If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
#0If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/25/05 at 11:24pm
If you had to audition RIGHT Now on the spot...
What songs would you sing? (one up tempo and one ballad)
"You just have to do what your voice tells you to do." -Linda Eder
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#1re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/25/05 at 11:25pm
"In His Eyes" from Jekyll and Hyde
"I Want it All" from Baby
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#2re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/25/05 at 11:31pm
"In Whatever Time We Have" from Children of Eden
"You've Got Possibilities" from It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
"You just have to do what your voice tells you to do." -Linda Eder
#3re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/25/05 at 11:32pm
"Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye" from Anything Goes.
"On the Steps of the Palace" from Into the Woods.
#4re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/25/05 at 11:36pm
"How Could I Ever Know" from the secret garden
"Many a new day" from Oklahoma
mostly cuz those are the only ones I have prepared
-Was that a fart?
-My fault, I fear.
-My fault, I fear.
#6re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/25/05 at 11:57pm
"What I Did for Love" A Chorus Line
"I Enjoy Being a Girl" Flower Drum Song
"It's not for sissies, contrary to popular belief." - Tommy Tune, on musical theatre.
My avatar: Yummy, no?
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jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#7re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 12:19am
"Where Is The Life That Late I Lead?" from Kiss Me, Kate
"Unworthy of Your Love" from Assassins
"Who is Stephen Sondheim?" -roninjoey
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
wickedkiwi
Stand-by Joined: 8/5/04
#8re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 12:35am
if it were LITERALLY on the spot i'd sing whatever song i had in my head.
if i'd had time to pick my best (a few minutes) i'd pick:
ballad: being alive/unexpected song
uptempo: strongest suit/the wizard and i
screw being blatant, they're my best songs!!
Tenme por lo que soy, por lo que puedo ser, y si te importo hoy, tenme nena, o vete!
#9re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 1:13am
If I had to go right now the songs I have reading are for upbeat -
Good Morning Baltimore - Hairspray or
I Got the Sun in the Morning - Annie Get Your Gun
Ballad - Heaven Help MY Heart - Chess
Be the change you want in the world....
#10re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 2:35am
"Use What You Got" from The Life
"Why" from tick...tick..BOOM!
Your fupa is showing.
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#11re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 3:34am
"It Takes Two" - Hairspray
"Wheels of a Dream" - Ragtime
The two songs I can sing the $hit out of with fyll confidence, and that I can make sound good a capella.
Akiva
#12re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 4:11am
Ballad: Meadowlark-The Baker's Wife, Unexpected Song-Song and Dance, or I Remember-Evening Primrose
Uptempo: What more do I need-The last resorts, or Always True in my Fashion-Kiss me Kate.
These are songs I can sing easily, but are also impressive and they always at least get me a call back.
"You gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?" -Bernadette Peters
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Updated On: 8/26/05 at 04:11 AM
#13re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 10:23am
"Someone Elses Story" from Chess
"Thank God Im Old" from Barnum
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
#15re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 10:39am
hmmmmmmmm..
up tempo: Waiting For Life - Once On this Island, Another 100 People - Company, Spark of Creation - Children of Eden
ballad: Stranger to the Rain - Children of Eden, Love Song - Celebration
when you grow up surrounded
by willful ignorance
you have to believe
mercy has its own country
and that it's round and borderless
~Animal, Ani Difranco
#16re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 10:41am
Up tempo- Out tonight from Rent
Ballad- I know the truth from Aida
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
#17re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 11:34am
"How Could I Ever Know?" - The Secret Garden
"Honey Bun" - South Pacific
And I just realized the extraordinary lack of up-tempo pieces in my portfolio. I need to work on that.
WildhornFanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 2/5/05
#18re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 11:41am
I MET A GIRL from "Bells Are Ringing"
WAITING FOR THE MOON from "Waiting for the Moon"
In fact, I'm singing those in about 1 hr for my next audition! 
#19re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 11:44amI also hardly have any up-tempo pieces in my portfolio.
#20re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 12:10pm
Hmmm...
Pop/rock/Contemporary....last 16 bars from Anthem (overdone, but anything done brilliantly is acceptable <<<---no humility when it comes to belting G's..lol, hey I'll stick with what has worked!)
Contemporary uptempo: last 16 bars from title song in Sunset Boulevard..quick..to the point..grabbing final note belt
Classic Ballad 16 bars : Her face from Carnival
Classic up-tempo: Goodbye Old Girl...Damn Yankees
Full songs for callbacks...Sailing from A New Brain
Good Thing Going..Merrily
There USed to Be a Ballpark..little
known Sinatra favorite..good song
with good acting lyrics!
For the love of Pete, no MORE Secret Garden, Ladies..and if you do, you better be soundtrack quality...seen many tank on those little ditties!
" I wish that the stage were as narrow as a tightrope wire, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." -- Goethe (he wants you to go to my Myspace page www.myspace.com/jasonklemm
#21re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 12:14pmI said Secret Garden becuase it's the most recent one I've worked on and with great success. I LOVE singing it and it shows when I do.
#22re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 12:22pmI suppose the question should clarify whether its a profesional audition or for local theatre. That does make a difference in material selection.
" I wish that the stage were as narrow as a tightrope wire, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." -- Goethe (he wants you to go to my Myspace page www.myspace.com/jasonklemm
#23re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 12:26pm
Local. If I had a professional audition right now, material wouldn't matter. LOL I'm good, but I ain't THAT good.
Yet.
kathryn_with_a_y
Chorus Member Joined: 8/7/05
#24re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 12:30pm
Ballad : I Remember (Evening Primrose) or No One is Alone (Into the Woods)
Uptempo: My New Philosophy (YAGMCB)
Now that I really think about it thats the only uptempo song I ever use for auditions. Does Anyone know any other Uptempo songs I can use?
"OK, rule number one. Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within four feet of my lips." - words of wisdom from Karen Walker
VanHassle
Chorus Member Joined: 8/18/05
#25re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 12:38pm
"Time Heals Everything"- Mack and Mable
"Nobody's Side"- Chess
theatrebabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/22/05
#26re: If you had to audition RIGHT NOW...
Posted: 8/26/05 at 12:41pm
uptempo-either Shy-Once Upon a Matress or Everyday Comes Something Beautiful-I Remember Mama
ballad-i guess,On My Own from Les Miz
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