Songs?????

Question

I'm a soprano, and I need 6 songs to sing for an audition. I'm 14.

What should they be?

Answer 1

anything you can do i can do better-anny wheres your gun

Answer 2

one rock and roll too many from starlight express

maybe from annie

superstar from jesus christ superstar

i don't know how to love him from jesus christ superstar

castle on a cloud from les miserables

i've got the sun in the morning from annie get your gun

Answer 3

Six?  That's a lot of songs for an audition!  You want to show some versatility; I think you'd want something along the lines of:

- A Cole Porter song (something from Anything Goes, or Kiss Me Kate - get a Cole Porter songbook, he wrote some gorgeous songs)

- A Rogers and Hammerstein song (one of Laurey's songs from Oklahoma, or Nellie's from South Pacific)

- Something from Guys and Dolls or My Fair Lady (two absolute classic shows which are canon in the musical theatre repertoire) - try If I Were A Bell, or I Could Have Danced All Night

- An Andrew Lloyd Webber song (just don't sing Memory, Think of Me or Don't Cry For Me Argentina)

- A Sondheim song (Green Finch and Linnet Bird (Sweeney Todd) or Lovely (Follies)

- Possibly a Kander and Ebb song (something from Chicago or Cabaret), or something more modern - if you can belt, look at Come To Your Senses from Tick Tick Boom!.

Essentially, try to avoid songs from shows which are hugely popular at the moment - ie Wicked, Hairspray, Avenue Q, Spring Awakening, Les Mis, Legally Blonde, Phantom and probably Grease as well.

Answer 4

feed the birds-marry Poppins

tomorrow-Annie

the lonely goatheard-the sound of music

out of my dreams- Oklahoma

dance ten looks three- chours line

there's a fine, fine line- Avenue Q

i could have danced all night- my fair lady

if you can belt out your voice...

shy- once upon a mattress