Musical Theatre Advice

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[musicaltheatreloves]

Hi I’m doing a assessment on the theme of contridiction, but I am not able to find any songs any suggestions? I’m usually an alto/mezzo-soprano. Please help! I need two songs and an explanation on how it has contradiction in them❤️

Hi! I am a little confused on what your asking so i’ll just try to cover all the bases

if you’re looking for a song that has a contradiction musically🌟Killer Instinct from Bring it on- upbeat musically but lyrically it’s about her bringing down her teammates🌟Cooties from Hairspray (same idea as killer instinct)

if you need a song where the character makes a change throughout the song🌟so much better from legally blonde🌟serious from legally blonde 🌟pulled from adams family

if you just need two songs that contradict each other🌟we ain’t no cheerleaders + it’s all happening from bring it on (goes from not being cheerleaders to being cheerleaders)🌟legally blonde and legally blonde remix (elle goes from giving up to being more motivated than ever)

[musicaltheatreloves]

Hey what are some good audition songs for an alto or a low soprano?

Hi! I’d consider myself an alto/ low soprano (I can belt up to a C5 for reference but usually stay lower) so here are some songs I’ve sang at auditions /just some good audition songs for an alto / low soprano✨There are worse things I could do from Grease✨Forever from Shrek (has some bit higher belty notes but nothing crazy)✨Watch what happens from Newsies✨One perfect moment from Bring it on✨All that Jazz from Chicago (perfect for altos)✨I couldn’t know someone less from Daddy Long Legs’s✨21 guns from American Idiot✨Everything I know from In the Heights✨Before the parade passes by from Hello Dolly✨Honey Bun from South Pacific

[auditionsongs-blog]

Audition Songs for Rent

MARK “Moving too Fast” - The Last Five Years

ROGER “Alas for You” - Godspell

MIMI “Every Story is a Love Story” - Aida “Dead Girl Walking” - Heathers “Still Hurting” - The Last Five Years “Somebody to Love” - We Will Rock You*

MAUREEN “I Want to Break Free” - We Will Rock You* “Life of the Party” - The Wild Party

JOANNE “Calm” - Ordinary Days

ANGEL “Don’t Let Me Go” - Shrek (it’s a little upbeat and comical for this show, but the style reminds me of Rent and can be an impressive performance if done right)

COLLINS “No One but You (Only the Good Die Young)” - We Will Rock You* ***

OTHER “The Song of Purple Summer” - Spring Awakening (I have only heard this song once or twice and out of context, but it kind of reminds me of “Will I?”)

*We Will Rock You is a jukebox musical (featuring the songs of Queen), however, seeing as Rent auditions often call for rock or pop songs rather than traditional Broadway, this shouldn’t be too much of a problem. **In the musical, it is sung by a female character, however, the original version by Queen was sung by Brian May and Roger Taylor.

[auditionsongs-blog]

Audition Songs for Legally Blonde

ELLE “My Strongest Suit” - Aida “Home” - Beauty and the Beast “Fly, Fly Away” - Catch Me if You Can* “Where Am I Now?” - Lysistrata Jones “Don’t Wanna be Here” - Ordinary Days*

EMMETT “Hold On” - Lysistrata Jones

PAULETTE “As We Stumble Along” - The Drowsy Chaperone *

VIVIAN “I Will Prevail” - Wonderland

*Shout-Out to TheatreAuditionHelper.tumblr.com for these suggestions.

[auditionsongs-blog]

Audition songs for Heathers (all three) and Veronica from Heathers the Musical?

I just finished listening through the soundtrack, so putting together a list of audition songs is still very much a work in progress, but I’ve got a few ideas.  For Veronica, the song “Seventeen” has always sounded like it would be a good song for Shelley in Bat Boy, one of Laurence O’Keefe’s other musicals, so, working backwards from there, I would suggest the song “Mine, All Mine” from the London cast of Bat Boy.  Now, for the Heathers, I would second my earlier suggestion of “Opportunity” from 13 for Heather Chandler - although the motive is different (jealous of best friend going out with her crush), it’s still a rock-style, “mean girl”-type character song in the vein of “Candy Store.”  That one could also work for the other two Heathers, but I’m still looking for a better match for them.  (Readers, feel free to offer suggestions to help build this list or others.  It is always greatly appreciated.)

[musicaltheatreloves]

Spring Awakening audition songs

here are some song ideas for Spring Awakening! •Portrait of a girl from bare •gravity by sara barielles •beautiful disaster by kelly clarkson •too much too soon from American Idiot •21 guns from American idiot anything from

[themonologuearchive]

I need a monologue for my IE at thescon. I like agsty, crazy person monologues. Maybe something from Agnes of god. Any suggestions?

Harper - Angels in America (both parts), by Tony Kushner

Dull Gret, Marlene - Top Girls, by Caryl Churchill

Delphi - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, by JK Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany

C - Three Tall Women, by Edward Albee

Try these lists:

10 New Dramatic Monologues for Young Adult Females

10 Dramatic Female Monologues from Characters in Crisis

10 One-Minute Female Monologues Dealing with Grief

10 One-Minute Comedic Female Monologues

10 One-Minute Dramatic Female Monologues

10 New Dramatic Monologues for Young Adults

10 Monologues from the Scorned Lover

10 Monologues from Characters in Family Conflict

10 Monologues from the Bullies and the Bullied

10 Monologues from Characters Seeking Approval

10 Monologues From Characters Who Need to Apologize

10 Monologues from Characters on the Defensive

10 Monologues from Characters Facing Their Fears

10 Comedic Monologues from Characters Suffering an Identity Crisis

10 Monologues from Characters Coping with Mental Illness

10 Monologues from Characters Who Need to Make a Confession

10 Monologues from Sinister Characters

10 Monologues from Characters Dealing with the Supernatural

10 New Monologues from Rosary O’Neill

10 New Monologues from Jonathan Dorf

10 New Monologues from Barbara Lhota

[themoment-before]

Hey! I have a Legally Blonde audition in a week, and I'd love to play Margot! I'm a soprano and I was wondering if there were any soprano songs that give off the Margot vibe? (The only requirements are that it has to be from a musical) Thank you in advance!

I’ve recommended some songs for Margot HERE and a few other soprano songs for Legally Blonde HERE.

[techtheatreprincess]

Tech Week: The Musical

Song 1: Get ready for this Song 2: Coffee, I Love You Song 3: I Built It Like You Drew It Song 4: Fuck Song 5: The Actors Broke It Song 6: Fuck (reprise)

Intermission

Song 7: Not Drunk Enough For This Shit Song 8: The Director Struck It Song 9: Thank God For Opening Song 10: Notes Song 11: Strike: The Best Anger Management Song 12: Fuck That Show Song 13: What Do I Do Now?

[arquus-malvaceae-deactivated202]

No but seriously.

This all goes hand-in-hand with the whole “NO ONE CARES ABOUT BROADWAY ANYMORE~~~ /SADFACE” BS spewed by Broadway industry/NYC tourism board people.

Like, they’ve got this narrative in their head that people just suddenly lost all interest in theater one day and are trying to paint themselves as the victims of an uncaring public completely oblivious to the fact that attendance went down around the same time that ticket prices started inflating into the hundreds for seemingly no other reason than “they felt like it.”

Back in the ‘90s you could get orchestra seating tickets for a popular new Tony Award winning show for somewhere between $80-$100.

Now?  Theaters are charging the same amount for seats in the nosebleed section with an obstructed view.  It’s ridiculous.  Orchestra seat tickets these days are going for as high as $500.  That’s a 400% increase over the course of twenty fucking years.

Imagine spending ~$1000 on a night out with your partner and that doesn’t even cover the cost of dinner.

Outside of lotteries – which not every theater does, aren’t highly advertised, are not easily accessible to people who work/are visiting –  it’s literally impossible to buy a pair of tickets without ending up spending somewhere between $200-$400 unless you’re seeing a show that’s been running for over ten years.

People can’t afford to go to Broadway anymore.  

Or if they do, they have to save up or wait for a sudden influx of money and then choose one show that they really want to see that year and hope anything else will still be open by the time they get the money to see that.

You cannot continue to price more and more people out of Broadway theaters and then 1) complain that no one’s coming anymore so they must not care, and 2) complain that people are finding other ways to try to experience these unnecessarily exclusive shows.

The film industry was partially founded on the idea of making theater more accessible to people who couldn’t patronize Broadway.  When did the theater industry decide that film was its enemy?

[arquus-malvaceae-deactivated202]

No wait, I’m not done.

People want to see the shows.

That’s why bootlegs exist!  Not because people are selfish, but because they can’t afford the only means of actually seeing them.

You really think that people who pay for bootlegs wouldn’t happily pay for a legitimate professional recording?

Why do you think Andrew Lloyd Webber is slowly working his way through his entire catalogue and putting out DVD’s?  Of even the FAILED projects!  And people are watching them!  They’re watching them so enthusiastically that he’s in the process of reviving at least one of those epic failures!

For fuck’s sake even the Metropolitan Opera has a partnership with one movie theater chain to livestream their productions because they understand this very basic concept that people will pay to experience something they really want to but not if they can’t afford it.

[frozenfoxtails]

Also, What does it say that every time a musical is filmed and released, it always has big named stars attached to it, it’s always labeled with ‘movie of the year’ and always tops the box office for the weekend it’s released? 

The fact that Phantom of the Opera with gerard butler earned back more than twice it’s budget despite heavy criticism. Hairspray from 2007 earned almost 3 times. Mama Mia earned back 12 times its budget. 

Because i can afford ten dollars to see a movie, i might even be inclined to see a movie twice or three times in theatres, and still buy it on DVD for 25$ when it comes out. which, all in all is less than 60$. 

Clearly the point ins’t that musicals aren’t popular, despite what pop culture would like to tell you about theatre kids.  Musicals are always popular, and movie musicals almost always do well financially, and id bet money its because it’s a lot easier to take a chance on seeing a new movie for less than the cost of a dinner than to see a broadway show for the cost of a mortgage payment.

I can think of three live shows filmed, off the top of my head (Rent, Shrek and Cats) and they’re all very well done, (i mean, cats as a show is kind of generic) I own a copy of all three, and to be honest I’d rather have copies of these shows as filmed on stage then the ones i have that are actual movies. Stage performance is an entirely different medium than film performance and you can’t really encourage people to embrace a new art form if youc ant expose them to it.

[other-bronte-deactivated2018120]

The Met opera, the RSC and other high-profile theater groups have been doing filmed simulcasts for years now, where the show gets broadcast to movie theaters live, and occasinally replayed. That’s how I saw Frankenstein with Cumberbatch. Why Broadway has not hopped on this train is baffling.

If Broadway shows came out on DVD, I would buy those by the hundreds. *And* I would still see them live if I had a chance.

The musical is supposed to be the entertainment of the populace, not just the ridiculously wealthy.

[linsnavi]

Bottom line: no one is going to choose watching a shitty bootleg (or even a professional cast recording!!) over going to see the show live, if they have the money. No one. There goes your greedy money excuse, broadway execs.

By not releasing recordings and damning those who watch bootlegs, it’s promoting cultural elitism. It sends the message that if you don’t have money, you don’t deserve to experience this art.

I thought art was for everyone, but apparently the accepting and diverse broadway community thinks otherwise.

[girlwithalessonplan]

I agree with everything in this thread.  I live 2 hours from the closest major city that gets Broadway tour shows (Indy) and it’s one of the LAST to get stops after major cities like Chicago (6 hours) or St. Louis (3).  Make theater accessible! 

[theatercommandments]

All of this. 

[themoment-before]

Hi! Can you recommend auditions songs for Camila in In The Heights? Thank you :)

For Camila, I’d recommend Island or Invisible from Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, If I Never Got To Tell You or Mi Tierra from On Your Feet!, Be On Your Own from Nine, or Look To You Heart (Reprise) from A Bronx Tale.

[themoment-before]

hi! I have an audition coming up for In the Heights and am considering Carla and need help with choosing an audition song! i'd say i'm a mezzo soprano with a belt but a little more comfortable with my lower range. Please help!

For Carla, I’d suggest Model Behavior from Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, the title song from Bring It On, 1-2-3 or Coming Out Of The Dark from On Your Feet!, or Once More I Can See or Finding Wonderland from Wonderland.

[themoment-before]

Do you have any recommendations for Lilli Vanessa in Kiss Me, Kate and Anytime Annie in 42nd Street? Thanks!

For Lilli Vanessi, I’d recommend Smoke Gets In Your Eyes from Roberta, All The Things You Are from Very Warm For May, No Other Love from Me and Juliet, and By Strauss from The Show Is On.And for Anytime Annie, I’d recommend Wall Street from Dames at Sea, Satin and Silk from Silk Stockings, I Can’t Say No from Oklahoma, and Always True To You from Kiss Me, Kate.

[hopewithoutstardust]

do you have any masterposts where one can watch musicals? or just links or anything really

yes i do omg hold on let me find it

Legally Blonde the Musical

Wicked

Next to Normal (Also here, here, here, and here)

Les Miserables

Phantom of the Opera

Pippin (Also here)

Hairspray

Rent (Also here)

Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Also here)

Company

The Addams Family Musical (Also here)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Bonnie and Clyde

Urinetown

Hallelujah

Anything Goes

Catch Me If You Can

Spring Awakening

Grease

Thoroughly Modern Millie

13 (Also here)

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Avenue Q

Our House

The Little Mermaid

Taboo

Little Women

Jekyll and Hyde

Love Never Dies

Evil Dead

Cats

Wonderland

Bare

Passion

Sunday in the Park with George

First Date the Musical

[thevolutionofnerdy]

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[apollofastingdionysusdrunk-deac]

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[auditionsongs-blog]

Audition Songs for Heathers

VERONICA “Mine All Mine” - Bat Boy (London Cast)

J.D. “Unworthy of Your Love” - Assassins

HEATHER CHANDLER “Opportunity” - 13

HEATHER DUKE “Cooties” - Hairspray

HEATHER MCNAMARA “Where Am I Now?” - Lysistrata Jones

MARTHA “Disneyland” - Smile

[i-remember-picnics-deactivated2]

A HUGE BOOTLEG MASTERPOST! (~420 videos!)

Please like&reblog to share it further! PART 4/4: [T-Z] 

Taboo (Broadway)

Taboo (Original London Production) a1 a2

Tarzan Rocks

Tarzan p1 p2 p3 p4 (07/30/06 Broadway)

Tarzan p1 p2 p3 p4 (03/30/06 Broadway Previews)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Coming Out of Their Shells Tour (1990 Broadway tour)

The Addams Family (12/27/2009 Chicago Preview)

The Addams Family (Mix)

The Apple Tree a1 a2

The Book of Mormon OBC

The Book of Mormon / mirror / mirror OBC

The Book of Mormon OBC p1 p2

The Book of Mormon a1 a2 / a1 a2 (password: bom)(Chicago)

The Book of Mormon a1 a2 (US tour)

The Book of Mormon !full=download (London)

The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets (Tom Waits’s musical, Marianne Faithfull) 

The Bridges of Madison County (2014)

The Color Purple / mirror (2006 OBC)

The Color Purple  p1 p2 (Revival)

The Drowsy Chaperone

The Hunchback of Notre Dame Off Broadway p1 p2 p3 / mirror

The Glass Menagerie (09/09/10 LA post-Off-Broadway revival)

The House Of Blue Leaves (6/22/11)

The Jungle Book

The King and I (Yul Brynner)

The King and I / p1 p2 p3 (Broadway Revival)

The Last Five Years

The Last Five Years (2014 Movie)

The Last Five Years OOBC

The Last Ship A1: p1 p2 p3 p4 missing!p5 A2: p1 p2 p3 p4 (Chicago)

The Light in the Piazza

The Lion King  p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 (London)

The Lion King LA

The Little Mermaid (Sierra Boggess)

The Most Happy Fella (07/05/12)

The Music Man 2003

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012 Revival)

The Phаntom of the Opera OBC (1988)

The Phаntom of the Opera (the 25th anniversary)

The Phаntom of the Opera (Norm Lewis, Sierra Boggess)

The Phаntom of the Opera a1 a2 (2015 Broadway)

The Phаntom of the Opera !w/o p1 ~10min (Las Vegas, Sierra Boggess)

The Phаntom of the Opera / mirror (2/21/13 Hugh Panaro, Sierra Boggess)

The Phаntom of the Opera (2008 London)

The Phаntom of the Opera a1 a2 (Matt Cammelle)

Phаntom (2004 Y&K Christopher Carl, Melissa Walters)

Phаntom p1 p2 p3 p4 (Y&K Richard White, Lauren Hathaway)

The Pirate Queen (Broadway)

The Producers (1968)

The Red Shoes, Broadway 1993

The Rocky Horror Show (1991 WE Anthony Head)

The Secret Garden (US Tour)

The Secret Garden OBC

The Sound of Music (Broadway Revival)

The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown

The Who’s Tommy a0 a1 a2 (Broadway Closing Night)

The Wedding Singer

The Wild Party OBC (Michael John Lachiusa)

The Wiz (1984)

Thoroughly Modern Millie a1 a2

Tick, Tick…Boom! OOBC

Titanic p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 (2006 Sydney, Australia)

[Title of Show]

[Title of Show] (NRACT)

Toy Story The Musical

Tuck Everlasting a1 a2 OBC

Twisted

Urinetown OBC

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike / mirror

Venus In Fur p1 p2 p3

Victor/Victoria (1995 Broadway Pro-Shot)

Villians Tonight!

Violet (2003 Reunion Concert)

Violet p1 p2 p3 p4 (05/24/14 Broadway)

Violet (Sutton Foster)

Waitress / p1 p2 (Pre-Broadway, A.R.T)

We Will Rock You

West Side Story (Broadway Revival)

West Side Story (Matt Smith, school production)

Wicked / mirror OLC (Idina Menzel, Helen Dallimore)

Wicked OBC (10/12/03 Previews)

Wicked /mirror OBC (10/11/03 Pre-Broadway)

Wicked OC

Wicked A1: p1 p2 A2: p1 p2 p3 (05/31/14 US Tour, Gina Beck)

Wicked (02/10/13 Donna Vivino, Alli Mauzey)

Wicked (03/13/08 Stephanie J. Block, Annaleigh Ashford)

Wicked (10/09/07 Stephanie J. Block, Annaleigh Ashford)

Wicked (Willemjin Verkaik, Katie Rose Clark)

Wicked (password: swankified ; AT)

Wicked (06/17/08 Kerry Ellis. Kendra Kendra Kassebaum)

Wicked (2007 LA Eden Espinosa, Megan Hilty)

#WickedProject

Wonderland (04/02/11)

Xanadu OBC

Young Frankenstein

Zanna Don’t! (2009 Australian Premiere)

Zelda

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[cdgbootlegs]

OMG YEYY MORE BOOTLEGS

[musicaltheatreloves]

How-To Quick Changes

although very stressful I love quick changes! and i pretty much mastered how to do them efficiently. Here’s a guide on how to master your quick changes too.

1. Assess your time. Is this a super super quick change or you have a decent amount of time. Try to get an estimate but then subtract some time. For example if you think you have 2 minutes really only count on having 1 or 1 ½.

2. Assemble a team. Whether it’s someone in the cast who isn’t doing anything at the moment or someone on hair or makeup, have someone be door person (if needed) to hold any doors you may need to run in our out of. They’re only job is to hold the door open the whole time bc running right through will cut a lot of time off. Next, an undresser someone to help with zippers, buttons, weird cuts. Lastly a dresser, someone who will help put the costume on.

3. Layer. when possible layering clothing is one of the best things so you only have to remove a couple layers instead of taking off and putting on a whole new costume.

4. Chairs. If for some reason you can’t have anyone helping you, chairs are your new best friend! Having your costumes unzipped and ready to just be skipped on is really easy when they’re lying out neatly on a chair.

5. Biker shorts/tank top. Everyone’s level of comfort is different in front of others but when you know you are going to be changing backstage or just in front of a ton of people it’s a good idea to definitely wear shorts underneath and a tank top bc it can also just make the changes easier as if you miss a button or a zipper broke you won’t be flashing the world on stage

hope you enjoyed my tips!!