Breakout Session: Legit Singing in Music Theater | National Association of Teachers of Singing

Breakout Session

Legit Singing in Musical Theatre

Monday, June 25 • 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

Presenter: Edrie Means Weekly
Introduced by: Barbara Ann Peters
Location: Partagas

It is essential in today’s music theater market for a singer to be able to sing in many styles including legit as in the recent Broadway legit musicals, such as Dr. Zhivago and Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder. This workshop will examine specific techniques and exercises for developing the music theater legit voice. Because of the demands for singers to sing legit songs in shows or auditions, there is a need for laryngeal flexibility making different interior shapes to allow changes in the resonance to serve the style as well as the character. This session uses a hands-on and skill-building delivery style, interacting with participants and working with music theater and classical singers on their audition songs to examine specific ways to present their song in the correct music theater legit style. Participants of this session will leave with tools to use in the classroom, studio setting, auditions, and professional stage.

MASTERCLASS SINGES, PIANISTS, AND REPERTOIRE

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About Edrie Means Weekly

Edrie Means Weekly, Co-Founder of the CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah University, is recognized expert in training singers in all vocal styles and an active professional singer. She was a Master Teacher for the NATS Intern Program in 2013. Her students can be heard on Grammy recordings, in films, on Broadway, Off –Broadway, in national and international tours, television (including The Voice, American Idol, Kidz Star USA), cruise ships, concert halls and opera houses worldwide. She regularly presents at the Voice Foundation, NATS Chapters/National Conferences, Pan-American Vocology Association, Southeastern Theatre Conference, and universities throughout the United States and authored several research publications in The Journal of Voice regarding the teaching of commercial styles and vocal health. She is a contributing author for two books; Teaching Singing in the 21st Century and The Voice Teacher’s Cookbook: Creative Recipes for Teachers of Singing. Edrie’s many performances have been broadcast internationally on radio and television, recorded by Decca and Koch. She has been a standby for Broadway stars Patti LuPone, Elaine Paige, and Linda Lavin and serves on the advisory board of the NATS National Music Theater Competition. http://edriemeans.wix.com/edriemeans