'American Idol' narrows twelfth-season male contestants to 43 hopefuls

American Idol narrowed its pool of twelfth-season male Hollywood Week hopefuls to 43 contestants during Wednesday night's Fox broadcast of the week's initial elimination round. Last night's episode began with all the season's successful male auditioneers arriving to Hollywood and being surprised with the news that, in an Idol first, only the men would be competing against each other in the first two days of Hollywood Week for judges Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, Keith Urban, and Randy Jackson.
Each hopeful was allowed to give a single a capella performance while standing in a line of 10 men total onstage in a round called "sudden death." After all 10 contestants sang, the judges decided whether they would advance to the week's subsequent group round or be eliminated immediately. The male contestants that were cut right away on Day 1 included Karl Skinner, a 26-year-old pizza chef from Joplin, MO; Dustin Watts, a 27-year-old firefighter from Albany, LA; Dr. Calvin Peters, a 28-year-old physician from Fort Worth, TX; and Brian Rittenberry, a 28-year-old bookkeeper from Jasper, GA.
The men shown advancing to the group round were Micah Johnson, a 24-year-old U.S. Navy seaman from Morrow, GA; Mathenee Treco, a 26-year-old choreographer from Aurora, CO; Nate Tao, a 24-year-old sign language teacher from Reston, VA; Gabe Brown, a 22-year-old baker from Marion, IA; Gurpreet Singh Sarin, a 22-year-old college student from North Potomac, MD; and Cortez Shaw, a 22-year-old sales representative from Dallas, TX.
In addition, Frankie Ford, a 25-year-old busker from Brooklyn, NY; Lazaro Arbos, a 21-year-old ice cream scooper from Naples, FL; Trevor Blakney, a 24-year-old U.S. Army Sgt. from Corinth, MS; Bryant Tadeo, a 23-year-old sales associate from Hilo, HI; Curtis Finch Jr., a 24-year-old choir director from St. Louis, MO; and Charles Allen, a 22-year-old server from Saginaw, MI, also advanced.

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