To help prepare us for auditions which required musical songs from pre 1965, Tom issued us two different songs for females and two for men, each of which would provide us with enough vocal range and dynamic to successfully present ourselves.
The first female song was ' I could have danced all night' from the musical 'My fair Lady', the homework given was to take the song away and practise it independently so we could perform it to Tom in our next session. He would then be able to work with us individually and give us feedback on what we need to improve on and how we can help us achieve the best performance.
To be honest, I feel like I struggled with the song in many aspects. For example the song is sang in soprano and although soprano is stereotypically the range girls are supposed to sing in, it is not befitting for my voice and I find it hard to consistently reach those high notes whilst staying in tune and projecting my voice. Because of this I feel like it lessened my confidence when singing because I was not comfortable and I was aware of that.
As I was not the only one who found this challenging Tom showed us two female practitioners who are able to successfully perform a song in any vocal range using story telling and projection and pronunciation to emphasis to us that with enough practise and confidence we can sing a song out of our vocal range without sounding completely horrendous.
The first one being Lillias White, age 67, is an American singer and actress of stage, she is particularly admired for her Broadway musicals.
The second performer being Audra McDonald an artist we have previously looked at in earlier units, she is primarily known for her work on the Broadway stage and her exemplary stage presence. She has six Tony Awards which is more performance wins then any actor. She also performed in Carousel the musical, a musical we have looked in to previously in class when studying how romance is portrayed in musicals/films.
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