I'm auditioning for some musical theatre courses soon and think my audition songs will probably be;
Angels, Punks and Raging Queens from Elegies Not a Day Goes By from Merrily we Roll Along Miss Byrd from Closer than Ever
Any opinions on these? It bothers me a lot that they were all written in the eighties, but I think apart from that they're fairly contrasting. Do you think it will matter that they're all from the same time period?
Yes I would definitely try and find smething more contrasting, not all from the same decade. Miss Byrd is pretty popular really. The Merrily nr is done but not overdone I believe and Elegies is pretty overdone.
Do you think that Miss Byrd is overdone then? Should I maybe avoid it? I do think that you should try not to do any obvious audition standards like "Defying Gravity" on "On My Own", but I didn't think any of these were that bad. I could maybe get rid of Elegies and do an older one instead of that...