High Belt Songs...Please Help

#1

High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 12:55am

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

My friend is auditioning for a ton of schools in spring and shes in need of a high belt song and I have run completely out of ideas..
Any ideas would be super.

<3

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You've gotta have heart AND music

#2

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 12:56am

Defying Gravity???

#3

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 12:56am

...she needs one that aren't ovedone. No offense to the music, just WAY overdone

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You've gotta have heart AND music

#4

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 1:41am

The Sun and I from Hot Mikado
Come to your senses Tick Tick Boom

#5

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 2:40am

Rainbow high from evita would be perfect. And Happy Christmahanukuanzaakah!!

#6

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 4:28am

Ain't It Good - Children Of Eden
Wild Party - The WIld Party (Lippa)
Buenos Aires - Evita
Shoeless Joe - Damn Yankees
Six Months (Outta Every Year) - Damn Yankees
The Life of the Party - The Wild Party (Lippa)
She Loves to Hear The Music - The Boy From Oz (OBC)

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"...But Kungurtseva reels off multiple fouettes and the tape is stopped so she can take a bow. The Jester, an abomination introduced to Swan Lake in Soviet times, extorts applause from the audience. The cuts don't help the storytelling, the production is bare bones and they go for the '50s-style happy ending. The audience cheers like mad at the end. It's the Russian ballet, after all..."

#7

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 9:52am

Look at songs from Lippa's Wild Party.

#8

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 12:59pm

"The Road Ends Here" from John and Jen.

"You don't know this man" from Parade.

"I can do Better than That" from Last 5 Years.

"Flagmaker, 1776" from Songs For a New World.

"The Story Goes On" from Baby.

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"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish

#9

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 1:17pm

"You don't know this man" from Parade.

I never saw that as I high belting song... I'm an alto and its pretty easy for me to sing... I might be wrong...

Look into songs from "Closer than Ever"
-- and DEFINITELY "Patterns" from that show. Its a truely amazing song (if you need the sheet music, PM me).

Perhaps also
"I'm Not Afraid of Anything" - Songs for a New World
"Home" - The Wiz

Hope it helps!

#10

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 1:21pm

please look at The Sun And I from Hot Mikado... such a good song.. high belt, especially at the end, and popish

#11

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 1:47pm

I've Got Love, from Purlie...
Anytime, from Elegies
Evita's song... Buenos Aires, Rainbow High

Look at all the girls songs from LaChiusa's Hello Again... GREAT stuff there.

And Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm... Usually mixed... but might be interesting if belted..

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Personally, I think I have too much bloom.

#12

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 1:51pm

Climbing Uphill from L5Y.

#13

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 1:55pm

What is her range?

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"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish

#14

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 2:02pm

I've heard Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm all belted...if you can pull it off, do it.

#15

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 2:20pm

having just sat through auditions where we asked to hear high belt I would not recommend The Wild Party...EVERY ONE did it. Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm is a good suggustion. Always True To You from Kiss Me Kate, Kander and Ebb stuff, and anything from Funny Girl (Coronet Man especially) are good for more classic stuff. For new music theater I'd look into Hello Again and shy away from Jason Robert Brown. And for pop I personally really like The Wiz, Purlie, We Will Rock You, and Footloose (the last two are totally cheesey, b¨t i love them :)

#16

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 2:28pm

"summer in ohio" from the last five years

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Hey there, you with the stars in your eyes.

#17

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 3:10pm

God, just please make sure this girl actually HAS a high belt. Nothing worse than a girl screaming flat notes at the top of her lungs, or reaching a really powerful point in the song and going into a really bad, forced head voice...

-Vincent

#18

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 3:30pm

Mmmmmm....flat notes.

As for Hot Mikado, I definately second the idea--great belty music!

#19

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 5:28pm

When You Got It Flaunt IT - The Producers

#20

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/25/05 at 8:23pm

CHANGE from A NEW BRAIN.

TIME HEALS EVERYTHING from MACK AND MABEL

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"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish

Updated On: 12/25/05 at 08:23 PM

#21

re: High Belt Songs...Please Help

Posted: 12/26/05 at 10:27pm

Astonishing from Little Women.