Your audition piece.

Mine would probably be Stars from Les Mis too, or Bring Him Home.

I have sang Defying Gravity at an audition before! And got the role

I would love to do Enough from In The Heights in the style of Josie Benson, not the Broadway recording, just to wake them up.

Unexpected Song. I can do the "back phrasing" and I have my own clipboard.

And if anyone says, "What the f*** did you do with the ending?" I can say say, "Well, if it's good enough for Bernadette, it's good enough for me..."

Stars for me in terms of singing. In terms of a spoken audition piece, it'd have to one of the two Sam Byck monologues from Assassins.

I've used You Can Always Count on Me from City of Angels, A Trip To The Library from She Loves Me, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow from Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (but that wasn't for a musical theatre role, it was for a concert fundraiser thing and I just wanted to sing it! ) and a while ago I'd use Gimme Gimme from Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Mamma Who Bore Me from Spring Awakening (so overdone, what was I thinking?!). Really need to mix up my audition pieces though, but I don't really do as much musical theatre anymore.

In a dream scenario of course I'd be a fantastic soprano ingenue and I'd be auditioning with Green Finch and Linnet Bird and Love Never Dies (if we're ignoring that they're both real life audition no nos!)... alas, I'm all about those comedic side characters instead! 

Anthem from Chess was always my go to Audition piece - then I used to make it my own by riffing the hell out of it at the end.

Then i used to do Losing My Mind from Follies just to make them cry, which i used to do all the time.

Gosh It's just a hypothetical audition and we're just finding out what people would feel most comfortable belting out. No need to rain on our parade with such vigour! 

But seeing as you raised the subject if audition panels get so bored why invite people to sing their own choice in the first place? If it's THAT boring for you, you poor things, just give people a piece to sing. You're supposed to be assessing their talent, not critiquing their musical preferences. 

He has a point. "Am I going to bore the panel?" ought to be a question every auditionee considers, and if they don't it suggests a lack of commitment. Also, although I've never had to audition anyone myself I know that if I was sitting through the tenth rendition of the amateur version of Memory I'd be concentrating less on the song and more on whether it was possible to murder someone with a plastic cup.

'Anything Goes' complete with sailor suit and tap routine.

Give 'em so much dazzle, their dazzle won't be able to cope.

Yeah, I'll step down from the creative team then.  You all bring Stars.

Their preferences can provide useful insight though. If they've gone away and thought about it and come up with a song that's not only a brilliant showcase for their voice, but also an appropriate match for the show they're auditioning for, and maybe even well-suited to a particular character, and from a not very well known show, then they've shown that they're willing to put the work in for this particular show for which they're auditioning and have a broad knowledge of musical theatre to boot. And if you get it down to two people who perform equally as well as each other, then you'll need *some* way of choosing one over the other, so why not the guy who put in all the extra work and is probably going to bring all that to the rehearsal room, rather than the guy who might be willing to go the extra mile but didn't for his audition so why gamble on whether or not he'll do that if he's cast?

If you're a professional singer, who is auditioning for a part on a professional musical. you will have a folder of many many songs. After all, you're a singer, you like to sing. Your choice of song tells us a lot about you. If you haven't bothered to set yourself apart from the competition by choosing a song which showcases your talents, they it does rather suggest what type of person you'll be in rehearsals.

By all means, walk in with the obvious choice, because you like that tune. But if you're going to do the bare minimum of preparation for an audition, which could lead to a job which might finance your life for a year, don't be too shocked if we'd rather work with the singer who spent time learning something suitable for the audition, in-keeping with the character they're up for, and which shows off the range and style we need to hear.

But not if their best is Stars. 

I'd probably pick something boring like an old standard, knowing me. For something particularly rousing I can belt out You'll Never Walk Alone, although I need to be drunk for the full effect to work and all.......