For us, it has been a seamless segue from Simon to Steven. I'm pretty surprised, 'cause I thought we'd be missing Simon and simultaneously sniping at Steven. Not the case at all. We like Steven and his sometimes-saucy, sometimes-sensitive, sometimes-salacious tenor. It's really good to be tucked in on long winter nights with rockin' Randy, gracious and gorgeous JLo, call-me Steven and so many talented kids. It's a whole different show, in an acceptable and good way. We listened to a couple of "possibles", tonight, including the closing act, Lauren Alaina. This is actually her second appearance in tryouts; and her "duet" with ST was semi-staged. Check out this NY TIMES article, for more. We shall see.
