#tenor songs

[thestrangedazebouquet]

SONGS FOR AUDITIONS: PLAYLISTS

finding songs that are decent and not absolutely insanely popular for your auditions can be really difficult, so i've taken the liberty of making two playlists with rare-ish/uncommon/less common musical theatre solos; one for male voices and one for female voices <3

take a listen and see what's best, and please @ anyone you think would find this helpful! i want to make sure i span as many songs and musicals as possible, so please name some of your obscure faves in the notes/comments too!!

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

So baffled by the fact that Wikipedia lists Hozier as a baritone. Like just because he doesn't sound like Justin Bieber or any other teenybopper ass white boy doesn't change the fact that that man is cleanly belting C5s on the regular. He rarely ever goes below D3 too. Tenors are allowed to have richness to their voice

[i-ideate]

hi yes 'Never Planned on You' is one of the most beautiful songs/scenes in contemporary theatre as far as romance is concerned. You're telling me he sang a monologue about how his idea of love is changing??? While DRAWING HER????? DURING A MEETCUTE??? AND HE FLIRTS WITH TEASING???? AND HE LEAVES THE DRAWING BEHIND WHEN HE LEAVES????? HELLO????

[julia-writes-things]

my brain:

my brain:

my brain: for heeeeeerrrrrrrrrrDAAAAAISYYYY *flips table* YOU SLIPPED THROUGH MY HANDS *slides on knees* no one understands how she has changed me!

[jojo-schmo]

What if I wanted to break out my tenor sax and play in the Kirby 30th Anniversary Music Fest, too!?

Plus, the outfits the Kirby crew wear are PEAK, look at them!!

[shalom-iamcominghome]

There's a specific kind of euphoria that comes from being in a pretty male-leaning shul and being the guy with the deepest singing voice there. I'm winning at judaism, something both reasonable to want and possible to achieve

[stellerssong]

🍓🍄🌿 (picked the last one to continue with the plant/natural world theme honestly)

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction?

the need to have in hand the stories i’d been wanting to read my entire life finally hit critical mass and overturned the debilitating social anxiety/OCD magical thinking that told me i would be pelted with eggs and rotten fruit for daring to inflict my thoughts (and thots) upon other residents of the internet. only took 25 years, folks! prior to this i was simply trying to cram all of my nascent fanned fiction into the tags field of random posts on tumblr dot edu, which i’m sure was not annoying AT ALL for anyone making the posts that came under my fire.

now obviously i do not have that problem and i tag things normally.

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

eurydice hadestown is very handy with quick mental math and its applications, i.e. calculating tips, making change, emergency budgeting, guesstimating prices, etc. orpheus hadestown can subdivide ONLY in the context of musical time signatures and only ever passed a math class beyond algebra 2 because he has big sad eyes and his teachers felt bad that he was clearly trying really hard. this is perpetually baffling to eurydice, who is just like "if you tip 15% it’s 10% of the bill plus half of that, so you just move the decimal up a place and then divide that number by two and then add them and—" and orpheus is like no no that’s already too many steps. and she’s like well what do you just not tip your barista because it’s too many steps? asshole? and he’s like of course not! i always tip two dollars. and she’s like on a four dollar coffee? that’s a 50% tip?? and he’s like well no that one was $4.38, see, it’s just easier to not have to do the math. and she’s like [screams]

for orpheus’ part, he can diagram chord progressions to an extent that causes eurydice to lapse into a defensive coma, but of course that has no practical applications.

🌿 ⇢ give some advice on writer's block and low creativity

no, YOU give ME some advice on writer’s block and low creativity!!!

i dunno, man, all the stuff that works for me is stuff that’s been said more eloquently elsewhere. if you’ve written one sentence that’s a sentence that didn’t exist before and therefore you have increased the thing. the time will pass anyway so you may as well pass it making something. sometimes you just need to look at another project, another fandom, another creative hobby, a tree, instead of your current project. you’re allowed to just think about it if thinking about it is all you have the heart to do. it’s easy to mistake the plateau before leveling up for stagnation, and it’s easy to mistake the upward climb for rotting and crumbling into dust.

you’re always improving. every day you wake up and see with your eyes and hear with your ears and think about the world around you, you’re banking sense-impressions and test-running dialog and feeling emotions that might one day find their way into a project. and this too is writing, in its way.

ask meme

[juliamccartney]

i know i'm the only one who cares about this but

i genuinely get a bit frustrated by people being so focussed on vocal RANGE and comparing tenors & altos just because there's a large overlap. like it's not about range!!!! what matters is VOCAL WEIGHT!!!!!

alto is the 'female' voice equivalent of BASS!!! their singing voices are heavy as fuck!!!! tenor is the 'male' voice equivalent of SOPRANO!!!! they're clear and bright!!!! look at the voices of contraltos and countertenors side by side, maybe then you'll finally get it!!!!! AHHHHH

[justmwahstruly]

I FINALLY FINISHED IT ASCIDBCH

blehp i kinda died on the patterns and the glasses

ofc the beautiful Will Wayward belongs to @kandavers

is jus molly an will vibin

[taskiiboi]

For the wonderful transmascs in theater, I bring you, audition songs that would fit a higher voice range (Soprano-1st Tenor) but are still good for masculine roles

Mr. Cellophane

Letters from the Refuge (not on the Newsies album but pretty easy to find on YT)

Michael in the bathroom

Grow for me

LMMYP (TTS)

Freeze Your Brain

Slide Some Oil to Me

Razzle Dazzle (‘em)

Nothing Left to Lose

[cosmogyros]

Probably at least a couple hundred of the views on this video are from me. And I've also had the particular pleasure of playing it to a few folks in the past who didn't know what a "counter-tenor" was :D

[ikjun]

Kim Joo-Taek (Julian Kim) performing "Dust and Ashes" as promotion for SHOWNOTE's production of Natasha, Pierre And The Great Comet of 1812

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Opéra Garnier

[airu27-rkgk]

a super rare footage of little 6 (around 16 yo?) laughing during a concert 𝄞⨾ ₊♬ ﾟ. ⋆

[tookishcombeferre]

I'm about to write something absolutely crazy, but hear me out. I want y'all to listen to these two songs and tell me there isn't some very distinctive similarities in key, notes, and words.

Please forgive the interruption from the nerdy 13 year old who still lives inside my head. As we age, we are still all the ages we once were, and the little 13 year old kid who longed to play Jekyll on Broadway demands to be heard. I have *long* been obsessed with the musical and the novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." I am auditioning for the show at a community theater (but the child inside me is fawning over the chance to play the role anywhere.) As such, I have been spending a good deal of time with the music. And, I just noticed something I *cannot* un-notice. This is the last time I will be rational in this entire post. Both characters, Jekyll and Cedric, "center" around the same "power note" - F#4/ G4. (Jekyll's highest note in the whole show is an "A4" and that's only when he's "screaming." A4 is usually Hyde's sort of "manic" note. Though, the actor has to sing both. It's ... it's a lot. Trust me.) Both characters, at this point in their story, have been put in this position due to public humiliation. (Jekyll due to a rejection of his scientific theory by the "Board of Governors" at the medical hospital at which he presented his research, and Cedric because of bullying and being a social outcast most of his life - as the song explains.) Now, the major difference is, up to this point, Jekyll has been an upstanding and moral dude. He honest to goodness believes that he can rid the entire world of evil by separating good and evil from people. He wants to end war. He wants to cure insanity. He's a good dude with a big heart. However, bro-bro is about to create evil in himself and go absolutely coo-coo for cocoa puffs in like 20 minutes. But, that's neither here nor there. Musically these songs *feel* the same, and I would argue that "This is the Moment" could have been a musical influence ON this song. The idea of an internal war between good and evil - "polar twins that are constantly struggling" - as Jekyll says at the very beginning of the musical. Is the ENTIRE THEME OF THIS SONG. In fact, most of Cedric's music up to this point has centered around the F#4/G4 note. Which, is also the power note for Jekyll throughout the WHOLE MUSICAL of Jekyll and Hyde. (Something I find just fascinating is that there are some STRONG parallels between Jekyll's music in this show and Cedric's throughout the show. Like it goes beyond this song, and it's like REALLY, REALLY strong. Not saying the creators were doing anything there, but I find it really interesting. And they *BREAK* the association as soon as the redemption happens. Cedric's music is happier and bouncier post-redemption. The minor key polar-twin struggle is GONE! UGH!!!!!!!!!! I cannot! It's FASCINATING! I wish I had more appearances from him in season 4 to know if that was intentional. Because, even when he fights with Cordelia, it's NOT written in the Jekyll KEY! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Jekyll is a soft character who has a really bad thing happen to him. In the end, it's because of his own dumb decision to poison himself. But, in his mind, he feels pigeonholed into making that choice because of other people's prejudice against him. At the point that he sings this balad, his reputation is *completely* destroyed. He has no other choice than to experiment on himself. (Or, at least he thinks so.) Then, after Hyde is released, he's stuck in the pits of warring between the good and the evil within himself because of this one crap decision that he has, somewhat inadvertently, made. But, he ends up in complete isolation with no one to help him by a series of his own, again, poor impulsive decisions. So, he goes completely banana pancakes because he's a tragic hero in a Victorian era morality play. Thus, like all good tragic heroes, Jekyll must die. (He's so complicated and beyond impulsive, your honor, I love him.) Obvs, this does *not* happen to Cedric. We get a nice redemption arc instead. Which, I wish is what happened for my boy Jekyll because the Victorians did him dirty. So, looking beyond the plot and notes, the *words* are incredibly striking. The number of times the word "great/ greatest" comes up in "This is the Moment" is a lot especially near the end. Additionally, the idea of loneliness, isolation, aloneness, and the overcoming of that isolation into greatness is a major theme in both lyrics. The music swells surrounding "I'll prove to them I made it on my own" & "This is the moment/the greatest moment/ of them all" and "I've always had so much to prove/I will not hesitate/ It's time for me to make my move and be/ King Cedric the Great." I'm just saying that if the creators can draw influence from Gulliver's Travels and numerous other really bizarre pieces of classical literature. I fail to see why a super-duper subtle reference to Jekyll and Hyde is off the table? (Is Hyde Wormwood????????????? - Wait a ... nooooooooooooooooo ... more on that later. Separate post. Pip. Separate post. I'm still team Wormwood redemption. But, that's because I believe in the unification of our polar twins not their separation. Again. Stop ... Pip. Separate post!) I just think this is so neat!!! Because, y'all, like I said, the number of literary influences on this show are NUMEROUS. I just can't unsee it or unhear it. (But, I'm a person with mild audio-visual synesthesia so that's all the same to me.) Anyway, music. Literature. Nerdy stuff. Was this intentional? Am I crazy? I dunno. But, all I know is these songs sound similar, and I love them both SO MUCH! UGH! MUSIC! AHHHH!!!!!!!!

(Also, while this song is fine, PSA from a certified fandom adult to anyone younger than, like 15/16, DO NOT go seeking out the whole musical or you might end up with more than you bargained for. It's pretty gory and intense. One and a half steps down in vibe, I'd say, from Sweeney Todd and maybe about a step up in intensity from the Hunchback of Notre Dame revival with Patrick Paige and Michael Arden- so the one where they brought in some of the darker themes from the novel. [Thank you Alan Menken for doing that for us, and for casting Patrick Paige as Frollo. None, of which we deserved.] I found Jekyll and Hyde The Musical at 13 because I was a gremlin who read the novella The Mysterious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson well younger than I should have because, if it was a classic, I was allowed to read anything. Okay, bye!)

[tildeathiwillwrite]

Carol of the Bells Be Like:

Sopranos: HARK how the bells SWEET silver bells ALL seem to say THROW cares away---

Altos: Ding... dong... ding... dong... :)

Tenors: *barely audible* oh... how... ha-a-ppy are their tones!

Basses: DING... DONG... DING... DONG... >:O