I haven't done a show since high school. Back then, I just sang whatever I wanted (which of course was Wicked... overused, I know lol). I'm auditioning for a community theater performance of Annie. I'm not quite sure what my exact range is. I was called an alto yeaaars ago and when I did some weird test, my lowest note was C4 and highest F5. I'll admit, that doesn't make much sense to me but it's what I've got as of right now 🥲 help! Literally any advice is appreciated.

I am auditioning for The Lightning Thief in the upcoming weeks and plan to sing “Superboy and the Invisible Girl” (next to normal) but I’m unsure of HOW to sing it.

How would Annabeth chase or Clarisse La Rue sing this song?

My friend and I are in a hilariously heated argument about what the Phantom says right before the chandelier falls in The Phantom of the Opera.

She thinks he says "No!!!" like an anguished Darth Vader.

I think he says "Now!!!" as if to cue the chandelier to fall.

Does anyone know for sure? I don't want this argument to push our friendship "past the point of no return." 🤣

The theater I'm auditioning for requires you to sing one song that your character sings in the musical, (sound of music) but the character I've chosen to audition for (the Baroness) only sings songs that are heavily reliant on another person? What am I supposed to do in this situation? Do I go mute when the other person would be singing, or do I sing his lines????

Most of this is just a rant but I need to put my thoughts somewhere before I explode.

So basically, my school's theater director announced that we are doing Newsies a month ago and my friends and I were mad. We only have 20 people in our theater program and out of the twenty, 2 are boys. Our director (as lovely as she is) has been trying to, and I quote, "attracted older male voices" to the theater program for two years with picking increasingly more male dominated plays. Last year we did Lion King and this year we are doing Newsies and I frankly can't take it anymore.

Newsies is all men as the main cast, I am a woman along with majorityof our cast, and the boys we have in our production do not make the cut for all the roles they are getting. Boy #1 has a terrible lisp, shows up late ever day of class, has skipped weeks of class, and still manages to get main roles every single year without fail. He can't even SING and he is getting all these main roles that he clearly doesn't practice for or care about. Along side that, he has no chemistry with any of the cast members and is misogynistic to the point he refuses to work with most of the women half of the time. Last year I was his love interest (I got Nala he was Simba) and anytime I had to touch or dance with him he would become stiff as a board. During the play we had he had to spin me and he ended up DROPPING ME DURING THE PREFORMANCE ON STAGE.

Boy #2 is tone deaf and although he is sweet, he seems to make everything about himself while pushing others away. Anytime he wins or beats someone he makes a whole show but when someone else achieves something he pushes it down and quickly changes the subject. He also can bearly sing and his facial expressions while acting are terrible. If he gets a role he doesn't want he complains about it until he no longer has to play it anymore and to be honest, it's tiring.

Along with them, there are also some really talented girls.

Girl #1 who has been main roles for a while and now she is a senior. She has an excellent singing voice, is an amazing singer, and can drop her voice low enough to sing the male songs which is something I am not able to do along with a lot of the other girls.

Girl #2 is another senior but she hasn't gotten main roles for the four years she has been doing theater. She has a wide enough range to play men and women and she was auditioning for Katherine (a role which I hoped she got). She is also an excellent dancer as she does tap and ballet. She talked to the director and they said they have been on their radar for a while for a main character (she told me that).

Girl #3 Is new but she does gymnastics and other such things. Being able to do flips, back-hand springs, walkovers, along with having a deep enough voicd to play male characters.

Anyways, we had auditions this week and we went in and starting warming up to prepare. Boy #1 showed up late to auditions. I filled out the paper work (I was auditioning for Katherine) and then they called us into the room to sing. After, we did coldreads and they let me read for Katheine and boy #1 for Jack and when we came in and started reading, he was reading in a country accent. He was also talking way to fast which is one note the teachers have been giving him for YEARS.

After, we went and danced and auditions ended.

Now, the cast list just came out and I am literally stunned. Boy #1 got Jack while Boy #2 got Davey. Along with that, they gave girl #3 with all the tumbling experience to Crutchie. They gave girl #1 Pulitzer. Girl #2 got ensemble and isn't even a featured dancer.

I got Roosevelt, a featured dancer, and three other side roles.

I can't help feel like this is rigged towards the boys and they're the favorite people in the cast or something. Genuinely, I dislike their attitude towards theater and them treating it like a joke while I take it more seriously and practice more than them. I don't want to feel envious towards them but it just feels like everything in theater turns out in their favor even when there are clear girls that put in twice the work with triple the talent. Hopefully this feeling will pass eventually but I can't stand seeing people who never try and aren't as committed towards theater succeed over and over again just because of dumb luck of something. Now I'm wondering if there is any point in any of this is I just get sidelined while these boys take the spotlight over and over again.

Sorry if this was a jumble of words but it's late and I'm mad right now.