<p>We are using a wonderful local coach for my daughter, who has had every child she’s coached get a MT spot, nd yesterday confirmed why I would advise coaching to others. My daughter met with her coach, and she had targeted two monologues and two songs for her auditions. Her coach liked the two monologues, and liked her up tempo song. But when my daughter sang her ballad, her coach told her that if she used that song she would not be accepted anywhere. Not that she didn’t do the song well, but that it is an oversued song that would turn off those she would auditon in front of. Now, there’s no way her mother or I would have ever thought that; we would have encouraged her to do that song since she sings it so well. Even her vocal coach who picked the song apparently did not know. But her audition coach did. So while my daughter was disapponted yesterday, she knows it gives her plenty of time to find a similar song, and with 3 of the 4 songs/monologues picked out she can start focusing on prepration.</p>
<p>Without a coach like my daughter’s we’d be lost. Even things like what dress to wear for auditions (she had my daughter bring two for her to see, and she had her wear a very nice solid color dress vs one with a pattern because the pattern would distract attention from my daughter’s face), how to interact with the accompanist, little details I never would have dreamed of she is on top of. Money well spent!</p>