Tim Hockenberry, Turf, Tom Cotter, and Donovan & Rebecca joined the other acts to advance in America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 17. Tonight 12 more acts perform for America’s votes: The Untouchables, Rock Star Juggler Mike Price, Inspire the Fire, Cristin Sandu, Elusive, Jake Wesley Rogers, All Wheel Sports, Wordspit and the Illest!, Jacob Williams, All Beef Patty, Spencer Horsman, and Lightwire Theater.
The Untouchables, choreographed by Miami All Stars, have some high expectations to live up to after last year. Howard is inspired by the level they are dancing at, for their age. Though they are good, their potential issue is they’re not young enough to get by on cuteness and not old enough to get by on experience.
Rock Star Juggler Mike Price tells us he could go years without dropping on stage (again). His act for this evening is juggling knives and torches on a unicycle. He does this fine, but when he gets on land, he drops. Piers would have buzzed. Sharon’s unconvinced. Howard expects to be saying goodbye.
Inspire the Fire is a singing/dancing crew that would be better off picking one or the other (or perhaps neither). An honest Howie tells them this is not a $1 million act… it’s a $125 act.
Cristin Sandu is from a long line of circus performers. His balancing act, which I’m not sure how much different it is from the last two times, falls apart after a short time. Unfortunate because this could have been impressive, but instead it just continues the slow crawl of talent tonight.
Elusive dances to James Brown, and he shows his strength with stunts like climbing the steps on his hands. Howie would like to see him make it so he can have a dance off against Turf. As much as Sharon may like him, she’s seen his moves before.
Jake Wesley Rogers is a singer and musician who Howard doesn’t remember liking the first time. I’m not sure this lesser known Britney song is helping him any. Howard doesn’t think anybody likes Toxic, including Jake and Britney Spears.
All Wheel Sports is a group of skaters, bikers, scooters, and even dancers and trampolines. Each of these elements may potentially be great on its own, but combined it just all seems unfocused, leaving me (and the cameras) unsure where to look. The judges say this was fantastic, especially live, but they realize this drawback.
Wordspit and the Illest! is Howie’s favorite group, but he hates their choice to do an original song, which let’s face it was not very good. Sharon agrees with him, but Howard loves it. From time to time doing an original pays off (like Joe Moore’s recent finals performance on Australia’s Got Talent or Ryan O’Shaughnessy on Britain’s Got Talent), but the song actually has to be good.
Jacob Williams seems to be the shyest and dryest comedian ever, but it works. Howie says he’s the best act of the night. I’m not sure that’s a compliment considering what we’ve seen so far (are we really up to the ninth act?), but I think he could hold his own regardless.
All Beef Patty is a drag act that continues tonight’s theme of bad performances.
Spencer Horsman suspends himself above a bunch of spikes while in a steel straight jacket and locked inside a bank vault bag. The judges were not impressed because they could not see him perform his escape.
Lightwire Theater combine their love of ballet with lights. Finally an act that’s going somewhere.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 19, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on NBC.