to help your favourite win! Its the OMG! Grand Finals y'all woot!


xoxo, s.


ps. I'll be at the show from about 6pm, so follow my tweets/twitpics for that all important backstage access :)

pps. More birthday shout outs for today - Happy Birthday to Luminiq Crew boy Azmi, Desert Rose Jessy and IFLYer Vincent Fok! Wishing you guys the best of luck for tonight's show - break a leg y'all!

OMG Grand Finalist : CJ Crew

Hit Me Baby One More Time!
I know CJ Crew's all about K-pop and all, but when I first saw them perform, the first thing that came to mind was Britney's first single 'Baby One More Time'. It must have been those school girl outfits and the fab dancing. CJ Crew's slick, hard-hitting moves and perfect synchrony wowed the crowd when they joined the show on Episode 11 School's Out. 

Granted they had some lil kids perform with them, but they totally stole the show from the kids with their moves.


The girls have been on the show for just a month, that's just one week longer than fellow Grand Finalist IFLY prodigy, so they're still fairly 'new'. So here's a little background about the girls and a quick one-by-one intro so you get to know them a bit better :)
The 'CJ' in 'CJ Crew' stands from Celine Jessandra. The girls are all from the Celine Jessandra School of Performing Arts where they offer training courses on K-pop dance and singing. Like Luminiq Crew, the actual number of members of CJ Crew is way more than the 7 girls that joined the show, their numbers go up to almost 20. But just for the show, these 7 were hand picked by Celine Jessandra herself. Originally meant to be made up of 2 guys and 5 girls, the dynamics had to change due to age and schedule restrictions. Which is how we ended up with these 7 lovely girls...


Samantha Mun a.k.a. Sam
16 December 1988
Currently working, Sam is pretty much the leader of the troupe. She's the one that speaks up during interviews and generally leads the girls at rehearsals and events.











Josephine Hung a.k.a Jojo
6 April 1990
Currently working and also a talent at CJ, Jojo is easily the best dancer on the crew. Its a real joy to watch her cos she hits every move hard and sharp. Plus she's always got a ready smile. Just too cute and sometimes a total blur sotong, she's one of the most genuinely sweet people I've ever met.











Diyana Jamial a.k.a. Di
22 November 1990
The most petite member of the group, Diyana is the one who raps and is training to be singer at the school too. Chatty and outspoken, Di's usually the one that accompanies Sam on interviews. Imo she's also one of the better dancers in the group and is often spotlighted and placed right in front.

Evelyn Ong a.k.a. Evy

10 November 1988

Evy's the one with the cap,  that's her trademark, you hardly ever see her without it unless the costume for the routine requires her to take it off. She looks like the tomboy of the group and is most likely the tomboy of the group, but she's as much girl as any of the other girls in the group and can totally rock a girly routine and a corset (as can be seen on Fright Night!) LOL!

Yuzhen Li

8 November 1990

The fairest and tallest girl in the group, Yuzhen is all fair skin and big eyes and great cheekbones. But the girl can kick it with the best of them. 

Joanna Lee

28 October 1991

The youngest in the group that's on OMG, Joanna is quiet but looks to me like a really hard worker. The other night at rehearsals when it was just her and Jun representing CJ Crew, she worked tirelessly for hours, filling in the gaps where CJ Crew would be performing.

Zhi Jun

4 December 1988
Unfortunately Jun had to pull out of the competition at the very last minute due to a back injury that has just recurred. She's been with CJ Crew on the show since they joined and its said to not see her be able to compete at the Grand Finals with the rest, so CJ Crew is now down to 6.




I managed to catch with the girls just after their OMG rehearsals on Sunday, just before they rushed off for another set of rehearsals, this time with their school!


What's the best part about being on OMG!? 
The best part is the support we get. We get supporters coming out from everywhere to tell us that they love us and are behind us. Like old friends that you've lost touch with, or just people that you're just too busy to keep in touch with cos of school and work and of course the hectic schedule from this show. But because of the show, they're all stepping up to support us and its really great.


Whats been the saddest moment so far then?
Our lowest point was when we ourselves realised we didn't do as well as we had wanted. We got feedback that wasn't so good from our friends and fans that further confirmed what we kind of already knew. This was after our Fright Night! performance. We knew we hadn't done too well. But you know, we couldn't focus on that, we told ourselves that hey, we've still got the rest of the show to go. I guess what got us really down wast he pressure to stay on the show. And once we got through, we just had to focus on the next step.

Which do you think was your best performance on OMG?
It would have to be the one we did for School's Out! cos we had a lot more time to prepare, about two weeks. So the whole routine was tighter and better choreographed.

I'm guessing then that your worst performance would have to be the Fright Night! one?
Yes. I think that night we were just trying to do too much. We felt pressured to fulfil our idea of K-pop. Most K-pop acts can sing and dance. They rarely only sing or only dance. So we felt we needed to add the singing in, and showcase that we could do both like the general K-pop genre. But actually only a few of us are trained singers. But then, we didn't want to just highlight two singers and make the rest look like back up dancers, so we tried something new and it didn't really pay off. Onstage for us, it sounded ok, but we realised that on TV it didn't sound so good. Plus we couldn't hear ourselves at all when we were performing. So it wasn't as good a routine as we'd have liked it to be.


Most people will ask you who your biggest competition on the show is, I'm gonna ask you  the reverse - who do you think you're least in competition with?
I think we'd have to say we probably feel least threatened by the singers, cos we're in a totally different genre. For the finals, we'll focusing on the dancing, we won't be singing, but Di will be rapping a little.

What do you think you girls will take away from this OMG! experience? Any lessons learnt?
Hrm. (after a long pause) Time management. All of us have so much going on, so we've learned that we have to plan our time more carefully. Some days we feel like we need to dig a few more hours out of the day from somewhere, anywhere :)
Between, school/work, rehearsals for our dance school's recital plus rehearsals for OMG!, its been really crazy - its hard enough to find time for the schedules things much less actual time for rehearsals for ourselves.
So yea, we have to learn to manage our time even better.

Quick OMG Stats for CJ Crew : 
1. CJ Crew joined OMG on Episode 11 School's Out!


2. CJ Crew Rankings : 
Episode 11 : Judges ranking 2 / 5 ; Public - Not in Bottom 3
Episode 12 : Judges ranking 3 / 6 ; Public - In Bottom 3


They've only performed twice, and the its known that their second performance wasn't as strong as their first and it shows in the rankings. Will CJ Crew be able to up their game now that they are in the Grand Finals? And up it enough to clinch the $50,000?


Catch CJ Crew TONIGHT on the One Moment of Glory Grand Finals where they will battle it out against the other four to win the $50,000 grand prize. 

Voting lines will open at the start of the show at 8pm. The Results will come to you LIVE the same night at 10pm. 

To vote for IFLY prodigy :
Call 1900 112 1205 or sms '5' to 71199.

Good luck girls, and all the best for tonight!


xoxo, s.