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America’s Got Talent 2010 will premiere its fifth season on June 1 at 8/7c. Then, America’s Got Talent 2010 will move to Wednesdays on June 2 at 9/8c. The Hoff has left his AGT judges seat and was replaced by new judge Howie Mandel, who joins Sharon Osbourne, Piers Morgan. Nick Cannon will still be the host of America’s Got Talent 2010.

After seeing all the talented people who have auditioned for AGT 2010, I’m really excited for this season. I always forget that the show doesn’t start until summer. I guess with all the talk on this site about the America’s Got Talent 2010 auditions, I feel like the show should be just around the corner.

The following is the experience that someone shared with me about their experience at the America’s Got Talent 2010 Portland auditions.

My Portland Oregon audition! On March 1st, I auditioned for America’s Got Talent in Portland, Oregon. I left early with my mom, expecting a large crowd like the one that had showed up on the first day. When I got there, there was no line anywhere. We walked in and right through security and the place where you get your audition number and wrist band. We entered into the waiting room to find only about a forth of the place had people. Since we had filled out our paperwork earlier, we walked past the people filling theirs out and right to the people who checked them. We joked around with the people working and made them smile while they checked over our paperwork. We then went and sat down, waiting for my number to be called. The first group of people auditioning were called and they were filmed as they headed out the door of the waiting room. We waited a little longer, talking to random people and having them preform their acts for us. A few people were interviewed and they scanned the area a couple times with the camera. My number was called not long after and I joined my group. They only filmed the first group, but there was a camera outside the door just sitting there and filming the people walking by. We lined up in numerical order and then we were split in groups of ten. Once my group of ten got to the chairs outside of the audition room, we were split into groups of five. We waited for about ten minutes before we were called into the room. There was no camera. Just three girls sitting behind computers. We said our name, age, where we were from, and what we were singing. Afterward, they thanked us and told us they would call if you made it through the next round. A friend I met there told me that they asked when they would be contacted and the people told them it would be before the 16th (Because the show films on the 17th and 18th). No one was called back in, and I didn’t see anyone in any group while I was waiting be called back in. I’m not sure it’s a good thing? We got to the audition about 9 and left at 11 something. The process was fairly quick and painless, but it was a lot of fun. I made a bunch of new friends and had a blast. Portland definitely has some talented people. Let’s hope for the best!

Feel free to leave your experience if you were at the AGT 2010 portland auditions.

I’m not 100% on this, but this site has been the official site for getting tickets to the America’s Got Talent tapings for a while and they have two different America’s Got Talent shows on their list. Here’s the shows they have so far:

America’s Got Talent in Los Angeles
March 12-13 (4 shows)
The Orpheum Theater
842 S. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA, 90014

America’s Got Talent in Portland
March 17-18 (4 shows)
The Keller Auditorium
222 SW Clay (corner of Clay and 3rd Ave)
Portland, OR 97201

These seem like the celebrity judge audition shows to me. Why else would they want to have an audience? Plus, it matches the time frame we’ve heard from the show.

Now, don’t get all worked up if you auditioned in LA and you don’t get a call to be on the March 12-13th show. The producers have told us that they sometimes call people to come and audition in another city if your talent is needed in another audition city.

If any of you are able to go to these shows in LA or Portland, we’d love to hear about your experience at the show. Just drop me a note on my contact us page. We’d all love to hear about your experience.

Thanks to John AGT Fan for finding this.

UPDATE (thanks to Cameron):
America’s Got Talent in Dallas
March 25th-26th
The Music Hall at Fair Park
909 1st Avenue
Dallas, TX 75210

Ok, that was quite a stretch. From this short video, it’s a joke to compare his talent with Terry Fator’s talent. I’ve seen Terry’s live show and have his DVD and Terry is a fantastic entertainer with an absolutely incredible talent. If you have only seen Terry on America’s Got Talent, then you have no idea how good he really is. With that said, this is a great little video of the America’s Got Talent Auditions. I don’t know who this person is, but I’m glad they shared this video with us. I have no doubt that it will be taken down once the AGT producers see it and wouldn’t be surprised if Ted Harris is disqualified from the show if they see it as well. Although, I must admit that with the proliferation of cell phone cameras and video, I’m surprised that video like this hasn’t turned up sooner. Check it out before it’s gone:

Interesting look at the makings of AGT if I do say so myself.

Over the past couple years, we’ve had a lot of really interesting acts audition for America’s Got Talent. It’s always nice when those acts check in with us again and show us the progress they’ve seen with their talent. Not to mention to hear about their most recent audition on America’s Got Talent.

One of my favorite people we spotlighted before was a little girl named Casey Cattie. Well, she’s still pretty little, but I think she’s improved quite a bit since we last saw her. Check out Casey Cattie’s most recent video:

Word is that Casey did a really great job at the auditions and I think she has a reasonable chance of being on America’s Got Talent 2010. I really hope she does. It’s fun to see people who participate on the site make it on the show. You might remember that we first saw G-Force on this site before making it on America’s Got Talent. Always fun!

Thanks to reader Mr. Lucky, here’s a list of the updates posted on the official AGT website:

The Chicago Audition states the following:
“We have started calling some acts with good news, but are still evaluating others. All decisions will be made by mid-April.”

The New York page says this:
“Some acts have already been called with good news, but auditions are still being evalulated. All decisions will be made by mid-April.”

Philidelphia says:
“We have begun making some “good new” calls, but many acts are still being evalulated. All decisions will be made by Mid-April.”

Los Angeles:
“Auditions are still being evalulated, but some good news calls have already gone out. However all decisions could take as late as mid-April 2010″

Also, the AGT producers stopped by the site and left the following answers to people’s AGT questions:

brigitte asked if you auditioned once this season, can you audition again this year? Yes — you can audition as much as you want whenever and where every you want. You can even send in a video if you auditioned in a city.

To answer multiple questions about the “call backs.”
As it says on AGTauditions.com, will will make all decisions on who makes it to the next round by mid-April 2010.  We only call and email acts that are moving on to the next round…sorry we cannot call everybody.

Some calls have already gone out. The reason why we say mid-April is just because, for example even if you auditioned in NYC, if NYC is fully booked, the produers may bring you to another city to see the judges. Please see our FAQ for answers to other questions.

This weekend is the AGT 2010 Dallas Auditions. The Dallas auditions are happening at the Dallas Convention Center. The good news is that if you have missed it, you can still show up tomorrow. More importantly, we want you to share your story. Let everyone know what it was like to attend the America’s Got Talent 2010 Dallas auditions. Here’s one person’s experience which has already been submitted:

Did anyone try out for Dallas today? Our group got there at 4:45am and got #4 spot. yahoo we where out by 11am. We took videos, pictures and a our group got pulled a side before the auditions several times to do interviews. when we did the opening shout outs saying”welcome to Dallas or Dallas has talent” with Nick Cannon our group was asked to get in the front. We didn’t get called into another room and there wasn’t pictures being taken when we where done. One group went into a room at a time. We did have a camera in with us and they asked us a lot of questions. We are keeping hope that we do get that call back. AGT is going to be here on Sunday too so they could call us to come back tomorrow. If not we are still on TV opening pan out next to Nick Cannon who puts on his pants like the rest of us.

As always, AGT will be posting when all the callbacks for Dallas are done on the official AGT Dallas page. I know that many of my readers were at the AGT 2010 Dallas auditions, so share your experiences in the comments.

The America’s Got Talent 2010 LA auditions just completed and a number of people have asked for a thread to talk about the AGT 2010 LA Auditions. As always on this site(Disclaimer: This is just a FAN site), your wish is my command (or at least something like that). So, use this thread to comment on your experience at the LA auditions. Post any pictures you might have taken before or after the show. Don’t disclose anything that you agreed not to say. Just share your experience and things that might help other people who auditioned in LA or will be auditioning for AGT 2010 in another city.

If you’re waiting for call backs, then you should keep an eye on the official AGT LA auditions page. The producers have said that they’ll update the city page with information about when they are done with auditions for that city. Also, they’ve posted the following message (which turns out is the most popular question we get on this site):

Only those acts that are moving on in the competition will be notified. Auditions are still being evalulated, no decisions have been made yet. All decisions will be made by April 2010

Yes, that means that if you don’t make it, you won’t hear anything. I also like that they told you April 2010 you can stop waiting.

Next up, America’s Got Talent 2010 heads to Dallas, TX on January 30-31. We’ll start a new thread for Dallas people to comment about the AGT 2010 Dallas auditions.

I’m sure that there are a lot of magicians that are preparing to audition for America’s Got Talent 2010. The show has had some decent tricks over the year. For some reason the magicians always seem to do their best trick first and then in one of the other rounds they just don’t do as good of a trick and get sent home.

Regardless, if you’re a magician interested in auditioning for America’s Got Talent, then you have to watch this illusion. It’s by far the best illusion, magic trick, whatever you want to call it that’s ever graced the America’s Got Talent stage. Check it out:

That’s a pretty high bar for magicians auditioning on America’s Got Talent 2010. I hope we get to see this high of a quality of magic again.

What is Simon Cowell thinking? Here’s some stories floating around the internet that Howie Mandel will be replacing The Hoff as a judge on America’s Got Talent. This comes right after David Hasselhoff leaves America’s Got Talent. Check out the announcement by eOnline:

Howie Mandel just scored a new deal…with America’s Got Talent.

The 54-year-old former Deal or No Deal host will sit at the judges table with Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne for the show’s fifth season, E! News has confirmed.

I guess there’s the potential that they could be wrong. In fact, I kind of hope they are wrong. Ok, Howie might be pretty funny at the judges table. I can give him a chance, but I just don’t see how he qualifies to judge these types of acts. Plus, it will be really interesting to see how he interacts with Sharon and Piers. I guess I can see Howie as the host of the show, but not sure about him as a judge.

Either way, I don’t expect one judge to make a difference in the ratings for America’s Got Talent 2010 anyway. People watch for the talent more than the judges I think.