Ballads for mezzo soprano

[BroadwayDreams2]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 4:33pm

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

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 5:12pm

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.

[MamaCita06]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 8:12pm

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!

[Magical_Ms._Mistoffeles_72]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 9:53pm

"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

[way_to_spend_the_day]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 11:02pm

"Falling in Love with Love"--The Boys From Syracuse

[Bwaybaby109]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 12:07am

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!

[DramaDork925]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 10:22pm

A Change in Me, Beauty and the Beast

[dramatothemax]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 5:01pm

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

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 5:18pm

Still Hurting from L5Y is also good. It's actually not that pianistically hard (I can play it).