[WhyWeTellTheStory]

I am currently preparing for an audition for a production of West side story over the summer. It is for middle/high schoolers and I will be a freshman. My range is pretty wide- I can sing both Maria and Anita's parts (just to give you an idea) I know without knowing me you don't really know what to say, but I would like an idea... I just don't know what to sing.

I was thinking of doing "Moonfall" from The Mystery of Edwin Drood, but I'm not sure how appropriate it is for youth theater... Opinions?
Thanks

[JIJane]

It's too modern. I would sing something written between 1940 and 1965.

[Elphaba22]

Don't sing Moonfall. It's a bad idea to sing something that sexual for an audition when you're that young, especially if the person auditioning you is a lot older than you, its just awkward imo.
Try something from Kiss Me Kate, or like My White Knight from the Music Man.
Or Somebody Somewhere from The Most Happy Fella
Lovely from a Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum might not be high enough..not sure.

[WhyWeTellTheStory]

Ok, I was also thinking about doing something from Chess or Miss Saigon... I know they're not really from the same time period, but...

[Sweeney Hyde]

Niether are the right style.

WSS has much more traditional music in it than the shows you have suggested using for audition pieces. Just because you want to sing a particular song or are good at a particular song doesn't mean it is good for an audition.

[MaryMag]

Moonfall is sexual? I've just heard the music, never seen the show. Had no idea.

[Elphaba22]

between the very dead of night and day
upon a steely sheet of light i'll lay
and in the moonfall, i'll give myself to you
I'll bathe in moonfall and dress myself in dew
Before the cloak of night reveals the morn
Time holds its breath while it conceals the dawn
And in moonfall all sound is frozen still
but warm against me, your skin will warm the chill of
Moonfall, I feel its fingers
Lingers on veil of nightshade
light made from stars that all too soon fall
Moonfall that pours from you

thats the gist of it, and its mostly innuendo but the reason Jasper makes Rosa sing it in Mystery of Edwin Drood is because he's in love with her, and obsessed with her, shes a lot younger than him, and he writes this sexual song and makes her sing it to him, and then a second time because he wants her "to really feel the words" or something like that, and she can't finish the song and bursts into tears

[WhyWeTellTheStory]

Turns out now they want us to just learn the quintet of "Tonight" (both Maria and Anita's parts) and for callbacks I Have a Love and One Hand, One Heart.