auditioning for a school play, sheet music...?

Question

i want to audition for the school play. it says that you need to prepare a song and bring the sheet music with you. i'm not really sure what it means by sheet music? would i be expected to play the song on the piano/guitar as well? what is sheet music!?

also, any suggestions for songs to sing? i can sing normal pitch and low notes but not very high notes.

Answer 1

WHY do you people ask these qeustions on here and then you DON'T GIVE ANY INFORMATION?l... like ARE YOU A MALE OR A FEMALE? since you are so PARANOID that you have your information turned off and then you use an ID that is UNISEXUAL in nature... HOW do you expect an INTELLIGENT ANSWER? Since you OBVIOUSLY seem to think all songs are th same and since you don't know what sheet music is and you have no idea what your RANGE IS (normal, low and high doesn't cut it) well.. here are some songs you can use and they don't really matter what they are because YOU believe that all songs are the same.



A BEAT BEHIND... The Goodbye Girl

A PARADE IN TOWN... Anyone can Whistle

AFRICAN HOMELAND... The Color Purpl

AMSTERDAM... Passing Strange

AQUARIUS... Hair

ARKANSAS/ HOW BLEST WE ARE... Big River

AT THE BALLET.. A Chorus Line

BIG "D".. The most happy fella

BLESS THE LORD... Godspell

BORN TO BOOGIE... Billy Elliot

BROTHERHOOD OF MAN... How to succeed in Business

COME FOLLOW THE BAND... Barnum

CONSIDER YOURSELF... Oliver

DAY BY DAY... Godspell

DEAR ONE... Kiss of the Spider Woman

DENTIST.. Little Shop of Horrors (comedy)

DON'T TELL MAMA... Cabaret

EPIPHANY... Sweeney Todd

EVER AFTER... Into the Woods

FAMOUS FEET... A day in Hollowood

FANCY DRESS.. The Drowsy Chapperone

FOOTLOOSE.... Footloose

FOR NOW... Avenue Q

FREE AT LAST... Big River

FREEDOM.. Shenandoah

GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY.. George M

GOD BLESS AMERICA... This is the Army

GOT TO BE THIS OR THAT.. Forever Plaid

GREAT BIG STUFF.... Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

GUENEVERE.. Camelot

HAPPINESS... You're a good man Charlie Brown

HE IS NOT DEAD YET.. Spamalot

HEART... Damn Yankees

HEART AND MUSIC... A New Brain

HEART TO HEART... 9 to 5

HERE I GO AGAIN... All shook up

HOT... Toxic Avenger

I LIKE THE LOOK OF LOVE... Oh Calcutta

I PUT MY HAND IN... Hello Dolly

I'M A BRASS BAND.. Sweet Charity

IF YOU WERE GAY... Avenue Q

IT'S A FINE LIFE... Oliver

IT'S A GREAT BIG WORLD... The Harvey Girls

IT'S LOVE... Wonderful Town

IT'S LEGITIMATE... Do Re Mi

IT'S NOT WHERE YOU START... Seesaw

IT'S YOUR WEDDING DAY... Wedding Singer

JELLICO CAT... /Cats

JUST ANOTHER DAY.... Next to Nothin

KEEP IT GAY.... The Producers

KISS THE GIRL... The Little Mermaid

LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME... Momma Mia

LE JAZZ HAT... Victor Victoria

LET THE SUNSHINE IN... Hair

LIFE IS... Zorba

LILY'S EYES... Secret Garden

LOOKIN' GOOD... Ain't Misbehavin'

LUCKY TO BE ME... On the Town

MADELINE... Jacques Brel is Alive and well

MAGIC TO DO... Pippin

MAKE A MOVE... Shrek the musical

MAKE OUR GARDEN GROW... Candide

MAMA WILL PROVIDE... Once on this Island

MAN... The Full Monty

MASTER OF THE HOUSE... Les Miserables

MINE ALONE... Acorn Antiques

MOMMA SAYS ... Footlose

MOMMA WILL PROVIDE... Once on this Island

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY.. Momma Mia

MY CITY... Seesaw

MY JUNE... Spring Awakening

NEW MUSIC... Ragtime

NECESSITY... Finian's Rainbow

NEXT TIME ... Closer than Ever

NOT A DAY GOES BY... Merrily we roll along

OLD FRIENDS... Merily we roll along

OOM... PAH... PAH... Oliver

ON BROADWAY... Smoky Joe's cafe

ONCE IN LOVE WITH AMY.. Where's Charlie

ONCE WE WERE KINGS.... Billy Elliot

ONE... A Chorus Line

ONE DAY MORE... Les Miserables

ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK... Chess

PINBALL WIZARD... The Who's Tommy

PRETTY WOMEN... Sweeney Todd

PRIMA DONNA... Phantom of the Opera

PUSH DA' BUTTON... The Color Purple

PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ.. Young Frankenstein

RAINBOW HIGH... Evita ( Very Hard)

RAISE ME UP... Violet

RAT- TAT- TAT- TAT.. Funny Girl

REAL LIVE GIRL... Little Me

RENT... Rent

SALLY SIMPSON.... The Who's Tommy

SEESAW... Seesaw

SHERRY... Jersey Boys

SHOW PEOPLE ... Curtains

SIDE BY SIDE BY SIDE... Company

SLAP THAT BASS.. Crazy for You

SLEEPIN' BEE... House of Flowers...

SOLIDARITY FOREVER.... Billy Elliot

SUMMER NIGHTS.. Grease

SWING... Wonderful Town

TAVERN FOXTROT... Big

THE COLUMN... Sweet smell of Success

THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY... Ragtime

THE GIFT OF MAGGIE... The Mad Show

THE HEAT IS ON IN SAIGON... Miss Saigon

THE KING OF BROADWAY... The Producers

THE LATE, LATE SHOW... Do Ri Me

THE OTHER GENERATION.... Flower Drum Song

THE RHYTHM OF LIFE... Sweet Charity

THE SONG THAT GOES LIKE THIS.. Spamalot

THE TROLLY SONG... Meet me in St. Louis

THEY LIKE IKE... Call me Madam

TRAVEL SONG.. Shrek the Musical

WAIT TILL YOU SEE HER... By Jupiter

WALKING IN SPACE... Hair

WANDERIN' ST

Answer 2

Oh. That's great that you are auditioning! Ok so sheet music is like the accompanists notes for piano or whoever will play with you. I don't think its would be necessary to bring your own accompaniment like a guitar unless you need to be able to play guitar for the play. Sometimes they will ask you to sing without an accompaniment, like on American Idol! IF so the sheet music is basically a copy of the tune and the lyrics of the song you will use. It should be professional though, so once you find a song you can either find a free legal copy on the internet or you can buy a copy from online or at a Music Store near you!

Im sorry but since you don't have a picture i cant tell if your a girl or a guy, so

for girls:Tomorrow, andy Disney Princess song, like Whole New World or Beauty and the Beast,

Defying Gravity, Popular, Lets hear it for the boy from FOOTLOOSE, or maybe a Paramore song depending on how well you can carry a tune.

for guys:Consider Yourself from Oliver Twist,Don't Stop Believing from Journey, any guys song from anything on Broadway, or even a good Chris Brown song, I don't know I think a guy can get away with any song that isn't rap or hip hop-just because that's more of a beat and they need to hear a tune. I don't believe you can get a good idea of how well someone sings if they rap so if your into that sorry. Hope I helped!! Good Luck!!!

Answer 3

I once auditioned with the ABC's and got the lead role in my High School's musical (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown). How many girls are auditioning? What role do you want to be considered for? If you want to be Sandy, sing one of Sandy's songs, if you want to be Rizo, sing "There are worse things I could do..." I was always a big for a song not in the show that still worked for the character the person was auditioning for. If you were going for Sandy, the song "There's a fine, fine line" from Ave Q would work or "I feel pretty" from West Side Story. Again, similiar characters, but songs that the director hasn't heard 100 times already. HOWEVER, you MUST feel comfortable and good about the song you're going to sing, so don't try to learn one last minute.

Answer 4

You need sheet music to give the piano player they will have at the audition. The piano player is there to play the rest of the music that you aren't singing, called accompaniment. You can go to a music store, or to amazon.com and buy a book of songs from musicals. My personal favorites are the Singer's Musical Theater Anthology series, and they have songs for every voice type. From your description, it seems like you are a mezzo-soprano. If you get a new edition, it comes with cd's of just the accompaniment, so you can sing along with the recording to get used to singing along with a piano. Unfortunately, with the cd's, the books are expensive, so unless you are planning on doing more auditioning I may recommend getting one without cd's, especially if you can play piano yourself. Those are only ten dollars. Just sing through the book until you find a song you really like. Maybe get a recording of the song on itunes too, so you can hear the original performer sing it.



Here is a link to Amazon.com where you can buy the book, and find links to others in the series.

http://www.amazon.com/Singers-Musical-Theatre-Anthology-Mezzo-Soprano/dp/1423423704/ref=pd_sim_b_3

Good luck with your audition. It's great that you are trying something new!

Answer 5

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