Soprano musical theater song?
Soprano musical theater song?
MerMaggieGalinda
Broadway Star Joined: 11/29/06
#1Soprano musical theater song?
Posted: 3/5/07 at 8:57pmOkay, I really need to pick out a song for my city's play festival. I'm a high soprano, but I can sing comfortably in middle range, like in "Popular", and I was going to sing that, but my director said I could but warned me that Wicked was very overdone and it'd be hard to stand out from the crowd. So what else would work for a high school play festival? I was thinking maybe The Beauty is or the title song from the Light in the Piazza, but I'm not really sure. Anyone have any ideas?
#2re: Soprano musical theater song?
Posted: 3/5/07 at 10:29pmWell this can be done in soprano or mezzo, but I think the song "Meadowlark" by Stephen Schwartz from "The Bakers Wife" is beautiful when sung in soprano
#2re: Soprano musical theater song?
Posted: 3/5/07 at 11:09pm
Way Back To Paradise from Marie Christine! I loooooove that song. Audra does an incredible version..
mm... Back to Before from Ragtime?
#3re: Soprano musical theater song?
Posted: 3/5/07 at 11:21pmAnything from the "older theatre" always works well too since the songs, and actresses, worked mostly with higher keys. My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, and pretty much anything Rodgers and Hammerstein are good picks. Also, I'd Give My Life For You from Miss Saigon, and Poor Wandering One from Pirates of Penzance. That's all I can think of now but if I remember any more I'll let you know. Break a leg!
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bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#4re: Soprano musical theater song?
Posted: 3/5/07 at 11:23pm
Back to Before is really belty. How about Goodbye, My Love?
LitP is good.
also...
"Out of My Dreams"- Oklahoma!
"Unusual Way"- Nine
"I am Ashamed that Women are So Simple"- Kiss Me, Kate
"If I Could Only Dream this World Away"- The Woman in White
#5re: Soprano musical theater song?
Posted: 3/5/07 at 11:40pm
Vanilla Ice Cream - She Loves Me
The Finer Things - Jane Eyre
Glitter and be Gay - Candide (be careful!)
"Love all; Trust a few; Do wrong to none." --William Shakespeare
MerMaggieGalinda
Broadway Star Joined: 11/29/06
#6re: Soprano musical theater song?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 6:38pm
I'm actually leaning more towards Light in the Piazza now, but I'd love to do Vanilla Ice Cream too, I want to do Glitter and be Gay SOMEDAY, but I know I'm not up to the challenge yet. I have it in me, but that is one of the most challenging songs in musical theater, I'm only 16, I've got a way to go before I get to that level. And even though it's not very soprano-y, I was kind of thinking about Home from Beauty and the Beast.
Updated On: 3/6/07 at 06:38 PM
#7re: Soprano musical theater song?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 8:05pm
Good for you for knowing your limits!
I agree that lots of older musicals have exactly what you're looking for. Also, think Julie Andrews, like My Fair Lady, Camelot, etc...
Good luck!
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BroadwayBaby21
Broadway Star Joined: 8/20/04
#8re: Soprano musical theater song?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 11:58pm
LitP is a great show for sopranos. I love singing both The Beauty Is and LitP.
Wouldn't It Be Loverly from My Fair Lady is another excellent choice.
Think of Me from Phantom is good too, but it is a little overdone.
I'm a soprano but also have a good head/chest middle mix range, and three of my favorite songs to sing are Someone Like You from Jekyll and Hyde, Only Love & When I Look at You, both from Scarlet Pimpernel.
-If you don't like your fate, change it. You are your own master.- Aida
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#9re: Soprano musical theater song?
Posted: 3/7/07 at 10:36am
"I Could Have Danced All Night" from My Fair Lady is a wonderful song for any audition.
More importantly, it is a song that will last. One that you can sing for hundreds of auditions in the future. It is a song that you can sing when you are at a party and someone asks you to sing for the sake of singing.
Learn it. Or something like it.
"Popular" is way overdone these days and no one will want to hear it after Wicked closes.
The only person I would want to hear sing Popular these days is a voice like opera bass Samuel Ramey or something. A voice far far away from type.
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dkb1390
Swing Joined: 6/8/06
#10re: Soprano musical theater song?
Posted: 3/7/07 at 10:44pmah, i'm totally planning on using "i could have danced all night" in like, two weeks for an audition. HAHA. i love that song though, so i don't care. i would learn something new, but i'm comfortable with it. not that anyone cares but i'm just throwing it out there.
#11re: Soprano musical theater song?
Posted: 3/8/07 at 2:39am"I Could Have Danced All Night" is overdone.
"Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!"
#12re: Soprano musical theater song?
Posted: 3/8/07 at 10:08am14G
"Any performer dreams to see her name in lights, but the best performer dreams to make someone else feel the way she did when she first saw a performer..."
#13re: Soprano musical theater song?
Posted: 3/9/07 at 4:44pmooh, i second the 14G.
"Love all; Trust a few; Do wrong to none." --William Shakespeare
