Audition Piece Suggestions

You're welcome to bring anything you love. If you're looking for ideas, here's a starter menu of pieces that fit the Summer Nights feeling — some recent, some classic, all worth performing.

Songs

Pop

• "drivers license" — Olivia Rodrigo

• "deja vu" — Olivia Rodrigo

• "the 1" — Taylor Swift

• "august" — Taylor Swift (literally a summer song)

• "cardigan" — Taylor Swift

• "Espresso" — Sabrina Carpenter

• "Please Please Please" — Sabrina Carpenter

• "ocean eyes" — Billie Eilish

• "Us." — Gracie Abrams

• "Riptide" — Vance Joy

• "The Night We Met" — Lord Huron

• "Cornelia Street" — Taylor Swift

• "Stick Season" — Noah Kahan

Modern Broadway

• "Waving Through a Window" — Dear Evan Hansen

• "Burn" — Hamilton

• "Wait For Me" — Hadestown

• "Flowers" — Hadestown

• "Heart of Stone" — Six

• "I Don't Need Your Love" — Six

• "Dead Mom" — Beetlejuice

• "Home" — Beetlejuice

• "Good Kid" — The Lightning Thief

• "Naughty" — Matilda

• "Watch What Happens" — Newsies

• "Santa Fe" — Newsies

• "She Used to Be Mine" — Waitress

• "Astonishing" — Little Women

Classic Broadway

• "Summer Nights" — Grease

• "Suddenly Seymour" — Little Shop of Horrors

• "Maybe This Time" — Cabaret

• "On My Own" — Les Misérables

• "I Dreamed a Dream" — Les Misérables

• "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" — Evita

• "Memory" — Cats

• "Take Me or Leave Me" — Rent

• "Tomorrow" — Annie

• "Maybe" — Annie

• "Something's Coming" — West Side Story

• "Somewhere" — West Side Story

• "Part of Your World" — The Little Mermaid

Standards

• "Summertime" — Porgy and Bess

• "Fly Me to the Moon"

• "At Last"

• "The Way You Look Tonight"

• "Dream a Little Dream of Me"

• "L-O-V-E"

• "Cheek to Cheek"

• "Moon River"

• "What a Wonderful World"

• "La Vie en Rose" (English or French)

• "I've Got the World on a String"

• "Blue Skies"

Monologues

• Anything from The Outsiders (Ponyboy or Johnny)

• Anything from Puffs (Wayne, Megan, Hannah, or Oliver)

• Peter and the Starcatcher — Molly's "Where would you rather be?"

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time — Christopher's monologues

• Almost, Maine — any of the short scenes work as monologues

• A Midsummer Night's Dream — Helena, Hermia, Puck, or Bottom

• She Kills Monsters — Tilly, Agnes, or Vera

• Any age-appropriate piece from a published monologue collection

If you're unsure whether a piece is a fit, bring it anyway. We'd rather see you perform something you connect with than something you chose because it was on a list.

Rehearsals

Rehearsals are structured in three phases:

Cast meeting (week of May 11): A single full-cast meeting once the show is cast. We'll meet each other, walk through the structure of the show, and talk about what to expect heading into individual coaching and production week.

Individual coaching session (May 11–22): Each performer is scheduled for one dedicated coaching session with the director to refine their solo and scene work. Sessions are scheduled individually around your availability and the Puffsproduction schedule.

Production week (May 25–28): Full cast rehearsals Monday through Thursday leading into the weekend's performances. This is when the show comes together — running order, transitions, lights, sound, and full tech.

Specific call times will be confirmed once the cast is set.

Performances

Three performances over Memorial Day weekend at the PaperMap studio:

• Friday, May 29 at 7:00 PM

• Saturday, May 30 at 7:00 PM

• Sunday, May 31 at 2:00 PM

All performers appear in all three performances. Tickets sold separately.

What's Included

• Full production support: lights, sound, costume guidance

• Three performances in front of a live audience

• A program credit and a piece of the PaperMap summer

Three nights. Fifteen performers. One studio that takes summer seriously.