We were reading a book in English and there was a character with the last name Lafayette, everytime they were mentioned people would ask who they were so while the teacher explained Lafayette for the HUNDREDTH time two girls in my class began rapping Guns and Ships FLAWLESSLY and I was just saying the 'Lafayett''s in the middle. It was great
Extra tip: don't sing songs that multiple people sing, or have layers and everyone says something different, basically songs like non-stop, good for you, upgrade, the money, evelyn evelyn, hello, and maaaaybe candy store
imagine trying to sing nonstop on your own history has its WHY DO YOU ASUEM STAIFISE LOOK AROUDN LOOOK A NONSTOP HE WILL NEVER BE SMARTEST IN THE ROOM WHY DO YOU SATISIFIED WHY DO YOU WRITE LIKE YOUR RUNNING OUT OF TIME WHY DO YOU A DLIKE HISTORY HAS ITS EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYS ON YOU
Classical Penguin omg why does this never happen to me?!?! congrats! I am sure you were awesome 😊 Also how did you do heathers in 9th grade... isn't it a bit.... much for 9th grade? 😂
even more advice! if you're going to sing a song that is traditionally belted (ex: memory from cats), and you're singing it in your head voice, stop and go rethink your life choices.
Megan Karow I absolutely disagree- I played Miss Hannigan in Annie and the day before the show I got a cold. I tried to belt the last note of little girls and hurt my voice. I couldn't talk for the rest of the day (but I thankfully recovered and was able to hit the note in the show). Don't overwork your voice, and if you need to take a break, (lol Hamilton) then take one. Don't hurt yourself.
+Founding Father With A Wand if you're already in the show it's pretty much fine. but if you're singing a song for an audition that you can't sing properly, you're not very likely to get the part.
Here's a tip! No matter how good you might sound singing Micheal in the bathroom, burn, or lifeboat, you should never sing a song from the current "hit musical". Especially if it's a school or local show. Trust me, they've already heard people sing waving through a window with eight different note patterns at least ten times today. Pick an unknown or less popular musical or song.
Haha. Where I'm from there's not a lot of musical nerds and/ or musical/acting opportunities outside and inside of high school production so basically every musical (no matter what musical) is an unknown musical and even if you sing a well known theatre song, no one is gunna care (if anything they'll be ecstatic) because the reality of someone else singing that song is next to nothing. However this is a good tip for when I move to a big city for university.
DJ fluffyZ Sushi Same, except for maybe Hamilton I can sing whatever but in terms of songs in my vocal range that I know I'm going for a less known musical.
1. Don't sing On My Own 2. Don't sing On My Own 3. Don't sing On My Own 4. Don't sing On My Own 5. Don't sing On My Own 6. Don't sing On My Own 7. Don't sing On My Own 8. Don't sing On My Own 9. Don't sing On My Own 10. Don't sing On My Own, but now it's two digits
"If you sing Defying Gravity better than Rachel Tucker, unlikely as it is, you may as well... go for it. But if you don't, THEN DON'T." - Truest statement ever!!!😂😂😂 Hahha loved this video!❤️
This is a an inside joke. My old Troupe is not allowed to sing Hairspray. Everyone sang Hairspray for an auditions, the director said he "heard the whole musical 10 time"
Peggy Sullivan lucky wait your school is doing heathers what grade r u in also like if your young then what are Veronica and JD going to do for dead girl walking
dont sing any of these: Defying Gravity from Wicked No On Else from Great Comet Anything from Heathers Burn from Hamilham Anything Les Mis AND IM TELLING YOU, NOTHING DISNEY
The only thing I was expecting was: For #3 the part in Our Love Is God when Kurt and Ram count "one, two.." and JD comes out with a gun and says "Three *boom!*"
Diaries Of The Popularly Impaired I played JD in a showcase once. One of my teachers ran an audition and a group of my friends auditioned with a song from heathers (seventeen) we got it, but she asked us to sing freeze your brain with me as JD...
I thought u would say to not sing any songs with cursing in it (*cough cough* Heathers *cough cough* Don't worry I STILL LOVE HEATHERS) if it's a school play audition or something
here's a little advice, if you're a soprano, don't you dare sing i feel pretty. do you know how many times people have sung that? my gosh!! ive heard so many i feel pretty auditions it annoys the heck out of me. please. thank you, i love you.
Top 3 songs not to do for an audition; 3. Anything from a modern musical (Dear Evan Hanson, Hamilton etc.) 2. Blue, Heathers. Pretty self explanatory. 1. On My Own, Les Mis. Also, pretty self explanatory.
I've seen it a couple of times in this comment section, but rule 11: Do NOT, NOT NOT NOT, sing a song from the musical you're auditioning for. If a theater requests that you sing a song from that specific musical, they either don't know what the hell they're doing or they don't have confidence that the audition attendees know what songs are good for their voice and for the show. Be a true musical theatre nerd; go for shows that not many people have heard of. I've heard some amazing auditions from people who chose songs from Zombie Prom, Evil Dead, Love's Labour's Lost, etc etc. Even digging up some classics like Music Man and Hello Dolly at least show a shred of appreciation for the history of theatre. TL;DR, you sell yourself as an actor with the songs that you chose. Don't be a repackaged good.
Singing from the show is literally just making the job of the casting director(s) much easier. It gives them an idea of how you sound in the specific show that you are doing. If a song from the show fits your voice well, you should do it!!
When I auditioned for West End/Broadway Casts, if you are auditioning for a specific role, you need your 16 bars AND 16 bars from A SONG FROM THAT ROLE AND ANOTHER 16 bars from ANOTHER song from that role/from that musical if the role only have one song. And I'm not taking about the call backs, I'm talking about the first round of audition.
Non Stop, Yorktown, 96,000, Mama who bore me, Apex Predator, Stop, Meet the Plastics, Colder by the Minute, Rose's Turn, Santa Fe, Dancing Through Life, I dreamed a dream, Popular, No one mourns the Wicked
i sang funny girl- "don't rain on my parade" and didn't make the cut, week later i attended a musical camp. i sang it, they said i sang it perfectly, but the reason i wasnt chosen was because they heard it 28639287399639829768860 billion times and they were done hearing it.
Okay, I hate that I’ll have to do this, but I’m auditioning for Eponine and it is required to sing a song from the show. 32 bars and no less. Guess what is the only instance in the show where she has 32 bars of music to herself??? (It’s On My Own. It’s freaking On My Own.)
As a classical singer, I turn to Sondheim all the time (opera companies often do Sondheim). Why shouldn't you audition with Sondheim for shows other than Sondheim shows?
Ashlee Bickley I realize this is like a year late 😂 but most of the time it’s because Sondheim is so hard to follow in the music, and if you miss anything you’re never going to be able to find your place again
I'm pretty sure they'd actually let that slide in school because it's historically accurate and they probably wouldn't mind because they teach that _in_ history. (Murder and shit)
So my school is doing Les Mis next year, I really would love to play Fantine so I'm preparing myself now even though the audition is 7 months away. I've decided on I dreamed a dream (because in my school, we have to choose two songs for auditions, one from the show and something else) and burn from Hamilton (because Burn is another, yet different song that is powerful but filled with emotion0
Tayden Overton That's strange. We were told to never EVER audition with a song from the musical we were auditioning for. We needed 30 seconds of music that wasn't from that show or pop music
Quick question: what is this "head voice"? Just curious because I love to sing and would like to go into acting/voice work someday and I don't have any musical theater experience >
Flutterbutt225 Head voice is what female opera singers use. You know, the much higher notes? If you use good technique, you should feel some sort of vibration/sensation in your head when using head voice. That or you can look up "head voice" on RU-vid/Google lol
Oh, thank you! I might just look it up lol I've been getting on people's cases for not Googling things lately. Nice to talk to someone once in a while, though, you know? :)
My favourite video of yours!! 1. I got the too fast one. I know exactly what it was. 2. You missed so many. 3. It's never good when somebody gets up to do Rose's Turn (Patti Style or not) 4. I like your face. K bye.
i sing that song to myself like ten times a day it is my JAM my voice is so high that there's barely anything i can sing easily but it's like perfectly in my range i love it
i'm very late at this comment, but i was Jack in Into the Woods (i'm a girl but its all good). But Giants in the Sky is such a beautiful song to sing. Its also really difficult. I hope you did well!
Juliana Mini I'm an alto- mezzo belter so I actually had a better voice for it than most of the males at my school haha and it was so fun! People didn't even know I was a girl until they saw the playbill haha or I came out and said hi to the audience
Once was tossing the idea of singing "Everything's Alright" from Jesus Christ Superstar for an audition, but decided against auditioning entirely due to schedule conflicts. Only to find out that the director actually really enjoys hearing people sing that song and it may have actually gone over well... darn.
i went into an audition, i sang On My Own, and not ONE of the EIGHT people on the casting team knew what the song was or what the musical was. Not ONE person knew what it was when i told them what i was going to sing. I couldn't believe it.
WOW, even before I first saw Les Mis I had heard On My Own (not sure where, but I definitely recognised it when I first saw the movie). Did you tell them it was the musical "I Dreamed a Dream" was from?
WibblyWobblyTimeyWimey no i didn't. I walked in and slated my name, and they asked what i was singing and i said "On My Own" and they asked what it was from and i was like "Les Misérables" sorta in disbelief and they were all like "hmm, never heard of it" i couldn't believe it !! So i just sang and thanked them and left in disbelief lol.
I literally grew up listening to Sondheim because my dad is a huge Sondhead and turned me into one as well. So I can confirm it is possible to learn to sing Sondheim from a CD but only if you've been listening to it basically since you came out of the womb. Also, another reason Sondheim songs don't make for great audition songs is that you don't know how well the pianist will be able to play them. The only two Sondheim songs I can think of that are fairly safe to audition with are Anyone Can Whistle and I Remember.
Something that not many judges expect is a Comedic song. So something like, "On My Phone." From Forbidden Brodway, is something they won't expect, most times it's actually Really funny. It'll definitely make the judge remember you.
Darn, I guess my Everyone's A Little Bit Racist audition didn't go so well, huh :( (this is a joke. someone is probably going to take me seriously on this i stg)
I started to laugh because am doing Hairspray the Musical and the Boys had to Sing "It takes too" and the my where very Bad and I said to my friend next to me the my should not use this song for the audition 😂
My audition song is going to be Freeze Your Brain, and I'm just going to go for it, I probs. won't get the part tho, I am a girl and it is a male part.
LoonyHalfBlood iM TAKING THIS HORSE BY THE REINS MAKING RED COATS REDDER WITH BLOODSTAINS AND IM NEVER GONNA STOP UNTIL I MAKE EM DROP AND BURN EM UP AND SCATTER THE REMAINS WATCH ME ENGAGIN EM ESCAPIN EM ENRAGING EM I GO TO FRANCE FOR MORE FUNDS I COME BACK WITH MORE GUNS AND SHIPS AND SO THE BALANCE SHIFTS WE RENDEZVOUS WITH ROCHAMBEAU, CONSOLIDATE THEIR GIFTS (I think that's the lyrics???)
If it’s needed. Rapping for a musical theatre audition isn’t recommended because you aren’t singing properly, you’re using sing-speak and it isn’t really good for a musical audition
It bothers me when people claim to be musical theatre geeks, but their knowledge is limited to Heathers, Hamilton, Be More Chill, and other modern musicals. They've probably never even heard of Miss Saigon, or A Chorus Line, or Sweeney Todd. There's nothing wrong with those musicals, but people need to know about other musicals that paved the way before they call themselves a theatre kid.
Fyyg Fuhvdd I don't have a problem with them liking those musicals. I clearly stated that in my comment. In fact, I like all of those musicals too. What I DO have a problem with is them calling themselves theatre kids when they hardly know any musicals besides the ones popular today.
Evan G. Evan G. There's a reason why those musicals are popular. They're genius! You're not superior to people who call themselves theatre geeks, but like a lot of newer stuff. Hamilton is my favorite musical because it's genius. It wasn't my first musical at all. Just because something's older doesn't mean it's better or more superior. A theatre kid is a kid who obsesses or even just likes theatre. You sound like a snob when you say things and it can hurt people's feelings. You don't have to know every Broadway show to know your stuff. I like Miss Saigon and Sweeney Todd, but I've honestly never heard of A Chorus. But, I bet it's very superior, right?
Singing too low is a huge problem for me!!! I have a really high voice so most songs are too low! So I struggled with most songs. -_- is Like I auditioned for James and the giant peach in 6th grade and the opening song was too low for me so I was like "oh it's been years maybe my voice is deeper." Nope. Search it up. Yeah. But hey at least I can sing Galinda's part in no one mourns the wicked (from the show wicked)!
I always try to keep a variety in my rep. It Normally boils down to Being Alive from Company. Feed Me from Little Shop Of Horrors and Javet's Soliloquy or Stars because they're probably the least used audition songs from les mis.
Another tip: (I’ve cast shows and been cast myself so I know the struggle is real) don’t sing a top 40 song in a musical theatre style. It doesn’t wash
If I was to audition I would have to cross out these panic songs: This is gospel LA Devotee Victorious possibly Girls/Girls/Boys Death Of a Bachelor and the chorus of Ballad of Mona Lisa
I auditioned with I Speak Six Languages from Spelling Bee (mainly because most the singers in the musical aren’t stylistic, so I have tons of room to play around with the notes), and it got me a musical voice acting role for a series that airs in the summer of 2018! The whole character part of this video is definitely true. No one ever really got anywhere trying to put on a character they didn't quite care for.
Me @ an audition: Hi my name is Helena and I’ll be singing It’s Quiet Uptown from Hamilton. Everyone else: Ok. piano intro starts Me: There are moments that the words don’t- *rapidly starts sobbing* *cries for an hour*
I'm so upset because my school has this huge auditorium yet they don't do musicals or plays. I'm only in eighth grade so at least I have other chances in high school, but my old middle school didn't even have an auditorium and we put on this AMAZING musical
Freshmen year of high school I sung empty chairs at empty tables and I started a note or two early and I mean I still got a part in the wizard of oz but I mean wtf was I doing
Are you really a theatre kid if you’ve never made an audition song mistake? My audition for Alice in Wonderland Jr. was Reflection from Mulan... it was acapella... I got an unnamed flower lmao
Natalie&Samantha Lehto my friends and I were going to do freeze your brain and one of my friends even learned the piano part (which is very difficult and took her two weeks) and a few days before the teacher running it decided that it was a metaphor for drugs and wasn't allowed (we changed the cocaine part) and we emailed the principal and she said the song was fine but we still weren't allowed to sing it and we didn't have time to learn another one.
