Musical Theatre Audition Songs – More Duets

Damn Yankees is a musical comedy from 1955. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball.

Damn Yankees was choreographed by Bob Fosse and is the production where he met Gwen Verdon, his wife and dancer–collaborator–muse for whom he choreographed much of his work.

Two Lost Souls is sung by Lola, a demon who has been summoned to earth by the devil as “the best homewrecker on [his] staff”, and Joe Hardy, the hero of the piece who is stuck in Hell wanting to get back to earth and win a baseball match and break his pact with the devil! I know, its quite a story!

The song is sassy, classic and fun. And the video is worth watching for the great dance routine

Rent is a rock musical by the late Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.

Without You is sung by Roger, a songwriter-musician who is HIV positive and Mimi, an erotic dancer with HIV.

The song is a love song. In Act Two Roger suspects Mimi is cheating and has stormed out of their fiery relationship, Mimi stops him and tries to tell him the truth, that she is not cheating but that she is still using drugs, she can’t get the words out, and Roger leaves. Alone in the apartment, Mimi sings of her love for Roger, and elsewhere, Roger sings of his love for Mimi.

The song is a beautiful love song, the lyrics are terrific and I feel oversinging it would lose some of its beauty so keeping it real and true works perfectly for this number.

Neptune’s Daughter is a 1949 musical romantic comedy film starring Esther Williams and featuring the Academy Award winning song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” by Frank Loesser.

The song Baby It’s Cold Outside was not planned to be in this film. It took the place of Frank Loesser’s “(I’d Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China,” which the Hayes Office thought inappropriate

The lyrics in this duet are designed to be heard as a conversation between two people, marked as “mouse” and “wolf” on the printed score. Every line in the song features a statement from the “mouse” followed by a response from the “wolf”. The “wolf” part is sung by a male and the “mouse” by a female.

The song is a christmas staple and is performed at many a drunk xmas party on the Kareoke. It is interesting to reverse the gender of wolf and mouse and might be a unique choice when performing this number.

Once is a musical stage adaptation of the 2006 film of the same name. The book was written by Enda Walsh retaining many of the songs written by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová.

The show really is Guy meets Girl. An unnamed Guy is a Dublin guitarist/singer-songwriter who makes a living by fixing vacuum cleaners by day, and singing and playing for money on the Dublin streets by night. An unnamed Girl is a Czech who plays piano when she gets a chance. Guy meets Girl, and they get to know each other, the Guy and the Girl work through their past loves, and reveal their budding love for one another, through their songs.

Falling Slowly won the Oscar for best song at the 80th Academy Awards. In the movie, the duo play the song in Walton’s music shop in Dublin, with Hansard on guitar and Irglová on piano.

It is a beautiful love song with gorgeous harmonies and perfectly mirrors the growing feelings this couple have for one another.

The song ‘Move On’ comes right at the end of the wonderful musical Sunday In The Park With George, and is quite simply one of my favourite songs both in and out of musical theatre!

The song talks directly to you when you need to make a decision in life, or are contemplating a change. It has helped me so much.

“Stop worrying where you’re going- Move on. If you can know where you’re going. You’ve gone. Just keep moving on”

Here is what Stephen Schwartz, the composer-lyricist of Wicked has to say about the song “I was at a very low point in my life and career and feeling extremely discouraged. When I heard it, I felt as if it had been written for me to tell me what I needed to hear, and it helped to bolster my will to continue writing”

Anything Goes by Cole Porter is a 1934 show which is still a crowd pleaser today and has recently been on Broadway with Sutton Foster and Joel Grey.

The story is a wonderful madcap journey aboard the SS American ocean liner from New York to London and is full of brilliantly witty, clever and winning songs such as Anything Goes, You’re The Top and I Get A Kick Out Of You.

You’re the Top is sung by Billy Crocker and nightclub singer Reno Sweeney, old friends acknowledging their mutual admiration in You’re the Top. In Billy’s eyes they are just friends but in Reno’s eyes she wants him to be more than just her friend.

Its a lovely song, lots of fun and very popular.

‘Barcelona’ is the ultimate ‘morning-after-the-night-before’ song!

Actually is it the only ‘morning-after-the-night-before’ song? Is this a new mini-genre? Trust Sondhiem to create a new genre of song and to do it so damn well!

This wonderful little song is perfection! Witty, concise, and beautiful!

Rent is a rock musical by the late Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.

Tango: Maureen is sung by Mark, an independent filmmaker and Joanne, his ex-girlfriend’s new lesbian lover.

Joanne and Mark overcome their awkwardness at meeting by singing of their affection for Maureen, and they connect over their feelings for her. In a very funny and lovely duet they air their chests about Maureen and her continuous cheating, Mark tells Joanne the signs despite he was the one dumped for her!

The song is a funny number and can really be performed with gusto and an awesome tango!