Our Backstage Experts are acting teachers, coaches, casting directors, actors themselves, and everything in between. Having been in the industry for decades, they’ve seen plenty of auditions and know what songs really need to be retired. We knew they’d be the perfect group to ask the following question:
What is one audition song you NEVER want to hear again?
Here are answers from eight industry professionals!
(And if you missed the last installment of this column, check out “16 Ways to Fail as an Actor” and see how to get your acting questions answered at the bottom of this article!)
Paul Barry, L.A.-based Australian acting teacher In a decade as a professional reader for music theater I can honestly say that I’ve rarely heard, “I never want to hear that song again.” Most often I heard, “Why did they choose that song? It didn’t do them justice at all.”
However, I have seen many successful performers subverting what was expected of them in song choice—or even pieces that at first seemed wrong for their personality—but they nailed them. The common denominator to me seemed to be that pieces chosen with some deep personal resonance to the
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