America's Got Talent (AGT) (2010) - June 29, 2010 - Auditions

In Chicago, this show...

Segment #1

Zack - Sneezing with eyes open
Howie buzzed and left the podium back 1/2-way into the audience before he even started.
He tried for a while, then Piers buzzed him, then Howie came up and buzzed Sharon's buzz.
Howie: Can I just say something... That's not talent. H1N1. Get out.

Segment #2

The Striker's All-Stars from Tallahassee - Dance Group (Hip-Hop dance)
(Pretty good!) Crowd: VEGAS
Sharon: Wow! That was good.
Howie: I do not agree with Sharon. I think that was GREAT! I would love to see you go far with this.
Piers: You've got the look... You've got the sex appeal for the girls. You've got the whole thing.
Yes, all round.

Gentlemen of NUCO - Classical music rockers
Yes, all round.

NU Covenant (Gospel group)
Song: Shout
Sharon: You make me want to go to church.
Yes, all round.

Naishon Jones - Dancer
Audience - VEGAS
Pretty good!
He's in.

Segment #3

The Spellbinder (from Chicago) - Magician/Illusionist (50yo)
Sharon buzzed.
Dances with a hankie.
Piers buzzed. Howie buzzed.
Howie: The thing is on this show, you have 90 seconds to dazzle us, and you're dancing with a hankie.
No, all round.

Tom Zemkye(sp?) - Dance/Sing
No. (Thank God.)

(missed name) - Girl in a plastic Bubble
Buzzed by Piers and Sharon.
Howie finally buzzed.
No.

Buddy Holly Cheesehead - Sings a Cheese song he wrote.
Buzzed off.
No.

Segment #4

Carlos Aponte - Operetic Sinnger (Bocellis)
Standing O from audience and judges
Sharon: I was not expecting to hear such a huge voice...
Piers: Carlos, you don't look like normal big bold opera singers, but then you started to sing and I got goosebumps.
Yes, all round.

Segment #5

Velena Bolchick(?) - Hula-Hoops artist
Nice.
Howie - I have been to Hooters, and you know, sometimes they do the hula-hoops. You're like Hooters on steroids.
Yes, all round.

John Beatty - The Strong Man (A registered nurse)
Rolls up a frying pan, uses hand to put nail through two boards, holds 290# stone in lap and bends nail to Macho Man
Piers buzzed - For all I know, that frying pan could have been a weak one, and that stone... I've seen bigger.
Piers can't UNroll the pan. "All right. It's a little harder than it looks."
He UNrolls the frying pan for Piers. Audience: VEGAS.
Howie: Yes.
Sharon: Yes.
Piers: I'm gonna have to say yes, now, won't I?

Segment #6

Debra Romer (Kalamazoo, MI) - Plays guitar and sings (21yo)
Ran away from home at 17yo, and hasn't been back.
Foster care at 15yo. Music saved her life.
"In the Arms of An Angel"
Audience - VEGAS
Howie: You have a lovely voice and lovely look. My feeling is that you didn't own your performance. I sensed your fear of performance.
Piers: Where he senses fear, I sense vulnerability, which I find appealing.
Sharon: I get what Howie's saying. Own it what you do. At the moment, you're not doing that.
Howie: For now, it's no.
Piers: A definite nailed-down Yes.
Sharon: This contest is about going to Vegas at the end of the day, and putting on a good show. At the moment, I don't know you can do that.
(Whatever you want, I'll do it.) Well, Debra, I'm going to give you the opportunity to do that. Yes.

End of Show.

See you tomorrow.