Audition Songs

Hi, I need to prepare a lot of audition songs, not only for college, but also for auditions. The only thing is, a lot of the songs that I do are all "Don'ts" as I have heard. I am a high soprano with a belt, and I have a 3 range octave. Currently a lot of songs that I have down are songs from Beauty and the Beast (Home and A change in me) and Phantom (Think of me, Wishing), and Les Miz(On my own). I know that you should not do songs like these for auditions. Once at an audition though for a broadway workshop when I was 13 I did On my own and I got it though thats why I am confused. Does anyone have any suggestions for songs that would be good for a voice like mine, they can be ballads or up-tempo. And does anyone have any suggestions about doing these types of songs? Thanks so much, sorry for such a long message!

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Oo. Yeah. Definitely. They'll kill for that one.







Please don't. It's a horrible idea to do songs from currently running Broadway shows. Also, it's a 3-octave range...not 3 range octave...that's a bit weird to think about actually...

You might want to look into "No One Knows Who I Am" from Jekyll and Hyde. It's not a soprano song, but it should be within your range.

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Updated On: 7/13/05 at 05:02 PM

Go the the musicals.net miscellaneous forum and go to the audition thread. i compiled a long list of do's and don't's and audition songs for every range and type.

If you're a high soprano, I'll be quite easy to find a song that not a lot of people will use. Just look through a bunch of musicals written before 1960, they will most always have a high soprano ingenue with a song that you could use.

One really pretty song is "If I Loved You" from Carousel.

Ok, something I just realized. I intended on using Green Finch and Linnet Bird for my college auditions this coming year. Then, I realized, Sweeney Todd is opening on Broadway this fall. Should I choose a new song or would it be alright if I stuck with this one?

the bad thing about being a high soprano, like me, is that you have to stick (a lot of times) to classical Broadway. but if you find anything by Kristen, that would probably work...it's right around the break in my voice, but if you have a clear break, I say go for it. and for the record, not trying to be mean, just trying to help, it's a "3 octave range" not a "3 range octave." sorry, just helping! :)

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How overdone is Corner Of The Sky? I'm thinking very but not sure...

MrBungee - Would "Til There Was You" fit what you mean?
I now think I should have four songs prepared... if my voice isn't up to the belting or high notes, I can switch it up and not sing the song the girl in front of me sings...
So now I have "Blow Gabriel Blow" "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" (which I think I may still keep unless more people use their judgement and say I shouldn't) and then "Til There Was You."
What is something else I could use?? Hmm....

Yes, sopranos, our life it more difficult. Everything is being written for belters. But, as far as auditions go, go back to the Golden Age. Find some relatively unknown songs by the likes of Rogers, Hart, Hammerstien or someone like them. AND I reccomend the Musical Theatre Singers Anthology books. Yes, a lot of people have them, but there are SOOOO many songs in there that they are really great to own and learn from. Honestly, the best thing to do is find songs you haven't necessarily heard of. No auditioner wants to hear On My Own and Popular one more time.

Gah... I need one more belt-type song... you have to sing two songs at college auditions, right? And how much of the song do you sing?

i used "green finch and linnet bird" as one of my audition songs (i have the same type of voice as you....high lyric soprano, but also a high belt) - BUT ONLY WHEN WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BRING ACCOMPANIMENT ON TAPE (NYU does this). all other places i used "what good would the moon be" from street scene.

for my belty song, i used "shy" from once upon a matress and "danny kaminsky" from Danny&Sylvia (but don't try to get this one, it's not released. the composer is a family friend and he owed me a favor for saving his dog...but a song LIKE this one would work very well).

and i agree with everything ddtruitt said. in full.

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dd- do you have to have a membership to use the library?

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