I really hate to do this...
I really hate to do this...
#0I really hate to do this...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:26pmBut I need your faithful assistance. I'm a fifteen year old Alto with a reasonably well developed voice. My school is holding auditions for Beauty and the Beast and I'm going for Mrs. Potts. What would be a few choice songs? Thanks in advance!
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:28pmA 15 year old Ms. Potts!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!!!!! AHAHAHAH!!!!! *snort LMAO!!! *cough *cough Updated On: 8/13/04 at 08:28 PM
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:33pm
not really that funny.
at all.
hmmmm... if you can do it, maybe "you'll never walk alone" from carousel- if you pull it off, it'll prove that you have a good strong mature voice.
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:34pmbronxboundexpress, I'd like to see you do it. Then we could all laugh. By the way, what the hell is a caugh?
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:34pmbronxbound, it's a school production. Who else do you think is going to play it? Have you never seen/heard of/participated in a school production? Kids play adult roles. Shocking to you?
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Derek2
Broadway Star Joined: 8/10/04
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:35pmummmm...good alto songs...idk if this would work, its kinda hard and its not really from a stage show but "over the rainbow". If you do it very well you'll blow em away. or you could try something upbeat (i say that cuz i know miss potts has that fun little bouncy section in Be Our Guest lol). My friend who is a good alto singer alwyas uses Adelaide's Lament which is slow in certain parts and fast in others and always gets the part she wants lol. Its from Guys and Dolls.
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:36pmhe must have thought that angela lansbury was going to make a special guest appearance.
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:37pm
Cough is what you do when you try to clear your throat and it's spelled "cough." The dictionary would have a better definition.
I've heard of this in school productions and I still think it's hilarious!
Updated On: 8/13/04 at 08:37 PM
Derek2
Broadway Star Joined: 8/10/04
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:39pm"Feed The Birds" from MARY POPPINS.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:40pmbronxboundexpress, it's not funny when there is talent. Anyone else?
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
aspiringguy715
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/04
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:48pm
When you can provide a legitimate reason as to why it is so "hilarious" bronxboundexpress, then I'll listen to your mindless posts 
I second "Feed The Birds," and "Adelaide's Lament" is good, but VERY overused.
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:48pm
it isn't.
anyway break a leg at your audition, nameinlights.
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:50pmi can't think of any alto songs sorry. i just wanted to say break a leg at your audition!
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:51pm
Thanks very much you guys. I would still like to keep my options open, but I knew I could come here.
Even if it's not an alto song, that's okay. I just meant that is where I am most comfortable.
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
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CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 9:01pm"No one is alone" from Into The Woods has a very maternal side to it. Just think of motherly characters and songs they sing, and also think of Potts's voice part. Break a leg!
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 9:03pmWhen I sing, windows break, so I won't offer any advice. Break a leg, though! Let us know what you get.
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 9:10pmyes please do! haha insomniak, i bet that isn't true.
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 9:11pm
CurtainUp, that is a brilliant idea!
Thanks insomniak! I'll post the second my name goes up. Ha. Right.
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
Updated On: 8/13/04 at 09:11 PM
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 9:11pmYou're right, it's probably not. But I never sing because I know how awful I am, so I will never know.
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 9:14pm
i suggest 'someone to watch over me' by gershwin. its not in any show i know of but its a pretty song, plus its got a decent range though it definately would flatter a lower voice...
whatever song you end up choosing-good luck!
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 9:26pm
hey sweetie, here are some of my suggestions:
1. By The Sea from Sweeney Todd...it's Sondheim which is sometimes discouraged from use at auditions, but it's peaceful, slow, soothing, and associated with Angela Lansbury (which is helpful and people will notice lol)
2. Dolly's parts in I Put My Hand In from Hello Dolly
3. Some People or Together Wherever we go from Gypsy
4. Meg's part of A Man Doesn't Know from Damn Yankees
Hope Ive helped.
Yes that's me. No, it's not a Rent homage.
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 9:28pmOf course you helped, darling! Thanks!
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 9:50pm
I must admit on a website I saw someone audition for Catherine asking for suggestions and someone said this and I thought, well why not for Ms Potts? So I'm not quite as brilliant as my idea 
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
