Strictly 2022: Week 11 Musicals

It’s Friday night…and it’s time for ~~Crackerjack~~ Strictly Come Dancing. Thank you stupid football.

It’s time to raise the curtain on one of our favourite theme weeks in the Strictly calendar: Musicals Week!

Let’s move on from that mashup of more recent musicals shall we?

Tess in yellow latex – what fresh Hell is this?

*Gorka guyliner* alert – this is what we came for!

Molly & Carlos
Charleston to Hot Honey Rag from ‘Chicago’ – Another absolute gift of a song. Probably her best dance yet. Fantastic swivel. The one fail was the focus on the dance drew energy away from the performance. More face please but brilliant.

Hamza & Jowita
Samba to They Live In You from ‘The Lion King’. A bit of a test for Hamza in that no lifts are allowed in a Samba. Not least because of the TessBot’s Samba not Simba joke.

A bit hit and miss for us. A tad underwhelming. But the joodges loved it….

Kym & Graziano
Cha Cha to Fame. This one is a real challenge but not an obvious one as it’s all about the tempo. Cha Chas can be danced at tempos between 120 to 132 beats per minute. Fame has 131 beats per minute so Kym, fresh from Covid, is going to have to dance like the absolute clappers to keep up with the song.

Well done! Somehow found the song by abandoning the Cha Cha in places. For someone returning from illness, that was incredible.

Will & Nancy
Foxtrot to Sun And Moon from ‘Miss Saigon’. A gorgeous tender song. There will be tears…from Will probably. Head placement issues. Don’t think his legs have ever looked shorter. A really concerted effort but didn’t wow us as much as the judges.

Helen & Gorka
Imagine getting Couple’s Choice on Musicals Week. Very lucky indeed. When we saw Helen had Mein Herr from ‘Cabaret’, our immediate thought was that this will go one way or the other. Helen’s a great dancer but tends to lose confidence when dancing solo. To channel the indefatigable Sally Bowles will be the ultimate test of being able to front star quality.

Oh the parents being so quietly proud – explains it all.

That was stunning. She emerged and owned it. “You’re better without me” – take that!

Has Craig ever been booed so much? I think he has just galvanised the nation

Fleur & Vito
What a gift to get I Got Rhythm from ‘An American In Paris’ for a Quickstep. A really technical dance which she (mostly) kept up with. She looks beautiful.