| Adults | Teens | Children | Robots | Singing |
Adults
| Character Description: A jaded convenience store worker who likes to throw her weight around. Becomes a reluctant love interest of another employee. | ||
| Type: Adult Woman | Pitch: Medium Low | Keywords: Sarcastic, Overworked, Audacious |
| Text: “No, we are not on break yet. And that slurpy’s coming out of your paycheck.” Text: “Trust me, you want to make employee of the week, only employees of the week get to use the coffee machines.” Text: “You got me flowers? Aw, Jake, you know I’m allergic.” |
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| Character Description: A thief who gets by using her charm. She prefers not to get attached and depends on her own cunning and drive. Sometimes her worst enemy is herself. | ||
| Type: Adult Woman | Pitch: Medium | Keywords: Confident, Cool, Crying |
| Text: “Just save us both the hassle and hand it over. I just got this knife polished.” Text: “Funny, isn’t it? I spent my whole life running, and now I’m the one who can’t keep up.” Text: “I know I messed up, all right? I know–I get it! I just– Why couldn’t you just–why couldn’t you just leave me out of this whole thing?” |
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| Character Description: A marine biologist whose perfectionist tendencies and workaholic attitude have led her to having very few friends. She’s lonely for connection and sometimes overcompensates by being too chatty. | ||
| Type: Adult Woman | Pitch: Medium High | Keywords: Enthusiastic, Dorky, Outgoing |
| Text: “Oh my god! Eddie, how are you? It’s been too long!” Text: “Weeeeell, not to sound weird or anything, but I was scrolling on Bookface and your account popped up, so I went ahead and looked, just out of curiosity’s sake! I saw that you work here, and then I saw your flash designs and remembered our promise, you know, that you’d give me my first tattoo. And thought it would be nice if I could get it on my arm, right about here.” Text: “Look, what happened happened. But all we can really do is move forward. And I’d love to move forward with you, if that’s all right.” |
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| Character Description: A disappointed wife who’s at the end of her rope with her husband’s laziness, but is too tired to put any real energy into scolding him. | ||
| Type: Adult Woman | Pitch: Medium Low | Keywords: Exhausted, Nagging, Impatient |
| Text: “Anyway, your food’s on the counter. Preheat the oven to 425. I’m going to bed.” Text: “Also, can you finally fix the goddamned leak on the roof? If you don’t do it by tomorrow I’m hiring someone to do it.” Text: “Nick, really? You get home so late and you don’t even pick up the milk?” |
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| Character Description: A law enforcement agent with a positive outlook for every situation. Friendly, warm, and welcoming. Speaks with emotion. | ||
| Type: Adult Woman | Pitch: Medium Low | Keywords: Nervous, Mollifying, Engaging |
| Text: “Hasn’t there been a lot going on? Well, sweets make everything better. Maybe a little sugar would lighten the mood…” | ||
| Adults | Teens | Children | Robots | Singing |
Teens
| Character Description: A student council president who loves helping other students. Studious, popular, cheerful, and driven, everyone at school looks up to her and wants to be her friend. | ||
| Type: Older Teenage Girl | Pitch: Medium High | Keywords: Anime-Inspired, Friendly, Enthusiastic |
| Text: “It’s nice to meet you! Are you new here? Oh, all right! Well, be sure to let me know if you need any help! I’ll be *happy* to assist!” Text: “Well, the Academy’s been up for a long time. I do as much research as I can on our history, but I’m not sure how it started to get as famous as it is. Huh? Ghost stories? Don’t be silly, every school has those! It doesn’t mean we’re haunted.” Text: “I’d be really happy to show you around when we get to the island. I know a really good mall to shop at! Just bring your wallet, okay?” |
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| Character Description: A drummer in a high school band. She’s got a blunt attitude and loves her sarcasm, but is protective of her best friends. | ||
| Type: Teenage Girl | Pitch: Medium Low | Keywords: Jaded, Harsh, Annoyed |
| Text: “That’s . . . that’s great to hear, but are you sure he’ll come? I mean, have you heard about what happened to his band? I dunno, man.” Text: “Agh, goddammit! How many more times will it take for you to realize we’re getting nowhere with this?” Text: “Soooo, how’s our list of ‘amazing’ candidates? I’m sure we’re being flooded with applications.” |
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| Character Description: A caring girl who sees the best in everyone and often finds herself playing peacemaker. She has a tendency to get distracted. | ||
| Type: Teenage Girl | Pitch: Medium High | Keywords: Relaxed, Spacey, Happy |
| Text: “(Gasps) Look at the doggie! Oh my gosh, he’s wearing a little bandana! Aww, that’s so cute! Okay, okay, sorry, um . . . wait, what were we talking about?” | ||
| Adults | Teens | Children | Robots | Singing |
Children
| Character Description: Little girl reading a Shel Silverstein poem. | ||
| Type: Young Child | Pitch: High | Keywords: Cute, Poetry, Lisp |
| Text: “With his seat in the meat and his face in the fish, and his big hairy paws in the buttery dish.” Text: “And it gives me a scare to know he’s in there–that Polary Bear in our Fridgitydaire.” |
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| Character Description: Happy child who’s curious about a new place she’s living. Loves playing with her dad and amusing herself. | ||
| Type: Young Child | Pitch: High | Keywords: Playful, Preschool, Breathy |
| Text: “She said we can find stars in the floor!” Text: “You’re the monster now!” |
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Robots
| Character Description: A spaceship’s AI voice. She helps the crew, stays calm, and is strangely attentive. Has a vaguely human-like way of speaking, like she understands more than she should, but keeps a tone just shy of human. | ||
| Type: Female-Voiced Robot | Pitch: Medium | Keywords: Synthetic, Personable, Almost Motherly |
| Text: “Vital signs normal. Heart rate: 92 BPM. Mild elevation, likely stress-induced. Neural activity stable. Body temperature: 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. No abnormalities detected.” | ||
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Singing
Popular Music
| Late 2000s Electropop | ||
| Artist: Lady Gaga | Song: “Bad Romance” | Range: A3 – A4 (belt) |
| Lyrics: “And you know that I need you. I want it bad, your bad romance. I want your love and I want your revenge, you and me could write a bad romance. I want your love and all your lovers’ revenge, you and me could write a bad romance. Whoa, caught in a bad romance. Whoa, caught in a bad romance. Ra-ra, ah-ah-ah, roma, roma-ma, ga-ga, ooh-la-la, want your bad romance. I want your horror, I want your design, ’cause you’re a criminal as long as you’re mine, I want your love.” | ||
| Mid-1990s Alternative Rock Ballad | ||
| Artist: Alanis Morissette | Song: “Mary Jane” | Range: A3 – G5 (belt to C5) |
| Lyrics: “I hear you’re counting sheep again, Mary Jane. What’s the point of trying to dream anymore? I hear you’re losing weight again, Mary Jane. You ever wonder who you’re losing it for? Well it’s full speed, baby, in the wrong direction. There’s a few more bruises if that’s the way you insist on heading. So please be honest, Mary Jane, are you happy? Please don’t censor your tears. Oooh. . . . Oooh. . . . You’re the sweet crusader. . . .” | ||
| Early 1990s Folk Rock | ||
| Artist: Melissa Etheridge | Song: “Come to My Window” | Range: F#3 – B4 (belt) |
| Lyrics: “Keeping my eyes open, I cannot afford to sleep. Giving away promises I know that I can’t keep. Nothing fills the blackness that has seeped into my chest. I need you in my blood, I am forsaking all the rest. Just to reach you, just to reach you, oh to reach you, oh. Come to my window, crawl inside, wait by the light of the moon, come to my window, I’ll be home soon. I don’t care what they think. I don’t care what they say. What do they know about this love anyway? Come, come to my window, I’ll be home, I’ll be home, I’ll be home, I’m coming home. Come to my window, oh, crawl inside, wait by the light of the moon, come to my window. . . .” | ||
| Early 1960s Country Standard | ||
| Artist: Patsy Cline | Song: “Crazy” | Range: F3 – B4 (belt) |
| Lyrics: “Oh, crazy for thinking that my love could hold you. I’m crazy for trying and crazy for crying and I’m crazy for loving you.” | ||
| Mid-1990s Slow Folk Rock | ||
| Artist: Leonard Cohen (Jeff Buckley version) | Song: “Hallelujah” | Range: C3 – E4 |
| Lyrics: “Well your faith was strong, but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof. The beauty of the moonlight overthrew you. She tied you to a kitchen chair, she broke your throne and she cut your hair, and from your lips she drew the Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.” | ||
From Animation
| Mid-2010s Animation, Broadway-style “torch” song | ||
| Artist: Rebecca Sugar (Sung by Deedee Magno Hall) | Song: “It’s Over (Isn’t It)” (Steven Universe) | Range: D3 – C5 (belt) |
| Lyrics: “I was fine when you came, and we fought like it was all some silly game over her, who she’d choose. After all those years, I never thought I’d lose. It’s over, isn’t it? Isn’t it? Isn’t it over? It’s over, isn’t it? Isn’t it? Isn’t it over? You won, and she chose you, and she loved you, and she’s gone. It’s over, isn’t it? Why can’t I move on? War and glory, reinvention, fusion, freedom, her attention. Out in daylight, my potential: bold, precise, experimental. Who am I now in this world without her? Petty and dull with the nerve to doubt her. What does it matter? It’s already done. Now I’ve got to be there for her son. It’s over, isn’t it? Isn’t it? Isn’t it over?” | ||
| Mid-1990s Animation, Broadway-style “I want” song | ||
| Artist: Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty (Sung by Liz Callaway) | Song: “Journey to the Past” (Anastasia) | Range: B3 – C5 |
| Lyrics: “Heart, don’t fail me now! Courage, don’t desert me. Don’t turn back now that we’re here. People always say life is full of choices. No one ever mentions fear . . . or how the world can seem so vast on a journey to the past. Somewhere down this road, I know someone’s waiting. Years of dreams just can’t be wrong! Arms will open wide. I’ll be safe and wanted, finally home where I belong!” | ||
| Early 1990s Animation, VERY FAST silly educational song | ||
| Artist: Randy Rogel (Sung by Rob Paulsen) | Song: “Yakko’s World” (Animaniacs) | Range: A#3 – D#5 |
| Lyrics: “India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan, Thailand, Nepal, and Bhutan, Kampuchea, Malaysia, then Bangladesh, Asia, and China, Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Laos, and Tibet, Indonesia, the Philippine Islands, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Sumatra, New Zealand, then Borneo, and Vietnam, Tunisia, Morocco, Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Djibouti, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Swaziland, Gambia, Guinea, Algeria, Ghana.” | ||
Musicals & Stage Performance Songs
| Early 2000s Theatre-Style Pop | ||
| Artist: Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich (Sung by Kristin Chenoweth) | Song: “Taylor the Latte Boy” | Range: A3 – D5 (C5 belted) |
| Lyrics: “So I’d like to get my nerve up to recite my poem musical. He would like the fact it’s musical because he plays guitar. So today at 8:11, Taylor told me was playing in a band down in the Village in the basement of a bar. And I saw him flip the lever to prepare my double latte, but for me he made it triple, and he didn’t think I knew! But I saw him flip the lever, and for me he made it triple, and I knew that triple latte meant that Taylor loved me too! I said, ‘What time are you playing? And thank you for the extra skim.’ He said keep the $3.55 because this triple latte was on him. Taylor the latte boy, bring me java, bring me joy! Oh Taylor the latte boy, I love him, I love him, I love him.” | ||
| 1980s Musical Aria | ||
| Artist: Andrew Lloyd Webber (Sung by Sarah Brightman) | Song: “Think of Me” (Phantom of the Opera) | Range: C4 – A#5 |
| Lyrics: “Think of August when the world was green. Don’t think about the way things might have been. Think of me, think of me waking silent and resigned. Imagine me, trying too hard to put you from my mind. Think of me, please say you’ll think of me whatever else you choose to do. There will never be a day when I won’t think of you. Flowers fade, the fruits of summer fade. They have their seasons, so do we. But please promise me that someday you will think of me.” | ||
| 1980s Musical Child’s Solo (in the style of a young girl) | ||
| Artist: Claude-Michel Schönberg | Song: “Castle on a Cloud” (Les Misérables) | Range: A3 – C5 |
| Lyrics: “There is a castle on a cloud. I like to go there in my sleep. Aren’t any floors for me to sweep. Not in my castle on a cloud.” | ||
From Video Games
| Mid-2000s Video Game Soundtrack (Vocalist is a Robot) | ||
| Artist: Jonathan Coulton (Sung by Ellen McLain) | Song: “Still Alive” (Portal) | Range: A3 – B4 |
| Lyrics: “I’m not even angry. I’m being so sincere right now. Even though you broke my heart and killed me. And tore me to pieces. And threw every piece into a fire. As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you. Now these points of data make a beautiful line, and we’re out of beta, we’re releasing on time. So I’m glad I got burned. Think of all the things we’ve learned for the people who are still alive.” | ||
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