DR Cason - I'm sorry you had a bad audition experience.
And I find it kind of strange that the pianist could not play "Run Around Sue". -You brought in the music in your own key, right? I've come across some of the music for
Mermaids and it's not hard, but it's also not really easy to play. If the pianist could play the music from
Mermaids, then s/he should have been able to play "Runaround Sue". -Of course, with some of the younger pianists out there, if the song was written "before
Wicked" or "before
Rent", then there's a good chance that they haven't heard it before.
