Need two songs and a monologue for (first) audition?

Question

I need two songs for an audition: one must be a ballad and one must be an untempo song...i figure i can just do almost any broadway song for the uptempo (i was thinkin either "all that jazz", somethin from "wicked", etc...), but i have NO clue what to do for the ballad...any ideas?

i also need a short monologue, and also have no clue what to do...

thanks!!

o and if it helps im a girl (15) and can sing usually soprano but also alto

Answer 1

Ballad

try

On My Own from Les Miserables

or

Unexpected Song from Song and Dance

Monolgue

Agnes of God

written by John Pielmeier

    Agnes: [to an imaginary friend] Why are you crying? But I believe you. I do. (silence) Please, don't you leave me too. Oh no. Oh my God, O sweet Lady, don't leave me. Please, please don't leave me. I'll be good. I won't be your bad baby anymore. [She "sees" someone else] No, Mummy, I don't want to go with you. Stop pulling me. Your hands are hot. Don't touch me like that! Oh my God, Mummy, don't burn me! DON'T BURN ME! (Silence) I stood by the window of my room every night for a week. And one night I heard the most beautiful voice imaginable. It came from the middle of the wheat field beyond my room, and when I looked I saw the moon shining down on Him. For six nights He sang to me. Songs I'd never heard. And on the seventh night He came to my room and opened His wings and lay on top of me. And all the while He sang. [singing]

    "Charlie's neat and Charlie's sweet,

    And Charlie he's a dandy,

    Every time he goes to town

    He get's his girl some candy.

    Over the river and through the trees,

    Over the river to Charlie's.

    Over the river and through the trees

    To bake a cake for Charlie"

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Chicago

written by Bill Condon, from the musical written by Maurine Dallas Watkins, Bob Fosse, & Fred Ebb

    Roxie: (speaking to Mama) I always wanted to have my name in all the papers. Before I met Amos I use to date this well-to-do ugly bootlegger. He used to like to take me out and show me off. Ugly guys like to do that. Once it said in the paper, "Gangland's Al Capelli seen at Chez Vito with cute blond chorine." That was me. I clipped it and saved it. You know, all my life I wanted to have my own act. But noooo, no, no, no, it's always no, they always turned me down. One big world full of no! And then Amos came along. Safe, sweet Amos. Who never says no. Ohh. (coy giggles) I�ve never done this before, but you know, it is such a special night and you are such a great audience! (applause from Roxie's "audience") And, and, I just really feel like I can talk to you, you know? So forget what you've read in the papers, and forget what you�ve heard on the radio because, because, because I'm gonna tell you the truth. (giggles) Not that the truth really matters, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. In the bed department, Amos was......zero. I mean, when he made love to me, it was like, it was like he was fixing a carborator or something, (pretends to play with her b*****s, imitating Amos) "I love ya, honey, I love ya!" Anyway, I started fooling around...and then I started s******g around, which is fooling around without dinner. Then I met Fred Casley, who said he could get me into vaudeville, but that didn't quite work out like I planned. I guess it didn't really work out too great for Fred either. So I gave up with the whole vaudeville idea, 'cause you gotta figure after all those years -- opportunities just pass you by. (sings) But it ain't, oh no no no no, but it ain't. (speaking again) And now, if this Flynn guy gets me off, with all this publicity, I got me a world full of YES!

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A Cinderella Story

written by Leigh Dunlap

    Austin (Chad Michael Murray): Okay, I know you think I'm just some...

    Sam: Coward? Phony?

    Austin: Okay, just listen.

    Sam: No, you listen. You turned out to be exactly who I thought you were. I never pretended to be somebody else. It's been me all along. And it was me who was hurt in front of everybody. Look, I didn't come here to yell at you, okay? I know what it feels like to be afraid to show who you are. I was. But not anymore. And the thing is, I don't care what people think about me... because I believe in myself. And I know that things are gonna be okay. But even though I have no family, and no job, and no money for college... it's you that I feel sorry for. (pause) I know that guy that sent those emails is somewhere inside of you, but, I can't wait for him... because waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing.

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Clueless

written by Amy Heckerling

    Cher: So, OK, like right now, for example, the Haitians need to come to America. But some people are all "What about the strain on our resources?" But it's like, when I had this garden party for my father's birthday right? I said R.S.V.P. because it was a sit-down dinner. But people came that like, did not R.S.V.P. so I was like, totally buggin'. I had to haul *** to the kitchen, redistribute the food, squish in extra place settings, but by the end of the day it was like, the more the merrier! And so, if the government could just get to the kitchen, rearrange some things, we could certainly party with the Haitians. And in conclusion, may I please remind you that it does not say R.S.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty?