Dancers audition songs

“When you are READY you never have to GET ready”

Types of songs you should have in your Book, ready to go for an audition:

1. Disney Song

2. Dinsey – esque song (useful for actual Disney auditions) e.g. The Little Princess,
Anastasia

3. Contemporary Pop Up-tempo Song

4. Contemporary Pop Ballad

5. Pop / Rock Song

6. 80’s Pop song

7. 50s/60s pop song

8. Musical theatre ballad (Contemporary, post 1960s)

9. Musical Theatre Uptempo / Character

10. Pre 1960s Song (Rogers and Hammerstein, Gershwin etc., good to have a
contrasting Up tempo and ballad from this genre)

11. Broadway Standard song – e.g. Andrew Lloyd Webber / Claude Michele
Schoenberg (Cats, Les Mis, Chess etc.)

12. Kander and Ebb (Chicago, Cabaret etc)

13. Sondheim
(an uptempo and a ballad is a good idea!)
*These can overlap, e.g. your pop/rock song might be from the 1980s, but ensure you have
at least 4 songs in your book of contrasting style*

Show Examples:

Pop/Rock Musicals:

(Could use 80s Pop / Rock Song)

1. We Will Rock You

2. Rock of Ages
3. Little Shop of Horrors
4. Hair
5. Rent
6. Spring Awakening
7. The Rocky Horror Show
8. Jesus Christ Superstar
9. Bare
10. Aida
11. Tick Tick Boom
12. American Idiot
13. Heathers
14. School of Rock
15. Head over eels
16. Bat out of Hell
17. Jagged Little Pill
18. Fame
19. Footloose
20. Pretty Woman
21. The Bodyguard
22. The Life
23. The Wedding Singer
24. The Tina Turner musical
25. Xanadu

Golden Age American Musicals

(Use your pre-1960s song, like Gershwin, Rogers and Hammerstein etc.)

1. Singing in the rain

2. Showboat
3. Guys and Dolls
4. An American in Paris
 5. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
6. Oklahoma
7. South Pacific
8. Kiss me Kate
9. Gigi
10. Kismet
11. Carousel
12. Cinderella

1950s/ 1960s set musicals / jukebox musicals

Use your 1950s/1960s pop song, or even your musical theatre Up tempo / ballad if it suits
the style of the show.

1. Jersey Boys
2. Hairspray
3. Beautiful
4. Catch Me if you Can
5. Aint too Proud
6. Grease
7. Dogfight
8. Hair
9. Promises, promises
10. Sweet Charity
11. All Shook Up
12. Buddy Holly
13. Cry Baby
14. Bye Bye Birdie
15. Memphis
16. Michael Jackson
17. Mamma Mia

Disney / Disney esque Shows:

Use a Disney song, or perhaps your musical theatre / pop ballad if it suits the style.

1. Moana
2. Frozen
3. Mary Poppins
4. Newsies
5. Once Upon a Mattress
6. The little mermaid
7. Mulan
8. Hercules
9. Pocahontas
10. Beauty and the Beast
11. Disneyland shows
12. Tangled
13. Brave
14. Hunchback
15. Anastasia

Andrew Lloyd Webber / Claude Michel Schonberg (1970s “Mega Musicals”)

Use your Musical theatre ballad / Andrew Lloyd Webber / CMS song:

1. Cats
2. Jesus Christ superstar
3. Evita
4. Joseph
5. Tell me on a Sunday
6. Starlight express
7. Song and dance
8. Phantom
9. Aspects of love
10. Sunset boulevard
11. Whistle down the wind
12. Beautiful game
13. Love never dies
14. The woman in white
15. Wizard of oz
16. Cinderella
17. School of rock
18. Les Misérables
19. Miss Saigon
20. The Pirate Queen
21. Chess
22. A Chorus Line
23. A little Night Music
24. Pippin

Kander and Ebb Musicals (Think Bob Fossee, Liza Minelli)

Generally sing a song by Kander and Ebb for this… or something sung by Liza Minelli or
Anne Reinking

1. Chicago
2. Kiss of the Spiderwoman
3. Cabaret
4. Flora and the red menace
5. The rink
6. Curtains
Contemporary Musical theatre:
(Current or on Broadway in the last 10-15 years)

1. Ghost
2. The Prom
3. Mean Girls
4. Wicked
5. Next to normal
6. Spelling bee
7. The last 5 years
8. Bandstand
9. Be More Chill
10. Anastasia
11. On This Island
12. Hamilton
13. Six
14. Dear evan Hansen
15. Book of Mormon
16. In the Heights
17. Come From Away