HELP! Looking for female audition songs

[Timmerbo]

HELP! Looking for female audition songs#0

Posted: 8/18/04 at 5:47pm

A female friend of mine is auditioning for a musical pantomime production of The Emporer's New Clothes at the local little theatre. She has very little familiarity with musicals but wants to get into theatre. I agreed to help her find an audition song but I know very little about good female auditions songs. I really only know which ones are overused... bah.

I don't know the extent of her voice. The highest I've ever heard her sing was a high E. I think she's an alto. If anyone could give me a few female songs that aren't overused, I will be very, very happy.

[Yankeefan007]

re: HELP! Looking for female audition songs#1

Posted: 8/18/04 at 5:56pm

can she defy gravity, be popular, or realize that theres a fine, fine line between love and a waste of time?

[Timmerbo]

re: HELP! Looking for female audition songs#2

Posted: 8/18/04 at 6:01pm

*furrows brow in a vain attempt to understand the situation*

[VoiceofReason]

re: HELP! Looking for female audition songs#3

Posted: 8/18/04 at 6:03pm

Uptempo suggestions:
"You've Got Possibilities" from Superman
"Dancing all the time" from Big
"Wherever He Ain't" from Mack and Mabel
Ballad Suggestions:
(some of these might be overused--I'm not sure)
Before I Gaze At You Again, or I Loved you Once In Silence from Camelot (I think the highest note in Before... is a high Eflat)
Most of the other Ballads I can think of right now might be too high....
If none of these suggestions work, let me know. I have a list of songs somewhere, I just can't find it right now.
always,
~m~

For heaven's sake, don't try to be cynical. It's perfectly easy to be cynical. ~The Importance of Being Earnest~

[Millie42]

re: HELP! Looking for female audition songs#4

Posted: 8/18/04 at 6:12pm

Which ones ARE overused?

"My friends have made the story of my life." -Helen Keller

[Timmerbo]

re: HELP! Looking for female audition songs#5

Posted: 8/18/04 at 6:17pm

I've been told essentially to avoid anything by ALW, Les Mis, or Disney.

[Amneris]

re: HELP! Looking for female audition songs#6

Posted: 8/18/04 at 6:51pm

Im Not At All In Love - Pajama Game

[BroadwayMonkey]

re: HELP! Looking for female audition songs#7

Posted: 8/18/04 at 6:53pm

I Enjoy Being a Girl- Flower Drum Song


It rules. Much.

Real men are tenors.

[ponine24601]

re: HELP! Looking for female audition songs#8

Posted: 8/18/04 at 7:12pm

maybe something from thoroughly modern millie?

"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions." ~The one and only John Lennon

[ForTheLoveOfLea]

re: HELP! Looking for female audition songs#9

Posted: 8/18/04 at 8:01pm

Monkey, another reason I chose to marry you. "Its not just the rack or the caboose. It's that big sexy brain of yours"(Family Guy again). I second that motion. It is really cute and it only goes up to a C. Can't go wrong with R&H.

Thou giveth fever.

Updated On: 8/18/04 at 08:01 PM

[Auggie27]

re: HELP! Looking for female audition songs#10

Posted: 8/18/04 at 8:09pm

"Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here!" from ON A CLEAR DAY
"What Makes Me Love Him" or "Go to Sleep, Whoever You Are" from APPLE TREE (cornering the Barbara Harris market)
"Sleepy Man" ROBBER BRIDEGROOM

(Unless experts here think any of the above, perhaps all, are overused.)

"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling

Updated On: 8/18/04 at 08:09 PM

[Broadwayboobs]

re: HELP! Looking for female audition songs#11

Posted: 8/18/04 at 8:12pm

"BEST IN THE WORLD" from
A Day In Hollywood, A Night In The Ukraine

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

[VoiceofReason]

re: HELP! Looking for female audition songs#12

Posted: 8/18/04 at 8:48pm

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=308446&dt=081804083821

For heaven's sake, don't try to be cynical. It's perfectly easy to be cynical. ~The Importance of Being Earnest~

[Timmerbo]

re: HELP! Looking for female audition songs#13

Posted: 8/18/04 at 8:57pm

Wow. Thank you. :) This has really been a lot of help and I appreciate it very much.

[StateOfJade]

re: HELP! Looking for female audition songs#14

Posted: 8/18/04 at 9:43pm

You don't want an inexpirienced singer singing Defying Gravity. That's suicide.

"I really liked the show--Wish I saw Boy's Night...Am I allowed as I am not a boy anymore:)"-duffyny1