Experience at Washington DC AGT Auditions
I got another person who contacted me about their experience at the DC auditions. They preferred to remain anonymous, but the experience is insightful. Amazingly this person was only at the audition for 30 minutes. Sounds like the AGT audition team is figuring out how to work people through better and better. Enjoy one person’s experience at the AGT DC Auditions:
Hi! I had my audition today.
I got lost a bit in DC so I ended up at the check in tables at about 2:10. My appointment was for 2:30. I was immediately taken upstairs to audition for Shweka. I was a Q act. I don’t know what that means.
When I got upstairs where the audition rooms were I was told I was auditioning in about 5 minutes. I hardly had time to compose myself. I actually wanted a while to wait so I would feel more ready, but nevertheless almost before I knew it I was in the audition room.
Shweka was the guy in the middle I guess. He sounded British. Are they all British? lol, but he was nice. I just started at the beginning of my arrangment and he let me finish! ! the whole song which takes about 3.5 minutes, so that’s a good sign right? He said “great” in his british accent when I finished and the guy to his left was smiling as I was playing but I wonder if they do that for everybody.
I was also miced while I played and it suprised me when I heard myself singing through the speakers because I’ve never been miced like that before. I was suprised that from the time I walked in the doors to the convention center to when I left was about 30 minutes. It was over before I knew it.
I think I saw Casey there sitting across the hall but I didn’t have time to say hi because it was suddenly time to go into the audition room.
I’m confused by the audition process. I didn’t see throngs of people waiting and only saw one camera filming a guy with his string puppet. I wasn’t asked to do any other silly shots like Mina was so hopefully that wasn’t a bad sign, and I wasn’t asked to audition again.
H! ! aha, and this stupid ticket reader thing for the parking garage kept my ticket when I paid so I couldn’t get out of the parking garage and the lady on the speaker wasn’t helpful because she kept telling me to look at my ticket and I was telling her I didn’t have my ticket because the machine kept the ticket but she finally let me out. She probably thought I was trying to get out of paying my whopping 2 dollar ticket. I left at 10:40am and I was in traffic for a while in DC on the way back so I got back at around 7pm so it really wasn’t that long of a day.
God bless!
I’m really hoping my daughter’s audition experience is also of the 30 minute variety!!! Wouldn’t that be nice? Good luck to you!
My daughter also auditioned at the HARBOR IN Maryland for AGT. We arrived there at 6:00 am and we left at 12:00 noon. We took part in the Channel 4 News Production showing all of the people that came to audition. THe Harbor was beautiful and I want to Thank AGT for their smooth audition process. WE didnt have to wait all day in line with other folks. I really enjoyed the experience and we are hopeful that Tyeisha gets a call back!!! She sang a wonderful song and did very well.
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Juanita K,
Sounds like you had a great experience at the auditions. Best of luck to Tyeisha. Let us know if she does get a call back.
Another person asked me to post their audition experience anonymously. I figured it was in DC also, so I’ll just post it here in the comments:
My daughter and i did the AGT auditions in washington of friday morning. We arrived at 7:30 am and had our audition at 3:00pm after being taken to 2 different holding rooms. We were brought in to the producers with 4 other people.My daughter sang Carrie Underwoods All American Girl
and did an excellent job!! After everyone sang there was 1 girl that was brought back into the room to sing again because we believe she was a nervous wreck and couldn’t even remember the song she was singing. When she finally did sing it it was very short…I believe they wanted to see if she could really sing and also see if she could shake the nerves. Just my guess! the experience was very fun!! We learned alot. We expect to hear something within 2 weeks and if not……there’s next year!!
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Hi John,
Have you heard of whether any auditions from Washington DC tryouts have been notified yet? I would have thought that they would send anybody invited back to New York, but as of their 3/7 update, it says they will post when all acts (invited back) are contacted. We auditioned in DC and want to know if we should give up hoping. Especially since after the Miami auditions, I’m assuming the regular show will start at the end of April? What are your thoughts? I know this is a fan forum, but respect your opinion.
Lisa
Hi Lisa,
Like you said, I only know what I read. Nothing more. I’m not sure if DC will go to NY or not. The auditions in NY were huge, so maybe they’ll send DC people somewhere else to balance the auditions. I don’t really know though. On the site it said, “The show will be taped in NYC on March 17, 18, and 19th at the Hammerstein Ballroom theater in New York City.” which means that you better hope you get a call soon if you’re planning on going to NY to audition.
I still haven’t seen a premiere date for the show, but last year’s America’s Got Talent didn’t start until June 24th. So, we have a while before we get to see the show I think.
I just recently auditioned in Philadelphia. I was there from 8 am until about 6pm. They initially brought some people in to do some of those long group shots and little shots of people saying” Philadelphia Got Talent”. I was in with the singers. They separate people out who play guitars or whatever. By the time I finally had an opportunity to sing it was almost 3pm. I was alittle ticked off because our group of 10 people where the next to go in audiation but they kept bringing in groups that had arrived later then us but they let them go up ahead of us. The one guy told me they let groups go ahead. I was alittle pissed after waiting all day. Anyway they took all of us in and we did out thing. There were 2 girls in my group that had amazing voices but when we came out they just asked me to come back in and sing another song. Then they told me to go over to the other side to sing for the producers. This is where there were about 7 people and a video camera and I sang one song and then they aske dme to sing another. They then told me I would hear something by January. I felt good about the audition but surprised the other 2 women were not picked as well. Go figure. Anyway I am hoping I make it to the next round.
Best of luck George. Sounds like you did well. Let us know how it goes. I hope to see you on the show.
One other comment is that the show often misses on some really great talent.