Anyone Familiar With "Rags"?
Anyone Familiar With "Rags"?
#1Anyone Familiar With "Rags"?
Posted: 1/11/07 at 10:12pm
If anyone is familiar with "Rags," your help would be apprecaited.
I am gearing up to audition for a production of the show next week, and wanted to know what the vocal ranges and prominence were of the male characters? I have been told I would be good for Avram, but I don't know much about the show.
In regards to an adition song.. any general suggestions? Someone gave me "Being Alive," but I'm not sure.
Any help would really be great!
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Gothampc
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#2re: Anyone Familiar With 'Rags'?
Posted: 1/11/07 at 10:31pmAvram is an immigrant Jewish father. If you're going for that role you might consider "Gliding" from Ragtime or "If I Were A Rich Man".
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JohnBoy2
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#2re: Anyone Familiar With 'Rags'?
Posted: 1/11/07 at 11:15pmThere has never been a more tedious audition song than "Being Alive". I would avoid it, at all cost. Sing anything else.
#3re: Anyone Familiar With 'Rags'?
Posted: 1/11/07 at 11:43pm
"Being Alive"........tedious?
Give me a break.
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#4re: Anyone Familiar With 'Rags'?
Posted: 1/12/07 at 2:05am
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I don't think he means that the song itself is tedious....but the fact that a LOT of males sing it at auditions, and having to sit through it multiple times becomes tedious.
I agree, stay AWAY from "Being Alive." Use a song that is age-appropriate for the character. You wouldn't go into a job interview for Macy's in a basketball uniform...I would reccomend "Gliding" as well as "Reviewing the Situation" from Oliver.
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