Acting In Musical Theatre: A Comprehensive Course Published by Routledge, a division of Taylor & Francis
 
 
 
Stage Door There are several elements of this text that make it particularly useful: 1. Acting in Musical Theatre is easy to understand. Acting in a musical doesn't need to be a confusing process. One of our goals is to de-mystify and clarify the subject without sacrificing a rigorous approach. 2. Acting in Musical Theatre is a step-by-step process. Good technique is built in stages. We take the actor through a gradual process of skill building designed to ground him in a reliable, fully internalized and assimilated way of working. 3. Acting in Musical Theatre is comprehensive. We explore the process of acting in the full range of musical theatre circumstances from the simple to the complex, from the beginning of study right through to starting a full professional career. 4. Acting in Musical Theatre capitalizes on established methods. We incorporate traditional, classical acting methods and expand upon them as required for the specialized techniques of musical theatre. If you have studied traditional acting, you will be familiar with many of the terms we use. If you are new to acting, this will ground you in techniques and terminology that will dovetail with later non-musical acting classes. 5. Acting in Musical Theatre is flexible. This approach can be tailored to suit individual study, group classes, and courses lasting from one semester to several years. This book can be the primary text used in an intensive professional training program, or selectively employed in a shorter course. The text provides solo activities for the individual or unenrolled reader and group projects on which class members can collaborate. 6. Acting in Musical Theatre encourages fun. It takes a lighthearted approach to a serious study. character objective
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Acting in Musical Theatre is the first and only complete course in the most effective techniques for approaching a role in a musical. It is required reading for anyone who works, or dreams of working in the Musical Theatre. This book represents approaches that have been tested in the classroom and in rehearsal with thousands of student and professional actors. The authors have directed, performed in and coached musicals on and off-Broadway, at America’s best regional theatres and in top training programs across the country for over twenty-five years. Readers using Acting in Musical Theatre can go from developing basic musical acting skills, learning how to analyze and investigate a musical theatre text, acquiring more demanding and advanced musical acting skills, mastering important issues of musical performance style, assembling a finished performance and, finally, learning how to begin a professional career in musicals—all under one cover. If you are a beginning actor, this is the place to learn a solid and reliable technique. If you are a veteran performer, Acting in Musical Theatre can open up new possibilities and help draw your experiences into a coherent whole. If you are an actor just starting out, Acting In Musical Theatre will put you on the right path and give you a set of tools to take you from the beginning of your training through years of professional work. The approach of this book can form the cornerstone of your musical theatre technique. If you are an acting instructor, this book will provide you with a series of potent experiences to lead your students to a solid, reliable acting technique. If you are an experienced actor, this book will help you put a frame around many of the techniques you have been using, but perhaps not mastering with the clarity and detail that is the source of real performing power.