<p>Just to add to this…</p>
<p>At IU we are not allowed to sing anything that was on Broadway within the last five years. Just a rule of thumb. (This can be bent if it is a show most people do not know, for example, I sing from Sweet Smell of Success) I would not sing L5Y, or any JRB for that matter. No Sondheim- I have personally witnessed really talented people look like asses because they could not get it together with the accompianist. Standards are always good, but be werary of overdone ones like Younger than Springtime or On the Street Where you live (at MUNY callbacks a few years ago, I watched about 6 or 7 people sing the exact same 16 bar cut, don’t use this one). Basically if your instincts tell you not to sing it, your probably right. Look for obscure stuff. You may have to pay somebody to transpose it off of a CD, but it is entirely worth it. For example, my roomate worked on pre-production of Little Women on B-Way. There were some songs cut from the show that he has rehearsal recordings of, it is material like this that COULD work very well. (It would be kind of shady to use this but that is for a different thread.)</p>
<p>Remember who you are singing for. (Off topic, a voice teacher once told me to sing Lost in the Wilderness for a Falsettos audition. That would be an example of a bad choice, just be sensible.) Your high school choir teacher probably has no idea what you should be singing even if they say they do. There are NEVER any definate answers to this question.</p>
<p>If you can sing Think of Me better than Sarah Brightman, by all means be my guest, but remember the person auditioning you will have probably seen her perform the role and it is impossible in an audition setting to duplicate the atmosphere created by costumes, sets, lights, sound and a real orchestra. This is one reason people stay away from current Broadway.</p>
<p>Last thing, MAKE BIG, BOLD, ASSRETIVE choices. If it is the wrong choice, at least you made a choice. Let go of whatever you are holding onto and just go for it. Be original, no one wants to hear immatators- I bet a lot of people out there can run like Darius DeHass, but than you are no more than a copier. Read auditioning for musical theatre by Fred Silver. This will teach you about phrasing and all that if you dont already know abou it.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>