8 posts tagged Anwar Robinson

Give RENT its due The Coloradoan, CO - 56 minutes ago They might just see that "American Idol" finalist Anwar Robinson and South African "Idol" winner Heinz Winckler are making their theatrical debuts in the ...

Filed under: American Idol, Alumni, News and Gossip Welcome back to "AI Aftermath," where we explore Idol's past. Each week, as one more American Idol hopeful is eliminated from the competition, we take a look back at contestants past who were eliminated in the same week.

Top 9 Power Rankings: David Cook’s a Thriller This could become like a ping-pong match, folks. The lead in TVGuide.com’s Idol Power Rankings changed again this week, as Davids Cook and Archuleta traded places. Fueled by his show-stopping delivery of “Billie Jean,” Cook commanded 48.1 percent of our readers’ votes, while Archuleta slid back to a mere 18.7 percent.

Baseball is back. Both Elliott Yamin and Diana DeGarmo sing the Anthem for home openers. Kelly Clarkson continues to tour throughout Europe, Daughtry is back touring with Bon Jovi after a brief stint in Germany, and Anwar Robinson has returned to the Rent tour after being sidelined with a knee injury.

Season 4 American Idol finalist, Anwar Robinson, is taking a personal leave from his tour for Rent and he will not be appearing at performances on Tuesday & Wednesday of this week at DeVos Performance Hall.  Anwar says on his MySpace page that he is currently on medical leave due to a knee

  I first saw “Rent” on Broadway back in 2005.  Although I was familiar with the storyline and the music, I was disappointed with the preformance I saw that day.  The words to the songs were difficult to decipher and the cast seemed to lack the zip that was needed to make the show work well.

The national tour of “Rent” makes a stop at the Dupont Theatre for four performances from February 8 through 10 and Anwar Robinson, fourth season American Idol finalist, is scheduled to make his stage debut in this touring production as Tom Collins.

I was just talking to Lake this morning in our production meeting about last night’s American Idol. His comment was how happy he was that they finally had some comedy. Then I had to bring up something that has been bothering me since Season 1, “boy, American Idol brings out the gay black man like no other.” Too true.