srw & son:
Hi, I'm musicmom's D!
Mary told us at Stars 101 who our voice teachers were, & it should also be on your student account page. When you go through "student login" on the OCU website, there is a schedule section. On at least one of the different schedule views, it should have "Applied Voice: Ragsdale" (or whoever).
The first audition will cover casting for both Music Man & Urban Cowboy. At the end of last year, my voice teacher told me to prepare a country song for that audition, & I'm also preparing an up-tempo AND ballad MT piece just to make sure Music Man is sufficiently covered. You never really know what he is going to ask for. In the audition, he'll ask what pieces you brought (which you have also written on your audition info sheet beforehand); sometimes he lets you pick, & sometimes he picks for you. I'm not really sure how this one will work. You will most likely only sing 16 bars or so of the song, but definitely have the entire piece prepared as he might request a certain verse or something (especially true in opera auditions).
Don't stress too much about the audition! Dr. H understands that you're a freshman & that you probably don't have a lot of audition experience & that you're nervous. I do suggest that you sign-up for post-mortems (as he calls them) after auditions to get feedback from him.
I hope this helps! If you have any other questions, I'll do my best to answer them! You can e-mail me if you'd like, since I don't generally check up on CC. I'm at
lbaker.stu2@okcu.edu & facebook.
Good luck & welcome!
Jill