audition songs to avoid

I'm auditioning for schools this year, what are some audition songs that I definitly want to avoid?

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Is that Schubert? or is that the Millers Daughter?

Apparently as fantastic as they are ALL Sondheim and Jason Robert Brown...

On My Own

Don't sing Wicked Rent or Thoroughly Modern Millie.
All terribly overdone. If the show is relatively new and is still ON Broadway, don't do it.

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Going off of LuckyCharm, trying sticking to things age appropriate!

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I was thinking of "Much More" from the Fantasticks and "I Know the Truth" from Aida. Both of them I have sang with my voice teacher and do them justice. Good choices?

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"I Know the Truth" is much more overdone than "Much More". If you only wanted to scrap one, I would scrap that ("I Know the Truth"). But you should be looking to have a killer audition package, so don't settle. I've made that mistake a few times. If you feel like you're settling, don't do it. Find a better song. Don't do things because they're alright or because you do them justice. Do them because they're amazing and because you ROCK them.

Okay, so my secret weapon for audition songs is this one song that, at least in my experience, every single time the people holding the audition either say that they've never heard it before or they haven't heard it in forever.
Actually, on that note, 1 that they say they've never heard, and 1 that they say they haven't heard in forever.

BWAHA BECAUSE I LIKE CAUING SO MUCH TENSION you can pm me if you wanna know the songs Im talking about. Most of you will probably have heard of this, but here in CT EVERY THEATRE PERSON I KNOW has no idea of it's existence. For me, it's the perfect song: it shows range, and acting ability, it's not long and it's rare. YAY!

My advice is to research all the musicals and reviews written by the Gershwins, like 'Song of the Flame', or try 'It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!' or Sondheim's 'Follies', 'Merrily We Roll Along', '70, Girls, 70', 'Good News', 'Steel Pier', 'On the Twentieth Century', 'High Spirits' etc.

Or go for an Ahrens and Flahrety that didn't do so well but has good music, like 'Lucky Stiff' or 'Dessa Rose'

The old musicals have the best uptempos. No joke.

How is "I Have Dreamed" from The King and I and "Take A Chance On Me" from Little Women?

Yeah, I agree with max.

But, just so you aren't confused - "Triumph of Love," not "Triumph" or "Love." I don't know if, not knowing the show, you would have read it differently because of the accidental "or" instead of "of".

If you're having trouble choosing songs that you think are - I don't know - obscure enough/good enough, you could try a fun little game I spent half of my spring break doing (out of boredom...and partially out of necessity). Go to a comprehensive musical theatre source (even wikipedia has big pretty complete lists of musicals produced or written,etc.), pick out some musicals here and there, look them up on iTunes or another music downloading souce, listen to the clips of songs, download the ones that sound promising...and go to town listening and choosing and buying the sheet music. Hah, I had fun doing that. =]

Whoops, typo hahah

Triumph OF Love.

No Phantom and no L5Y. C'mon guys, get daring with song choices. Stand out. Do your research!

So now that I've gone back and done my research haha, I was thinking of a few different options instead. How's "Wherever He Ain't" from Mack & Mabel and "Will He Like Me?" from She Loves Me. Two others I really like are "I'll Show Him" from Plain and Fancy and "Keep it Simple" from Oh, Captain. Let me know :)

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