Just a wild guess here as I don't have scads of experience with auditions, but having just auditioned two days ago for Sound of Music for our local community theater with an accompanist who can pretty well get through most things presented, it might be that the music director only wants to see the quality and range of your voice. In the case of our audition, singers could sing whatever they wanted but were stopped after about 32 measures. (I sang "If Ever I Would Leave You" but only got through "summer.") Consider that for Sound of Music they may be trying out dozens of children with limited singing experience. Now I understand that it would be nice to see how expressive you are, how good you are at delivery, your stage presence, etc., etc., but maybe the FIRST audition will sort out the obviously unacceptable voices, sort out the acceptables into potential roles THEN have call backs to try to fine tune the selection by allowing you to sing whatever you want.
It will be interesting to see.
John Messmer, M.D. Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine Penn State Hershey Medical Center
> -----Original Message----- > From: Karen Mercedes [mailto:dalila@R...]
> The show is THE SOUND OF MUSIC, and typical of many musical > theatre audition notices, the ad for the audition states "no > songs from the show". No big deal there. But then the ad went > on to read: "Music will be supplied." >
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