<p>Hey everyone,
I'm a junior applying for an theatre intensive boarding school. I love plays, but don't sing much. I can do the basics and make it sound good, but I'm completely untrained. Anyway, I need 16 bars of a song for this audition (thankfully they also require two monologues, and place more value on the monologues than the song) but I have no ideas. I was thinking of doing "I Want To Go To Hollywood", but I'd like to show off my comedic timing. And suggestions would be great, and very much appreciated!</p>
<p>“I can cook too” possibly?</p>
<p>Can’t think of the name of it, but the song that the vamp sings in “Damn Yankees”. It is a riot if you really put a lot of campiness into it!</p>
<p>“I Can Cook Too” isn’t really what I’m looking for, but thank you for the suggestion!</p>
<p>Marbleheader- in Damn Yankees, besides “Whatever Lola Wants” there’s also “A Little Brains, a Little Talent”- which isn’t used as much but it’s a great song.</p>
<p>Since this is sung without accompaniment, it does not really matter what key the song was in originally. You can give yourself the pitch you want with a pitch pipe to start the song in the key you would like it to be.</p>
<p>That being said I Want to Go to Hollywood has difficult intervals, and could be difficult for an less solid musician to maintain in the same key without an accompanist… it is a difficult piece with accompaniment as well.</p>
<p>I Can Cook Too could also be difficult without an accompanist. There are difficult intervals in this piece as well. </p>
<p>Some songs that could fit the bill…</p>
<p>I Said No
I Want to be Bad
Always a Bridesmaid
Taylor the Latte Boy
Over the Hill</p>
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<p>Is Stars and the Moon easy to sing unaccompanied?</p>
<p>not too hard… but, it is a story song, so it does not cut well into 16 bars. It also is for a more mature woman in terms of life experience.</p>
<p>Awww, I got so excited. I also can’t count 16 bars, so I have to have one of my musical friends do that for me when I find my piece.</p>
<p>when you are looking at the music trying to cut it to 16 bars it is best to start at the end of the song looking at the last word that you sing. Each bar is a measure (it will be marked by a vertical line on either side. Count back 16 measures (the space between the two vertical lines), and that will give you the length.</p>
<p>Usually starting at the end and counting backwards makes better, because it allows the piece to resolve musically and thematically.</p>
<p>How about “Don’t Call Me Trailer Trash” ?</p>
<p>Try “Shy” from Once Upon a Mattress.</p>