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Mastering College Musical Theatre Auditions (Sisco/Josepher)

Appendix C
Overdone or Inappropriate Songs

Anthologies to Avoid
1. Hal Leonard Singer’s Musical Theatre
2. Hal Leonard Singer’s Musical Theatre “16-Bar” Audition

Composers to (Generally) Avoid


1. Jason Robert Brown
2. Michael John LaChiusa
3. Stephen Sondheim
4. Frank Wildhorn

Shows to Avoid
1. Any show currently running on Broadway
2. The Addams Family (Lippa)
3. Anastasia (Flaherty/Ahrens)
4. Annie (Strouse & Charnin)
5. Avenue Q (Marx/Lopez)
6. Cats (Webber)
7. Dogfight (Pasek & Paul)
8. Edges (Pasek & Paul)
9. The Fantasticks (Schmidt & Jones)
10. Grease (Jacobs, et. al.)
11. Hair (MacDermot/Ragni/Rando)
12. Hairspray (Shaiman/Wittman)
13. Heathers (O’Keefe/Murphy)
14. In the Heights (Miranda)
15. Kinky Boots (Lauper)
16. The Last Five Years (Brown)
17. Les Misérables (Boubil & Schönberg)
18. The Light in the Piazza (Guettel)
19. Newsies (Menken & Feldman)
20. Phantom of the Opera (Webber)
21. Rent (Larson)
22. Shrek (Tesori/Lindsay-Abaire)
23. Spring Awakening (Sheik & Sater)
24. Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tesori/Scanlan)
25. Wicked (Schwartz)
26. Wild Party (Lippa)

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Overdone Songs

Soprano or High Belt/Mix Songs


1. Astonishing (Little Women)
2. The Girl in 14G (Jeanine Tesori & Dick Scanlon)
3. Gorgeous (The Apple Tree)
4. Green Finch and Linnet Bird (Sweeney Todd)
5. Here I Am (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
6. How Could I Ever Know? (The Secret Garden)
7. I Love the Way (Something Rotten)
8. If I Loved You (Carousel)
9. If I Were a Bell (Guys and Dolls)
10. The Life I Never Led (Sister Act)
11. Moonfall (Mystery of Edwin Drood)
12. Mr. Snow (Carousel)
13. My New Philosphy (You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown)
14. My White Knight (The Music Man)
15. No One Else (Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812)
16. Part of Your World (The Little Mermaid)
17. Show Off (The Drowsy Chaperone)
18. Taylor the Latté Boy (Marcy Heisler & Zina Goldrich)
19. That’ll Show Him (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
20. Vanilla Ice Cream (She Loves Me)

Mezzo Songs
1. Adelaide’s Lament (Guys & Dolls)
2. Don’t Rain on My Parade (Funny Girl)
3. Dyin’ Ain’t So Bad (Bonnie & Clyde)
4. Far from the Home I Love (Fiddler on the Roof)
5. Fly into the Future (Vanities)
6. I Want to Be Bad (Good News)
7. Journey to the Past (Anastasia)
8. Lost in the Brass (Band Geeks)
9. Maybe This Time (Cabaret)
10. Memory (Cats)
11. On My Way (Violet)
12. One Perfect Moment (Bring it On)
13. Princess (A Man of No Importance)
14. Right Hand Man (Something Rotten)
15. Screw Loose (Cry Baby)
16. Shy (Once Upon a Mattress)
17. Sonya Alone (Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812)
18. Spark of Creation (Children of Eden)
19. Stranger to the Rain (Children of Eden)
20. Times Like This (Lucky Stiff)

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21. Way Back to Then (Title of Show)


22. With You (Ghost)
23. You’ve Got Possibilities (It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman)

Tenor Songs
1. All I Need is the Girl (Gypsy)
2. Being Alive (Company)
3. Corner of the Sky (Pippin)
4. Forest for the Trees (Spitfire Grill)
5. Go the Distance (Hercules)
6. Grow for Me (Little Shop of Horrors)
7. Her Voice (The Little Mermaid)
8. If I Loved You (Carousel)
9. I’m Alive (Next to Normal)
10. I’m Not That Smart (... Spelling Bee)
11. The Lady Must be Mad (Illyria)
12. Larger than Life (My Favorite Year)
13. Mama Says (Footloose)
14. My Unfortunate Erection (...Spelling Bee)
15. Not While I’m Around (Sweeney Todd)
16. On the Street Where You Live (My Fair Lady)
17. Out There (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
18. Purpose (Avenue Q)
19. Run Away with Me (The Unauthorized Biography...)
20. Santa Fe (Newsies)
21. Take a Chance on Me (Little Women)
22. This is the Moment (Jekyll and Hyde)
23. Tonight at Eight (She Loves Me)

Baritone Songs
1. Everybody Says Don’t (Anyone Can Whistle)
2. Johanna (Sweeney Todd)
3. I Think I Like Her (Summer of ‘42)
4. If I Loved You (Carousel)
5. Lonely Town (On the Town)
6. Oh, What a Beautiful Morning (Oklahoma!)
7. Once in Love with Amy (Where’s Charley?)
8. Purpose (Avenue Q)
9. She Loves Me (She Loves Me)
10. Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific)

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