Audition songs! Help?
Audition songs! Help?
#1Audition songs! Help?
Posted: 5/26/11 at 2:53pm
So, I'm auditioning for Sound of Music, for the role of Freidrich. I have to choose 2 songs that are from that era of musicals (50's/60's).
I've been thinking:
Something's Coming- West Side Story
and
I Believe in You- How to Succeed
If you have ANY better suggestions, please let me know! Thanks!
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#2Audition songs! Help?
Posted: 5/26/11 at 3:07pmFriedrich has an unchanged voice, so neither of those would work in the original key.
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#6Audition songs! Help?
Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:12pmBilly Elliot has many leads with unchanged voices. Perhaps you could sing "Expressing Yourself". I second "Whistle a Happy Tune".
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
peerrjb
Featured Actor Joined: 7/7/09
#8Audition songs! Help?
Posted: 5/27/11 at 9:55pm
It's a little later in the 60s, but "My Best Girl" from "Mame" might work as a kid-ballad.
Actor2
Featured Actor Joined: 1/12/08
peerrjb
Featured Actor Joined: 7/7/09
#10Audition songs! Help?
Posted: 5/28/11 at 1:51am
...and since you have to have two songs, I'm assuming they want an uptempo and a ballad-ish. In addition to "My Best Girl" (ballad-ish) you might try "OLIVER!" for "Consider Yourself", which I suspect might be a popular (therefor redundant) choice.
["Where is Love?" from the same show is also a ballad, but is often connected with all the adult versions, PLUS is so "boo-hoo-waif-like" as not to have the "Sound of Music" positivity feeling; as a musical director myself, I'd NOT recommend that one.]
"Gary, Indiana" from "The Music Man" is a LOT of fun to sing...with or WITHOUT the character's famous lisp. (Though the lisp DOES make it a kick in the pants, make sure the auditioning "board" knows you can sing without it.)
And, of course, if you are a really off-the-wall person, and the auditioning "board" is also a little weird, you could always just sing "Sodomy" from "Hair" -- great high note at the end. (JOKE-ING.)
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