Again, though, it’s surprising that American Idol decided not to show her audition, though she’s almost definitely not the first Idol hopeful to go unseen until Hollywood.
On the flip side, Hicks might be one of the many that gets cut in Hollywood, so not showing her audition might be ABC’s way of getting ahead of any possible fan backlash.
Perhaps the producers were so impressed, they wanted to save her TV debut until this next round, where she’ll blow the audience away with her rendition of some popular Disney song or something to that effect.