<p>Audition season is coming up this spring, and I've decided it's time for new audition material! Some of my auditions require 2 contrasting songs, so if anyone has any suggestions for soprano ballads or mezzo-soprano upbeat belter pieces for a 5'8", slim brunette with an age range of about 16-25, I woud really appreciate it! Oh and some of my auditions require that I sing only one song that shows off both my legit and belt, so I could use suggestions on that, too!</p>
<p>Just for further info, I have a quite developed first soprano legit range in addition to my mezzo/belter voice. I'm spending practically all my free time looking for audition material that isn't overdone, so I figure asking for suggestions can't hurt! Thanks!</p>
<p>MM --Are you talking about college auditions? I'm a little confused because you mentioned spring, which is late in the year for college auditions. If you're talking about something else, like summer stock auditions, you have a little more leeway in your choice of material.</p>
<p>If you have a really strong legit soprano sound, take a look at some Gershwin songs. There are a few that have been overdone, but he wrote many that are wonderful and less well-known. Cole Porter and Irving Berlin are also excellent sources if you stay away from the obvious shows like Annie Get Your Gun and Anything Goes.</p>
<p>MissMillenium auditioned for BFA programs last year and got into Tisch but was unable to attend and is spending the year in a BA program, auditioning again this year, for transfer, I believe. </p>
<p>MM.....can't you use what was so successful for you last year? Unless you want to start fresh.</p>
<p>I also think it would be very hard for us to suggest specific songs for you without knowing your type and what songs are good for you as examples, to find others in that vein. While I could list a bunch of sogns for sopranos and mezzos, I think you could come across such lists. Start listening to clips on Itunes and amazon of certain composers or if there is a MT singer who has a voice like yours, see what they are singing. The more time you spend going through what's out there, you'll come up with some ideas.</p>
<p>Jane, what is the title of your book and where can people get it? Figured I wasn't the only one wanting to know, though I dunno whether such promotional things are permitted on this forum .... If they are not, then I count on collegemom to delete this post.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions! And I'm auditioning for both BFA programs AND summerstock productions, and I just feel like I've grown a lot as a person and could use some new audition material that better fits who i am now rather than who I was a year ago. I'm spending a lot of time searching through itunes and amazon and anthologies' tables of contents. Finding good legit soprano material isn't very difficult, but I'm having a harder time finding songs that fit my belt range (I have a very Idina Menzel meets Sutton Foster sound and am much more comfortable singing contemporary material for that reason). Thank you all for your help! And I would be interested in finding your book as well, JIJane!</p>
<p>Oh and in case this helps, the audition pieces I had recently picked out were "Stranger to the Rain" and "Lover Come Back to Me," but I feel like the first is too overdone and I'm not "in love" with the second so I've just decided to start from scratch again...</p>
<p>Regarding JIJane's book, there is information on it in a thread near the top of the forum about books and other resources for musical theatre. I think it is the last post on that thread. It says it is available from Amazon.</p>
<p>Everyone, sorry if advertising is not allowed but since my first ever post was not deleted I thought it might be ok. If not, please do feel free to delete my post. :) As for the book being unavailable on Amazon - sorry about that! I just found out myself and will get in contact with the publisher first thing tomorrow to see when new copies are on the way....("So you want to tread the boards")....</p>
<p>I like how everyone has the same problem! Here I go:....I'm planning on singing " Out There" from Hunchback. It fits my range well, and it sounds amazing. love that song!....but I'm getting a little bit of " You're singing a Disney song??!"...so yeah!...I'm auditioning for Santa Clara University in California and am nervous out of my mind. Is my song tacky?....also I have no Idea what my " contemporary momlogue" should be....I found some things from Christopher Durang but...blegh!...HELP!</p>
<p>I didn't that "Hunchback" was a broadway show. I don't know what the song type requirements are for the college you are auditioning for are, but you might want to review that, it is usually on the website. If you search this site for monologues, their are some very good references to other sites that can give you some ideas of plays with monologues approriate for young people.
Good Luck</p>
<p>I happen to love "Out There"; one of my professional students uses it frequently for Broadway auditions, with great results. However, it is not from a Broadway show, and many schools quite specifically state that they want a B'way song. Be sure to check your college website. In any case, you should never rely on just one song selection; it's a very smart idea to have several strong backups. </p>
<p>If you're stuck for ideas for a monologue, do an internet search; you'll find many sites that you can explore. Be careful, however, to choose one that is from a play; and be sure you read the whole play!</p>
<p>The Hunchback of Notre Dame has indeed been adapted (more than once!) to the stage as a musical. There are a couple of productions scheduled for next year, one in Chicago. It hasn't been on Broadway but most schools I'm familiar with want musical theatre songs, not specifically shows which have been on Broadway. Onstage, which schools specify it must be a Broadway song?</p>
<p>I'm not sure whether "Out There" is incorporated into the musical version of Hunchback or if it's strictly from the film. If the latter, then I agree that it is unlikely to be an appropriate choice.</p>
<p>"Out there" is only in the film. I love it as an audition song but yes, it may go against the rules for schools with stricter guidelines. Check....</p>
<p>Boston Conservatory is one major school that specifically requests "Broadway" songs; I'm pretty sure there are others! Alwaysamom is correct when she says that many schools ask for "musical theater" rather than Broadway; some of these schools, however, specify either "classic" or "traditional" or pre-1960 songs, giving as examples composers like R&H, Cole Porter, & Gershwin. A few of these schools are CCM, Montclair, and Penn State. Anyway, adjectives like that would certainly eliminate "Out There" as a choice for those schools.</p>
<p>Actually a stage musical adaptation of 'Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame' premiered in Berlin, Germany in 1999. It was retitled 'Der Glockner von Notre Dame' and ran for a few years. It was going to go to Broadway, however Disney wanted to make the ending more like the film/kid-friendly, the German production made the story have a darker tone more fitting with the actual novel. All of the songs from the Disney film were used plus new ones written for the stage adaptation. So of course 'Out There' was used in the production, though in German it translated to 'Draussen'. So technically you could use it since it was in a stage musical, just in a different language.</p>
<p>Very interesting! That would be a great bit of info to file in your memory banks, Cameoboi, just in case someone at an audition objected to the song!</p>