Audition Songs for Tenors – By Time Period
This page features a selection of musical theatre audition songs for tenors, featuring a range of show styles and character types. The tenor vocal range in musical theatre typically spans from C3 to C5. For more information on vocal ranges, see the vocal types guide.
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Golden Age Songs for Tenors (1940-1959)
“All I Need Is the Girl” – Gypsy
“Come to Me, Bend to Me” – Brigadoon
“Fanny” – Fanny
“Many Moons Ago” – Once Upon a Mattress
“The Flower Garden of My Heart” – Pal Joey
“There Is Nothin’ Like a Dame” – South Pacific
“You Are Beautiful” – Flower Drum Song
“Younger Than Springtime” – South Pacific
Post-Golden Age Songs for Tenors (1960s)
“Boy for Sale” – Oliver!
“How to Succeed” – How to Succeed in Business
“I Will Follow You” – Milk and Honey
“Molasses to Rum” – 1776
“Stay” – Do I Hear a Waltz?
“Take the Moment” – Do I Hear a Waltz?
“Too Many Tomorrows” – Sweet Charity
“Where Do I Go?” – Hair
1970s Songs for Tenors
“All Good Gifts” – Godspell
“Being Alive” – Company
“Ladies in Their Sensitivities” – Sweeney Todd
“Morning Glow” – Pippin
“On the Willows” – Godspell
“On This Night of A Thousand Stars” – Evita
“Proud Lady” – The Baker’s Wife
“Sandy” – Grease
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1980s Songs for Tenors
“Bring Him Home” – Les Misérables
“Dreamer in Disguise” – Carrie
“I Chose Right” – Baby
“Love Changes Everything” – Aspects of Love
“My Daddy Always Taught Me to Share” – Grind
“Not a Day Goes By” – Merrily We Roll Along
“Pity the Child” – Chess
“Why God Why?” – Miss Saigon
1990s Songs for Tenors
“A Bit of Earth” – The Secret Garden
“Endless Night” – The Lion King
“I Can’t Stand Still” – Footloose
“Lost in the Wilderness” – Children of Eden
“No Moon” – Titanic
“Sarah” – The Civil War
“She Was There” – The Scarlet Pimpernel
“That’s What He Said” – Parade
2000s Songs for Tenors
“Before the Summer Ends” – Dracula
“Breeze Off the River” – The Full Monty
“He’s Not Here” – Next to Normal
“Nobody Needs to Know” – The Last Five Years
“One Knight” – Wonderland
“Say a Prayer” – Memphis
“Write What You Know” – The Story of My Life
“Work the Wound” – Passing Strange
2010s Songs for Tenors
“And I Breathe” – Next Thing You Know
“Butter Outta Cream” – Catch Me If You Can
“Hold Me In Your Heart” – Kinky Boots
“Isn’t That Enough?” – Honeymoon in Vegas
“My Petersburg” – Anastasia
“Run Away With Me” – The Mad Ones
“You Never Know” – If/Then
“Whaddya Do” – Tootsie
Character/Comedic Songs for Tenors
“A Bit Misunderstood” – The Three Little Pigs
“Don’t Let Me Go” – Shrek
“Hard to Be the Bard” – Something Rotten!
“Man” – The Full Monty
“Never Ever Getting Rid of Me” – Waitress
“Positoovity” – The Little Mermaid
“The Moon and Me” – The Addams Family
“The Squip Song” – Be More Chill
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Author: Stacy Karyn
Stacy Karyn is the founder of Theatre Trip and the author of The Thespian’s Bucket List. She is also the creator of The Cast Album List. Her background includes a BA in Theatre, a TESOL Drama certificate, and professional experience in Broadway and Off-Broadway theaters.
