Musical Theatre Audition Songs – Male Female Duets

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is is a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro and music by Jimmy Roberts. It’s a series of vignettes connected by the central theme of love and relationships. The play’s tagline is “Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit.”

We’re Just Friends is a funny and suprisingly sweet little song about being ‘friends with benefits’ with some filthy lyrics!

The video is the original off Broadway cast and shows you just how funny this song can be with a bit of clever choreography and relying on the humour of the lyrics rather than ‘trying to be funny’ as a performer.

Easter Parade is an American musical movie from 1948 starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, featuring music by Irving Berlin.

The story tells of Don Hawes, Broadway star, who for a bet says he can make the first dancer he meets a star. He chooses Hannah Brown, one of the chorus girls.

A Couple Of Swells doesn’t tell any part of the story, it is a number from a variety show Hannah and Don are starring in, in which Don and Hannah play a pair of street urchins with vivid imaginations.

You can have loads of fun with this song and interpret it how you want to without worrying about the story.

It is the most famous number in the film and is therefore a tough act to follow, but if you can put your own ‘take’ on it you could be onto a winner.

The Book Of Mormon is a show from the writers of South Park, the show lampoons organised religion and also traditional musical theatre.

The Book Of Mormon tells a tale of two Mormon missionaries who are sent to a village in Uganda to teach their religious teachings! The locals are more worried about war, famine, poverty and AIDS than religion.

Baptize Me is sung by Elder Cunningham, a fat, insecure, nerdy missionary and Nabulungi daughter of one of the villagers they are there to teach the Mormon way to. The song’s lyrics although about being baptised, could quite easily be misunderstood! Its a really funny song, and has to be played completely straight to really get the humour across. Both must sing it with complete conviction that the song is about being Baptised

Spamalot perfectly pastiches a broadway love song in The Song That Goes Like This making it a great song for a male female duet.

Spamalot is loosely based on the Arthurain Legend, with more than a dash of Monty Python and lots of laughs!

This song is ung in the show by The Lady of The Lake and a peasant named Dennis Galahad who she has just turned into a Knight ‘Sir Galahad’. They sing about the one song that occurs in every Broadway musical, and its defining features (incredibly long, changing musical keys, and extremely high notes, the male lead at one point complaining that “Now we’re into E, that’s awfully high for me. But everyone can see, we should have stayed in D,” (although in performance, the corresponding keys of the song are F and G)

Shall We Dance is the seventh of the ten Astaire-Rogers musical comedy films. It was released in 1937. The movie is scored by the Gershwins.

The film tells the story of Peter P Peters, an american ballet dancer who falls in love with a tapdancer. After lots of twists and turns including a journey on a liner across the Atlantic and a show danced by Peter and a whole chorus wearing Linda masks, they eventually fall in love!

Lets Call The Whole Thing Off is a funny song about the subtle differences between Peter and Linda, it is also a chance to have Fred and Ginger dance a huge number on rollerskates! The song is probably better known as “You say ‘Potato’, I say ‘Potato’ … you say ‘Tomato’, I say ‘Tomato’”

Top Hat is a stage musical which is based on the 1935 screwball comedy with Fred Astiare and Ginger Rogers. The stage show is a celebration of 1930s song and dance with songs by Irving Berlin.

The story is about an american dancer who comes to London to star in a show and falls in love with the woman from the floor below in the hotel who has complained about his tapping! The story is full of twists, turns and the mistaken identity we all know and love from musicals of this period.

Outside of This, I Love You is a show stealer added to the stage production and given to the supporting characters of Horace and Madge Hardwick, the bumbling producer of the musical and his wife. It is a great , funny, sarcastic number and works terrifically for male female duos looking to do a bit of schtick!

The classic musical A Chorus Line has a terrific duet for a man and woman in the song ‘Sing’

A Chorus Line is a musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch. Centred on seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line, the musical is set on the bare stage of a Broadway theatre during an audition for a musical.

The song is performed by scatterbrain Maggie and her husband Al. Maggie laments on how she can not ‘Sing!’ whilst her husband Al finishes all of her phrases. Its a great song for a funny woman, as she gets most of the gags but as she is ‘tone deaf’ she gets less of the singing.

A beautiful love song sung as two lovers part ways.

Surely this has to be one of Sondheim’s most romantic, beautiful and lush songs.

This is a song which always touches me and like all of Sondheim’s best songs it conveys a simple message with clever lyrics and music.