Musical Theatre piano parts

It's a joy for me to play some of the great Musical Theatre repertoire that people bring to the Successful Singing Auditions course. I'm very comfortable in this repertoire, having worked in Musical Theatre auditions for years, and nowadays I really don't get enough opportunities to play it in public. For those of you that don't play this genre, some of the Sondheim or Jason Robert Brown piano parts are as hard as any classical accompaniment. And if you haven't got a handle on the style, it really shows!

On this particular course I had everything from classic book musical (Mr Snow from Carousel) to patter songs (Words, Words, Words from The Witches of Eastwick), to story songs (I'm still hurting from The Last Five Years) to brand new musicals (When you ruv someone from Avenue Q), with a little Wonderwall thrown in along the way. The range of repertoire we cover is vast - we often have both pop singers and opera singers on the course. I love being able to move from We Will Rock You to Rossini. After all, a singing audition is a singing audition!

The singing audition is a fact of life for most singers, and will be with them for most of their lives. Of course, as you get older, more experienced and particularly more famous, they stop being auditions and start becoming "We're interested in you for *****, just come over and have a chat with us, nothing too formal... And bring your music".

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