<p>I'm a high school senior and i'm trying to get ready to start the audition process for colleges. Does anyone know a good website for finding songs/monologues/ect.?</p>
<p>This is something you really need to get someone to help you with. You need a teacher to guide you through this. I’d suggest your drama and music teacher at school if you don’t already have a relationship with a private teacher.<br>
To directly answer your question, I haven’t seen any websites, but any good sheet music store would have a selection of these.</p>
<p>There is no website that you’ll find that will give you anything that is not terribly overdone.
Start doing some research of your own. I went to my local public library and sat for hours leafing through plays and finding 12 awesome monologues to use. I’ts really fun and educational, so just spend a couple of hours at your library or borders or barnes and noble and shuffle through a ton of plays. Classical material can be a little trickier, so I suggest finding character analyses and picking characters that you think you can play then reading the material and picking a few you like.
For song selection you should be listening to showtunes non stop, then if you find a singer that you think has the same vocal qualities as you or seems to be singing the songs you’d want to sing then look up more stuff by the same singer, because chances are they’ll have a CD full of mt repertoire. Most public libraries also have a wide variety of OBCs and such, check them out and put them on your ipod.</p>
<p>This is if you want to take a more independent route, you can always hire mtca, but if you don’t have the means to do that or you don’t have a good drama teacher, you can always find away to help yourself.</p>
<p>We hired an audition coach to find material for our daughter and it was the best money we spent. Her contemporary monologue was fresh and funny and suited her perfectly. If you can manage it, julian, you won’t regret the expense.</p>
<p>How does one go about finding an audition coach? We’re far from either coast…kiddo has an excellent voice teacher, great dance training, and is taking piano and acting classes…but do we need to start the search for an audition coach? (She’s a h.s. junior this year…)</p>
<p>Mommafrog…</p>
<p>Does your D’s voice teacher work on MT repertoire? If so, she doesn’t have to have a vocal coach as she can work on and prepare her songs with her voice teacher. That is what my D and most whom I know have also done. But the voice teacher should be familiar with MT songs and ideally have worked on the audition process with others and to be familiar with that as well. If this person is not suitable for that, you could ask anyone whom you know in the region who has auditioned for MT colleges who they used. You also can inquire at a college nearby if they have someone to recommend (don’t you live near CCM?). </p>
<p>For the monologue coach, again either ask those whom you know nearby who have auditioned for college theater programs for recommendations or else ask the place where she takes acting classes if anyone on staff can coach monologues for college auditions, or ask at a college in their theater department who they recommend (or even a local professional theater). </p>
<p>The voice and acting people who help your D need not be called “audition coaches.” They need to be professionals in their field and be familiar with the audition process and ideally to have helped others with college auditions before. Their specialty surely does not have to be “audition coach.” The voice and acting “coaches” my D used were not “coaches” as their profession. Both, however, had helped others with college auditions.</p>
<p>If you don’t mind publishing where you are, someone here might have some specific recommendations.</p>
<p>I could be mistaken (sorry if so) but from past posts, I thought you live in Ohio and your D has participated in CCM prep (training for youth). If that is the case, I would ask at CCM prep for who would be good for audition coaching in voice or monologues. Even ask at CCM itself if you live in commuting distance.</p>
<p>Mommafrog
We “know” each other from ballet talk, but was not making it obvious that I was the same person, although you may have already figured it our. D has been working with a vocal and drama coach in Mariemont who she really clicks with. She is young and last year was an intern with Ensemble theatre and is with C. Sharespeare this year. She has helped D with vocal and is working with her on an uncoming audition which requires a latina accent.
I know that CCM is there but we were glad to step out of that group for someone currently working professional and trained elsewhere. I don’t remember who recommended her to us, but it has been a good match.
I do have to say that scheduling has been difficult as she is working and the last 2 sessions were canceled and rescheduled because first D and then the coach had to add rehearsals to bring understudies up. But I think this is part of what D appreciates, since they both need to have some flexibility in scheduling. Send a message if you want contact information.</p>
<p>^^^Even better yet…the power of CC!</p>
<p>Well to go back to what juliandg asked…As for a website I’m not exactly sure, but I know that musicaltheatreaudition.com gives a list of monologues, songs, and plays to avoid using, which will help in making sure you don’t choose something that judges hear often. </p>
<p>In my personal sense, I’m also a senior in high school starting the audition process too. I’ve found that buying vocal books and plays help. I do nearly five or six musicals a year so if past audition songs work well for auditions, then I try and use those so I only have to polish them, instead of trying to search out new material. So my suggestion would be that if you can’t afford a coach, then try going back to past musicals that you’ve had leads in and use those. </p>
<p>If anybody on here wants to correct me on this system, please let me know! Like I said I’m a senior too, so I’m just going with whats worked in the past.</p>
<p>Mommafrog, If you go back to the starting page and scroll down a bit, you will see a thread entitled “monologue coaches”. Discussed there is an excellent source: a company entitled musical theatre college auditions or MTCA, who does coaching over computer/Skype. They coach in voice, monologue and dancing. We live in Oregon, and although they work out of NYC, my daughter will be using them this year.</p>
<p>mommafrog, I would go with the advice and suggestions given by keepingcalm and soozie, if I were you. If you live in proximity to Cincinnati, you will have many good possibilities there. Having the ability to meet and work with someone in person who is a good match for the student is always preferable to going through this process with someone online.</p>
<p>actress015, your method for searching for audition material is absolutely fine. In my opinion, your ‘system’ is one that should be employed by every student. It does surprise me when kids who are interested in pursuing this business come to CC and ask where to start. Shows that you’ve done, or seen, and plays that you’ve read should be the first consideration. Most kids who have done theatre throughout high school, have also SEEN a lot of theatre, and have also read a lot of plays. If they haven’t, then they should start doing so! Finding appropriate audition material will be a part of their lives for as long as they pursue this career. Many, if not most, are well on their way to compiling a varied and extensive book of audition material by the time that college auditions come around. It’s important for students to learn how to search for appropriate material and how to make the decisions as to what works best for them. Doing the necessary research and work should be a part of that.</p>
<p>I’d heard somewhere (I forget where) that it’s not a good idea to use material from roles you’ve previously been in before as audition material. Is this true?</p>
<p>For instance, since I’ve played Nancy in “Oliver”, would it be wise for me to sing “As Long As He Needs Me” as an audition piece? (Not taking into account that this may be an overused song.)</p>