Musical Theatre Audition Songs – Male Female Duets

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.

Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond are new writers on the musical block and have quite a following already.Their musicals include Dani Girl, Orphie and the Book of Heroes and The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes.

The Temp and The Receptionist is from their musical Homemade Fusion, which is a series of musical snapshots which is ‘trying to make sense of an increasingly senseless world’

The Temp and The Receptionist is a great song about an office relationship between two shy colleagues. It really is a showstopper with so much room for comedy and fun whilst showing off your singing skills. As a self confessed nerd, I would love to sing this and just need to find my receptionist!

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is a musical romp about the modern mating game, from dating to marriage, to children, and all that comes after. It’s a collection of funny scenes, punctuated with sometimes hilarious songs. The actors get to jump from one wildly different character to another.

The Marriage Tango is a really funny song performed by a married couple who are trying to ‘have an early night’ for a bit of passion. Their attempts keep getting interrupted by their young kids.

The lyrics make this such a funny song. Great for a comedy couple to sing and fill with humnour. A song with the line: “I cleaned up legos and gorillas, ninja turtles and godzillas and one large tyranasarraus rex.Now who would have guessed but soon I’ll be undressed. Im married, and im gonna have sex.”, desrves to be sung!

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’”

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.

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.

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!

Tick Tick Boom is a musical written by the musical composer Jonathan Larson who is perhaps most famous for Rent. The show tells the story of an aspiring composer called Job who lives in NYC in 1990 and his worries that he has made the wrong choices in life. It explores this along with his relationships with his girlfriend Susan and his best friend Michael.

The song ‘Therapy’ is a phone call between Jon and Susan who has phoned wanting to see Jon on an evening when he had planned to spend composing. They argue throughout this song in a very passively agressive and psychological manner which barely seems like an argument and more like a therapy session – hence the title!

A deliciously funny duet with lots of room for humour and the brilliant show-offy factor of having a huge Patter section!

“I was afraid that you’d be afraid
If I told you that I was afraid of intimacy
If you don’t have a problem with my problem
Maybe the problem is simply co-dependency”