Canada’s Got Talent will see over 50,000 people land in Niagara Falls over the next 5 days

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Published October 18, 2022 at 10:30 am

Celebrity judge Howie Mandel is about to see about 50,000 people sitting behind him for 10 tapings of auditions for the Canada's Got Talent TV show, filming at the OLG Stage in Fallsview Casino Resort. (Photo: City-TV)

Even with 10 separate tapings in a much-larger facility that seats 5,000 people, tickets for the Canada’s Got Talent TV show were a hot commodity this season.

From October 19 to 23, there will be two tapings daily – one at 1 pm, the second at 5:30 pm – at the new OLG Stage inside the Fallsview Casino Resort in Niagara Falls.

By mid-September, the Friday through Sunday tickets had disappeared with only a handful of Wednesday to Thursday tickets left.

Free tickets to the tapings were available through City-TV but it was first come, first served online and they went pretty quickly.

This will be the second season (though technically the third) for the Canada’s Got Talent crew, hosted by Lindsay Ell with an all-star lineup of judges that include Howie Mandel, Lilly Singh, Trish Stratus and Kardinal Offishall.

Auditions for last season was interrupted several times by changing COVID-19 restrictions in Ontario but the finale aired in May with Quebec singer Jeanick Fournier taking the top prize.

While this is the second season for the present group of judges, there was a first season back in 2012 that featured host Dina Pugliese and judges Martin Short, Measha Brueggergosman and Stephan Moccio.

However, in the initial edition, the judges travelled across Canada to see auditions, stopping in Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto and Halifax.

After languishing for over nine years, it was announced in June 2021 that the series would be revived, first announced to be returning in spring 2022. Production on the series took place in fall and winter 2021-22.

Last season saw the show stay in Niagara Falls with auditions in Fallsview’s 1,500-seat Avalon Theatre. This year it graduated to the 5,000-seat OLG Stage, which just opened two months back.

While the judges are critical in deciding which act land on stage for the finale, it is actually the viewing public who decide the winner, voting online during the final show.

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