<p>This site is alway so helpful with loads of information that I thought I would try again.</p>
<p>My d has been researching numbers and would like to come up with an unusal number for her freshman showcase at college. She loves the old musicals but has a very high soprano voice (her best range). Does anyone have any suggestions for numbers she could research and look up? She is looking for something not so overdone.</p>
<p>Thank you
appreciate all the info
lexismom</p>
<p>Glitter and be gay is a wonderful song for a high soprano. Kristin Chenoweth does a great version of it. She has a wonderful CD "Let Yourself Go" with a lot of soprano material. Here are a few others you might want to try:
"Is it Really Me?" from 110 in the Shade
"Stranger in Paradise" from Kismet
"In a Very Unusual Way" from Nine
"Vanilla Ice Cream" from She Loves Me
"Come Down from the Tree" from Once On This Island (cut from the show but still available)
"Love Changes Everything" from Aspects of Love
"Poor Little Hollywood Star" form Little Me</p>
<p>Hope this helps! Feel free to PM!</p>
<p>"Who Will Love Me As I Am" Sideshow
"FAlling in Love with Love" Boys from Syracuse</p>
<p>Don't mean to be the bad guy here :), but most of the things on TheatreGirl's list are fairly overdone, especially in college programs. Also, "Come Down From the Tree," "Unusual Way, and "Who Will Love Me As I Am" are mixy-belt songs, not coloratura-ish legit songs (not really legit songs at all). Tell her to look at Romberg (operetta/MT) - "Romance" from THE DESERT SONG, for example, is a WONDERFUL, showy piece!!</p>
<p>theatergirl90 and bsb2007</p>
<p>Thank you so very much for your suggestions. I will e-mail her today.</p>
<p>lexismom</p>
<p>CoachC</p>
<p>Thank you - I appreicate all the information. I will inform her.</p>
<p>Happy New Year Everyone</p>
<p>Since she likes the old stuff I would look at
The Song is You - Music in the Air
What's the use of Wondering - Carousel</p>
<p>"Make Our Garden Grow" from Candide is a very very beautiful high soprano song.</p>
<p>Maybe....</p>
<p>Dear Friend from She Loves Me
Somehow I Never Could Believe from Street Scene
Lusty Month of May from Camelot
Mira from Carnival
Once Upon a Dream from Jekyl and Hyde
Will He Like Me? from She Loves Me
Hurry, It's Lovely Up Here from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
No Other Love from Me and Juliet
I Want to Be a Prima Donna from The Enchantress
The Girl in 14G by Jeanine Tesori
Climb Ev'ry Mountain from Sound of Music (more common, but if she has the voice....)
This is All Very New to Me from Plain and Fancy
Somebody Somewhere from Most Happy Fella
I Have To Tell You from Fanny
Love Makes Such Fools of Us All from Barnum
I Hate Men from Kiss Me Kate</p>
<p>This is so helpful for my D also. Since I know so little about any of this which of these soprano songs are good for up tempo?</p>
<p>Another thing to keep in mind is what part of the song will be best to sing. I am involved with college auditions and I have to say Girl in 14 G doe not go over well, unless you can really do all those musical styles really well, and they would allow you to sing the entire song, which is rare.</p>
<p>All the things you are from Very Warm for May (Kern) is a great piece that, if you do the last half, is very powerful, because you can take a high ending. All in all I would avoid anything deeply identified with another singer, especially Chenowith. She is so popular ( excuse th pun) right now, that adjudicators can't help but compare. I agree with Coach - so much wonderful material from the pre- Rodgers and Hammerstein era is rife with good soprano material - Kern, Romberg, Victor Herbert. I hate men is not that high and I would put it on the overdone list.</p>
<p>Remember the OP is not looking for AUDITION songs but rather a piece for a showcase, and thus the criteria may be different.</p>
<p>i would definately say the older the better....if you go back to the newest musicals, when they were just coming from operettas, like showboat, you're a lot more likely to find songs calling for very legit soprano sounds</p>
<p>I'm a huge fan of Should I be Sweet on Kristin's Let Yourself Go album.</p>
<p>I was wondering if anyone had an opinion on a great soprano song which could be acted with some comedic timing. This is not for an audition of any kind but for a school performance. She has already performed Glitter and Be Gay and is not interested in doing that again....anything else? Thanks!</p>
<p>The second Adele aria from Fledermaus can be hysterical, but the singer really has to be good at the timing and humor. The cleverness is not in the lyrics, ala Sondheim, but the interpretation and awareness of the subplots. There are many operatta arias which provide this kind of opportunity, typically for the ingenue soprano in the cast.</p>
<p>A piece not done nor known, but which is stunningly beautiful and high (sustained C at the end) is Ron Grainers's "Soliloquy" from "Robert and Elizabeth". It truly is an aria.</p>
<p>Art is Calling For Me (The Prima Donna Song) - The Enchantress
If done well, it is hilarious.</p>
<p>I agree; "Art Is Calling For Me" is very funny. My D performed the song at her H.S. senior recital. The number was the big hit of the evening. D incorporated a couple of short vocal cadenzas in the song to add to the dramatic flair.</p>
<p>A friend performed "Art is Calling for Me" in a school pageant and won the crown. The twist was she wore a fat suit and stood in a 'turret' like a princess in a castle. She swayed the fat suit and plopped her "fat" rear on the edge of the turret and pretty much brought the house down. At the end she donned a viking helmet with the braids attached and had friends throw roses from the orchestra pit.</p>