SAD or emotional solo female
SAD or emotional solo female
LSC Erinn
Swing Joined: 11/21/08
#1SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/9/08 at 10:50pm
Hey guys i know i just asked for a duet but our chorus teacher told us today she wants to know by christmas what our senior song is going to be.
i really want a solo that will leave the auddience with a tear in there eye and saying wow that was impresive.
i am an alto but i can also sing soprano II i can hit a f to a g but thats my highest. oh yeah and i can belt
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#2re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/10/08 at 12:02amStill Hurting from "The Last 5 Years"
#2re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/10/08 at 12:25pmLets not do L5Y anymore. Try The Man That Got Away by Gershwin in a belty key.
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#3re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/10/08 at 1:53pm
Yeah, you're right, it's really overdone. It was just the first song to come to mind.
Speaking of Gershwin, perhaps you can lower the key "My Man's Gone Now." I'm not sure how it would sound belted, but apparently Chita did it for her WSS audition.
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#4re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/10/08 at 4:12pm
Just because you can belt doesn't mean you have to belt.
Is this for just you or a chorus?
An audience is more likely to cry if you try not to cry. Got that?
Be brave in your song, the old smiling through tears gambit, and the audience will just plotz. That's why Barbra's My Man works well. Yes, there are tears but you can't hear them in her voice.
Or, speaking of Barbra, reinterpret a happy song. Happy Days Are Here Again in its original tempo is quite peppy. Sad subtext on a heretofore happy song.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
#5re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/10/08 at 4:23pmtry The Music Still Plays On from A New Brain or something from Elegies...
#6re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/10/08 at 4:26pmBill from Show Boat comes to mind. Very classic.
#7re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/10/08 at 4:30pmTry "Anytime (I Am There)" from Elegies
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dg22894
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/08
#9re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/10/08 at 9:02pm
Try and stay away from contemporary songs as much as you can in auditions, because it's all anyone ever hears anymore. But then again, don't go singing "If I Loved You"...But if you absolutely had to go contemporary, check out "When Hope Goes" from The Spitfire Grill, it's been a very successful acting song for me.
Remember, just because a song's lyrics are sad, doesn't mean an audience will connect with it. The lyrics depend on you to make them work.
#10re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/11/08 at 10:34pm"Around the World" from Grey Gardens
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Madcap Maisie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/08
#11re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/11/08 at 10:43pmsend in the clowns!!!
"You know what really makes me mad? When girls think they can sing just because they are on the Disney Channel."
jackimurphy
Swing Joined: 12/12/08
#12re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/12/08 at 11:10pm"Tell Me It's Not True" from "Blood Brothers" is horribly sad.
myblanketandme
Chorus Member Joined: 12/11/07
#13re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/13/08 at 10:54pmeverything i know from in the heights and what it means to be a friend from 13 come to mind.
I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
- Into the Woods
#14re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/13/08 at 11:55pm
How dare you even request 13. Awful awful musical. hahah
My Man from Funny Girl
#15re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/14/08 at 2:04am"Maybe I Like it This Way" is from The Wild Party is one of my favs, but it might be overdone.
#16re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/20/08 at 1:52am
These are things that make me a little emotional when I'm singing them...
"I Get a Kick out of You" from Anything Goes (my interpretation of it is not from the context of the play, and is downright depressing... She can't feel, except for when she's with this one man. But he doesn't love her.)
"There's a Fine, Fine Line" from Avenue Q
"All Grown Up" from Bare
"A Quiet Night at Home" from Bare
"Hard Candy Christmas" from The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
"Far from the Home I Love" from Fiddler on the Roof
"The Movie in My Mind" from Miss Saigon
"Now That I've Seen Her" from Miss Saigon
***"Children of the Wind" from Rags (Man, I love this song!)
"Back to Before" from Ragtime
"Stars and the Moon" from Songs for a New World
"I'm Not That Girl" from Wicked
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#17re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/23/08 at 3:33am"how did we come to this" from Lippas Wild Party. it's a great and VERY emotional song.
#18re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/30/08 at 1:43pm"Your Daddy's Son" from Ragtime
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"Say hello to the world that I forgot was there/ was a prisoner inside now I’m breathing the air/ Yes today’s old cocoon will hatch a new butterfly/ Show me how to say goodbye to the old/ And welcome the new/ Goodbye
#19re: SAD or emotional solo female
Posted: 12/30/08 at 3:01pm
"Being Good Isn't Good Enough" from Hallelujah, Baby!
"The Next Time it Happens" from State Fair
"If I Told You Now" by JRB
"Missing You (My Bill)" from The Civil War
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