[wicked_diva]

I have an upcoming audition for both A Little Night Music and Urinetown. Obviously, these two shows are worlds apart. I need two contrasting songs for the audition, but I have no clue what to sing. Any help?

I am a mezzo (E-flat below middle C to B below high C); I'm tall and overweight; I have a very strong mix (especially around the C above middle C to E above that area), but not much belt. It's a university production, so I would probably get cast as an older or ensemble character (which is why I'm so glad they're doing ALNM).

So what should I sing?

[wicked_diva]

bump! Any help?

[JIJane]

What kind of songs are already in your rep and what kind of stuff do you generally veere towards for audition pieces?

[wicked_diva]

This is my current rep/what I'm working on this semester:
All to Pieces - Violet
As We Stumble Along - Drowsy Chaperone
Bride's Lament - Drowsy Chaperone
By The River - December Songs
Christmas Lullaby - Songs for a New World
Disneyland - Smile
Fable - Light in the Piazza
Find Your Grail - Spamalot
Fine Fine Line - Avenue Q
Flagmaker, 1775 - Songs for a New World
Follow Your Heart - Urinetown
Forget About the Boy - Thoroughly Modern Millie
Funny - My Favorite Year
Gooch's Song - Mame
He Plays the Violin - 1776
I Do, I Do in the Sky - Drowsy Chaperone
I See a River - Urinetown
I Speak Six Languages - Spelling Bee
A Little Bit in Love - Wonderful Town
Lay Down Your Head - Violet
Look at Me - Violet
Many a New Day - Oklahoma
The Miller's Son - Little Night Music
My Grandmother's Love Letters - December Songs
My White Knight - Music Man
Notice Me, Horton - Seussical
On My Way - Violet
Right in Front of Your Eyes - Wedding Singer
Rosa's Confession - The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Selige Nacht
Simple Joys of Maidenhood - Camelot
Smanie Implacabili - Cosi Fan Tutte
Still Hurting - L5Y
Take Me To the World - Evening Primrose
Vanilla Ice Cream - She Loves Me
What A Movie - Trouble in Tahiti
Whatever Happened to My Part - Spamalot

I'm open to learning more, though. Auditions will either be right after Thanksgiving or in the beginning of January.
I'm not sure what you mean by what I veere to, but I'd like to find something that shows off acting and singing ability. I figure for ALNM, I would be going for Charlotte, Desiree, or Madame Armfelt, or a leider singer, and for Urintown, I would be aiming for Little Becky Two Shoes, ensemble, or Pennywise if they go with someone who can mix, but not belt.

[JIJane]

Given that the song has to cover both shows, I would probably go for Rosa's confession from the songs you have listed.

[wicked_diva]

I can do two songs.

[MaryMag]

you're not by any chance going to the Tisch school, are you?

[wicked_diva]

[MaryMag]

[wicked_diva]

Bump.

I think I've decided on As If We Never Said Goodbye and Rosa's Confession. Any thoughts?

[JIJane]

[JIJane]

If you are doing Rosa's Confession as your first song, "Take me to the world" from Evening Primrose would be a great contrast, plus it's a Sondheim number, important as you are auditioning for a Sondheim show.

[wicked_diva]

^So I shouldn't sing one of Norma's songs even for Desiree? As If We Never Said Goodbye has a very similar feel to Send in the Clowns, to me.

I was originally thinking about Take Me to The World, but it's a very ingenue song, and there's no way I would get cast as an ingenue at school.

[JIJane]

Ah ok I see your point. Maybe As if we never said goodbye is suitable then, schools are an auditioning field of their own.