Mathieu Young/FOXSo here's the skinny on the Katie Holmes stuff:
In announcing the establishment of the Dizzy Feet Foundation, an effort to provide scholarship opportunities for underprivileged dancers, Nigel Lythgoe was tickled to also announce that Holmes will be taking the stage for So You Think You Can Dance's 100th episode.
The actress (who's in on the foundation with Lythgoe, Carrie Ann Inaba and Adam Shankman) will be dancing in a Tyce Diorio-choreographed-and-directed tribute to Judy Garland on July 23 and donating her entire appearance fee to Dizzy Feet.
And as for the dancers not yet married to movie stars...
The voters have their work cut out for them, because most of the Top 14 really tore it up tonight—and a few season-five favorites may be in trouble.
But before Caitlin tried to mate with Jason, and Phillip got chained to Jeanine, and Ade scaled Melissa's balcony...Mia Michaels made Brandon cry.
Janette Manrara & Brandon Bryant:
Jean-Marc Généreux's cha-cha was right up Janette's salsa-paved alley, but Brandon had to learn yet another completely new style and perform it in front of his biggest critic to date. So what was the contemporary-trained chameleon to do but run Mia Michaels right over with the hot tamale train?! We're not sure who keeps speeding up the music on this couple, but the hyper tempo was all the better to showcase Janette's fierceness and Brandon's ridiculous ability to turn himself into whatever he needs to be. "The best damn cha-cha I have ever seen on this show, ever!" declared Nigel. And after Janette and Brandon had accepted two first-class train tickets from Mary Murphy, Mia told a tearfully appreciative Brandon: "I am going to dig in and drag you to a place that you've never been—because you are amazing."
Kayla Radomski & Kupono Aweau:
Even though they rode into town on the hot tamale train, Kayla and Kupono both know that only counts for so much. So it's a good thing they got the chance to drape themselves all over each other and hurl their brilliantly contorted bodies across the floor in a Sonya Tayeh contemporary routine. Which, of course, had an achy-heart theme and positively oozed with Tim Burton-esque weirdness and heat. And Kupono can drag us across the floor anytime. Nigel called the Hawaiian contemporary specialist a "new man up there this week," while Mia complimented his "calm power." And you know they already love everything Kayla and her perfect legs do.
Randi Evans & Evan Kasprzak:
Yay, Evan doing Broadway! That's what we thought, anyway. But Randi and her Gene Kelly-channeling partner, fresh off a real bummer of a performance (hee-hee!), didn't get a darling Tyce Diorio routine to tear into. Instead, Joey Dowling crafted a more stylized, Bob Fosse-influenced number that required a major stage presence to make work—and Evan and Randi, so good every other week, didn't quite bring it. The judges quibbled with both dancers, but mainly with Evan, whom they expected more from. It was the black leather gloves that threw him off, we tell ya.
Caitlin Kinney & Jason Glover:
Unique jazz, indeed. Brian Freedman's creation wore its alien-looking-for-human-to-mate-with theme on its sleeve—but everything Wade Robson's crash test dummies routine was, this wasn't. The leaps and tricks were very fun, but Caitlin wasn't given a chance to steam up the stage, having been costumed head to toe in a foil-streaked black vinyl suit that Nigel compared to a "dancing condom." "I don't think it played to your strengths," Mary lamented, though both Nigel and Mia thought the duo committed themselves to the piece admirably.
Jeanine Mason & Phillip Chbeeb:
We were wondering when Jeanine and Phillip were going recapture that week-one magic. They had to draw hip-hop again to do it (once again, with Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo), but we're not complaining. There's nothing like a well-used prop, and the chain that bound these two tonight yanked them right back into finals contention. Phillip was back in his element and Jeanine has yet to cease being awesome. "If you guys keep dancing like that, you should be chained together for life," Nigel said. Mary found it "incredibly creative," but Mia found herself "getting caught up in chainography." Chalk it up to creative differences.
Melissa Sandvig & Ade Obayomi:
Melissa was in prima ballerina mode tonight as she and Ade took on a classical pas de deux to Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet. Choreographer Thordal Christensen constructed an elegant routine that highlighted the 29-year-old's extensive training and rewarded her lifelong dream of playing Juliet. And Ade hasn't let her down yet. He was born to loft romantic heroines over his head and whisk them away. "You can't fake classical ballet—that exposes everything—and you were brilliant," praised Mia Michaels.
Karla Garcia & Vitolio Jeune:
The newly paired Karla and Vitolio were saddled with the quickstep, the bane of many a SYTYCD contestant because it's a style that's supposed to look so effortless but can just as easily leave the most talented couples looking like a couple of amateurs. Vitolio again looked like he was having trouble connecting with the gal on his arm, but Jean-Marc's choreography was so much fun and the duo pretty much nailed it otherwise. Plus, Karla's quick-change at the beginning was topnotch. "So much for the kiss-of-death dance, huh?!" raved Mary Murphy.
Kelly Clarkson performs on Thursday's results show, and two more dancers will give their final bows.