MaryMag
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| meso.soprano.powerhouse wrote: | yeah so...
im auditioning for my local theater's youth production of
"Once Upon a Mattress"
and it specifically asks for 16 bars from a "classic 1950's broadway",
BUT I CANT FIND ANYTHING.
im a meso-soprano and the song should be upbeat.
any suggestions?   |
Dearest mezzo-soprano powerhouse, where are you looking? The 1950's was the HEYDAY of broadway! I doubt Bway has ever had such a successful decade since then!
I recently did a project on bway in the 1950's and used to know all the Tony winners of best musical, yeary by year in the 50's. I just now ran over to the Tony website and here are the winners, from 1950-1960:
South pacific
Guys and dolls
King and I
Wonderful town
Kismet
Pajama game
Damn Yankees
My fair lady
Music man
Redhead
Sound of music
Look at these shows for good songs. Go to your local library and check out as many of these CDs as you can, listen to the songs, and see which ones you like. Then look in the library to photocopy the sheet music or go on line to musicnotes.com. Musicnotes.com allows you to instantly download and print the sheet music off your computer for about $5, plus it usually comes with an electronic music file (MIDI) that you can sing along to to practice the song.
If your local library doesn't have the CDs, go to amazon.com or ebay and see if you can purchase an inexpensive copy. (They often sell used CDs). If you don't have the time to wait around for a CD to be delivered, you could try iTunes. But if you're paying a buck a song, make sure you're just downloading the songs sung by women (instead of downloading the whole CD!) You can find out what songs in each show are sung by women by going to mtishows.com, looking up the show, then looking up the song list and seeing the name of the character(s) that sing each song.
I usually go the iTunes and musicnotes.com route.
Happy song hunting!
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