<p>Hi all, this is Mikksmom's D (kirstensofie), I'm too lazy to log out of my mom's sn...</p>
<p>I just had my CMU audition on Sunday. After the vocal section of my audition, the adjudicator asked me if I had anything "beltier" and was very dissapointed when I didn't, saying both of my songs show off the same thing. I think its a valid critique (from someone who really knows what they are talking about), so I think I'm going to change it up for my other 6 auditions.</p>
<p>Currently my ballad is "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" from Perils of Pauline and my uptempo is "I'll Show Him" from Plain and Fancy. I want to keep the ballad, so I need a "belty" uptempo. I put "belt" in quotations because I don't actually BELT (lol), I just have a really high mix. Any suggestions? I was thinking "All For You" from Seussical but I fear its too overdone. I just don't want to have another audition messed up because I'm not showing everything I can do!</p>
<p>Kirsten,
The beauty of doing one audition on the early side is that it let's you reevaluate if you want to do anything differently for the remaining auditions. In fact, my own daughter made a change after her first audition (the only one she did before the New Year) which was at Emerson. She had an upbeat belty song and a ballad but at Emerson, they asked her to redo the ballad as if singing it to a baby and she realized that there was a section in the ballad that belted (not the whole song) and that she should have had a ballad that was legit throughout. So, after Emerson, she changed her ballad. She had been deferred at Emerson, though accepted to the college at EA but later was not admitted to the BFA there. But that audition got her thinking to switch one song. At CMU, where she was waitlisted, they ended up working with her with songs, wanting to hear how high her soprano could go (she wasn't s soprano, but a mezzo.....though now that she is in a BFA program, they have made her into a soprano!! she has learned SOOOO much, so just like she has learned to sing a high soprano, you will learn to belt in college, which is what she can do well in reverse from you). At CMU, they just picked Somewhere Over the Rainbow and had her sing it over and over going into higher and higher keys. Now, she has higher legit soprano songs in her repertoire but CMU found a way to hear what they needed. Perhaps that was harder to find a way to get you to belt if you had no belt song with you. </p>
<p>I will suggest some upbeat belty songs for you but the only caveat is that you say you don't truly belt and so I am not sure if these songs would be so great if you can't belt but if you can sing them with a mix, they might work. I would also work with your voice teacher for suggestions because he/she knows your voice skills and type and I do not. But here are some songs to at least look at and see if any would work for you:</p>
<p>Here I Am from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Other Side of the Tracks from Little Me
I Want to Go to Hollywood from Grand Hotel
The Gentleman is a Dope from Allegro
You Can Always Count on Me from City of Angels
Let Yourself Go from Follow the Fleet (is on Kristen Chenowith's album of the same name)
I Can Cook Too from On the Town
Shoppin Around by Harold Rome</p>
<p>Best of luck,
Susan</p>
<p>A few more possibilities to check out (what you can do is listen to little snippets on Amazon and see if you are interested enough to get the music):</p>
<p>I'm Not At All in Love from Pajama Game
A Little Brains, A Little Talent from Damn Yankees
It's an Art from Working
I Just Want to be a Star from Nunsense
Nobody Does it Like Me from Seesaw
Waiting for Life to Begin from Once on This Island
Wherever He Ain't from Mack and Mabel
Lights of Broadway from LaChuisa's Wild Party</p>
<p>Thank you so much! I will check them out!</p>