On October, 10th a concert took place in Millennium Theater which I attended with one of my close friends. It was put together by a Russian organization called ‘’Our Talented Children’’ This was the semi-final, The performers in this concert were children that have been already chosen from previous television shows because in order to have been selected for this concert the performers had to be selected by Russian television viewers. There were 2 age groups split into 5-12 years old and 13-18. Songs in many different languages were sung and there was mostly ballroom dancing. I sat in the 12th isle; there were many people in the audience including reporters from different Russian newspapers, and magazines. When I got there I noticed many posters with different sponsor’s names from different company’s and offices. Each performer had their own sponsor. There were 8 judges consisting of Russian pop stars and recording producers. I liked most of the performances. I enjoyed listening to songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, English and many more different languages. The Costumes were very colorful and were very pretty. There were over 50 performances, there were many different genres of music some were romantic, opera,

Most of the performers did a very good job, however one of the performers a girl named Stephanie; who was 16 years old did not , All the vocal numbers had to be sung live and not to a recording from the studio that the performers might have had. Overall, I enjoyed the concert and would go again if I was given the opportunity. It must have been very embarrassing because she didn"tmt follow the rules and it was very unfair to all the other Performers. Not only was it unfair that she had been lip-singing but Stephanie"tms mother and aunt had been part of the judges, they were Russian pop stars a duo called ""tmThe Sisters Rose"tm"tm after all the performers had been finished the mother of Stephanie requested for her daughter to re-do the song right before then end of the show. After the concert was finished, two of the performers got disqualified from the contest and would be removed from the final because of many parental complains and Other complains from people in the audience and more. Even Though, I think that most of them deserved it because of the hard work and professionalism they put into they"tmre performances and it showed in each of the numbers. Unfortunately, not all the performers got into the Final. She wore a blonde wig and a blue dress covered with rhinestones to portray Marilyn Monroe"tms performance in the Movie ""tmSome Like It Hot"tm"tm It was a very original performance and the audience enjoyed it very much, this song was a jazzy song. The first few numbers were ballroom dances. The costumes were very bright and even though they were so young they did a great job, by watching them you could tell that a lot of work was put into this number. Stephanie was lip-singing and no one had known until the music stopped but Stephanie kept lip-singing and when she stopped moving her mouth the music came back on with her voice already recorded. The second performer who was disqualified was a girl named Jackie who sang the theme song from the movie ""tmFame"tm"tm.