What is a good audition song to sing?
You need to pick a song which suits the show you’re auditioning for, as well as one which suits your voice. It’s a good idea to have a repertoire of songs which you keep up to performance standard, so you can choose an appropriate one for each audition – something in a similarstyle, and if you can manage it, something by the same composer from a different show. I’d be including songs from Gilbert and Sullivan, some Gershwin, some “classics” – Cole Porter, Lerner and Loewe, Cy Coleman, Rogers and Hammerstein, some Andrew Lloyd Webber (but don’t use it for any auditions except for ALW shows, and don’t sing anything from Phantom, or “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina”), some Sondheim – but again, best used only for Sondheim auditions, some rock musical stuff – Chess, Bat Boy, Witches of Eastwick, Hair. Stay away from Wicked, Hairspray, RENT, Avenue Q, Legally Blonde, Grease and Les Mis as they’re all horribly overdone.
