I just got cast in a Broadway concert, I get to pick my own songs. I'm a mezzo soprano belter. I'm looking for upbeat songs and ballads. Any suggestions, out there? Thanks all!
I am a bagel on a plateful of onion rolls. If you know what I'm talking about, good. If you don't, you're on your own!
When I Look at You - The Scarlet Pimpernel Stars and the Moon - Songs for a New World
If you have stamina to spare, I would suggest The Story Goes On from Baby or Meadowlark from The Baker's Wife, but I've seen way too many struggle through the second half of each.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Storybook - The Scarlet Pimpernel Gold - Camille Claudel This Time Around - Havana! / Linda Eder single (All Frank Wildhorn) A Change in Me - Beauty and the Beast
You could also take a look at Linda Eder's Broadway, My Way songbook... There are some arrangements of normally male songs (Such as "Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha).