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Are you looking for a female song from a Musical that will help you connect directly to an audience? What you need is a "House number"!

A House song bridges the gap between the audience and the singer, when the character comes out of the story on stage and speaks directly to the viewers, know that he (and the drama) is being watched.

In Musical theater there are not many real House songs, but there are a number of songs you can alter to make your performance cross that invisible fourth wall between you and the audience.

In this article I suggest 60 songs for women from the Musical Theater repertoire that could be sung as a House song. I have placed them in three categories: the true House song, the audience number and the soliloquy.

In the first category, the true House song, the musical is written deliberately for the character to step out of the drama and speak to the viewers. My first thoughts are Spamalot (the Diva's Lament), and City of Angels (You Can Always Count On Me). When You're Good To Mama from Chicago springs to mind immediately. Other true House songs include Big Spender from Sweet Charity (originally a chorus number but can be sung by one person), I'm Still Here from Follies, Broadway Baby from Follies, I Just Wanna Dance from Jerry Springer, Jonny One Note from Babes in Arms, and Nobody Does It Like Me - the Cy Coleman song from the musical SeeSaw. And Miss Byrd from Closer Than Ever shares her secret across the fourth wall.

Many of the songs from the Victorian Music Hall era work as house numbers including Waiting At the Church, If It Wasn't For the 'Ouses In Between, and even ballads such as The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery. Then there are the songs written in a Musical style such as Girl in 14G, and The Alto's Lament.

In the second category, the character sings to an audience in her world as part of the plot. Good and Evil from Jekyll and Hyde is a great example as Lucy sings to the drinkers in the pub where she works. Then there's Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Evita), I Speak Six Languages from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Beat Out Dat Rhythm from Carmen Jones, Man Wanted from Copacabana, and Blow Gabriel Blow from Anything Goes. The Saga Of Jenny from Lady in the Dark is sung in a courtroom, and you might just get away with Life of the Party from Wild Party.

The unifocus song is the third type of House number - it's usually a soliloquy in which the character is asking questions. One of the most well-known songs is I Cain't Say No from Oklahoma. Then there's I'm Shy from Once Upon A Mattress, Everybody Says Don't, and There Won't Be Trumpets, from Anyone Can Whistle, and I'm A Stranger Here Myself from One Touch of Venus. Check out Holding To The Ground from Falsettos, My Brother Lived In San Francisco from Elegies for Angels Punks and Raging Queens, I Hate Men from Kiss Me Kate, and My Strongest Suit from Aida. In a slightly more old-fashioned vein, there's I Think I May Want To Remember Today from Starting Here, Starting Now, Tale of the Oyster (Fifty Million Frenchmen), and The Physician (Nymph Errant).

You can use a strong story song like Waiting For The Music To Begin (Witches of Eastwick) if you use it to tell the audience your story. Another perfect example comes from A Chorus Line, where Diana Morales sings Nothing to Zach who is seated in the (real) audience throughout the show. So it's simple to make it a House song and speak directly to your audience. Other songs include Gimme Gimme from Thoroughly Modern Millie, I Know Things Now from Into the Woods, Defying Gravity from Wicked, and Always The Bridesmaid from I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change.

Back to Sondheim again for The Ladies Who Lunch from Company, The Story of Lucy and Jessie (from certain productions of Follies), and Can That Boy Foxtrot (a duet that can be sung as a solo) from Marry Me A Little, or cut from Follies, depending on who you read.

Then there's Everybody's Girl from Steel Pier, Old Fashioned Love Story from Wild Party, When You Got It, Flaunt It from The Producers, and How Did I End Up Here from Romance Romance. You might consider One Hundred Easy Ways from Wonderful Town, or My New Philosophy from You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, and experiment with a song like Cockeyed Optimist from South Pacific.

Another great source of House songs is the revue musical. Closer Than Ever by Maltby and Shire is a good example for songs like Back On Base, or The Bear, The Tiger, The Hamster and The Mole. Or you could consider Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown for I'm Not Afraid Of Anything. You can also do what the musicals are doing currently and raid the pop/disco/rock scene for suitable songs - Holding Out For A Hero started as a Bonnie Tyler song but is now in both Footloose and Shrek II

It is unusual for a slower song to work as a house number, but here are a few suggestions: Maybe I Like It This Way from Wild Party, That's Him from One Touch Of Venus, Why Him from Carmelina, Bill (from Oh Lady! Lady! and versions of Showboat) and of course, Funny Girl from Funny Girl.

Remember that the point of a House song is to speak directly to the viewers, so make sure you look your audience in the eye while you perform.

Enjoy.

Jeremy Fisher coaches singers, actors and dancers in musicals, cabaret and opera. For articles, free downloads and information on Musical Theatre, Successful Singing Auditions repertoire and effective vocal training, check out his voice training company Vocal Process, "revolutionising the way singing is taught" (LINK magazine) http://www.vocalprocess.co.uk.

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Overview Seurat spent two years painting A Sunday Afternoon, focusing scrupulously on the landscape of the park. He reworked the original as well as completed numerous preliminary drawings and oil sketches. He would go and sit in the park and make numerous sketches of the various figures in order to perfect their form. He concentrated on the issues of color, light, and form. The painting is approximately 2 by 3 meters (6 ft 10 in x 10 ft 1 in) in size. Motivated by study in optical and color theory, he contrasted miniature dots of colors that, through optical unification, form a single hue in the viewer's eye. He believed that this form of painting, now known as pointillism, would make the colors more brilliant and powerful than standard brush strokes. To make the experience of the painting even more vivid, he surrounded it with a frame of painted dots, which in turn he enclosed with a pure white, wooden frame, which is how the painting is exhibited today at the Art Institute of Chicago. In creating the picture, Seurat employed the then-new pigment zinc yellow (zinc chromate), most visibly for yellow highlights on the lawn in the painting, but also in mixtures with orange and blue pigments. In the century and more since the painting's completion, the zinc yellow has darkened to brown color degeneration that was already showing in the painting in Seurat's lifetime.

The island of la Grande Jatte (pronounced grhand zhot) is in the Seine in Paris between La Defense and the suburb of Neuilly, bisected by the Pont-de-Levallois. Although for many years it was an industrial site, it is today the site of a public garden and a housing development. In 1884, the island was a bucolic retreat far from the urban center. In popular culture The iPod touch and iPhone, as well as Mac OSX Snow Leopard come with this in the included wallpapers. The Stephen Sondheim musical Sunday in the Park with George is based on the painting. The painting is featured in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Ferris' friend Cameron is shown locking eyes on the little girl in the center of the painting and being transfixed. The scene portrays Cameron observing a little girl up close whereupon he realizes that, though from a distance all seems in order, there is no shape or form to her face. Parodied in the Family Guy episode, "The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (on the part where Stewie goes to the museum to see this painting as one of his last wishes before he dies - however the museum is incorrectly referred to as The Chicago Museum of Art). It is a parody of the Ferris Bueller scene mentioned above. In the famous zero-gravity opening scene of the 1968 film Barbarella, a section of the painting is visible. In 2004, 20th Century Fox's The Simpsons were featured in a poster titled "A Day at the River" which imitates Seurat's famous painting.

A mid-1990s Looney Tunes calendar also includes a parody. Also in The Simpsons, the episode entitled "Mom and Pop Art" features Barney re-creating an exact replica of this painting. In an episode of The Critic, Alice shows Jay that she painted her own precise replica of the painting on her apartment wall. In PC and Commodore 64 versions of the video game Maniac Mansion, a shredded print of the painting hangs over the decaying dining room table. Old Deaf School Park, a park in Columbus, Ohio attempts to replicate the piece in three-dimensional topiary. Nancy Cameron was posed in front of a copy of the painting, dressed in a similar way, for the May, 1976, edition of Playboy. A 1989 Sesame Street book featured a spoof called "Sunday in the Park with Big Bird". The Nintendo game Animal Crossing: Wild World has this painting for sale under the name "Calm Painting" A scene in Looney Tunes: Back in Action has Elmer Fudd chasing Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck into this painting. When Elmer comes out, he is still in pointilism form, so Bugs takes advantage of this, and blows Elmer away with a small fan. A former restaurant at the Mall of America called "Minnesota Picnic" featured a mural rather close in style and size to the Seurat original. A mural in the Mall of America The Bruce Willis movie Die Hard With a Vengeance used a seven story tall mural of this painting as a background The song "Camouflage" from Third Eye Blind's 1999 album Blue references the painting in the line "Be a dream in color even on a winter's night/Thinking George Seurat afternoon bathed in light" In 2006, a group of volunteers in northern Illinois staged the scene with modern clothing. Joshua Ferris' 2007 novel Then We Came to the End, a book about the workplace, life and labor, places two workaholic lovers in front of the painting, on exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. The official poster for the 1993 Detroit Grand Prix held on Detroit's Belle Isle June 11-13 is based on this painting. The poster uses all of the original images of the park goers on the right side but adds images of the racetrack and 3 Indy cars between the park and river, the boats can still be seen, the background across the river has been altered to show the Detroit skyline. The poster is titled 'Sunday Afternoon at Belle Isle Park, 1993-1893' The Pixar movie Wall-E released in 2008 features the painting, together with other famous paintings, in the final credits. In 1989 Columbus, Ohio, artist James T. Mason created a topiary version of this painting on the grounds of a former school for the deaf. The reproduction includes 54 human figures, eight boats, three dogs, a monkey and a cat sculpted in yew shrubbery grown over metal frameworks. In 2003, Disney's animated film Brother Bear features the painting being painted by Koda during the end credits. Related works by Seurat Bathers at Asnires, 1883-1884 Figures assises, 1884 Die Insel La Grande Jatte mit Ausflglern, 1884 Paysage et personnages, 1884-1885 Groupe de personnages, 1884-1885 Esquisse d'ensemble, 1884-1885 Femmes au bord de l'eau, 1885-1886 Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte, 1884-1886 References ^ Gage, John (1993). Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction. Boston: Little, Borwn. pp. 220, 224. . ^ Road Side America External links Seurat and the Making of a Grande Jatte Categories: 1886 paintings | Post-impressionist paintings | Georges Seurat paintings | Paintings of the Art Institute of ChicagoHidden categories: Articles containing French language text

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