Rock Star II - Audition Experience

Rock Star II - The Series is holding Auditions during the month of March for the next Rock Star to be aired the Summer of 2006 on CBS.

I attended the second audition at T.T. The Bear's in Boston as moral support for my own personal Rock Star, my main squeeze, my man.

The auditions were to go from 10:00-4:00 and so we planned to arrive just after noon. We got there around 1:00 and took our places at the end of the line.

Let me tell you, the Boston auditioners had to be the most driven, tenacious, and toughest people in the world to stand outside in frigid conditions with wind like knife blades for over 2 hours just for a 60 second chance for stardom!

After an hour and a half we were the next group of 10 to be let in! Oh joy, oh HEAT! To my utter horror, we were told that ONLY auditioners were allowed in the place, moral support people were not!

Thank God for the warm and cozy coffee shop across the street from TT's! It was here that another "moral support reject" and I jacked ourselves up on coffee for the next hour and a half waiting for our Stars to complete their auditions.

Here's the skinny on the audition process:
Be prepared to sing at least three songs, but never will you get the opportunity to do that. You will be given approximately 1 minute to do your thing. You can go a cappella (recommend this!) or bring your karoake disc, musical instrument, or an accompainist.
Once you get into the audition area, someone will take your picture with a digital camera, you'll be given an envelope with your contestant number on it, and you'll wait your turn...
Next, you'll be called...The producer will tell you to "Rock It!" and so you will.
Your audition will be videotaped, to be watched later by the producers. This fact may give you some solace when you realize that your audition isn't getting a lot of attention from the judges. (Some folks reported that the judges were walking in and out of the room, on the phone, doodling, fidgeting, and yawning!)

The day after the auditions is when the "powers that be" will give your audition tapes a LOOK-SEE. This is when they decide who will be called in for a "call-back" the next day. In Boston, I overheard one of the production managers talking with the owners of the coffee shop that they'd be back on Sunday, 03/05 from 12-4 doing auditions (the call-backs!)

My educated guess is that if you don't hear from anyone by, say, 11:30 p.m. on the day after your audition, you're probably not going to...but, hey, who am I to say? I'm just a moral support person.

So, we wait. ...tick tick tick tick tick...