Traditional Musical Theatre Repertoire?

[BroadwayDreams2]

Traditional Musical Theatre Repertoire?#0

Posted: 4/3/05 at 8:35am

For my college audition, I need a song from the traditional musical theatre repertoire. What exactly is traditional? Is the Music Man traditional? Chicago? What's traditional?

[phantom_tenor]

re: Traditional Musical Theatre Repertoire?#1

Posted: 4/3/05 at 8:39am

I'd say stick to the safe side and sing some Gershwin, Cole Porter or Richard Rodgers.

[wildcat]

re: Traditional Musical Theatre Repertoire?#2

Posted: 4/3/05 at 8:55am

Probably anything that's got a recognisable melody and isn't rock.

[paradox_error]

re: Traditional Musical Theatre Repertoire?#3

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:36am

Something from the Golden Age.

Styne, Coleman, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kander and Ebb, Early Sondheim (eg A Funny...Forum), Lerner and Loewe, Bock and Harnick, Meredith Wilson, Porter, Herman et al.

Something from the 30's, 40's, 50's or 60's would be best, I think.

[hannahshule]

re: Traditional Musical Theatre Repertoire?#4

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:55am

basically anything from Oklahoma to How to Succeed...That's what's usually considered traditional. You probably could sing somehting from the late thirties too.

~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~

[Bwaybaby109]

re: Traditional Musical Theatre Repertoire?#5

Posted: 4/3/05 at 10:03am

anything pre-65

"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"