Video: “The Voice” semifinalists to go on tour in summer
NBC is sending its break out reality TV hit on the road this summer.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network is planning a tour featuring its eight semifinalists: Beverly McClellan, Vicci Martinez, Dia Frampton, Javier Colon, Nakia, Xenia, Casey Weston and Frenchie Davis. Check out this video of the semifinalists performing a George Michael tribute on last Wednesday’s episode of “The Voice.”
The four remaining finalists – McClellan, Martinez, Frampton and Colon – will again be featured from 8 to 10 tonight on the last live performance episode of the season. The winner will be announced during the season finale from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Follow my live blog of both episodes here at BAM’s Blog.
The tour will not include the show’s four all-star musician-coaches, country music star Blake Shelton, pop belter Christina Aguilera, Gnarls Barkley singer Cee Lo Green and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine. Citing multiple unnamed sources, the trade publication reports that organizers for the Live Nation tour wanted the chart-topping, genre-crossing foursome to join the show’s contestants but talks apparently broke down over compensation.
I imagine that scheduling difficulties also were a factor in keeping at least half of the coaching panel off “The Voice” tour. Shelton is opening for Brad Paisley’s “H2O II: Wetter & Wilder World Tour” all this summer and into the fall. Paisley is set to perform his duet with Shelton, “Don’t Drink the Water,” on tonight’s episode of “The Voice,” airing from 8 to 10 p.m. on NBC.
Likewise, Maroon 5 has a full summer and fall tour slate with Train, including a Sept. 22 date at Oklahoma City’s Zoo Amphitheater. Train frontman Pat Monahan will perform a duet with “The Voice” finalist Martinez during Wednesday’s season finale, airing from 7 to 8 p.m. on NBC (KFOR-4 in Oklahoma City).
Although it’s unclear the planned series of live concerts will fare with the star quartet to anchor it, a tour should generate more buzz for the freshman show,which will return as a mid-season replacement on Mondays next spring. Revenues from the planned tour also will ofer another way for the network to cash in on its biggest success in years. “The Voice” –which at $2.3 million per episode is NBC’s priciest unscripted series ever– is garnering in the neighborhood of $250,000 per 30-second spot this season, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Shelton has already taken to Twitter (@blakeshelton) to gush about the tour prospects for his semifinalists: “I feel like a proud papa with my two girls @DiaFramps and @X3NIA17 hitting the road this summer for The Voice Live On Tour. Show ‘em love!”
Levine also expressed his excitement about the tour on the micro-blogging site. Although his original tweet has been deleted, it lives on in this retweet by Colon (@Javstwtr) “RT @adamlevine: @Javstwtr & @casey_weston are hitting the road in July for #TheVoice Live Tour. You can thank me later> I’ll thank u now bro.”
Despite its innovations on the reality singing contest format, “The Voice” isn’t the first such show to spin off a finalist tour. Since its began 10 seasons ago, reality TV granddaddy “American Idol” has dispatched the top from its latest season on a summertime concert series.
In fact, “American Idol Live!,” featuring the top 11 from the show’s 10th season – Casey Abrams, Haley Reinhart, Jacob Lusk, James Durbin, Lauren Alaina, Naima Adedapo, Paul McDonald, Pia Toscano, Scotty McCreery, Stefano Langone, and Thia Megia – will stop July 19 at Oklahoma City’s Cox Convention Center. For more information, go to www.coxconventioncenter.com.
-BAM
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