Rent Audition Preperation.

For our first practical assessment of my second year, we had to audition for our show. The show that I was doing was 'Rent' by Jonathon Larson. The guidelines for our audition were to prepare two songs that we are going to perform. We had to do one song from Rent and another from the other classes show West Side Show.




The songs that I choose to do were: One Song Glory from Rent and Something' Coming from West Side Story. The first song that I began to prepare was 'One Song Glory'.  I choose this song as I felt that it really fit my range and ability's as a singer. I also felt that it was a really bold and dramatic song that showed lots of sides to the character, as I wanted to showcase my skills in lots of different sides, as there were multiple characters that I was interested in playing in the show.


About a week before the audition I had booked some time with out musical director, to just go over my songs, the two songs that I have been preparing is Something's coming from west side story and One song Glory from Rent. During my session with the musical director it became clear that my stronger song was the west side story song as I had spent some time looking over the character behind the song, as well as how to perform the songs to the best way that would suit my voice. The main feedback that I got from this session was to look into the character during the rent songs.


The next time that I spent on my audition was really based on the Rent songs more than the others. The character of the song was Roger, who has had a hard life when it comes to drugs and abuse. This song is all about him achieving something before he dies of AID's. I explored different parts of the songs that would best suit each verse, for example sections could be more intense than others, and others could be more a lower tone. After exploring the different tones of the songs, I felt that my whole over all performance felt stronger.


When working on my songs one of my main hurdles was the timing and pace with the west side story song. and through this felt it necessary to work on my breathing and with this did a technique that would give me certain points in the song that I should be breathing at, to give me points to breathe to help break up the songs.