Audition Week

Hello everyone. This is the start of an important week for me. This coming Saturday I will be taking the first step toward winning a local talent contest. 

For the 2nd year the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center, in downtown Bowling Green, is presenting a talent search inspired by the NBC TV show, America's Got Talent.   

"SoKy's Got Talent" invites people of all ages from a 10 county area in Southern Kentucky to sign up for the local talent competition. 

I signed up last year but a case of laryngitis forced me to drop out.  

It all starts with the first round of auditions. They are being held in a rehearsal room at the SKyPac center this Saturday, July 20. 

Mine is scheduled for 9:50AM. I've entered as a ventriloquist in the "Meteors" category, which is the last of 5 age groups. It's for people 36 and older. 

The last time I performed in a talent show was back in 2015. It was a fund raiser for a high school Beta Club held at the Plaza Theater in Glasgow.  

Here's a link to a video my performance on my You Tube channel. 
Playing The Plaza-March 2015

Once again, I am going to use Cecil, my turtle for my audition. This time he's going to be dressed in Western clothes to go along with the song we're going to perform. Here's what he looks like. 

I have been practicing but I still need to put in a lot of work to be good enough to make it to the semi-finals in the competition. 

If I make it to that level I'll get to be on the stage at the Capitol Arts Theater. It's a refurbished movie theater that serves as SKyPAC's smaller venue. The finals will be on SkyPAC's stage. 

Getting to do my act on either or both of those stages would mean a lot to me. If for nothing else, because I saw two of the best ventriloquist in the business, Jeff Dunham and Terry Fator, perform on each of them, respectively.

But I'm not going to settle for just performing. I really want to bring home a trophy. There will be winners in each of the age group categories and an overall winner. 

On a day when the world celebrates the Apollo 11 mission. I am going for it. If they can put a man on the moon, I can win SOKy's Got Talent. So wish me luck and I'll keep you up to date on how I do. 

Now it's time to get back to rehearsing. While I will be working on the details of my act, I am also going to try and have some fun. Allowing part of me to just sit back and enjoy the experience. For the next 6 days I'm going to be saying a lot while keeping my mouth shut.