Musical Theatre

As part of our musical theatre assignment we were required to complete an audition piece aswell as the final performance and copmplete a blog to track our process. I havent had much experience in musical theatre so the whole assignment seemed a bit daunting and it's not something I really enjoy.

For my solo I was unsure which song to choose as I don't have a clue about what sort of songs suit my voice. I initially wanted to sing somewhere over the rainbow from the Wizard of Oz. Below is my reasearch on the musical, dorothy and the song itself.



The film The wizard of Oz was released in 1939 and starred Judy Garland as Dorothy a young girl who lives with her aunt in Kansas.She then travels to Oz in her house which is carried by a tornando where she meets The munchkins , the lion, tin man and the scarecrow whilst being accompanied by her dog toto. Over the rainbow is sang about 5 minutes into the film by Garland. the scene is basically where the horrible old lady on a bike ( a charactor mirroring the wicked witch of the west) tries to steal Toto from dorothy. Dorothy then tries to tell her aunt em what happened, but rather than them listening to her dorothy goes to her room where she thinks of a place where nothing matters - hence the song somewhere over the rainbow.