Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
For me, it starts with:
"Losing My Mind"
"Send in the Clowns"
"As Long As He Needs Me"
"Somewhere That's Green"
"Rose's Turn"
"What I Did For Love"
What's yours?
Stars
Great Big Stuff
Javert's Suicide
(Anything that Javert sings in Les Mis. lol.)
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
"Meadowlark"
"The Miller's Son"
"Could I Leave You?"
"Cabaret"
"There Won't Be Trumpets"
"Knowing When to Leave"
"Stars and the Moon"
"Mean to Me"
Edited to Add: "Every Day a Little Death"
I'll stop now, but I could do this all night.
Any of the Narrator in Joseph (Yes, I'm obssesed)
"In his eyes" in J&H
"As if we never said goodbye" SB
"No good deed goes unpunished" Wicked
"Easy as life" Aida
"Confrontation" J&H
"Moving Too Fast" L5Y
"Hair" Hair
"Franklin Shepard, Inc." from Merrily We Roll Along.
I absolutely adore this song.
I don't know why. I mean, there are a thousand songs I could have responded with, but that's the first one that popped into my mind. I guess it's because I would have so much fun with that song.
Others? Eh... Anything from Assassins. Because I would kill to play Guiteau. (Or to be the ambassador to France.)
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
"If I didn't believe in you" from L5Y or almost anything from that.
There are a ton more but it is really early...
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/05
Bring Him Home - Les Miz (I would love to play Valjean someday, but I definitely don't look the part. Even with man makeup...I won't be cast. sigh).
Heaven on Their Minds - JCS
Gethsemane - JCS
Great Big Stuff - DRS
Wilkommen - Cabaret
One Song Glory - RENT
Why - Tick Tick Boom
That said, I'd nver go as far as surgery, but I do love these songs!
Updated On: 9/9/05 at 09:59 AM
'Love a little Town' from Witches of Eastwick
Just for the spoken line... "oh yes thats right your still here arn't you?"
Adelaide's Lament
It's A Privilege to Pee
Worst Pies In London
The Miller's Son
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
"Sorry/Grateful" from Company (I suppose that's a duh.)
"The Music of the Night" from POTO
""I Don't Care Much" from Cabaret
"Agony" from ITW
"Johanna" (Judge Turpin's) from Sweeney
"Epiphany" from Sweeney
"Finishing the Hat" from SITPWG
And much, much more!
I would also love to do Franklin Shephard, Inc., lamenting.
"Maybe I Like it This Way" from Wild Party
"Still Hurting" from L5Y
"In His Eyes" from J&H
"The Spark of Creation" from COE
"Come to Your Senses" from Tick, Tick... Boom
Olive's part in "The I Love You Song" from Putnam County
Wow that's intense. I'd rather just rewrite the lyrics...
...or sing it as written, gender be damned. I'll leave "me privates" out of it, though.
But if there's a song you all want to sing, sing it! (Minus the surgery.)
who's in your avatar best?
Too funny, lildogs. I've been asked that a couple of times lately...
It's of Marin Mazzie, "sellin' it" for all she's worth!
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
"I Wish I Could Forget You" - Passion
"Lott's Wife" - Caroline, or Change
Well, apart from being professionl/NY audition suicide to bend the gender, I think I would go for Memory (double sucide!!! lol), How Could I Know from ( almost double suicide!!! ) and Back to Before (from Ragtime).
Best, it looks JUST LIKE ia girl I know--i didn't think you were she, but...
and phillyactor, i did get a callback and a job from singing I Caint Say No--not exactly suicide for me, but i get your point. Song choices at auditions are hit or miss anyway, unless you KNOW that the casting person hates Sondheim (or whoever), how would you know what NOT to sing?
"Rose's Turn" from GYPSY
"The Ladies Who Lunch" from COMPANY
"I'm the Greatest Star" from FUNNY GIRL
"A Call from the Vatican" from NINE
"Last Midnight" from INTO THE WOODS
...There's a bunch more.
lildogs, I'll give you a little metaphor (not the one from The Fantasticks mind you.) I like to play cards, esp blackjak. It's foolish to hit on a 17, but occassionally people do it. Will they get 3 or 4, rarely, but if you want to play blackjack and win in the long term, you DONT do it. If you call them on it, they will proudly proclaim they won the hand. But watch what happens the 50 other times they try it! Its like the guy that jumps out of a plane and his parachute and backup get tangled , sometimes, on a rare occassion, he manages to survive, but usually he doesnt. So, I wouldnt hit on a 17 and I'd doublecheck check my parachute. When auditioning, why stack the odds against yourself, in order to maybe, on a small chance, be a an exception to a rule?
Loosing My Mind is what immediately comes to mind...I think it's one of the best songs ever written...I'm obsessed with it.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
Ooh! I forgot about "Buddie's Blues" from Follies. That's a great one!
"Stars" and "Javert's Suicide" from Les Miserables
"Falcon in the Dive" from Scarlet Pimpernel
"Hair" and "I've Got Life" from Hair
"I'm Going Home" from The Rocky Horror Show
everything from Movin' Out
"Halloween" from Rent
Sorry to threadjack, but what show is the song "If I Could Leave You" from?
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
Oh gosh, there are so many. Probably the first to say a few of these...
Defying Gravity
No Good Deed
Astonishing
Dance of the Robe (Aida's part at the end)
Easy as Life
The Gods Love Nubia
Take Me or Leave Me
On My Own
The Beauty Is
Fable
Don't want to keep rambling on.
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