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If you want to sound impressive, a good song is "Let Me Fall" from Quidam (it's on the Josh Groban self-titled album in english, please don't make my mistake and sing in Cirquish). It's a pretty pretty song and it's got simple lyrics to make up for the tough notes.

True, it's traditionally sung by a male singer, but it's a high tenor song and it has a bunch of impressive jumps.

I have learned over the years that the best way to go when it comes to picking a song for auditions is to do your research on the show AND on the people that you are going to be auditioning for.

If the show is all upbeat pop like music, don't go in there and sing "Memory" or something like that. In fact... never sing "Memory" for an audition EVER. It's overdone to death. Find out what kind of music style the show is and sing something in that style. That way it shows them that you can sing that type of music.

Next, try and figure out what the people YOU are auditioning for like to hear. I know that the people that I worked with in high school like to hear things out of the orginary, so I would always sing things that were funny for them like "Summer in Ohio" from L5Y. And I also know that the director I worked with last year at my college likes to hear really emotional songs, so I sang something more slow and meaningful for him. This might be hard to do for some people, but it's not impossible and it pays off in the end. If you sing something that they are gonna enjoy hearing, they will remember you easier.

Most important, stay away from songs that are overdone. Right now, EVERYONE is singing songs from Wicked at auditions cus it's the hot show right now, so stay away from that. Some of the classics are overdone like "Memory," "On My Own," and "I Dreamed a Dream." Those are always audition no no's because EVERYONE has heard them a MILLION times in auditions and often times, they just tune it out.

This might not be particularly alto-ish, but "To Keep My Love Alive" is a great acting song, there's so much character you can put into. Some better alto range songs: "A Change In Me", Beauty and the Beast and "Someone Else's Story" from Chess. I adore that song. 3nodding

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Well, I probably will get a small role in my first highschool play too, and I bet almost everyone did, so don't feel bad

Well I'm a Mezzo-Soprano so its easy to find pieces to fit my voice wel, but the range of songs has gotten quite wide now so it's easy for almost anyone.

A couple of times I have used "Eveyone's a Little Bit Racist" form Avenue Q for three reasons. It's catchy, it has a couple of high notes and it has risky lyrics. Now some people might be offended by it but not if they know the show. I've had people tell me that they love that song but they thought no one would ever do it. Point is it's not too over-done because of the words so it leaves a daring immpression.

That's just me.