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America's Got Talent 5
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Somewhere on this thread was an analysis that I did after the YouTube.com preliminary round chowed. It will get an airing on August 7. I rated all acts I saw but they need a new look based on only their second performance (and first at Hollywood). Here is what I saw:
Plutronics - a cappella group that sounded less good this time our - my grade C
Dylan Plummer - dancer who was injured and should not have attempted to performed - my grade B-
Pup and Owener - pup was a very nice dog trained to pull a lever to put something out on an accordion; technical difficulties made it impossible for them to compete ; my grade N/A
Cam Hodges - he sang "You break my heart" in an insipid way - my grade B-.
Andy Andersen - repairguy who was a brief by funny comic; my grade A
Ryan Rodriquez - plumber ; my grade B-
Beeker Forte - hip hop dancer; my grade B-
Pizza Patt- a guy who juggles pizza dough instead of inaminate objects; my grade B
Andrea(my notes are not clear) Young - female singer my grade B
Margaret Du Barry - my notes too gibberish to tell me what her act was, but it was good enough I rated it My grade - A-
Alexander Bui - in most competitions of this sort he would win, but not last night when he only got my grade - A
Chatalle Lee Tony - a superb age 10 opera singer compared to Judy Garland; my grade A+
Same on NBC and AGT5 for organizing all the good stuff in the last 3 acts. How many make it into the competition is unclear to me. It could be 3, 2 or only 1.
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Quarterfinal round part 4 of 4 in Hollywood, catching up on episode airing 8/3/10:
PlusTronics - this a cappella group showed nothing of the spark or verve I recall from earlier rounds My Grade B
Nu Convenant - they sang flat but were so non-inspiring that nobody cared Grade B-
Anna and Patryk - they were OK; I gfound nothign more to say about therm; GradeB
Lindsey Stirling - hip hop violinist with no redeeming musical values Grade B-
Dougie Houser - comic Grade A
Rudi Macaggi - operating in the extreme risk and danger zone but clearly comfortable there, impressed me the judges and the audience with something very special Grade A
Taylor Mathews - probably average except to the teeny bopper female fan base who adores him Grade B
ArcAttack - they went outside to showcast their unique acts; I actually liked it less there but it was still totally riveting Grade A
Price Poppycock - he did a fine perforrnce, but I don't think it was as good as either prior one Grade A
Murray the illusionist - he was good but not good enough Grade B+
Striker's all Stars - they severely underformed and will ber out; Grade B-
My "A" acts were Dougie Houser, Rudi Macaggi, Arc Attack and Prince Poppycock. They will in the the semfinal pool but of that group of f I like Arc Attack as most original.
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It's time to take a comprehesive look at the final group of 20, 4 from each Quarterfinal plus 4 from the YoubeTube sepcial competition group. Here are my top 3 in terms of originality of the acst or or perfection of the performance:
ArcAttack
Fighting Gravity
Jackie Evancho
The AGT5 judges are overly enamored of HASPOP, a very good performer but not super superspecial.
Others I like not not enough to rate them at the top group are Ascendance. These could be the top 5. We'll see.
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Last week I said that the final group of 20 semifinalists had been reached with the addition of 4 from the YouTube.com performance group, but I was wrong. The judges got a second opportunity for selected performers and 4 of 12 will take advantage of it to reach a semifinal group of 24. This is called the Wild Card Round. Here is goes:
Kruti Dance Academy - promoting classical Indian dance, obviously not a big favoriten of the American public, I predict they will go down in flames with my Grade of B-
Rudi Macaggi - his last performance would be difficult to top and he did not come close. He insted went for a very difficult backflip into the ropes that help him upside down and 8 feet up. I awarded him a grade a B-
CJ Dippa - A decent performance for an 11 year old, but nothing special, grade of B-
RNG - the youth corps had nothing to offer but smoke and mirrors Grade C
Harmonica Pierre - Piers Morgan is an excellent evaluator of talent usually, but when the performer is Harmonica Pierre he goes off the deep end. My Grade B
Michael Grasso - the first really super performance, he won me over to think that he is a major talent Grade A
Anna and Patryk - they do a really brilliant (for their age of 11) flamenco dance with Howie claiming that he believes Patryk has tken over leading the group Grade A
Hot Shot Tap Dancers - this family group actually went backward ith their act My Grade B-
Dougie Houser - even Piers admist now that as a comic Dougie is brilliant within the limits of what can be achieved in 90 second My Grade A
Connor Doran- flying kites is interesting concpetually but what do you do for imporvement of the act? My Grade B-
Michael Lipari and Ashleigh Dijon - super Grade A
Right Stuff Side Show - this provided grounds for clashes between Piers and Howie on who would subject whom to the larger grief challenging their rating of an act my Grade C
All of the 4 I have rated A can make it. So my choices for the 4 acts to advance in the nick of time are:
Dougie Houser
Michael Grasso
Anna and Patryk
Michael Lipari and Ashleigh Dijon
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AGT5 Wild Card Results Show
The entertainment for this show was 2 astonishing Houdini repeats by Criss Angell and a "who put this crap on my TV screen " number by Leann Rimes. The real reason for this episode was to announce the results for 3 remaining semi-final slots and then have the judges fight to decide who got the 5th (20th overall) one. My predictions were Michael Grimm, Connor Doran and his double kite, Anna and Patryk and Michael Lipari/Ashleigh Dijon aerialists.
Michael Grimm was grouped with Kruti Dance and Rudy Macaggi. - Michael Grimm
Swing Shift Side Show, Hot Shot Tap Dancers, RNG, Anna and Patryk - Anna and Patryk
CJ Dippa, Connor Doran - Connor Doran
That left 3 for the last spot picked by the judges:
Harmonica Pierre
Micahel Lipari/Ashleigh Dijon
Doogie Horner
It should be no surprise that Harmonica Pierre, the biggest lightweight in the competition at that point, was eliminated by the audience. Sharon voted for her pick as expected and Piers for his act Doogie Horner. It wa all up to Howie, who chose Micahel Lipari/Ashleigh Dijon to go to thte semis.
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