{"id":2606,"date":"2008-02-26T18:08:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T00:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/qa-seussical-mayzie-la-bird-tryout-tips\/"},"modified":"2008-02-26T18:08:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T00:08:10","slug":"qa-seussical-mayzie-la-bird-tryout-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/qa-seussical-mayzie-la-bird-tryout-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: Seussical Mayzie La Bird Tryout Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/mayzie.jpg\" title=\"mayzie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/mayzie.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"mayzie.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/mayzie2.jpg\" title=\"mayzie2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/mayzie2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"mayzie2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos of characters playing Mayzie La Bird from Seussical the Musical. Click for full size.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Received this question about the character Mayzie La Bird from Seussical:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I&#8217;m trying out for MAYZIE LA BIRD and i was wondering what song i should sing? and what vocal range does she need?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p>In Seussical the Musical, Mayzie La Bird is the antagonist and well experienced city girl. She&#8217;s the &#8220;Bette Midler&#8221; of Seussical. She&#8217;s brassy and street smart. Her counterpart is Gertrude, the innocent ingenue and protagonist.<\/p>\n<p>For an audition song for the part of Mayzie, I would suggest something brassy and\/or big traditional broadway. A song that says &#8220;Here I am!&#8221;. Look for any songs Bette Midler or Liza Minelli would have done. &#8220;Cabaret&#8221; would be a great song.<\/p>\n<p>We had a great Mayzie for our production, Ashely Henning. She sings great traditional Broadway. After doing Mayzie she had leads in &#8220;Little Women&#8221; and &#8220;Evita&#8221;, to give you an idea of the character. Mayzie could be played by a wide range of ages &#8211; but she does have a baby, so take that into account. Younger actresses might go for Gertrude, or if you have a powerful bluesy voice you could tryout for the Purple Kangaroo (a very fun role).<\/p>\n<p>Mayzie&#8217;s songs in Seussical the Musical are what I would call &#8220;Torch Songs&#8221;, and usually played by a mature voice (18 years and older).<\/p>\n<p>Hope you have fun. Seussical was a very fun musical to perform. Musicians that have worked with me count it as one of their favorites. In fact I recently received an email from a cello player who says it&#8217;s bar they use to judge the fun of all other musical productions.<\/p>\n<p>Auditioning for a musical is one of the hardest processes to endure. The more you do, the better you&#8217;ll get at it. The first couple auditions might be (read &#8220;probably will be&#8221;) bad experiences and embarrassing, just keep doing it if you want parts.<\/p>\n<p>Mazy Suessical Muiscal Mazee Mayzee Soosical Seusical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Photos of characters playing Mayzie La Bird from Seussical the Musical. Click for full size. Received this question about the character Mayzie La Bird from Seussical: I&#8217;m trying out for MAYZIE LA BIRD and i was wondering what song i should sing? and what vocal range does she need? ********** In Seussical the Musical, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,13,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-G2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}