This book is a delightful collection of 100 excerpts of musical theatre songs designed especially for audition situations. These excerpts represent a great variety of shows that span decades of theatre history and a multitude of styles. Using the original vocal scores, the excerpts have been selected and adapted to help singers show off their best in a 16-32bar audition cut. Includes audition tips, song set-up for each song, as well as vocal style and genre indexes, making this the most useful and relevant collection of its kind. CD accompaniment tracks are provided for all song excerpts. Songs include: 21 Guns (American Idiot) • All That's Known (Spring Awakening) • C'est Moi (Camelot) • Evenin' Star (110 in the Shade) • Grow for Me• (Little Shop of Horrors) • If I Only Had a Brain (The Wizard of Oz) • I'm Alive (Next to Normal) • I'm Not That Smart (25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) •It's No Problem (High Fidelity) • Larger Than Life (My F avorite Year) • Lay All Your Love on Me (Mamma Mia!) • Mister Cellophane (Chicago) • Sandy (Grease) • The Night That Goldman Spoke (Ragtime) • The Proposal (Titanic: A New Musical) • Take a Chance on Me (Little Women) • They Were You (The Fantasticks) • When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love (Finian's Rainbow) • Where Do I Go? (Hair) • Who I'd Be (Shrek).
