What was the worst song you used for an audition?
What was the worst song you used for an audition?
Plannietink08
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/11
#1What was the worst song you used for an audition?
Posted: 5/21/20 at 8:21am
I once sung My Unfortunate Erection for a production of DOGFIGHT. Didn’t go down well.
"Charlotte, we're Jewish"
#2What was the worst song you used for an audition?
Posted: 5/21/20 at 2:42pm
"Didn't go down well". I don't know, sounds like you nailed it to me.
#3What was the worst song you used for an audition?
Posted: 5/21/20 at 3:58pm
I sang Little Jimmy Scott's "Sycamore Trees" from "Twin Peaks," a cappella, for an audition once and successfully got the role. It was a WEIRD audition though.
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#4What was the worst song you used for an audition?
Posted: 5/21/20 at 6:14pmAn a cappella version of Norm Lewis’ Before The Parade Passes By.... including the high riffs... which I realized way too late were out of my range. Not my proudest moment.
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
Spencer P Bernard-Kriegl
Swing Joined: 5/20/20
#5What was the worst song you used for an audition?
Posted: 5/22/20 at 4:13amWhen I was 10 years old for my first real audition for The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf (I had done other shows before but we didn’t really have a forma audition just cold reading in private groups) I did the beginning of Miss Baltimore Crabs from Hairspray as a monologue. But hey I got a part
