For musical theater college auditions, you will be asked to sing two songs. Typically the colleges will require an up-tempo and a ballad. Requirements can range from contemporary pop/rock to golden age traditional musical theater. And for a few schools, an aria in a foreign language will be required. You will need to prepare 32-bar cuts and 16-bar cuts of each of your song choices as each school has different length requirements.
Because you will be auditioning for a number of different colleges, it is easy to see that your book of college audition song rep will house a variety of music. The most basic book of rep will contain five songs. Your book needs to be well organized and sheet music cuts must be clearly marked.
Remember that the pianist will be meeting you for the first time and needs to get in sync with you posthaste. Anything you can do to make his or her job easier will benefit your audition!
Make things easy for your accompanist with these simple steps:
Make sense out of your music cuts.
Avoid those little bumps in the road in your sheet music.
Present yourself as a professional.
This is how:
Using a Sharpie, put brackets toward music that is sung, and brackets away from music that is cut.
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