I hope I get to see Grease before Taylor’s run is up! I keep meaning to find a day to go do it but I’ve been swamped with life. Or maybe I’ll get really lucky and he’ll do a NY concert after Grease is done!

I thought Paris’ Mom was proud that her daughter is engaged and will get married. I am proud that my daughters chose college, marriage, and then babies. May God bless Paris with a healthy baby girl, and success in her career.

Skylight, I wouldn’t be one bit surprised to see Taylor try TV or movie acting next (after his new CD drops), especially if it’s a show/movie that’s music-themed. With all the positive feedback he’s getting for Grease, I’d be willing to bet that he’s already receiving some offers.

I’m not sure that there’s ever been an accurate “number” or statistic reported on any subject in the media. Regarding Taylor specifically, the 700,000 sales figure for his album, is still being bandied about since it was first reported a year ago. It hasn’t ever been updated to show any kind of an increase in any press piece that I’ve seen.

Actually, Ken Barnes keeps track of all the Idols sales numbers. The numbers are rounded, but they are accurate. Taylor has been selling around 100 albums a week for a while now. His current total is 702,000.

By the way, I’ll be editing posts that don’t meet the guidelines of the blog. Be careful not to become defensive when your favorite Idol is criticized.

My point is that we listen to, and read articles stating statistics and numbers every day. How many of the statistics published daily are 100% accurate? Does anyone know? Does anyone question the numbers they read in the papers?

With that in mind, whether or not the numbers in the positive press pieces regarding Taylor’s effect on the Grease Box Office, are completely accurate, or are severely inflated, doesn’t matter to me one iota. What matters, is that by all accounts, Taylor Hicks has taken to the Broadway stage with the same charisma and talent that he’s always shown, and has been very successful in this endeavor. He has brought the energy in the show to a higher level and he has been embraced by the public – who is showing its appreciation by spending their money at the Brooks Atkinson Theater Box Office.

Someday – maybe tomorrow, or next week, or next month, some credible person from the Grease Box Office is sure to produce an irrefutable number of tickets sold – during the weeks that Taylor was in the production.

Until that irrefutable proof is in someone’s hands, we only have what’s reported in the media to go by. And what was reported today was that Taylor Hicks has brought Grease a “windfall!”

Paris Bennett’s Mom is proud of her daughter getting pregnant at 20! What an odd this to say! Sorry, but Paris will have a tough time of it. Trying to launch a career and having a baby on top of that! Does she have any idea at all how much work a baby is? Don’t these young Moms know anything about birth control?