#1
Posted: 10/17/04 at 5:49pm
I'm taking a musical theatre class at the moment.
The last song I performed was "It Might as Well Be Spring" from State Fair.
(high in my range. acted it cute, awkward and dopey.)
I need something to contrast, but frankly I'm only good with comedy.
I just have a naturally funny psycho-physical rhythm, I suppose.
Even when I'm trying to be serious on stage, everyone ends up laughing.
So I must play to my strengths.
And thus the best way to contrast is by belting.
I am a very low alto (to call me a mezzo would be an overstatement of my high range) and I think that finding a number to belt would be appropriate.
Unfortunately, I go to a conservative school, and I think my classmates would faint if I tried "An Old-Fashioned Love Story", "When You're Good to Mama", or anything similarly quasi-sexual.
I'd love to do "Mama Will Proivide" or "That Dirty Old Man", but my professor has this hang-up about how we should only choose songs that we could legitimately perform. (I'm too pale for one, and too young for the other).
We're also supposed to avoid accents, so "Somewhere That's Green" and "Adelaide's Lament" are out.
I've been stuck trying to come up with something appropriate for about a week now, so I figured it was time to post, as you all have been terribly helpful in the past with getting past the horrendous guidelines imposed on me by my institution.
So I implore you, please think about it and get back to me if you come up with anything.
Thanks kids.
The last song I performed was "It Might as Well Be Spring" from State Fair.
(high in my range. acted it cute, awkward and dopey.)
I need something to contrast, but frankly I'm only good with comedy.
I just have a naturally funny psycho-physical rhythm, I suppose.
Even when I'm trying to be serious on stage, everyone ends up laughing.
So I must play to my strengths.
And thus the best way to contrast is by belting.
I am a very low alto (to call me a mezzo would be an overstatement of my high range) and I think that finding a number to belt would be appropriate.
Unfortunately, I go to a conservative school, and I think my classmates would faint if I tried "An Old-Fashioned Love Story", "When You're Good to Mama", or anything similarly quasi-sexual.
I'd love to do "Mama Will Proivide" or "That Dirty Old Man", but my professor has this hang-up about how we should only choose songs that we could legitimately perform. (I'm too pale for one, and too young for the other).
We're also supposed to avoid accents, so "Somewhere That's Green" and "Adelaide's Lament" are out.
I've been stuck trying to come up with something appropriate for about a week now, so I figured it was time to post, as you all have been terribly helpful in the past with getting past the horrendous guidelines imposed on me by my institution.
So I implore you, please think about it and get back to me if you come up with anything.
Thanks kids.
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(I think it goes up to a high B flat at the end, though... is that a problem? You could change that but it would kind of ruin the song!)
