Jetta arrived at the Sacramento Amtrak station last night on her journey home from "America's Got Talent". She decompressed over coffee at Denny's.The nighttime ride from Sacramento to LA on the Greyhound Bus was predictably bad (a baby cried seemingly the entire way). The people she stayed with in LA were - unrestful - from the sounds of it. She lost her folding chair and neck brace along the way. Even before she started standing in the long lines at the Millenium Biltmore Hotel in downtown LA at 6:15 a.m., she was trending towards exhaustion. In other words, all pretty predictable events if you are trying to rein in expenses, and worrisome, if you are preparing for an audition.
She sang for a first panel of judges, along with several other singers she described as unprepared and untalented. Her group was dismissed. Nevertheless, after her group left, the judges called her back into the room, referring to some disparity with her paperwork. The complaint was a ruse: they had her sing several more songs, gave advice to move around a lot more if rock-and-roll was her forte, and passed her on to a second panel of judges. Jetta was beaming, and ecstatic!
Since it was now late afternoon, before she sang, the second panel of judges went out for a long lunch. Waiting on a bench for their return, fatigue rolled over Jetta, and she fell asleep. The judges returned and they called her up first. Struggling to wake up, Jetta had to fend off what she thought were inappropriate questions (the judges no doubt were testing her ability to think on her feet). Jetta sang, and turned in what she described as a weak performance, without much of the recommended movement. One judge wondered if she had ever done any Heavy Metal (answer: no). Weak performance, or not, the judges suggested she send them some videos for their perusal. Decisions will be made by April.So, a small chink in the imposing edifice of Hollywood! More taping ahead....
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