Graduation Solos
Graduation Solos
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#1Graduation Solos
Posted: 4/22/08 at 3:56pm
Thursday is auditions for graduation solos at my school. There are 2 slots available and there are only 5 people (including myself) signed up to audition right now.
My voice teacher wants me to sing "Make Them Hear You" from Ragtime. I love the song, and it has some appropriate lyrics... but not all of them are really fitting, I don't think. "How justice was our battle and how justice was denied" might be a bit much. Am I right in thinking that? Could it work for graduation or is it too much of a stretch?
What are some other good songs for graduation? It can be anything--not only musicals, of course. I'm just trying to think of a better fitting song.
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
#2re: Graduation Solos
Posted: 4/22/08 at 3:57pmWhy not HILLS OF TOMORROW from MERRILY? It actually IS a graduation song.
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#2re: Graduation Solos
Posted: 4/22/08 at 4:01pmOh, lildogs! I'm not a 4 part choir!
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
#3re: Graduation Solos
Posted: 4/22/08 at 4:04pm"If You Believe" from The Wiz. I did it at my graduation.
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Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#4re: Graduation Solos
Posted: 4/22/08 at 4:21pm
I agree that Make Them Hear You is not right for graduation.
How about "Parks' Turn" from Gypsy
Why did I do it?
What did it get me?
Scrapbooks full of me in the background.
Give 'em love and what does it get ya?
What does it get ya?
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#5re: Graduation Solos
Posted: 4/22/08 at 4:36pm
haha, gothampc, I'm all for that idea. Only if I can do it in full drag though!!
Well, I'm not so sure it'd go over very well at a Texas high school graduation.
...maybe at the drag show on Saturday nights.
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#8re: Graduation Solos
Posted: 4/22/08 at 5:21pm
Just please don't sing "Seasons of Love," "For Good," or "Letting Go." I've heard all of them at graduations and am SICK of them.
Maybe a nice arangement of the Irish blessing? Better than at my high school convocation where we sang "Lonesome Road." Because what message is better for 18 year olds than knowing that you'll be alone for the rest of your life?
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Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#9re: Graduation Solos
Posted: 4/22/08 at 5:33pmNo worries--wasn't planning on doing any of those. For Good is the new Seasons of Love. So annoying!
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#10re: Graduation Solos
Posted: 4/22/08 at 8:02pm
Packing up the dreams
God planted,
in the fertile soil
of you,
Can't believe the hopes
He's granted
means a chapter in your life
is through.
But we'll keep you close
as always.
It won't even seem you've gone.
'Cause our hearts in big and small ways
will keep the love that keeps us strong.
And friends are friends forever
if the Lord's the Lord of them.
And a friend will not say "never"
'Cause the welcome will not end.
Though it's hard to let you go,
in the Father's hands we know,
that a lifetime's not too long
to live as friends.
#11re: Graduation Solos
Posted: 4/22/08 at 11:10pmLouder then words from tick tick boom
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
i*heart*fame
Broadway Star Joined: 9/15/04
#12re: Graduation Solos
Posted: 4/22/08 at 11:13pmI was the graduation soloist at my school and I sang a verse of Our Time from Merrily We Roll Along. MANY tears in the audience, and I almost started to bawl(and did at our final chorus concert). I highly recommend it.
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Mekroth
Broadway Star Joined: 2/23/08
Raspberry
Leading Actor Joined: 1/29/07
#15re: Graduation Solos
Posted: 4/23/08 at 12:48amThe soloist at my graduation made a mostly unsuccessful attempt to defy gravity. I don't recommend that.
"I just want a story and a few good songs that will take me away. I just want to be entertained. I mean, isn't that the point?"
#16re: Graduation Solos
Posted: 4/23/08 at 10:14amA girl at my graduation sang "Take Me to the World" from Evening Primrose and I really enjoyed it.
#17re: Graduation Solos
Posted: 4/23/08 at 10:27am
Two suggestion:
"What Can You Do With a BA in English?" from Ave Q
"Perky Little Porn Star" from Naked Boys Singing (Full Frontal required)
#18graduations solos
Posted: 4/23/08 at 10:33ambeer for my horses - toby keith
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pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#19graduations solos
Posted: 4/23/08 at 11:04amChildren Will Listen?
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#20graduations solos
Posted: 4/23/08 at 11:26am"There's a Sucker Born Ev'ry Minute" from "Barnum" would be good...
"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music
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husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#21graduations solos
Posted: 4/23/08 at 11:27amWhat I Did For Love?
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Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#22graduations solos
Posted: 4/23/08 at 5:06pm
No One Is Alone from ITW? Better?
It's tomorrow! I'm not completely satisfied with my decision, but I think No One Is Alone is a better choice for graduation (and a bit easier to sing).
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
#24graduations solos
Posted: 4/24/08 at 2:01amOur Time Our Time Our Timeeeee
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