THE APPRENTICE Season 10 Episode 7 Recap

THE APPRENTICE Season 10 Episode 7 – On tonight’s episode of THE APPRENTICE, the teams were brought to Broadway and tasked with holding backer’s auditions. For those like myself who aren’t clued into the theater lingo, the backer’s audition is a mini-production and presentation of a not yet produced play aimed at getting investors to putting up money. The teams were given no producers, director or designers, but they were given the script and score to create the presentations. Liza stepped up for Fortitude, even though she has never seen a Broadway play, and Steuart lead Octane.

The teams would put together the presentations after meeting with the writers and getting a sense of what they want to accomplish. The backer’s auditions would be for the judges on the task – Tony Award-winning Memphis producer John Yanover, Broadway producer Daryl Roth and actress Kristin Chenoweth – at the Shubert Theater. They also had to create supplemental marketing materials along with the presentation to sell the show.

Fortitude are set to present ‘Darling’ which is a “dark deconstruction version of Peter Pan” set in 1929 Boston. The ladies all provided Liza with creative direction after they heard the songs and plot of the story. Stephanie wanted to head the production of the presentation because she is apparently a trained musical theater expert, along with her marketing, real estate and sales skills. Girl has been BUSY. Mahsa sat back and was dismissive like she is on every other task and Brandy and Poppy pulled their weight and basically ran the task. Mahsa and Stephanie worked on the marketing materials, while the other three set up the actual performances and presentation.

On Octane, Steuart was with his bros Anan and Clint and…David, who they called out in last week’s boardroom. Fearful that David might throw this challenge they wanted to keep him on a short leash in the beginning, but it turned out that his experience in regional theater (AMAZING!) was incredibly useful and he sort of owned this task. In fact, I actually liked David after this challenge which I thought would never happen. Their play was ‘Lil Miss Fix-It’ and they actually scored a full performances of the four scenes and had the actors introduce each as opposed to the Apprentice teams. Their marketing materials were great and they really worked with the show.

And apparently the producers agreed as the men won the task and they head back to the suite to watch the fireworks. When Mr Trump began questioning the women on why they lost, as it wasn’t a slam dunk one side over the other, Mahsa and Stephanie began to pick at Liza once again. The both lied to Mr. Trump and were already riled up as if they were preparing to go into the boardroom. The shrill yelling came to a point and Brandy finally chirped in and called out Mahsa for being disrespectful and not loyal. She basically says that Mahsa told Clint the total the girls made last week before they even headed into the boardroom, effectively letting Octane know they won the challenge before even stepping in the room. Mahsa denies it at first and then says she did do it, but only after Clint said it. Not sure why that makes a difference, but Mahsa agrees its a mistake and still calls out Clint. He’s watching this and gets so pissed brings the men back to the boardroom to call her out. After everyone unleashes their distaste for Mahsa and call her out for being so tactless, it seems that it didn’t matter if she did anything on this task and everyone was hell bent on getting her out of there. And Donald Trump couldn’t agree more. It was refreshing to see this lady pack her bags and leave, especially as she was the reason so many more qualified competitors had been fired before her.