64 of the Best Audition Songs for Baritones
Are you getting ready for an important audition? Well, first you should check out our giant database of audition songs for specific musicals. But if your show hasn’t yet been covered by us, or if you’re just looking to expand your repertoire, you can go through this list of audition songs for baritones.
By the way, if your vocal range lies between A2-G4, you are a baritone! If you haven’t gone through the steps to find your vocal type yet, I would definitely recommend doing so!
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First Step: Read your audition details
Please read your audition details carefully, as they sometimes specify the type of song they’d like to hear (a ballad, something uptempo, etc.). Make sure to select a song that’s appropriate for your specific casting call. Also, as you’re picking out a song, these links may be helpful:
• Backing Tracks for the Songs Below
• “Audition Songs for Baritones” Spotify Playlist
Quick Tip: For easy access to each song’s sheet music, backing tracks, music, time period, and vocal type info, just follow any of the links below!
Golden Age Songs for Baritones (1940-1959)
“I Am in Love” – Can-Can
“It’s a Lovely Day Today” – Call Me Madam
“Lonely Town” – On the Town
“Restless Heart” – Fanny
“To My Wife” – Fanny
“Very Soft Shoes” – Once Upon a Mattress
“We Kiss in a Shadow” – The King and I
“Young and Foolish” – Plain and Fancy
Post-Golden Age Songs for Baritones (1960s)
“Anne of Green Gables” – Anne of Green Gables
“If Ever I Would Leave You” – Camelot
“It Only Takes a Moment” – Hello, Dolly!
“Let’s Not Waste a Moment” – Milk and Honey
“Love, I Hear” – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
“Never Will I Marry” – Greenwillow
“Rosie” – Bye Bye Birdie
“Wanting Things” – Promises Promises
1970s Songs for Baritones
“All I Care About” – Chicago
“Beautiful City” – Godspell
“I Promise You a Happy Ending” – Mack & Mabel
“Marianne” – The Grand Tour
“The Mason” – Working
“What Would I Do If I Could Feel?” – The Wiz
“With You” – Pippin
“You Must Meet My Wife” – A Little Night Music
1980s Songs for Baritones
“Easier to Love” – Baby
“Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” – Les Misérables
“Look Over There” – La Cage aux Folles
“Old Friends” – Merrily We Roll Along
“Only With You” – Nine
“Our Time” – Merrily We Roll Along
“The Colors of My Life” – Barnum
“There’s Me” – Starlight Express
1990s Songs for Baritones
“Heaven’s Light” – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“I’ll Begin Again” – Scrooge!
“No One Has Ever Loved Me” – Passion
“She’s a Woman” – Kiss of the Spider Woman
“Shouldn’t I Be Less in Love With You?” – I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
“Some Girls” – Once on This Island
“Unsettled Scores” – Whistle Down the Wind
“What More Can I Say?” – Falsettos
2000s Songs for Baritones
“A Light in the Dark” – Next to Normal
“Favorite Places” – Ordinary Days
“I Am My Own Invention” – Wonderland
“I Cannot Hear the City” – Sweet Smell of Success
“I Can’t Recall” – A Tale of Two Cities
“My Manhattan” – Daddy Long Legs
“She Thinks I’m Old” – Daddy Long Legs
“Where Are All the People?” – Chaplin
2010s Songs for Baritones
“Dust and Ashes” – The Great Comet
“How It Ends” – Big Fish
“Human Sacrifice” – Stephen Ward
“Sibella” – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
“Something From a Dream” – The Bridges of Madison County
“The Pinstripes Are All That They See” – Catch Me If You Can
“To Break in a Glove” – Dear Evan Hansen
“Why Does She Love Me?” – Love Never Dies
Character/Comedic Audition Songs for Baritones
“Alone in the Universe” – Seussical
“Don’t Be the Bunny” – Urinetown
“It Must Be Believed to Be Seen” – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“Stop” – Mean Girls
“The Microphone” – Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
“The Smell of Rebellion” – Matilda
“Vows” – Freaky Friday
“When Words Fail” – Shrek
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Author: Stacy Karyn
Stacy Karyn is the founder of Theatre Trip, author of The Thespian’s Bucket List, and creator of The Cast Album List. She holds a BA in theatre, a TESOL drama certificate, and has worked and interned with Broadway and Off-Broadway theaters.