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| DramaFreek |
Audition Songs both help given and neededI'm putting together a collection of Broadway Musical Audition Songs. Yes, I realize that some of them are overdone, but sometimes you need a second or even third song to bring with you on an audition, so they are helpful because EVERYONE has the sheet music.So far I have: Cabaret~ Cabaret Home~ Beauty and the Beast A Change in Me~ Beauty and the Beast Show Off~ The Drowsy Chaperone Snoopy~ YAGMCB My New Philosophy~ YAGMCB Shroeder~ YAGMCB Nothing~ A Chorus Line Memory~ Cats All That Jazz~ Chicago Roxie Hart~ Chicago Wouldn't It Be Loverly~ My Fair Lady I'm Not That Girl~ Wicked Popular~ Wicked No Good Deed~ Wicked I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair- South Pacific Think Of Me- Phantom of the Opera in My Own Little Corner- Cinderella Shy~ Once Upon A Mattress Any Moment- Into The Woods I Know Things Now~ Into The Woods Whatever Happened To My Part~ Spamalot I have a wide range of both young and old sounding songs depending on the audition. If you have any other suggestions feel free to post them here. |
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| DramaFreek |
also, if anyone needs any help or if you have any suggesstions
email me at DramaFreek@gmail.com |
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| DramaFreek |
people come on, leave some advice. Does anyone know any songs? | ||
| DramaFreek |
arg. is I Speak Six Languages a good song. | ||
| Chevstriss |
yes most of those are overdone, but if theatres in your area are OK w/ that, I see no problem.
Careful w/ the Sondheim - impossible to sight read. You need more classics. More R & H. more 20s and 30s stuff. you need a rock song, an early 60s pop song, and a classic country. make sure the arrangements sound decent on piano. in general you need more pre-1965 material. |
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| DramaFreek |
may you make some suggestions?
and also I'm good at Sondheim because I play it on the piano obsessivly. i would like some not underdone songs. also, is Show Off from Drowsy Chaperone too new? |
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| A Wop Bam Boom! |
Somewhere thats green, from Little Shop of Horrors is really good because it involves a lot of acting and the monologue before (to the music) is good to show off acting skills! its also a good one to put actions/facial expression and helps to develop skills such as gesture, body language! trust me its a good one. REALLY easy to sing aswell. | ||
| jazzygirlsings |
Chev was saying in an audition situation, Sondheim is hard for accompanists to sight read and therefore, could ruin your auditioning experience...Add to that Guettel, Lippa, and JRB...among others...ALWAYS make sure that a song that you can sing well can also be sight read WELL by the pianist playing your audition! It's very important! And yes, everyone always does the stuff that's currently on Broadway, so I would strongly suggest not doing anything from a show that's currently on Broadway... I will give you names of Shows/Composers, but I'm insisting that you do your own research regarding songs, as you'll learn more that way: Rodgers and Hammerstein (Carousel, SOM, South Pacific, and MANY OTHERS!) Lerner and Loewe (Camelot, MFL, Brigadoon, Gigi and MANY OTHERS!) Cole Porter (Anything Goes, Silk Stocking, Can-Can and MANY OTHERS!) George Gershwin (okay...getting sick of spoon feeding! LOL!) Irving Berlin (again...you can google these people! LOL!) Frank Loesser (Now I'm getting lazy) That should give you a good start! |
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| DramaFreek |
thanks so much...... ive been researching.. |