<p>Hey everyone! Hope the summer is going well so far!</p>
<p>I just cam back from orientation at UWSP, and now I am searching for a great audition song for the day before classes. The first musical of the year is..."HAIR". I am doing lots of research on shows with similar pop-rock styles, but I don't want to miss any options. Can anyone throw out the names of some shows with that have a similar folk/pop/rock edge to its music?</p>
<p>Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar</p>
<p>Look at Two Gentlemen of Verona (same composer), ALW, Stephen Schwartz (particularly Pippin and Godspell)...possibly A New Brain, Tick Tick Boom and Aida...</p>
<p>There was also a sequel to Hair written by Galt MacDermot (I believe that it's called Rainbowland), but I can't imagine that the music would be possible/probable to find...</p>
<p>Wikipedia has a page full of them if you type in "rock musicals".</p>
<p>While you should find out for certain, I am not sure you HAVE to sing from a rock musical, but could sing a rock/pop song from the sixties rock genre that is not from a musical. I mean you ought to check if the song needs to be from a musical but I think for an audition for Hair, there are lots of songs from that genre beyond from actual musicals. I can't quite remember at this point, but I think my own kid sang a Janis Joplin song for a Hair audition and for another musical about songs from the sixties.</p>
<p>In my 'yout' I auditioned for the Broadway play... long story if anyone is interested... but I sang "Born to Be Wild" and got a callback...</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the suggestions!</p>
<p>soozievt - I did consider purusing some sixities-style music as well :) The audition sheet asks for songs that are PREFERABLY from the musical theatre genre, but I am not counting out sixties pop/rock songs. I feel like there could be some gems in that area.</p>
<p>Tommy, the rock opera.</p>
<p>Bright Lights, Big City (Off Broadway, 1999)</p>
<p>Two Gentlemen of Verona (rock musical by John Guare and Mel Shapiro, with music by Galt MacDermot who also composed the music for Hair.)</p>
<p>Does anyone know a good pop/rock song that is mostly legit? Such as Angel by Sarah Mclachlan (sp?)</p>
<p>OK, so I really am interested in the song "Smash the Mirror" from the show Tommy. However, when I brought it up on musicnotes.com, the key was a couple steps too high - the song was by The Who originally and this version must be for a guy to sing. Does anyone know of any other sheet music for the song out there from the show itself?</p>
<p>Actually, on musicnotes, it's in the key of F, which I think is the correct key from the show. It does belt pretty darn high!</p>
<p>Many songs on musicnotes, there is a button at the bottom where you can transpose it. I don't see that one on this song, but it says
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Contains printable sheet music plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file.
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<p>I'm guessing that would give you the ability to transpose yourself, but don't know if you'd need some particular program on your computer to do so -- you could check with their customer service to see.</p>