Blown breaker = heartbreak at Sunday's Rodeo show

Thousands of Hannah Montana and Cheetah Girls fans left the two acts' Rodeo show Sunday disappointed: After the fourth song, a breaker blew in Reliant Stadium, leaving about 35 percent of the 73,000 people in attendance hearing distorted music. Officials got the system back up and running for most of the stadium by the time Montana was finished singing, but around 7 percent of the crowd — just over 5,000 people — still couldn't hear. And they were puh-issed. "You felt cheated just because you spend all the money. You wait in line. You spend at least $200 to $300 down here," Brooke Duree, who brought her daughter Cheyenne to the show, told KTRK. "The kids are upset. They can't hear the music. They're not dancing."

RodeoHouston CEO Larry Shafer said he was sorry for the speaker trouble, but the show had to go on: "I guess the one thing we could have done was stop the show, but then we'd have had a riot," Shafer said. On the bright side, the majority of the fans wouldn't have been able to do much more than kick Rodeo officials in the shins, so a pint-sized riot might not have been all that bad — we'd worry more about Montana's dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, tearing us limb from limb with his massive guns. The good news for the Rodeo is that Hannah Montana and the Cheetah Girls broke the single-show attendance record, squeezing in a couple hundred more fans than Brooks & Dunn did last year. Tickets are still available for tonight's Josh Turner show, before which officials said they'll thoroughly check the breaker system.