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Well, I’m not exactly sure if this is what the special America’s Got Talent announcement is or not, but today we found a special page for the America’s Got Talent 2010 auditions on YouTube (Thanks Marianya). Looks like you have until June 23rd to submit your audition. Voting will begin on June 28, 2010 and all of it will be done exclusively on YouTube.

As usual, the auditions are open to any age and any talent. 12 acts will be chosen to perform live on a special America’s Got Talent YouTube performance show on NBC. 11 acts will be picked by the judges and 1 will be selected by your votes.

Once they start the voting process, we’ll give readers of Pure America’s Got Talent a chance to highlight their submission to the America’s Got Talent YouTube audition. Yes, that should provide you all a bunch of extra votes from readers of this site.

Here’s Nick Cannon describing the America’s Got Talent YouTube audition process:

Hello all! Back from Tuesday and Wednesday evening shows, I needed some time to digest everything before posting.

According to the warmup act America’s Got Talent started their tapings from Los Angeles… then moving north to Portland, Oregon… moving east to Dallas, Texas… then south to Orlando, Florida… heading back north to New York City and finally ending in Chicago! From these taped cities a small number of acts are sent to Las Vegas to be weeded down further and the lucky chosen will get their chance in the spotlight.

But I digress… let’s talk about what happened in the past couple of days!

First off… as expected those that called in for groups of twenty or more, have VIP access, or are fans of the acts that are being shown during the showing were seated first on the orchestra (ground) level. Everyone else ended up filling in what seats are left in the orchestra level and then most ended up seated in the balcony section of the theatre. Anyone else that showed up but were unable to get tickets online were welcome to stand in line and wait patiently until all those that have tickets have gone through first… and should there be seats remaining they let anyone else in to fill the top seats of the balcony (there were still seats available when they started taping on both nights).

Upon entering they did a bag check as well as wave you down with the metallic wand… There are places inside the theatre where one could go and purchase snacks and drinks (including alcoholic drinks), they were LONG shows. Show/taping started at 7:00pm and it began with the stage managers asking the audience to do a few takes of applause, a few takes of standing ovations and a few takes of boos. Once these are done there is a warmup act that fills in the dead time in between acts as the stage crew help with setup and dismantling of equipment.

Then comes the intro of the judges…. Piers had to come in twice at the taping on Tuesday due to technical difficulties… When Sharon headed towards the judges area she immediately kicked off her shoes and spent the rest of the evening barefoot… Howie (the David replacement) got a Howie chant as he entered the main area. On Wednesday instead of walking down the aisle, the judges came from the backstage area.

Finally it was time to start the first act….

In total there were fourteen acts on Tuesday and seventeen acts on Wednesday, after about half of the acts went first, then there was an intermission where the warmup act had people come up and put on a mini-talent show and then we saw the remaining acts for the evening. The tapings ended anywhere between 10:00pm and 11:00pm depending on length of time per act (from walking on stage to walking off stage after judgement).

There was a decent variety of acts… from bands to duos, circus acts and magicians, from pop to opera to rap… There was even some oddities that will undoubtedly make it into various montage scenes. We got to see acts of loyalty and acts of defiance. We saw someone overstep their bounds and were immediately put down by the judges (even Howie got in on the action!).

Howie Mandel is undoubtedly the “nice judge” this year. He used his buzzer the least while Piers and Sharon tied for most. He gives compliments and sugar coats criticism… unless the act was so bad that he couldn’t find anything good about it. There seems to be very good chemistry between the judges, Piers jumping on Howie with a “Howie? Deal, or No Deal?” whenever Howie talks to much and hasn’t gotten to the point yet.

In special cases Nick would intervene to either help out an act if he feels the judges were unnecessarily harsh or confront an act should they overstep their bounds. Nick seems to be very comfortable with the judges if he’s willing to push them if necessary.

Just after intermission on Tuesday night Nick did some tapings from the balcony that had to be retaken due to the audience interrupting once or twice or thrice.

So there are some ideas of what happened during the evening tapings of America’s Got Talent. Did anyone else go to the various tapings throughout the U.S.? If so what are your impressions of the tapings?

Today is the day, America’s Got Talent has arrived in Chicago and there are four chances to come by and watch the auditions as an member of the audience! I’ll be there Tuesday (today) night and I hope to be able to come back with news and a low down of what went down… within reason.

If you haven’t gotten tickets yet, I hear that there are still tickets available for the evening showing on Tuesday as well as the afternoon showing on Wednesday at the Chicago Theatre. Just go to this link and follow the directions to reserve your ticket.

In other news leading into AGT 2010. John may be able to give you a sneak peek into Las Vegas auditions… so stay tuned for details!

I can’t say with 100% certainty that your chances of being on America’s Got Talent 2010 are over, but if you go over to the official AGT website they have posted the following message:

Special Announcement Coming Soon
The auditions are officially over for season 5. But there is going to be one more chance to appear on the show and vie for the 1 million dollar prize. We’ll be announcing the details about this amazing opportunity soon.

The comment that “auditions are officially over for season 5″ seems like those of you who were waiting can feel a little bit of closure for this season. I’m sure that will come as a great disappointment for many, but hopefully knowing will at least provide some relief as well. I have really appreciated hearing hundreds of your stories in the comments on various posts on this site. It’s really quite amazing that talent that has visited this site and the sharing that has occurred.

Of course, the show couldn’t give you complete closure since the notice above also talks about a “Special Announcement Coming Soon” and one more chance to appear on the show. I wonder what they have up their sleeve. I’m guessing some sort of video submission online judging thing with the winner getting a chance to be on the show. Kind of like the MySpace auditions that they’ve done in previous seasons. What do you think?

I’m going to reach out to some of my contacts related to AGT to see what I can find out and see if Pure America’s Got Talent, the best AGT fan site on the web (maybe the only one too), can participate in the special announcement in some way.

According to the NBCChicago.com, there are free tickets available for reservations at the following link.

Chicago has four opportunities to see a live taping of “America’s Got Talent” at the Chicago Theatre April 27-28, and the tickets won’t cost you a thing.

Host Nick Cannon and judges Sharon Osbourne, Piers Morgan and Howie Mandel will all be on hand for the show tapings, along with an array of singers, dancers, comedians, and performers of all age and style.

Simply go to the link, select a date and fill out your info… Hope to see you there!

Hola! Konnichiwa! Bonjour! Allo! I’m Marianya, and I’ll be helping out on the Pure America’s Got Talent blog.

I started watching America’s Got Talent in Season Three… and was hooked. So I went back in time and found clips of the previous seasons and decided to put this series on auto record on my home computer.

I don’t know what else to say about myself, so I’m going to go straight to something that’s been a recent Internet sensation.

This has been circulating the rounds. From Taiwan’s Super Star Avenue, the contestant is Lin Yu Chun singing Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” .

Well, I have to say from a Nuttin’ But Stringz fan perspective, their participation on Dancing with the Stars was a little disappointing. They essentially were just background music for all the other dancers. Still a big step for Nuttin’ But Stringz to be on DWTS, but I would have liked to see more of their performance. I guess my consolation is that many of the dancers on it were from one of my other favorite shows, So You Think You Can Dance. The merging of the 3 main shows I blog about.

Anyway, in case you missed it, you can check out the video of Nuttin’ But Stringz below:

I was really excited last night when I was watching Dancing with the Stars to hear that America’s Got Talent alumnus Nuttin’ But Stringz will be performing as special guests. That’s awesome to see that Nuttin’ But Stringz is still alive and well. They really deserve their own show. I absolutely love what they do with a violin that you just don’t really see.

In case you can’t remember this group (is that possible?) or just want to relive Nuttin’ But Stringz time on America’s Got Talent, check out the following videos:

Nuttin’ But Stringz Original Audition


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