What is a good ballad from a musical for a tenor?

Is "confrontation" from jekyll and hyde a ballad or up-tempo piece?

• I have to do a ballad piece and an up-tempo piece for an audition, and this was one of the songs I picked. It's a given seeing as it's my best song, but I don't know how to classify it. It starts slow, but then gets faster as it goes on, and there are rapid changes of character throughout. Is it ballad or up-tempo? Also anyone have a good audition song in the high baritone-low tenor range that will compliment this song nicely? I was thinking of using an excerpt from "Close every door" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. I'm new to these auditions, but I have been told I have 7 minutes to do two contrasting songs and a 90 second monologue. Help is appreciated, it's for a BFA audition.

• Answer:

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