What Is This Feeling? (from Wicked): Piano Vocal

Witty, building tension, and genuinely funny. The music carries the snap of two people realizing they're about to become rivals, complete with those moments of musical agreement that puncture the antagonism with surprising warmth.

Voice students tackling musical theater repertoire for the first time will find this duet rewarding. It works equally well for advanced high school or college singers building a contemporary musical theater audition book.

• Keep the tempo conversational and slightly brisk; rushing this duet will bury the character moments between the sung phrases.
• Mark your entrances clearly during the overlapping sections so both singers stay locked together without losing the sense of two independent reactions happening simultaneously.
• Balance the vocal blend so that neither singer drowns the other, especially in the faster passages where clarity matters for comedic timing.

Program this as a standalone duet on a musical theater evening, or use it as a teaching tool in voice lessons to explore character work through contemporary musical idiom. It also pairs well with other Wicked selections for themed concert programming.

• Coordinating independent vocal lines within a duet texture
• Responding to comedic subtext in sung dialogue
• Executing rhythmic precision in faster, patter-like passages
• Balancing blend while maintaining individual character identity