Song Choice for BFA Theater Audition

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Fri, 20 Dec 2013 08:35:53 +0000

e95mum, each school posts their individual requirements on their websites.
When you decide to apply to each school, carefully look at each one’s requirements.

For instance, some require 1 min for a monologue, others 2, others give a total of, say, 6 minutes for three. Some require a song, others don’t. Most straight auditions do not involve singing, but occasionally, they will ask for an a capella or 16 bar snippet. This is to get a sense of your vocal quality, tone, presentation. If you can’t sing, it’s ok–just choose something that is within your natural vocal range. If that’s only three notes, choose a song that has only a three note range. It doesn’t hurt to practice the song, for sure, but that is not the focus of the audition; don’t stress over it.

What my kids have done was to first choose the schools, then look at the requirements. This year, my S’s requirements are similar enough that he only needs one version of three monologues to ‘hit’ all his schools’ requirements, plus one song. My D, however, had different lengths in her monologue requirements, different enough that for some schools, she had to cut her monologue for a shorter version.