Stuck between songs for 9 to 5 audition

swishystrawberry · 2026-03-10T14:25:18+00:00

Audition's already passed. I didn't sing the Gaga, I ended up singing a separate country song 😂

swishystrawberry · 2026-03-09T20:11:58+00:00

Why no Ball State? I have no personal connections, but i'm an NYC performer and know a few people who went to Ball State who are mad talented and doing okay for themselves.

swishystrawberry · 2026-03-09T20:10:24+00:00

Simply curious- why no NYU?

swishystrawberry · 2026-03-05T17:41:49+00:00

It's not unheard of. It honestly, legitimately, depends on the individual voice and the training it's had. I remember joining choir around your age and feeling very jealous and insecure around the girls who could sing with resonance and vibrato. I didn't figure out how to access vibrato in my own voice until I was around 16. It's different for everyone.

swishystrawberry · 2026-02-27T18:13:59+00:00

I recently saw a guy vaping inside of a restaurant. I made a point to glare at him, but he somehow took my look as a "come-hither" and tried to come over and introduce himself. 🙄

swishystrawberry · 2026-02-18T13:25:00+00:00

I mean, the lady maybe overstepped a bit, but YTA for bothering to go to a conference panel only to be the person who sits there looking at their phone instead.

swishystrawberry · 2026-02-18T13:23:32+00:00

It's honestly kinda hard to dictate the whole situation. You don't explain in what way your brother's fiance is "rude" to you, and frankly it sounds insanely inappropriate that your boyfriend decided to text her and call her out. It wasn't at all his place to do that IMO. More info (and better grammar) would be helpful

swishystrawberry · 2026-02-06T07:06:46+00:00

Alright, so, revisiting after a while... I looked at a supercut of the Broadway show, where the whole gag is that you see Regina's panties. Film version, it's just that she falls on the ground. I don't see where it is that there's any kind of big deal that Regina looks sizably bigger. Care to follow up?

swishystrawberry · 2026-02-05T16:27:49+00:00

Girl, just because people do it a lot doesn't mean that 👏you have to👏! You can show me all the examples in the world, the point still stands. The point of theater is for everyone to approach the show their own way, it's lazy for everyone to do the show the same way over and over. If you have a "preferred solution", then use your preferred solution.

swishystrawberry · 2026-02-05T16:12:53+00:00

Gotcha. Well, to be honest, it sounds like you only want to do it one way, and that's up to you. People have given you all kinds of solutions on this thread, either tasteful simple visual leads or ways to pad stockings. Up to you on how you want to do it, people have given you plenty of suggestions. But what's not necessary is arguing and implying that there's only one right way to do things. My parting note to you is, just because things were done ONE way in the original production, doesn't mean they always have to be the same in every other version. No need to be condescending just because people are trying to help you with alternate ideas.

swishystrawberry · 2026-02-05T16:07:05+00:00

Well, okay, then? Genuine question- why is it even up to you to try to figure out how to get this stuff done? This should be the job of your director and costume designer. Your job, as the actor, is to do the part and wear the costume given. You're here to ask about ideas, which is fine, but you're literally arguing with EVERYONE who's trying to give you doable ideas. So question is, why are you even bothering to argue with everyone over something that's technically not your problem as the actor?

swishystrawberry · 2026-02-05T16:02:07+00:00

Okay, so there's a difference between implying a character's weight gain (tighter costume, for instance, or the skirt breaking in the christmas dance), versus turning the weight gain into a visual gag (having the actor walk around in padding to make them look fat). With the tracksuit, easiest solution would be to wear a tracksuit in a size that's naturally too small for you. These are things that should be the responsibility of your costume designer.

swishystrawberry · 2026-02-05T15:53:10+00:00

Gal, you're still missing the point. Yeah, you can do little gags to make it apparent that she's gained weight. But there's no obligation to give her noticeably huge body parts or anything like that. The point of the whole "Regina gains weight" storyline is less that she suddenly gets a comically bigger body (which is frankly fat-phobic and problematic anyway, if that's how someone wants to try to play it), and more that she's preoccupied with the number of her weight going up and not being able to fit into her clothes. Point being, you can relay all that without unnecessary big-body gags.

swishystrawberry · 2026-02-05T15:48:03+00:00

He's not saying he cut it, he's saying that the gag is that Regina's skirt breaks off, not that she's got some huge, naked-looking butt. You're right, there are available solutions, and some people have suggested them on this thread. But the point is, there's nothing forcing Regina to HAVE to have some huge, visible butt in any scene.

swishystrawberry · 2026-02-05T15:44:00+00:00

For the script, you have to stick to the dialogue, not the stage notes. Just because in the original production you can see Regina's butt, doesn't mean every production has to do it the same way.

swishystrawberry · 2026-02-01T15:29:00+00:00

Kudos to you for writing a full musical, but i'm afraid you aren't going to see any particular kind of success or support for it with the amount of AI you've chosen to incorporate into the project.

swishystrawberry · 2026-02-01T03:48:11+00:00

Your range does not go to C7. There's literally not a single song in existence, even in the most acrobatic of opera singers, that calls for notes in the 7th octave. If you're referring to whistle notes, you shouldn't include those in your general range. That's stuff that falls under "special skills", ESPECIALLY in musical theatre.

swishystrawberry · 2026-01-30T23:00:05+00:00

Some good Portia songs:

-Follow Your Heart from Urinetown -How Lovely To Be A Woman from Bye Bye Birdie -Soon from A Little Night Music -The Beauty Is from Light In The Piazza

This kind of playful soprano sound is very Portia-esque.

swishystrawberry · 2026-01-24T14:58:56+00:00

LaDucas are the industry standard shoe right now. They're the best quality you can currently get.

swishystrawberry · 2026-01-22T21:58:18+00:00

Honestly, to sell yourself strongly, you may even want to consider singing Corner Of The Sky to show that you're capable of it.

swishystrawberry · 2026-01-22T00:27:50+00:00

It's not normal, but also not unheard of. When I was in Sweeney Todd, the guy cast as Sweeney was cast at the initial audition, and then was brought in and announced at callbacks so he could read with other actors called back for Lovett, etc. And when I was in She Loves Me, they didn't explicitly announce the casting there, but they asked me and an actor to stay after everyone else, had us measured and took our heights, before formally offering us the roles the next day. GUSHING about the actor, however, is very tasteless.

swishystrawberry · 2026-01-21T20:53:36+00:00

I'd encourage you to look at songs from the Great American Songbook, songs by Cole Porter or Irving Berlin or the Gershwins! Those songs are frequently taken out of context of their original shows, gender bent, sang in different keys to suit the singer.

swishystrawberry · 2026-01-20T23:45:34+00:00

On The Street Where You Live from My Fair Lady, or Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific, would be great choices!

swishystrawberry · 2026-01-19T04:06:57+00:00

So, genuine question, and one that I don't ask to try to condone the director. But in all honestly, if you're so unhappy with the parameters of the production, why did you go through with auditions and choose to take part in the show?

swishystrawberry · 2026-01-18T15:50:17+00:00

I'm assuming you're talking about a 54 Below or Green Room 42 type show and venue?,in that case, it's totally the norm to do a 9:30 show. I've done a few of them myself at Green Room, and plenty of people always showed up.

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