Re: Show Choirs and Musicals -- Heidelberg MusEd discussion

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 07:51:37 03/31/07 Sat
Author: Jessica
Subject: Re: Show Choirs and Musicals
In reply to: Bradley Jayne 's message, "Show Choirs and Musicals" on 09:41:24 01/31/06 Tue

I certainly agree with Bradley on this one. Unless you take full advantage of the singing collegians and the musical along with Opera Workshop a choral major gets no experience with show choir or Musical theatre at all. While I personally have a boatload of experience through my personal involvment through the years there are others who have never stepped foot on stage or sang anything but "classical" repitoire. While one might argue that you can higher a coreographer and someone to direct you could a.) not have the funds to do so or b.) still not know the correct technique with which to teach the singers how to sing with a music theatre style or how to control their breath support while they are singing and dancing. By saying this I guess I am trying to encourage all of the vocal music ed students to get out there and take an Opera Workshop class for a year or try out for a musical. Even being in the chorus or stage crew for a show gets you more experience than none.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

[> Re: Show Choirs and Musicals -- Brian B., 19:00:35 05/08/07 Tue [1]

This is a very important topic to me because one of the things that is my goal coming out of college is to be able to direct and produce high quality productions. Because of this I am trying to add a theatre minor on my music ed degree however much I am trying to do about that I am also trying to be more involved in the musical theatre portions of college. With everything that I have done already just this year, I am much more comfortable on stage, however, as Jessica was saying there are still lots of little things like breath support while dancing that I might never learn how to teach if the one musical that Heidelberg does involving that happens to be the musical I can't do for some reason. In any case, a class on this subject would be extremely beneficial to further the skills of people who are already involved in theatre and introduce at least the most basic level principles to those who never were involved in musical theatre.

[ Post a Reply to This Message ]
[ Edit | View ]