Well, that's 3 hours of a morning that would have been better spent DX'ing.
American Idol audtions are in Pittsburgh on Friday. Pre-registration started today at 8 AM. So of course, people are lined up at Heinz Field starting at midnite. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11194/1160085-100.stm
Jessie has been excited about this since they announced the audition on the show last May. So, armed with a copy of her birth certificate, and lots of water & reading material, we departed from the house at 5:30. Should have been 5:15, but the battery in my car died (a bad omen, if you believe in omens), so I had to get the boss to drive us.
Of course, we miss the T (light rail transit) by a minute. Next one is in 10, though, so could I put some gas in her car while we waited? Good thing the gas station is across the street from the transit stop.
Get downtown, walk over to Heinz Field, join the queue. We were in the tail end of "Section 3"
And after all that, once the line starts moving, we're in and out of pre-registration itself in 10 minutes. But we have her ticket, our armbands, and we have to be back on Friday. At 5 AM. Yuck.
Paper estimates that there are easily 10,000 people auditioning. So who gets picked to see The Judges? Well, that's the part you don't hear about. Seems that her audition or auditons on Friday will be before the show's PRODUCERS. They filter the group down to 200 - 300, and only THAT group gets invited back for the final audition before The Judges.
Odds aren't great. Not that I have any doubts about her singing ability, but I also heard grousing from people who had been at other auditions in past years; even at this level, not everyone gets heard.
Still... you've got to start somewhere.
We'll see what happens.
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