High School Musical Audition Page
Video Audition Preparation:
Reminder: regardless of choosing this option, callbacks will be in-person.
1. Prepare a song from below
2. Music tracks below include both with vocal backing and just instrumental
3. Please also prepare a monologue from the options below the music.
4. Create a single video containing a slate, your song, and a monologue.
(Slate: Introduction of yourself with name, grade, what song you are singing, monologue choice)
Audition Songs - Male
I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You-Vocal
I Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You- Instrumental
Yeah we got a good thing going on
Right here is right where we belong
You never really know what you might find
Now all I see is you and I
You’re everything I thought I knew that I’ve been looking for
I cant take my eyes off of you
I know you feel the same way too
I cant take my eyes off of you
All it took was one look for a dream come true
I cant take my eyes off of you
Feelings like i never knew
I cant take my eyes off of you
From the start got my heart yeah you do
What I’ve Been Looking For-Vocal
What I’ve Been Looking For – Instrumental
So good to be seen
So good to be heard
Don’t have to say a word
For so long I was lost
So good to be found
I’m loving having you around
This feeling’s like no other
I want you to know
I’ve never had someone
That knows me like you do
The way you do
I’ve never had someone
As good for me as you
No one like you
So lonely before, I finally found
What I’ve been looking for
Doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo, woah oh oh oh
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Audition Songs - Female
When There Was Me and You - Vocals
When There Was Me and You - Instrumental
It’s funny when you find yourself
Looking from the outside
I’m standing here but all I want
Is to be over there
Why did I let myself believe
Miracles could happen?
‘Cause now I have to pretend
That I don’t really care
I thought you were my fairy tale
A dream when I’m not sleeping
A wish upon a star
That’s coming true
But everybody else could tell
That I confused my feelings with the truth
When there was me and you
Start Of Something New – Vocals
Start of Something New – Instrumental
I never believed in what I couldn’t see.
I never opened my heart to all the possibilities.
I know that something has changed –
Never felt this way
And right here tonight
This could be the start of something new.
It feels so right to be here with you. Oh.
And now, lookin’ in your eyes, I feel in my heart
The start of something new.
Stick To The Status Quo – Vocals
Stick To The Status Quo – Instrumental
This is not what I want
This is not what I planned
And I just gotta say
I do not understand
Something really
Something’s not right
Really wrong
And we gotta get things
Back where they belong
What I’ve Been Looking For – Vocals
What I’ve Been Looking For – Instrumental
So good to be seen
So good to be heard
Don’t have to say a word
For so long I was lost
So good to be found
I’m loving having you around
This feeling’s like no other
I want you to know
I’ve never had someone
That knows me like you do
The way you do
I’ve never had someone
As good for me as you
No one like you
So lonely before, I finally found
What I’ve been looking for
Doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo, woah oh oh oh
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo, woah oh oh oh
We’re All In This Together – Vocal
We’re All In This Together – Instrumental
We’re all here
And speaking out with one voice
We’re going to rock the house
The party’s on now everybody make some noise
Come on scream and shout
We’ve arrived because we’re stuck together
We make each other strong
We’re not the same
We’re different in a good way
Together’s where we belong
We’re all in this together
Once we reach we can fly
Know inside we can make it
We’re all In this together
Once we see there’s a chance that we have
And we take it
Monologues
Troy Bolton
“My parents’ friends are always saying, ‘Your son is the basketball guy. You must be so proud.’ Sometimes I don’t want to be ‘the basketball guy.’ I just want to be, you know, me.”
“I can’t believe you guys! Is this what you guys want to hear: Singing means nothing to me! Gabriella means nothing to me! I’ll forget the audition, forget her, and we’ll go get that championship! Everyone happy now?”
Gabriella Montez
“At my other school I was ‘the freaky math girl.’ That’s all they thought I was... always pointing at me, whispering behind my back. They made me feel like I was a freak and I hated it. That’s kind of why I want to keep a low profile here, you know, so I can just be me.”
“Guess what? I don’t want to do the callbacks, either! Who were we kidding? You’ve got your team, and now I’ve got my team. I’ll do the science Decathalon, you win your championship. It’s where we belong. Go Wildcats!”
Sharpay Evans
“So nice of you to show our new classmate around.
(to Gabriella)
Troy is such a sweetheart, isn’t he? He’s the star of the basketball team, just like I’m the star of the Drama Club. We’re perfect for each other, don’t you think? Are we having lunch together, Troy? Oh, look, the sign- ups for the msucial.”
(Sharpay signs her name on the sheet and says to Gabriella.) Oh.. were you going to sign-up too? I’m so sure we could find something for you. The ugly old Nurse has lots of fun.”
Kelsi Neilson
“If you want to rehearse, I’m usually in the music room during free period and after school... and sometimes even during biology class. Call me on my cell phone and I’m there! Or if it’s easier, I can give you a wake up call and come over with my accordion... it’s mobile!”
Jack Scott
“Attention, custodial staff: a nauseous freshman just hsared his pancakes all over the third floor corridor. We’re talking major spewage, folks, so watch out-
(Ms. Darbus hands jack a note about the drama club.)
Sorry, Peeps, this just in: Please remember to sign up for the school musical, Juliet and Romeo, by red-hot composer babe Kelsi Neilson. Until later, this is Jack Scott, the Velvet Frog of East High.”
Ms. Darbus
(Addressing the class)
“But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with that grief, that thou her maid art far more fiar than she.
(Darbus bangs dong, Sharpay, Ryan and Kelsi Applaud.)
Thank you.... Thank you very much. Well, once again, they forgot to announce the auditions for the winter musical, Juliet and Romeo, written by our very our Kelsi Neilson. Kelsi, stand up and take a bow.”
Callback Songs
I Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You – Vocal
I Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You – Instrumental
Ya never know what you’re gonna feel, oh
Ya never see it comin’ suddenly it’s real
Oh, never even crossed my mind, no
That I would ever end up here tonight
All things change
When you don’t expect them to
No one knows
What the future’s gonna do
I never even noticed
That you’ve been there all along
I can’t take my eyes off of you
I know you feel the same way too, yeah
I can’t take my eyes off of you
All it took . . . Was one look
For a dream come true
What I’ve Been Looking For Reprise – Vocal
What I’ve Been Looking For Reprise- Instrumental
It’s hard to believe
That I couldn’t see
You were always there beside me
Thought I was alone
With no one to hold
But you were always right beside me
This feeling’s like no other
I want you to know
I’ve never had someone that knows me like you do
The way you do
I’ve never had someone as good for me as you
No one like you
So lonely before I finally found
What I’ve been looking for
Bop To The Top- Vocal
Bop To The Top- Instrumental
Bop bop bop, bop to the top
Wipe away your inhibitions
Stomp stomp stomp, do the romp
And strut your stuff
Bop bop bop, straight to the top
We’re going for the glory
We’ll keep stepping up and we just won’t stop