Tag Archive | auditions
July 7, 2017  

What they want

http://www.onstageblog.com/columns/2017/7/5/what-they-really-want-at-an-audition

An important read for anyone auditioning for any role, ever.

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June 25, 2015  

Audition song choices 2015

I’m live-blogging at the 2015 annual conference of the International Thespian Society.  Because of commitments in Saint Louis, I missed the Monday and Tuesday thespian auditions this year, but today’s session includes well over 100 actors and singers.

Here’s a list of the songs we heard today:

  • Foolish to think.  A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
  • Fly fly away.  Catch Me If You Can.
  • Pretty funny.  Dogfight.
  • Fly into the future.  Vanities
  • Don’t let me go.  Shrek, the Musical
  • Proud of your boy.  Aladdin
  • Being alive.  Company
  • Shiksa goddess.  The Last Five Years
  • If he really knew me.  They’re Playing Our Song
  • Nothing.  A Chorus Line.
  • Screw loose.  Crybaby the Musical
  • One more kiss.  Follies
  • Fight the dragons.  Big Fish.
  • Suppertime.  You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown
  • I wish it so. Juno
  • I dreamed a dream.  Les Miserables
  • Astonishing.  Little Women
  • My new philosophy.  You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown
  • I wanna be a producer.  The Producers
  • Alto’s lament.  Kerrigan and Loudermilk
  • With you.  Ghost, the Musical
  • Bye bye baby.  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
  • Tonight at eight.  She Loves Me
  • Much more.  The Fantasticks
  • If I left London.  Chaplin, the Musical
  • Beautiful.  Heathers
  • Good morning, Baltimore.  Hairspray
  • I got rhythm.  Mr and Mr Gershwin
  • Corner of the sky.  Pippin
  • Mama who bore me.  Spring Awakening
  • Someone like you.  Jekyll and Hyde
  • Extraordinary.  Pippin
  • Happy/Sad.  The Addams Family
  • Suddenly Seymour.  Little Shop of Horrors
  • Fine, fine line.  Avenue Q
  • Dyin’ ain’t so bad.  Bonnie & Clyde
  • Unexpected song, Song and Dance
  • Waiting.  The Addams Family
  • On my way. Violet
  • Loving you.  Passion
  • Glitter and be gay.  Bernstein
  • Superboy and the invisible girl.  Next to Normal
  • I can cook too.  On the Town
  • As we stumble along.  The Drowsy Chaperone
  • Make me see it.  The Fantasticks
  • Diva’s lament.  Spamalot
  • Seasons of love.  Rent
  • I can hear the bells.  Hairspray
  • Spark of creation. Children of Eden
  • Once upon a time.  Bare
  • You can’t get a man with a gun.  Assassins
  • Freeze ray.  Dr. Horrible etc.
  • Lifeboat.  Heathers, the Musical
  • Some enchanted evening.  South Pacific
  • How can I call this home?  Parade
June 9, 2015  

What not to sing

Here’s a post from a half-decade ago.  The advice is still relevant and valid!

https://musicchair.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/what-not-to-sing/