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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 14, 2016 18:21:41 GMT
Ok, we know you can't sing. Let alone act AND sing so don't kid yourself BUT if you could and you were going to auditions what would be your chosen piece?
Mine is (for today) Out There from Hunchback Of Notre Dame. I think it would knock 'em for six and that part would be mine all MINE!
Over to you...
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 14, 2016 18:22:44 GMT
(I can do Stars from Les Mis too. I'm very versatile)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2016 18:30:05 GMT
Mine would probably be Stars from Les Mis too, or Bring Him Home. I have sang Defying Gravity at an audition before! And got the role  |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 14, 2016 18:39:30 GMT
Mine would probably be Stars from Les Mis too, or Bring Him Home. I have sang Defying Gravity at an audition before! And got the role YouTube clips or it didn't happen. |
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Post by d'James on Aug 14, 2016 19:03:32 GMT
I would love to do Enough from In The Heights in the style of Josie Benson, not the Broadway recording, just to wake them up.
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Post by Michael on Aug 14, 2016 19:18:28 GMT
It has to be Proud of your boy.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2016 20:14:17 GMT
Unexpected Song. I can do the "back phrasing" and I have my own clipboard.
And if anyone says, "What the f*** did you do with the ending?" I can say say, "Well, if it's good enough for Bernadette, it's good enough for me..."
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Post by welsh_tenor on Aug 14, 2016 20:27:03 GMT
Popular! You should hear my Glinda, I've got a beautiful* soprano for a middle aged man... And I've got comedic timing that will make Kristin quake in her bubble...
[*it's beautiful in my head!]
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Post by anthony40 on Aug 14, 2016 20:58:11 GMT
Stars for me in terms of singing. In terms of a spoken audition piece, it'd have to one of the two Sam Byck monologues from Assassins.
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Post by Seriously on Aug 14, 2016 23:32:50 GMT
Given how many times "Stars" has been mentioned already in this thread, that alone is evidence enough NOT to use it. As someone who sits on audition panels regularly, please don't bring it, we're bored of it.
The idea of having one audition song is a terrible idea anyway. You wouldn't take Stars to a Grease audition, and if a guy walked in offering to sing a female song from Wicked, we'd just ask you why you couldn't find something in the male repertoire? It's a bit like turning up to a tap audition with some street-dance.
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Post by talkstageytome on Aug 14, 2016 23:39:35 GMT
I've used You Can Always Count on Me from City of Angels, A Trip To The Library from She Loves Me, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow from Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (but that wasn't for a musical theatre role, it was for a concert fundraiser thing and I just wanted to sing it! ) and a while ago I'd use Gimme Gimme from Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Mamma Who Bore Me from Spring Awakening (so overdone, what was I thinking?!). Really need to mix up my audition pieces though, but I don't really do as much musical theatre anymore. In a dream scenario of course I'd be a fantastic soprano ingenue and I'd be auditioning with Green Finch and Linnet Bird and Love Never Dies (if we're ignoring that they're both real life audition no nos!)... alas, I'm all about those comedic side characters instead!  |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 15, 2016 0:48:08 GMT
Last time I went for a membership audition (rather than performing specific material for a role), I went with Empty Chairs - and didn't get through to the end (as they were running out of time - I still got in even though I can't dance for toffee)
These days, I might well go for Dressing Them Up from Kiss of the Spiderwoman - as it is a great piece for storytelling and reasonable for range.
I would love to do You'll Be Back from Hamilton (but only once I have sorted the falsetto section.... having done Beadle in Sweeney, I am close!)
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Post by aljennings on Aug 15, 2016 8:05:39 GMT
Anthem from Chess was always my go to Audition piece - then I used to make it my own by riffing the hell out of it at the end.
Then i used to do Losing My Mind from Follies just to make them cry, which i used to do all the time.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 15, 2016 8:29:36 GMT
These days, I might well go for Dressing Them Up from Kiss of the Spiderwoman - as it is a great piece for storytelling and reasonable for range. As opposed to Dress You Up from Madonna |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 15, 2016 8:39:28 GMT
Given how many times "Stars" has been mentioned already in this thread, that alone is evidence enough NOT to use it. As someone who sits on audition panels regularly, please don't bring it, we're bored of it. The idea of having one audition song is a terrible idea anyway. You wouldn't take Stars to a Grease audition, and if a guy walked in offering to sing a female song from Wicked, we'd just ask you why you couldn't find something in the male repertoire? It's a bit like turning up to a tap audition with some street-dance. Gosh It's just a hypothetical audition and we're just finding out what people would feel most comfortable belting out. No need to rain on our parade with such vigour! But seeing as you raised the subject if audition panels get so bored why invite people to sing their own choice in the first place? If it's THAT boring for you, you poor things, just give people a piece to sing. You're supposed to be assessing their talent, not critiquing their musical preferences. |
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Post by Jasmine on Aug 15, 2016 9:15:01 GMT
I auditioned once for a Sondheim show and sang The Miller's Son. I was an embarrassment, that timing is tricky!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 9:16:38 GMT
Given how many times "Stars" has been mentioned already in this thread, that alone is evidence enough NOT to use it. As someone who sits on audition panels regularly, please don't bring it, we're bored of it. But seeing as you raised the subject if audition panels get so bored why invite people to sing their own choice in the first place? If it's THAT boring for you, you poor things, just give people a piece to sing. You're supposed to be assessing their talent, not critiquing their musical preferences. He has a point. "Am I going to bore the panel?" ought to be a question every auditionee considers, and if they don't it suggests a lack of commitment. Also, although I've never had to audition anyone myself I know that if I was sitting through the tenth rendition of the amateur version of Memory I'd be concentrating less on the song and more on whether it was possible to murder someone with a plastic cup. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 15, 2016 9:34:23 GMT
But seeing as you raised the subject if audition panels get so bored why invite people to sing their own choice in the first place? If it's THAT boring for you, you poor things, just give people a piece to sing. You're supposed to be assessing their talent, not critiquing their musical preferences. He has a point. "Am I going to bore the panel?" ought to be a question every auditionee considers, and if they don't it suggests a lack of commitment. Or maybe "am I capable hearing people's take on Stars seven times again today" should be a question the auditioner asks THEMselves and if they can't it suggests an equal lack of commitment. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 10:10:56 GMT
'Anything Goes' complete with sailor suit and tap routine.
Give 'em so much dazzle, their dazzle won't be able to cope.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 15, 2016 11:25:30 GMT
He has a point. "Am I going to bore the panel?" ought to be a question every auditionee considers, and if they don't it suggests a lack of commitment. Or maybe "am I capable hearing people's take on Stars seven times again today" should be a question the auditioner asks THEMselves and if they can't it suggests an equal lack of commitment. I have run a lot of auditions - and the songs that come up time after time are 'On My Own' and 'Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again' We now take bets as to how many of each we will get... |
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Post by Seriously on Aug 15, 2016 12:21:26 GMT
He has a point. "Am I going to bore the panel?" ought to be a question every auditionee considers, and if they don't it suggests a lack of commitment. Or maybe "am I capable hearing people's take on Stars seven times again today" should be a question the auditioner asks THEMselves and if they can't it suggests an equal lack of commitment. Yeah, I'll step down from the creative team then. You all bring Stars. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 15, 2016 12:37:30 GMT
Or maybe "am I capable hearing people's take on Stars seven times again today" should be a question the auditioner asks THEMselves and if they can't it suggests an equal lack of commitment. Yeah, I'll step down from the creative team then. You all bring Stars. Nah, stay! You don't want to miss my Out There! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 14:10:16 GMT
Given how many times "Stars" has been mentioned already in this thread, that alone is evidence enough NOT to use it. As someone who sits on audition panels regularly, please don't bring it, we're bored of it. The idea of having one audition song is a terrible idea anyway. You wouldn't take Stars to a Grease audition, and if a guy walked in offering to sing a female song from Wicked, we'd just ask you why you couldn't find something in the male repertoire? It's a bit like turning up to a tap audition with some street-dance. Gosh It's just a hypothetical audition and we're just finding out what people would feel most comfortable belting out. No need to rain on our parade with such vigour! But seeing as you raised the subject if audition panels get so bored why invite people to sing their own choice in the first place? If it's THAT boring for you, you poor things, just give people a piece to sing. You're supposed to be assessing their talent, not critiquing their musical preferences. Their preferences can provide useful insight though. If they've gone away and thought about it and come up with a song that's not only a brilliant showcase for their voice, but also an appropriate match for the show they're auditioning for, and maybe even well-suited to a particular character, and from a not very well known show, then they've shown that they're willing to put the work in for this particular show for which they're auditioning and have a broad knowledge of musical theatre to boot. And if you get it down to two people who perform equally as well as each other, then you'll need *some* way of choosing one over the other, so why not the guy who put in all the extra work and is probably going to bring all that to the rehearsal room, rather than the guy who might be willing to go the extra mile but didn't for his audition so why gamble on whether or not he'll do that if he's cast?  |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 15, 2016 17:11:24 GMT
But then someone whose done a shed load of preparation over God only knows how much time, and perfected those one or two songs down to a tee, isn't necessarily going to be giving a fair representation of their talents are they? It's like asking someone to come for a job interview and bring their own questions for the interviewers to ask them.
Wouldn't it be a better gauge of someone's real abilities to ask them to sing a song which is well known enough for them to be able to have a crack at, but which they haven't prepared for?
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Post by Seriously on Aug 15, 2016 17:12:17 GMT
If you're a professional singer, who is auditioning for a part on a professional musical. you will have a folder of many many songs. After all, you're a singer, you like to sing. Your choice of song tells us a lot about you. If you haven't bothered to set yourself apart from the competition by choosing a song which showcases your talents, they it does rather suggest what type of person you'll be in rehearsals.
By all means, walk in with the obvious choice, because you like that tune. But if you're going to do the bare minimum of preparation for an audition, which could lead to a job which might finance your life for a year, don't be too shocked if we'd rather work with the singer who spent time learning something suitable for the audition, in-keeping with the character they're up for, and which shows off the range and style we need to hear.
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