ABRSM Singing for Musical Theatre Grade Three

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Three accompanied songs: from memory, one chosen by the candidate from each of the Grade Three lists, A, B and C.

One unaccompanied: song from memory, chosen from the songs from any list marked with a ✯. Candidates are required to sing a 1 – 2 minute section(s) of their chosen song.

Parental Guidance: a PG symbol is shown where there is a known potential for mature content or context in a song or show, but this is not exhaustive.

Additional Resources

Sight Singing: a short piece of previously unseen music, accompanied by the examiner at the piano.
ABRSM Specimen Sight Singing Tests Grades 1-5

Aural Tests: given by the examiner from the piano.
ABRSM Specimen Aural Tests, Grades 1-3 (book only)
ABRSM Specimen Aural Tests, Grades 1-3 (book and CD)

Additional Aural Resources
ABRSM Aural Training in Practice, Grades 1-3 (book and CD)
Improve Your Aural Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
Aural Test Survival Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3

Additional Music Theory Resources

Please note that Music marked:
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[PG] may contain mature themes where there is known potential for mature content or context in a song or show, but this is not exhaustive. We strongly advise that songs are chosen carefully for their appropriateness to each individual.

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Grade 3 Singing for Musical Theatre List A

Annie Get Your Gun, I. Berlin
A:1 They Say It’s Wonderful (chorus only)
Annie Get Your Gun: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) F (C4–D5) (without repeat)
The Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology, Mezzo-Soprano/Belter Vol. 3 (Hal Leonard with audio access) E♭ (ending p. 25 b.3)
Beauty and the Beast, Alan Menken & Ashman
A:26 Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) D/E (F#3–B4)
The Faber Music Theatre Songbook (Faber) F/G
The Illustrated Treasury of Disney Songs (7th edition) (Hal Leonard) E♭/F
Big River, R. Miller
A:29 Waitin' for the Light to Shine
The Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology, Baritone/Bass Vol. 4 (Hal Leonard/Faber) E (G♯3-C♯5)
Bye Bye Birdie, Charles Strouse & Lee Adams
A:2 One Boy (Girl)
One Boy (Girl) C (C4-E6) 🌐
Camelot, Lerner & Loewe
A:3 Before I gaze at you again ✯
The Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology, Soprano Vol. 3 (Hal Leonard-Faber, with audio access) F (C4–E♭5)
Camelot: vocal score (revised edition) (Faber) F
A:4 If ever I would leave you ✯
The Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology, Baritone/Bass Vol. 1 (revised edition) ((Hal Leonard-Faber with audio access) B♭ (A3–D5)
Camelot: vocal score (revised edition) (Faber) B♭ (ending b. 95)
Cinderella, Rodgers & Hammerstein
A:5 Impossible
Cinderella vocal selections (revised edition) (Williamson) G (C4–C5)
The ABRSM Singing for Musical Theatre Songbook, Grade 3 (ABRSM) G
Impossible G 🌐
A Damsel in Distress, G. & I. Gershwin
A:6 A Foggy Day ✯ (refrain only)
50 Gershwin Classics (Alfred) F (C4–F5)
Encanto, Lin-Manuel Miranda
A:31 Dos Orguitas (English or Spanish versions; without repeats)
Encanto: vocal selections (Hal Leonard)
Fanny, Rome
A:7 Be Kind to Your Parents
Kids’ Musical Theatre Collection, Vol. 2 (Hal Leonard) F (B3–D5)
The Fantasticks, Harvey Schmidt & Tom Jones
A:8 Try to remember ✯
Try to Remember (Faber) G (B3–D5) (any two verses; without ‘echo’)
Ready to Sing … Broadway (Alfred, with CD) G
Fifty Million Frenchmen, C. Porter
A:9 You Do Something to Me ✯ (refrain only)
The Best of Cole Porter (Faber) E♭(B♭3–E♭5)
Flower Drum Song, Rodgers & Hammerstein
A:30 I am going to like it here (ending b. 54)
I am going to like it here 🌐 E♭-(B♭3–B♭4)
Frozen 2, Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez
A:28 All is Found
All is Found 🌐 C (G3–C5)
The Great Magoo, Arlen, Harburg & Billy Rose
A:10 It’s Only a Paper Moon ✯ (refrain only)
The Harold Arlen Songbook (Hal Leonard) G (D4–E5)
Guys and Dolls, F. Loesser
A:11 I’ve never been in love before 
I’ve never been in love before 🌐  B♭ (B♭3–E♭5)
The ABRSM Singing for Musical Theatre Songbook, Grade 3 (ABRSM) B♭
The King and I, Rodgers & Hammerstein
A:12 I whistle a happy tune ✯ (whistling section may be vocalised)
The King and I: vocal selections (Williamson) B♭(D4–D5)
The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection (Williamson) B♭
Kids’ Book of Vocal Solos (Hal Leonard) B♭
The Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology, Soprano Vol. 2 (revised edition) (Hal Leonard, with audio access) B♭
Mack & Mabel, Jerry Herman
A:32 I Won't Send Roses
Mack & Mable: vocal selections (Faber) C (G3-D5)
The Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology, Baritone/Bass Vol. 2 (Hal Leonard/Faber, with audio) C
Mary Poppins, Richard & Robert Sherman
A:13 Feed the Birds ✯
Mary Poppins: film vocal selections (Hal Leonard) (G3/B3–D5)
Kids’ Book of Vocal Solos (Hal Leonard) (G3/B3–D5)
Kids’ Musical Theatre Collection, Vol. 1 (Hal Leonard) (G3/B3–D5)
The ABRSM Singing for Musical Theatre Songbook, Grade 3 (ABRSM) (G3–D5)
Meet Me in St. Louis, K. Mills & A. B. Sterling
A:14 Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis ✯ (any two verses)
Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis 🌐 C (C4–E5)
The Mermaid, Carl Davis & Hiawyn Oram
A:15 Ride Out the Storm
Junior Songscape: Stage and Screen (Faber) E min (D4–E5)
The ABRSM Songbook Plus, Grade 3 (ABRSM) E min
Night and Day, C. Porter
A:16 What Is This Thing Called Love♭ ✯ (refrain only)
The Best of Cole Porter (Faber) C (C4–F5)
Oklahoma! Rodgers & Hammerstein
A:17 Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ ✯ (without repeats)
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ (Williamson) E♭(D4–E♭5)
The ABRSM Singing for Musical Theatre Songbook, Grade 3 (ABRSM) E♭
Pal Joey, Rodgers & L. Hart
A:18 Bewitched (from b. 21; without repeats)
Pal Joey: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) C (D4–D5/E5)
Peter Pan, L. Bernstein
A:19 My House
The ABRSM Songbook, Book 3 (ABRSM) (C4–F5)
20th-Century Easy Song Collection (Boosey & Hawkes) (C4–F5)
Leonard Bernstein Song Album (Boosey & Hawkes) (C4–F5)
Pinocchio, Harline & Washington
A:20 When you wish upon a star ✯
Kids’ Musical Theatre Collection, Vol. 1 (Hal Leonard) C (G3/B3–D5) (from b. 13)
The Illustrated Treasury of Disney Songs (7th edition) (Hal Leonard) C (from b. 9)
Say It with Music, R. Noble
A:21 Love is the Sweetest Thing (from b. 15)
Love is the Sweetest Thing 🌐 D (C♯–E5)
The Secret Garden, Lucy Simon & Marsha Norman
A:22 Round-Shouldered Man ✯
The Secret Garden: vocal selections (Alfred) B♭/B (B♭3–D#5)
A:23 The Girl I Mean to Be
The Secret Garden: vocal selections (Alfred) E♭(A♭3–C5)
The ABRSM Songbook Plus, Grade 3 (ABRSM) E♭
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, de Paul & Mercer
A:24 Bless yore beautiful hide ✯
Bless yore beautiful hide 🌐 E♭ (B♭3–E♭5)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: musical selections (Alfred) E♭
State Fair, Rodgers & Hammerstein
A:25 It’s a grand night for singing (without the Interlude)
State Fair: vocal selections (Williamson) G (D4–E5)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Leslie Bricusse & Newley
A:27 Cheer Up, Charlie (refrain only)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: film vocal selections (Hal Leonard) E♭(B♭3–E♭5)
The Woman in White, Andrew Lloyd Webber
A:30 I Believe My Heart (sing either Hartright (bb.1-37) or Laura (bb.38-53))
I Believe My Heart B♭/F (B♭3/F3–G5/D5)

Grade 3 Singing for Musical Theatre List B

An American Tail, James Horner, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
B:1 Somewhere Out There ✯ (straight to coda after b. 35)
Somewhere Out There 🌐 C (A-3–D5)
Anastasia, Stephen Flaherty & Lynn Ahrens
B:2 Once Upon a December ✯ (without Russian Chorus)
Once Upon A December 🌐 (B3–C♯5)
Annie, Charles Strouse & Martin Charnin
B:3 Maybe ✯
Annie: vocal selections (Faber) B♭(B♭3–D5)
Kids’ Musical Theatre Collection, Vol. 1 (Hal Leonard) B♭ (without 2nd repeat)
More Audition Songs for Kids (Wise) A♭
Beautiful, Carole King
B:4 So far away (straight to coda after b. 5 2nd time) D (A3–C5)
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) D*
Blood Brothers, Willy Russell
B:5 Easy Terms ✯ [PG] (straight to coda, without DS)
Blood Brothers: vocal selections (Wise) C(G3–A4)
Brave, Alexander L. Mandel
B:29 Into the Open Air (straight to the code; without repeat)
Brave: vocal selections (Hal Leonard)
Into the Open Air 🌐 D
Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber & T. S. Eliot
B:6 Macavity: The Mystery Cat (cut bb. 13–49; without repeat)
Cats: vocal selections (Faber) C min (A3–C5)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman
B:7 Almost Nearly Perfect (without repeat)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The New Musical: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) F (A3–D5)
The ABRSM Singing for Musical Theatre Songbook, Grade 3 (ABRSM) F
Children of Eden, Stephen Schwartz
B:8 Children of Eden (from b. 11)
Children of Eden: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) D♭(A♭3–D-5)
The ABRSM Singing for Musical Theatre Songbook, Grade 3 (ABRSM) D♭
Coco, Germaine Franco
B:30 The World es Mi Familia ✯
Coco: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) C (C4–C♯5)
Dear Evan Hansen, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, arr. Alex Lacamoire
B:23 Requiem ✯ [PG] (ending b. 34)
Dear Evan Hansen: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) C# min (B3–C#5)
Requiem 🌐 C♯min
Enchanted, Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz
B:9 Happy Working Song ✯ (cut bb. 24–41)
Enchanted: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) D (G#3–D5)
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Tom MacRae & Dan Gillespie Sells
B:24 The Wall in My Head [PG] (ending b. 54)
The Wall in My Head 🌐 G (D4–G5)
Finding Neverland, Eliot Kennedy & Gary Barlow
B:10 Neverland (without repeat)
Finding Neverland: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) F (C4–E5)
B:11 Something About this Night
Finding Neverland: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) G (D4–A5)
B:12 We’re All Made of Stars
Finding Neverland: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) G (G3–C5)
The ABRSM Singing for Musical Theatre Songbook, Grade 3 (ABRSM) G
Frozen 2, Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez
B:28 Lost in the Woods (melody line; ending at b. 49)
Lost in the Woods 🌐 (D♯4–F♯5)
The Greatest Showman, Pasek & Paul
B:13 A Million Dreams (ending b. 55)
A Million Dreams 🌐 G (B3–B♭5)
The ABRSM Singing for Musical Theatre Songbook, Grade 3 (ABRSM) G
High School Musical, Robbie Nevil & Matthew Gerrard
B:14 We’re All in This Together (first verse 8vb; cut from 3rd bar p. 4 to 2nd-to-last bar p.5)
We’re All in This Together 🌐 G (B3–B♭5)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz
B:15 Someday (cut piano ending)
The Illustrated Treasury of Disney Songs (7th edition) (Hal Leonard) A♭/B♭(A♭3–E♭3)
Mary Poppins The New Musical, George Stiles & Anthony Drewe
B:16 Being Mrs Banks
Mary Poppins: The New Musical: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) F (A3–D5) (from 12th bar of p. 100)
Being Mrs Banks 🌐 (from 12th bar of p. 3)
Mary Poppins Returns, Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman
B:25 The Place Where Lost Things Go (ending b. 39)
Mary Poppins Returns: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) A (E3–A4)
The Place Where Lost Things Go  🌐 A
Moana, Opetaia Foa’i
B:31 We Know the Way
Moana: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) A (E4-F♯5)
Next to Normal, Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey
B:17 There’s a world [PG]
Next to Normal (Alfred) (G4–G5)
Once, Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová
B:18 The Hill (cut from 7th bar p. 62 to 13th bar p. 65)
Once: vocal selections (Alfred) G# min (G#3–B4)
Shrek The Musical, David Lindsey-Abaire & Jeanine Tesori
B:26 I Know It’s Today
Shrek The Musical: vocal selections (Cherry Lane Music Company) D (A3–B4) (ending on 5th bar of p. 40)
Contemporary Musical Theatre for Teens, Young Women’s Edition Vol. 2 (Hal Leonard) E (finishing at the end of p. 133)
Spring Awakening, Duncan Sheik & Steven Sater
B:19 All that’s known [PG]
Spring Awakening: A New Musical: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) G min (C4–E5)
B:20 Mama who bore me [PG] ✯ 
Spring Awakening: A New Musical: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) C (G3–A4)
Starlight Express, Andrew Lloyd Webber & Richard Stilgoe
B:32 Pumping Iron (without repeats)
The New Starlight Express: vocal selections (Really Useful Group) C (C4-E♭5)
B:27 Starlight Express (without repeat)
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Anthology (revised edition) (Hal Leonard) E♭/E (C4–F#5)
B:21 There’s Me
There’s Me 🌐 B♭ (F3–F5)
The Wedding Singer, Matthew Sklar & Chad Beguelin
B:22 Someday ✯  (cut from b. 43 to piano gliss on p. 8)
Someday 🌐 D (A3–E♭5)

Grade 3 Singing for Musical Theatre List C

Aladdin, Alan Menken & Ashman
C:21 Friend Like Me
Aladdin: Broadway vocal selections (Hal Leonard) G min (B♭3–F5) (bb. 22–72 only)
The Illustrated Treasury of Disney Songs (7th edition) (Hal Leonard) D min
Allegro, Rodgers & Hammerstein
C:1 The Gentleman is a Dope (from b. 24)
The Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology, Mezzo-Soprano/Belter Vol. 2 (revised edition) (Hal Leonard with audio access) B♭min (A-3–C5)
Annie Get Your Gun, I. Berlin
C:2 I Got the Sun in the Morning ✯
Annie Get Your Gun: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) F (C4–C5)
I Got the Sun in the Morning 🌐 F
Beauty and the Beast, Alan Menken & Ashman
C:3 Gaston (from b. 30; without repeat)
The Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology, Baritone/Bass Vol. 3 ((Hal Leonard with audio access) C (B3–E5)
The ABRSM Singing for Musical Theatre Songbook, Grade 3 (ABRSM) C
Calamity Jane, Fain & Webster
C:4 The Deadwood Stage ✯
Calamity Jane: vocal score (Faber) A♭ (C4–E♭5) (from 4 bars before fig. 3 to fig. 7)
The Best of Singing, Grades 1–3 (high voice) (Faber) A♭
The Best of Singing, Grades 1–3 (low voice) (Faber) G
Stage & Screen – The White Book (Wise) G (without repeat)
Chicago, John Kander & F. Ebb
C:5 Funny Honey ✯ [PG] (may be sung 8ve lower; without repeats)
Funny Honey 🌐 G (G4-A5)
Chicago: movie vocal selections (Faber) G
Coco, Germaine Franco & Adrian Molina
C:22 Un Poco Loco (cut bb. 40–55; ending b. 73)
Coco: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) G/A (G3–B4)
Damn Yankees, R. Adler & J. Ross
C:6 Heart
Ready to Sing … Broadway (Alfred, with CD) F (C4–D5)
Enchanted, Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz
C:7 That’s How You Know (from b. 19, cut bb. 60–75 finishing at the end of p. 26)
Enchanted: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) C (C4–E5)
The Fantasticks, Harvey Schmidt & Tom Jones
C:23 Plant a radish (without repeat)
The Fantasticks: vocal selections (Alfred) C (C4–E5)
Follow the Fleet, I. Berlin
C:8 Let’s Face the Music and Dance
The Best of Singing, Grades 1–3 (high voice) (Faber) C (C4–E5)
The Best of Singing, Grades 1–3 (low voice) (Faber) B♭
Goldilocks and the Three Bears, George Stiles
C:27 Just because I'm a girl (cut bb.20-44)
Just because I'm a girl 🌐 E (B3-D♯5)
Hello, Dolly! Jerry Herman
C:9 Hello, Dolly! ✯
Hello, Dolly!: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) B♭(B♭3–E♭5)
In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda
C:9 Piragua
Piragua 🌐 A (E4-A5)
Legally Blonde The Musical, Laurence O’Keefe & Nell Benjamin
C:24 Omigod You Guys (ending b. 46)
Legally Blonde The Musical: vocal selections (Williamson) E/C (G#3–E♭5)
The Life, C. Coleman & Ira Gasman
C:10 Easy Money [PG] (without repeat)
Easy Money 🌐 G (A3-B4)
The Life: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) G
The Lion King, Elton John & Tim Rice
C:11 Be Prepared (without spoken section)
The Lion King: Broadway selections (Hal Leonard) A min (A3–A4)
The Lion King: film vocal selections (Hal Leonard) A min
The Little Mermaid, Alan Menken & Ashman
C:12 Les poissons
The Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology, Baritone/Bass Vol. 3 ((Hal Leonard with audio access) G (B♭3–A4)
Mack & Mabel, Jerry Herman
C:30 Movies were Movies
Mack & Mabel: vocal selections (Faber) F/B (D♯3-B♭4)
Mary Poppins Returns, Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman
C:25 Nowhere to Go but Up (cut bb. 57–188; may be sung 8ve lower from b. 192)
Mary Poppins Returns: vocal selections (Hal Leonard) F/B (D#3–B♭4)
Matilda The Musical, Tim Minchin
C:13 Revolting Children (cut bb. 28–35)
Matilda The Musical: vocal selections (Wise) E min (D#4–E5)
The ABRSM Singing for Musical Theatre Songbook, Grade 3 (ABRSM) E min
Monsters Inc., Randy Newman
C:28 If I Didn't Have You (cut bb.21 & bb. 45-51)
The Illustrated Treasury of Disney Songs (7th edition) (Hal Leonard) E♭ (B♭3-D5)
My Fair Lady, Lerner & Loewe
C:14 Wouldn’t it be Loverly♭
The Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology, Soprano Vol. 3 (Hal Leonard with audio access) F (C4–D5)
My Fair Lady: film vocal selections (Faber) F (F major section only, ending in 1st-time bar)
The Best of Singing, Grades 1–3 (high voice) (Faber) G
The Best of Singing, Grades 1–3 (low voice) (Faber) F
Essential Audition Songs for Kids (Faber) F
The Broadway Ingénue: 37 Theatre Songs for Soprano (Hal Leonard, with CD) F
Nine-Fifteen Revue, Arlen & Koehler
C:15 Get Happy (from chorus; with repeat)
The Harold Arlen Songbook (Hal Leonard) E♭(B♭3–F5)
Oliver! Bart
C:16 My Name [PG]
Oliver!: vocal score (Lakeview Music) D min (C#4–D5)
Oliver!: stage vocal selections (Lakeview Music) D min
C:17 Pick a Pocket or Two [PG] (any three verses)
Oliver!: film vocal selections (Lakeview Music) F min (C4–G5)
Oliver!: vocal score (Lakeview Music) F min
Oliver!: stage vocal selections (Lakeview Music) G min
Singin’ in the Rain, Brown & Freed
C:18 Good Morning ✯
Singin’ in the Rain: vocal selections (50th Anniversary Edition) (Alfred) B♭(C4–D5)
The ABRSM Singing for Musical Theatre Songbook, Grade 3 (ABRSM) B♭
Six The Musical, Toby Marlow & Lucy Ross, arr. Joe Beighton
C:26 Don’t Lose Ur Head [PG] (cut bb. 39–45; ending b. 62; all parts)
Don’t Lose Ur Head www.fabermusicstore.com F (C4–C5)
South Pacific, Rodgers & Hammerstein
C:19 I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair ✯
South Pacific vocal selections (Williamson) F (C4–D5/F5) (straight to final ending, stopping before interlude)
I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair 🌐 F (straight to coda after b. 38)
The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection (Williamson) F (straight to coda after b. 38)
Three Little Pigs, George Stiles
C:29 A Little House [PG] ✯
A Little House 🌐 F (C4-F5)
The Wizard of Oz, Arlen & Harburg
C:20 If I Only Had a Brain ✯
The Harold Arlen Songbook (Hal Leonard) F (C4–E5) (any one character; chorus only, with suitable intro)
Ready to Sing…Broadway (Alfred, with CD) F
The Wizard of Oz: vocal selections (Alfred) F (any one character; chorus only, with suitable intro; 70th Anniversary Deluxe Songbook not suitable for exam use)
The ABRSM Singing for Musical Theatre Songbook, Grade 3 (ABRSM) F (any one character; chorus only, with suitable intro)

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