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. The project is described as “a satirical musical comedy that focuses on the outrageous and delusional fan base of American Idol”.
Set in Ohio, the show follows a group of devoted high school kids obsessed by Idol and Aiken. To pass the time, the group gathers in a barn to ‘worship’ a shrine to Aiken, who represents their dreams of leaving home and becoming stars.
Aiken was the runner-up in Season Two of American Idol.

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AMERICAN IDOL star CLAY AIKEN’s fans have inspired a new Broadway musical.
The ‘Claymates’ will be the focus of a new stageshow, called Idol: The Musical.
The project is described as “a satirical musical comedy that focuses on the outrageous and delusional fan base of American Idol”.
Set in Ohio, the show follows a group of devoted high school kids obsessed by Idol and Aiken.
To pass the time, the group gathers in a barn to ‘worship’ a shrine to Aiken, who represents their dreams of leaving home and becoming stars.
Aiken was the runner-up in Season Two of American Idol.

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AMERICAN IDOL star CLAY AIKEN’s fans have inspired a new Broadway musical.
The ‘Claymates’ will be the focus of a new stageshow, called Idol: The Musical.
The project is described as “a satirical musical comedy that focuses on the outrageous and delusional fan base of American Idol”.
Set in Ohio, the show follows a group of devoted high school kids obsessed by Idol and Aiken.
To pass the time, the group gathers in a barn to ‘worship’ a shrine to Aiken, who represents their dreams of leaving home and becoming stars.
Aiken was the runner-up in Season Two of American Idol.

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: “There are eight of them; all belonging to the same cult-like club that meets daily in a barn that doubles as a shrine to Clay Aiken. They are actively ridiculed by the rest of Steubenville; a humiliating situation that doesn’t deter their quest for all things Clay. They are victims of A.D.D., Ritalin, their misguided obsessions and their innocent longing for their elusive ‘15 minutes.’ One of them pumps gas. One of them is home-schooled. One of them is a genius. And one of them is a basketball phenom who would rather be a Chippendales dancer.”

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, have taken their musical talents to the Broadway stage. But now, Idolmania has actually inspired an original Off-Broadway show called
Idol: The Musical
. The story revolves around a group of outcasts that idolizes
Clay Aiken
According to press notes, the show is described as “a satirical musical comedy that focuses on the outrageous and delusional fan base of the hit television show.”
As one of

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The larger the venue, the more you pay to get the best seats in the house. But prices are rising fastest at medium-sized concert halls:
Venue size
Price
Percent change since 2004
1 to 749
$14
8%
750 to 1,999
$22.50
7%
2,000 to 4,999
$41.50
19%
5,000 or more
$55
1%
2006 median price of best seats for summer shows.
Source: USA TODAY analysis of Billboard boxscore data, May-August 2004 and 2006
The per-ticket price of being a big fan

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“About a year ago, I called him on his tour bus and heard giggling voices in the background,” Heigl, 28, tells Glamour in its upcoming issue. “After that, I said, ‘No more girls on the bus.’ If the boys in the band want to meet girls, they can go to a local bar.” Mayhem in Claynation
Clay Aiken’s
Official Fan Club Message Board has been shut down, apparently because the singer’s fans are at odds over his sexuality.

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Clay Aiken’s fans, who call themselves ‘Claymates’ and say they live in ‘Claynation’ are at war over Aiken’s sexual orientation.
An insider told
Page Six
, “The war is between the batty members that are still clinging to their heterosexual fantasies of him and others that don’t harbor such illusions.”
Aiken’s sexual preference hit the rumor mills after several men came out of the closet and said they’d met him in gay chat room and had relations with him.

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