Audition tips for beauty and the beast?

My school musical this year is Beauty & the Beast. I am very interested in playing Belle. I have several sources of experience from the future, but I was wondering if anyone had any tips for auditioning that will make the director consider me for Belle, or another large role.

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Belle does have to belt, but she also has some higher songs. She sings an F5 in the first song, so you also have to have a strong soprano/mezzo soprano voice. Anything she sings from the movie tends to be higher, and anything they added for the musical requires more belt. But when you are belting, remember that she is a princess. Her lower songs still need to sound pretty. Try to find a song that is a higher belt. I think Sondheim would be a good choice. His soprano songs tend to have a mix of head voice and belt in them.

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Also, she is not a weak character at all. Belle is brave, strong, and free-spirited. I said she is a princess, but that does not mean she is stereotypical in that way. Make sure you get a monologue that can portray her feminine side without her seeming weak.

But the most important thing you can do when preparing for an audition is practice.

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What is a good monologue and song to use for a beauty and the beast audition?

I’m about 15 years old and an alto. If I want the part of Belle, what would be a good song and monologue to audition with? Preferably not from Beauty and the Beast.

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Monologues:
From Wizard of Oz
Dorothy: But it wasn’t a dream. It was a place. And you and you and you…and you were there. But you couldn’t have been could you? No, Aunt Em, this was a real truly live place and I remember some of it wasn’t very nice, but most of it was beautiful–but just the same all I kept saying to everybody was “I want to go home,” and they sent me home! Doesn’t anybody believe me? But anyway, Toto, we’re home! Home. And this is my room, and you’re all here and I’m not going to leave here ever, ever again. Because I love you all. And… Oh Auntie Em! There’s no place like home!

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or
From Little shop of Horrors:
AUDREY: I dream of a place where we could be together at last… It’s just a daydream of mine. A little development that I dream of. Just off the interstate in a little suburb, far, far from urban Skid Row. The sweetest, greenest place – where everybody has the same little lawn out front and the same little flagstone patio out back.

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And all the houses are so neat and pretty… ‘Cause they all look just alike. Oh, I dream about it all the time. Just me. And the toaster. And a sweet little guy – like Seymour…

Songs I would recommend:
Part of your world from Little Mermaid
or
Somewhere that’s green from Little Shop of Horrors

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What’s the relationship between Beauty and the Beast and Oedipus Rex?

I have a very vague idea of what the connection may be but i need support and details or atleast examples in the story to support any claims.

Any version of Beauty and the Beast will do including the tale of Cupid and Psyche Interesting question.

The most obvious connection is that the main character (Beauty/Psyche and Oedipus) doesn’t know the true identity of her/his “lover” (using the term loosely in Beauty’s case).

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Beauty doesn’t know that Beast is actually a transformed man; Oedipus doesn’t know that Jocasta is his mother. Of course, in one case, the known person (Beast) is less appealing than the character’s true identity, while in the other (Jocasta), it’s the true identity that should repel the protagonist. That is, Beauty falls for Beast *even though* he is a beast; if she knew he was really a man, she’d fall faster. For Oedipus, it’s the opposite: if he knew Jocasta was his mother, he’d never have married her.

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There’s also the issue of curses. Oedipus’ father was cursed, just at the Beast was cursed. Beast’s curse was one that could be undone, while Laius’ curse was destined to play out from the beginning. There was no antidote. In Laius’ curse, innocent people suffered. With the Beast’s curse, only Beast suffered.

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Cupid and Psyche is an interesting twist, at least when it comes to the action of the story. In this case, it’s Psyche’s actions and revelation of the hidden identity (hiding the light and waking Cupid) that set up a kind of curse–on Psyche. You could also argue that it is Psyche herself who is “cursed” for being too beautiful and is therefore sent away from her family, although she did nothing to deserve the punishment (unlike Laius or Beast). It was entirely due to a goddess’s jealousy. Again, this is different from both Oedipus Rex and Beauty and the Beast, in which it is the guilty party who is cursed, and the cursed is the person whose identity is unknown.

I have always loved the story of Beauty and the Beast, and did an independent study on it, Cupid and Psyche, and C.S. Lewis’s book “Til We Have Faces” in college.

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Looking for Show Ticket for Beauty and the Beast

Purchase a show ticket for Beauty and the Beast, and you will spend a magical evening. That is a promise! A story passed down from generation to generation had found its way to the stage of Broadway, thanks to Disney. Over the years, Disney has produced many tales fit for children, such as The Lion King, Tarzan, and Mary Poppins on Broadway. These musicals have also made the grown ups re-live their childhood memories of these characters in comics and animations.

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This lavish production, now showing at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater was adapted from Disney’s 1991 movie by the same name. Beauty and the Beast debuted on Broadway’s Palace Theater by previewing on March 9, 1994 and opening on April 18, 1994. More than five spectacular years later, the production moved to Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 12, 1999, and has been making waves there since then.

Currently, Beauty and the Beast is the 6th longest running musical in the history of Broadway, and has completed 5,176 performances on November 19, 2006. However, it is the third longest currently running musical on Broadway, after The Phantom of the Opera, and the recently revived Les Misérables.

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Taking The Bow

This animated version of the Beauty and the Beast, with expanded script and new songs by Alan Menken and Tim Rice, was the first animated movie ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Nominated for nine categories of Tony Awards in 1994, Beauty and the Beast won in one category – Best Costume Design. In addition, it also won the 1994 Theatre World Award.

The Enchanted Story

This is the story of the Beast, who is actually a prince under a spell of an enchantress . . . and this is the story of Beauty, a young beautiful woman named Belle, who agrees to become the Beast’s prisoner forever – in exchange for her father’s life. After Beauty begins to stay at the enchanted castle, the Beast falls in love with her, and as time goes by, becomes less ‘beastly.’

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To break the spell cast by the enchantress, Beauty must return the love of the Beast. If not, the prince is doomed to remain a Beast through all eternity.

Tickets For The Show

If you and your family wish to spend a magical and an enchanted evening, this is THE show. Disney has again surpassed itself by producing another great show for the children and adults, alike.

The show ticket for Beauty and the Beast can be obtained from the box office at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater. That is, if you have the time and inclination to spend hours in line for your ticket. Otherwise, you can procure your show ticket for Beauty and the Beast from any of the many reliable ticket brokers in New York.

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Al Terry

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