#audition tips

[ciel-the-resident-weirdo]

hello, theatre side of tumblr!

i have a query

so, auditions for my local musical theatre company are happening soon-ish

and i require assistance with picking a song to sing

so if someone could please give suggestions on songs an alto can sing that’d be great!!

(preferably like epic the musical or starkid but honestly ill take any suggestions)

also if you have any general tips/advice for auditions that would be lovely :3

have a great day/night!!

💜

[apollosolis]

okay i want to audition for a wizard of oz musical this fall (ensemble auditions) but I've never done theater before. Unless you count that one time in 4th grade we did a black history month play and I was Rosa parks. Theater has always been a passion of mine but I'm not exactly well off and I had no avaliable recourse to start young. I want to know how I should prepare for auditions. I've already searched it up on Google but I need answers from actually theater kids because I'm stressing out a lot. I don't have friends who do theater so yeah. I just want to know like ehat should i expect, how should I dress, etc etc. Sorry for rambling so much

[thestrangedazebouquet]

SONGS FOR AUDITIONS: PLAYLISTS

finding songs that are decent and not absolutely insanely popular for your auditions can be really difficult, so i've taken the liberty of making two playlists with rare-ish/uncommon/less common musical theatre solos; one for male voices and one for female voices <3

take a listen and see what's best, and please @ anyone you think would find this helpful! i want to make sure i span as many songs and musicals as possible, so please name some of your obscure faves in the notes/comments too!!

[legallyannie]

If there are any past/current elle woods of tumblr, please let me know if u have any tips for me!! I am auditioning for Elle in roughly 2 weeks and i am desperate for this role. This show means so much to me and i want this so much

[gay-classics-student]

Anyone have any musical theatre audition tips ?

My schools musical is the addams family and for a lead I have to do an encoure audition and a video audition singing Pulled , Just Around the Corner and One Normal Night.

I'm hoping for Wednesday, Morticia or Alice . I've only done auditions before for my old school so any general audition tips or addams family tips would be appreciated

I'm relying on you musical theatre side of tumblr :'(

[auditionsuggestions]

Hi!! Not a request, but could I ask a (hypothetical) etiquette question?

when choosing an audition cut and there's a live accompanist, should you be mindful of the key the song is in? i.e. I have a cut I love, but it's in G flat (it's not Sondheim or anything terribly hard to play, but Gb is still an annoying key). Would it be more considerate to the accompanist for me to bring sheet music that I've transposed into, say, G or Ab? (I wouldn't have any issues with it vocally, it'd just sound different)

I'd say G is easier to play in than Ab (1 sharp vs 4 flats). It's also closer to your original key, so you'll sound most like the original version.

[fadinglandtragedy]

[gayfroggyfernycabbage]

on today's episode i'll be recommending yet another musical to my fellow theatre geeks, this time featuring:

avenue q 🌈✨

the underrated puppet musical

i'm aware this musical isn't as obscure and unknown as the others i've recommended so far but it deserves so much more love and attention than it gets.

so it's basically a parody of show like sesame street and the muppets, which typically have a younger audience. this show however aims for the opposite audience. considering the street system where avenue a is the fanciest and most expensive, you can only imagine what avenue q is going to be like. the show follows the lives of the residents of avenue q and tackles serious and important subjects like racism, internalized homophobia and unemployment in a light-hearted manner, but also not so serious subjects, like how loud you're allowed to be when you're having sex, a kind of german sadism and porn.

it was written by jeffrey whitty (who worked on bring it on: the musical with lin manuel miranda and tom kitt--who wrote the songs for next to normal) and robert lopez (who co-created the soundtrack for the book of mormon and frozen). jeffrey actually got actors that used to work on sesame street for the show

the show is hilarious, the songs are great i always recommend it to everyone (but do keep in mind that it does bring up mature content, so if you're underage this porbably isn't is the best musical for you). no bootlegs here tho.

also, avenue q can be a great source for audition material. since it's not that well known, not only the songs but the monologues too can be a great choice. the songs are really catchy too, and even though the show doesn't have a lot of dancing, i've done a dance audition to the avenue q theme song before.

so what are you waiting for. go watch it!