Best Audition Songs for Tenors
Audition songs for tenors, from lyric Golden Age ballads to recent pop-rock picks, comedy, dance numbers, and genuine patter songs, with notes on who each song suits and what to watch out for.
Best Audition Songs for Mean Girls
Almost everyone who walks into a Mean Girls audition has seen the movie, and a lot of them have quoted it for years. That familiarity is great, but it can also be a trap. It’s tempting to bring an impression of Regina or Karen instead of your own take, and the casting panel will notice….
Mean Girls: The Complete Musical & Audition Guide
Everything you need to know about Mean Girls the musical: plot, characters and vocal ranges, the full song list, the High School Version edits, audition tips, and advice for producing it in community theatre.
The Wizard of Oz: The Complete Musical & Audition Guide
Follow the yellow brick road with our guide to The Wizard of Oz (RSC version): characters and doubling, vocal ranges, the full song list, audition tips, and practical advice for producing it in community theatre.
Best Audition Songs for Altos
The best audition songs for altos and low mezzos: Golden Age classics, recent contemporary picks, comedy, dance, and patter songs, each with who it suits, what to watch out for, and more top picks in every category.
Best Audition Songs for Belters
The best audition songs for belters: Golden Age classics, contemporary picks, comedy, movement, and patter songs, each with who it’s best for, what to watch out for, and more top picks in every category.
Best Audition Songs for Sopranos
Soprano audition songs grouped by the job they do in the room: classical and Golden Age standards, contemporary picks, comedy, songs that let you move, and patter, each with the show, composer, and character it was written for.
Hadestown: The Complete Musical & Audition Guide
Hadestown retells the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as a folk opera set to folk, blues, and New Orleans jazz. Here are the characters, songs, vocal ranges, audition tips, and what schools and community theatres need to know about licensing and the Teen Edition.
Into the Woods: The Complete Musical & Audition Guide
Into the Woods sends Cinderella, Jack, Little Red, Rapunzel, and a childless Baker and his Wife into the woods after their wishes, then asks what happens after happily ever after. Here are the characters, songs, vocal ranges, audition tips, and production advice for community theatre.
Sweeney Todd: The Complete Musical & Audition Guide
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street follows a barber who returns to London seeking revenge and joins forces with Mrs. Lovett, the owner of a failing pie shop. Their gruesome solution to disposing of his victims becomes a booming business, and Sondheim’s music makes the whole scheme thrilling—and surprisingly funny—to watch unfold. This…
What Happens at Musical Theatre Callbacks?
At your initial audition for a show, you usually get to choose your performance material and rehearse it to perfection ahead of time. Callbacks can be less predictable. You might be handed a scene to read, taught part of a song then asked to perform it, paired with someone you’ve never met, or asked to…
How to Choose an Audition Song for a Musical
Choosing an audition song is both an art and a science. You need to showcase your singing and acting ability, while evoking the style and tone of the show you’re auditioning for — without singing a song from that show! (Usually.) And once you find a song that’s a perfect fit, you then have to…
