I'm looking for a good ballad to sing for my voice class. I'm a mezzo soprano. My range is low E to high G (higher or lower depending on the song). My signature ballads have always been Someone Like You and Once Upon a Dream from Jekyll and Hyde and I want to get off of using them for everything. I am also looking for a relatively fast song also. I need 3 for the semester so I'm looking for a ballad, a fast one, and I'm also doing When You've Got It, Flaunt It for my medium speed one. If anyone has ideas please let me know. Thanks!
Updated On: 2/6/06 at 04:33 PM
Ok...go to musicals.net and look on the audition forum. In the third post on the sticky, there's a list of songs for all vocal ranges. There are mezzo ballads on that list.
look at some of the earlier volumes of the Musical Theatre Anthology books-- even though many people use them they're still dead on for vocal parts... and if you find a song that's too overdone, research the character from the show and look at some of their other songs!
"Look to the Rainbow" from Finians Rainbow
"How are Things in Glocca Morra? from Finians Rainbow
Mezzo Soprano/Belter Book 1 Singers Musical Theatre Anthology
"Falling in Love with Love"--The Boys From Syracuse
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Fine Fine Line from Ave Q
Meadowlark- Bakers Wife, personal fave
Never Never Land-Peter Pan
Hold On-Secret Garden-great ballad!
Stop, Time-Big the Musical
You Don't Know This Man-Parade
there are plenty but those are my fave pretty much!
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A Change in Me, Beauty and the Beast
Stranger to the Rain-Children of Eden
Someone Else's Story-Chess
Come to your Senses-Tick Tick Boom
Summer in Ohio-Last 5 Years (if you have a kick ass piano player with you...or jason robert brown himself.) haha
Still Hurting from L5Y is also good. It's actually not that pianistically hard (I can play it).
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