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Arts & Humanities: Theater & Acting: “Question: Need sexy/arrogant song for musical audition?” plus 3 more

Arts & Humanities: Theater & Acting: “Question: Need sexy/arrogant song for musical audition?” plus 3 more


Question: Need sexy/arrogant song for musical audition?

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 10:18 PM PDT

Need sexy/arrogant song for musical audition?

I'm auditioning for Morticia from the Addams Family, and I need a song to audition with. Morticia is calm, cool, and collected; but also very morbid, dark, and EXTREMLEY sexy. she thinks very highly of herself (ie world revolves around her, everyone is dying to hear her talk about herself). What I need is an audition song that conveys these characteristics, but mainly what I am looking for is a smooth, sexy song about being selfish or arrogant or something. Any and all suggestions are welcome, thank you :)

Question: Auditions for teen mom?

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 08:26 PM PDT

I never watch drivel like that - but according to Wikipedia, it's reality TV.
That means they take real teenage mothers, film them and their families, and make them look as ignorant and pathetic as possible for public entertainment.

And you really want to look stupid, immature and selfish on national television?

Anyway - they want real teenage mothers - not kids with little sisters, pretending.

Question: Does talent lead to success?

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 07:34 PM PDT

Talent is necessary if you want to be an actor or other performer.
But without the hard work it takes to get real training and experience, so you know how to use that talent, you'd get nowhere.

When people think that success will just happen, because they have talent in some area, they're just kidding themselves. It takes years of training, experience, dedication, resilience, determination, intelligence and extremely hard work.

As for success - that depends on your definition of the word. In the acting world, success is getting more than 2 or 3 weeks' paid acting work in a year. That's the average for fully-trained, experienced actors.

If you mean fame, money, recognition - that's largely a matter of luck.

Question: Musicals that star a young woman (around age 18-25)?

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 06:51 PM PDT

I'm going to include a few where there are significant female characters that aren't exactly the star.

Cabaret
Tanz der Vampire (in German, Hungarian, Flemish, Russian, Japanese, Polish, Finnish, or French. There may be some I'm missing. The only English-language production was very unsuccessful for several reasons, but one of the biggest reasons was that Michael Crawford didn't want to play another dark and romantic character so there were some revisions to the script and his portrayal of Krolock was very cheesy with an over-the-top accent)
Bonnie and Clyde
Spring Awakening
West Side Story
Rebecca (In German, Japanese, Hungarian, Finnish, and Korean. There was supposed to be a Broadway production opening, but there was a big scandal with a fake investor that halted things a lot. That has all been cleared up and the fake investor has been arrested and there are plans to try and get the show to Broadway soon)
Romeo et Juliette (in French, Hungarian, German, Japanese, Dutch, Russian, Spanish, Italian, and maybe others that I don't know of. There was also an unsuccessful English-language production in London)
Avenue Q (Sort of. Kate Monster is 22-30 according to stageagent.com)
The Rocky Horror Show (Janet is usually 20-27 and in some productions the actress playing Columbia is around the same age and understudies the role of Janet)
South Pacific has several characters in that age range
The Addams Family
Into the Woods
Anything Goes
Grease
Hair
Hairspray
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