Funny Song
Funny Song
JenniferWren
Swing Joined: 8/29/05
#0Funny Song
Posted: 3/30/06 at 3:32pmI need a really funny/memorable character song for an audition any suggestions? (female)
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#1re: Funny Song
Posted: 3/30/06 at 4:11pm
Harper Valley PTA is about as good as a funny story song can get.
It may take a bit of effort to uncover the sheet music but I believe the writer was also the singer and her name was Jeannie C. Riley.
Think rock-a-billy belt.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#2re: Funny Song
Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:11pmSummer in Ohio from L5Y is hilarious and a showstopper when performed correctly.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#3re: Funny Song
Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:56pmRepent from On the Twentieth Century is funny. Also try Nothing from A Chorus Line. Very funny!
#4re: Funny Song
Posted: 3/30/06 at 10:16pmDance Ten, Looks Three from A Chorus Line
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#5re: Funny Song
Posted: 3/31/06 at 11:33am
Saddle Tramp Blues or Don't call me Trailer Trash from 'Cowgirls'
They're more country-esk, but it's a rather funny musical.
"Better...Better than What?" -Jo March (Little Women the Musical)
"NYC...Up there (In Lights) I'll be." -Star to be (Annie)
GypsyRoseLee
Broadway Star Joined: 7/5/04
#6re: Funny Song
Posted: 4/1/06 at 3:07pm
Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm- How to Suceed...Trying.
Paris Makes Me Horny- Victor/Victoria
"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being."
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#7re: Funny Song
Posted: 4/1/06 at 5:06pm
If you hadn't but you did-I believe its from Two on the Aisle. It's pretty hard though.
Girl in 14 G is cute as well.
I'm in a Kristin Chenoweth mood.
"You know, with the right volume, Patti LuPone can make a car bounce, too...."
-Wonderwaiter
#8re: Funny Song
Posted: 4/3/06 at 8:52pmTotally blanking on the name of it- but the song in Guys and Dolls about how the girl is going to catch a cold because her boyfriend won't propose
#9re: Funny Song
Posted: 4/3/06 at 8:53pmAdalaide's Lament (sp)
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#10re: Funny Song
Posted: 4/6/06 at 12:57pmTaylor the latte boy from Chenoweth's CD...it's not from any show but it's hilarious
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us..
#11re: Funny Song
Posted: 4/6/06 at 3:04pmAdam Hunter (2nd younger brother in Ragtime on Broadway) came to our school and did a gay version of Taylor the Latte Boy and it was SO funny. I actually liked it better....sorry for the threadjack, but i felt the need to express how hilarious it was. :)
King Stevos
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/03
#12re: Funny Song
Posted: 4/6/06 at 5:05pmThe funniest song I have ever heard a female sing is: "You'd be surprised" by irving berlin, Madeline Kahn sang it at an Irving Berlin Celebration. If played extremely minimalistic, it brings down the house.
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#13re: Funny Song
Posted: 4/13/06 at 9:21amtry "you can always count on me" from city of angels
jack: I buried her in a footprint.
#14re: Funny Song
Posted: 4/13/06 at 9:06pmAdalaides Lament G&D
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#15re: Funny Song
Posted: 4/14/06 at 4:16pmOklahoma? from DRS makes me laugh but that may be kinda tough.
"You know, with the right volume, Patti LuPone can make a car bounce, too...."
-Wonderwaiter
#16re: Funny Song
Posted: 4/14/06 at 11:45pmhmm...nothing from a chorus line, talk to the genitals, popular is ironically funny but I don't know if that's what your looking for
Love Life
#17re: Funny Song
Posted: 4/15/06 at 10:45amI thought of some more, check out Once Upon a Matress, Princess Fred has some cute ones.
"You know, with the right volume, Patti LuPone can make a car bounce, too...."
-Wonderwaiter
#18re: Funny Song
Posted: 4/15/06 at 11:34amI agree that "Dance ten looks three" is a really good character piece as is adelaides lament and ado annies "i canin't say no" from oklahoma
#20re: Funny Song
Posted: 4/16/06 at 12:56amEver heard Miss Marmelstein from I can get it for you wholesale? Hey, it worked for Barbra, totally great audition piece. OOO, I think it's called my feet from the most happy fella. I know they're both kinda obscure but at least nobody else will be singing 'em.
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#21re: Funny Song
Posted: 4/16/06 at 1:18pm
Happily Ever After or Shy from Once Upon a Mattress.
Woe is Me or I Speak Six languages from Spelling Bee.
If My Friends Could See Me Now or I'm a Brass Band from Sweet Charity.
Popular from Wicked is also a good one.
#22re: Funny Song
Posted: 4/16/06 at 1:57pmOne Hundred Easy Ways from Wonderful Town... or as someone mentioned... A Summer in Ohio from L5Y is hysterical, I used it for an audition last year and it worked well.
StarsInMyHands
Chorus Member Joined: 12/12/05
#23re: Funny Song
Posted: 6/22/06 at 4:39pm
I knooooow L5Y is taboo, but it's just so freakin' good! Haha.
"Climbing Up Hill", if done properly and with the comedic timing down - to - a - tee, is a killer.
But I dunno your time restraints. You can do just the audition part ("When you come home...I should have told them I was sick last week" up to "Thank you. Thank you so much.") or you can do the whole piece, but it's kind long.
Of course, I wouldn't perform any JRB stuff for Colleges or for anything professional, but it's great for everything else ~ especially if your audience isn't theatre savvy.
Yeah, it's been fours years and (along with the rest of the theatre-loving world...) I'm still insanely in love with the show. And for a damn good reason too! Just listen to it! =D
Updated On: 6/22/06 at 04:39 PM
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