Audition Materials:
Select Musical Theatre Anthologies and Broadway Scores and Songbooks

This Pathfinder is a sampling of the growing Musical Theatre Resources at STL. It is not meant to be a comprehensive list: If you are looking for a specific song, songbook, or score, you can:

• Browse the songbooks or call numbers listed below
• Search our Catalog--Search by the name of the score, or by composer
• Please ask a librarian for assistance! 
  

Selected Anthologies by Composer
The Cole Porter Songbook. OVR M1507.P86 M9
Treasury of Great Show Tunes. OVR M1507.T7 1993
Treasury of Gilbert &Sullivan. OVR M1507.S95 T7
The Jerome Kern Songbook OVR M1630.18 K48 S5

Selected Scores and Songbooks (Piano/vocal arrangements, unless otherwise indicated)
Gypsy OVR M1508 S79 G9 1994
Les Miserables OVR M1503 S3685. M6 1998
Man of La Mancha OVR M1503 L5419 M42 1990
Phantom of the Opera OVR M1508 L55 P52 1987
Ragtime OVR M1508 F54 R34 1997
The Scarlet Pimpernel OVR M1503 W46 S3 1998
The Secret Garden OVR M1508 S5789 S4 1992
Thoroughly Modern Millie OVR M1508.T47 T56 2003


Anthologies for Musical Theatre (Selections from shows)
The Chappell Collection of Great Theatre Composers. OVR M1513 .C52 (3 vols.)
The Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology (Mezzo Sop.) OVR M1507 S32 2000
The Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology (Baritone/Bass) OVR M1507 S63 1993 v.2


You Might Also be Interested in:
Remembering Yesterday's Hits. OVR M1630.18 R447 1986 [Popular and show tunes, c.1930 - c. 1960]
American Rock &Roll. OVR M1630.18 A647 [5 vols.]
Remembering the 50's. OVR M1630.18 R446 1992 [Popular and show tunes]


Browsing the Collection
On the Concourse [ Middle] level of the library, look in BOTH the STACKS and OVR (Oversize) collections under these call numbers:

• M1503 (Operas, Oratorios including some Musical Theatre based on classic books &plays)
• M1507 Anthologies
• M1508 (Original, "Broadway"-style musical theatre)
• M1600-1630 (American popular vocal music, from folk to Rock &Roll)
  

See Also: 
The Audition Sourcebook:Do's, Don'ts, and an Online Guide to 2,100+ Monologues and Musical Excerpts. STACKS MT956 R56 2002
Auditioning:An Actor-Friendly Guide STACKS PN2071 A92 M47
Auditioning for the Musical Theatre STACKS MT820 S657 1985

Stephan J. Macaluso

Music Liaison 10.23.2003

macaluss@newpaltz.edu, (845)257-2699