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Four Year Repertoire List

Nesmith Voice Studio

Name: Brianna Bernard

Semester/year started lessons in Matts studio: FA 2011
Style:
ballad, uptempo,
comedic, dramatic,
patter, belt, rock,
traditional,
combination, etc.

Song Title

Show Title

Composer(s)/
Librettist(s)/
Lyrycist(s)

Sem./Year
studied

Current Go-To or Money Audition pieces

These are the pieces, from any era/style, that you feel you fit your type/skillset the best and you are confident that you knock
them out of the park every time you sing them. This list may change as you add/remove songs.
There should be a ballad, uptempo, comic/character piece, and one or two non-Broadway pieces.

Modern: 1996-present
Traditional Broadway like The Last Five years, Wild Party, Wicked, etc., Disney musicals like The
underground/cabaret composers like Pasek & Paul, Scott Alan, Kerrigan & Lowdermilk, etc., etc.
Uptempo
Live Out Loud
A Little Princess
Patter
Calm
Ordinary Days
Emotionally Extreme
Even Though
I Love You Because
Ballad

With You

Ghost: The Musical

Dramatic duet

Who Will Love Me As I Am?

Side Show

Lion King or Mary Poppins, and

Andrew Lippa
Adam Gwon
Joshua Salzman /
David Yazbek
Dave Stewart and
Glen Ballard

FA 2011
SP 2012
FA 2013
FA 2013

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Rock Musical
Hard Rock: JC Superstar, Hedwig, Rent, Spring Awakening, etc.
Jukebox/Revue: All Shook Up, Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia!, Smokey Joes Caf, Ring of Fire, The Buddy Holly Story, Movin Out,etc.
Pastiche (newly written in an earlier style): Little Shop of Horrors, Grease, etc.
Motown/R & B: Dreamgirls, The Wiz, The Color Purple, etc.
Soft Rock/Pop: Pippin, Godspell, Aida, etc.
Ballad
At Seventeen
The Susan Boyle
Janis Ian
SP 2013
Musical
50s 60s jukebox
Lonely Teardrops
Life Could Be A Dream
Roger Bean
SP 2014

Post-Golden Era: 1968-1996

Traditional (A Chorus Line, Annie, La Cage Aux Folles) and epic pop opera like Les Miz, Jekyll & Hyde, etc.
Mid-tempo/dramatic
Come To Your Senses
Tick Tick BOOM!
Jonathan Larson
FA 2011
Legit ballad
Unusual Way
Nine
Yeston
SP 2012
Character ballad
As Long As He Needs Me
Oliver!
Lionel Bart
SP 2012
Moving ballad
Sailor of the Skies
Children of Eden
Schwartz
SP 2013
Early rock musical
Another Suitcase
Evita
Webber/Rice
FA 2013
Storytelling/comedic
Times Like This
Lucky Stif
SP 2013

Childrens/Youth Musical
Honk!, Charlie Brown, most Disney shows, etc.
A Change in Me
Beauty and the Beast

Alan Menken

FA 2012

When She Loved Me

Toy Story II

Randy Newman

SP 2012

Character

Notice Me, Horton

Seussical

Ahrens/Flaherty

FA 2012

Comedic

My Party Dress

KerriganLowdermilk

SP 2012

Ingnue/princess
(romantic)
Ballad

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Stephen Sondheim
find an easy accompaniment, if possible
Do I Hear A Waltz?

Uptempo

Someone Woke Up

Strong, Intelligent

Move On (continuing work on duet with

Nick)
Moments in the Woods

Comedic/character

Sunday In The Park With

George
Into the Woods

Sondheim (lyricist)
Music by R.
Rodgers
Sondheim
Sondheim

FA 2012

FA 2013-SP
2014
SP 2014

Golden Era (1943-1968)

1940s-50s: Traditional Broadway musicals a la Rodgers & Hammerstein, Lerner & Loewe, Frank Loesser, late Porter or Berlin, etc.
1960s: Kander & Ebb, Cy Coleman, Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, etc.
(At least two ballads and two uptempo/comedic)
Belt/character 1960s
Nobody Steps on Kafritz
Henry, Sweet Henry
SP 2013
Comic/character
1960s
Ballad

Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm

H2$

FA 2013

Till There Was You

The Music Man

Ballad/Romantic

The Boy Next Door

Meet MeLouis

Swingy belt

Colored Lights
Ive Got What You Want

The Rink
The Apple Tree

Kander & Ebb

Bock & Harnick

SP 2014
SP 2014

A Quiet Thing
A House Is Not a Home

Flora The Red Menace

Promises, Promises
(Revival)

Kander & Ebb

SP 2014
FA 2012

Wilson

FA 2011
FA 2013

Early 20th Century: Musical Comedy/Standard

Swingy duet

Early Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Rodgers & Hart, Early Cole Porter, George M. Cohan, etc.
(At least one ballad and one uptempo/comedic)
Youre The Top
Anything Goes
Cole Porter

SP 2012

Character/Comic

The Joint is Really Jumpin in Carnegie

Hall

Thousands Cheer

Roger Edens, Ralph

Blane and Hugh Martin

FA 2013

Bluesy/jazzy torch
song

The Lady Is A Tramp

Babes in Arms

Rodgers/Hart

SP 2014

Operetta

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English Operetta (Gilbert & Sullivan); Early American (Lehar, Stromberg, Herbert, Friml, etc.)

Non-Broadway Popular Music:

At least one each from contemporary pop/rock, folk/alternative, classic rock of 60s-80s, 1950s -60s rock n roll/doo-wop, jazz
standard
Rent Prep
Im The Only One
Melissa Etheridge
SP 2013
Blusy/jazzy

Im Going Down

Rose Royce

SP 2014

English, Italian, Spanish, French, Latin, German

Sing Me To Sleep

Edwin Greene

FA 2011

English Art Song

(soprano ballad)
English Area (from
opera)
Mezzo-soprano Italian
aria

Sweet Chance

Micheal Head

FA 2012

Menotti

SP 2013

Giovacchino
Forzano

FA 2013

Italian mezzo-sop aria

O mio Fernando

Gaetano Donizetti

SP 2014

Contemporary Englishlanguage art song

Extinguish My Eyes

Leonard Bernstein

SP 2014

Art Song/Aria
Ballad

All That Gold

O mio babbino caro

Amahl and the Night

Visitors
Gianni Schicchi

Other
La Favorita

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