By Julio Agustin (Matos), Jr.

Introduction

The 2016 Broadway theatre season showcased an unexpected shift in the representation of race, ethnicity, disability, and gender-neutral casting in the American Musical Theatre. For the first time in the history of the Tony Awards, African-American actors swept both the Leading and Featured Actor and Actress categories in m...

Today’s topic is the Recruiting Audition process. The topic was proposed (and is moderated here) by Sharon Kinnison (SK), a voice teacher, educator and director based in Louisville, Kentucky.

Also participating are:

• Audition coach Mary Anna Dennard (MAD)
• Southern Illinois University professor and music theater program director Tim
• Fink (TF)
• Pace University professor
...

^{Photo from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Weber State University, March 2017, Directed and Choreographed by Cody Walker.}

From Jeremiah Downes

Singing actors must do their very best to live truthfully under the imaginary circumstances of the play, and the song. This exercise is designed to isolate the five primary senses and to excite the imagination. It ...

^{Photo of Tommy by David Grapes, University of Northern Colorado, March 2016, Directed by David Grapes, Choreographed by Monte Black.}

By Joel Gelpe

I’ve been music directing since 1983, and vocal coaching college students since 2006. Over the years I’ve observed a handful of enunciation issues that keep cropping up. Usually, making students aware of the issue is all it ta...

^{Photo of Young Frankenstein by Porfirio Solarzano, University of Alabama, November 2015, Directed and Choreographed by Stacy Alley.}

By Matthew Teague Miller

In 1998 when Cary Libkin, former Director of Musical Theatre at Penn State, interviewed for the Artistic Director position at the Struthers Library Theatre in Warren, PA, little did he know that he would be participa...