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Attached is the handout from Mary Anna Dennard's workshop: "I Got In: A College Audition Seminar."

This is a copy of the handout given at John Tartaglia's Puppet class at the 2011 Broadway Teachers Workshop

These are notes from Jennie Marino's prop design class at the 2011 Broadway Teachers Workshop.

These notes were submitted by Carla Silver

These are the notes my daughter, Amy, and I took at the workshop.  Feel free to use/peruse/copy them or correct any errors.

This UbD constructed activity was designed while earning my MA in Theatre Education from the university of Northern Colorado.  It is designed to help students treat the performance of a song...

Introduction to theatre and Broadway. Simple 45 minute lesson plan introduces children to the magical world of theatre.

Starting from scratch & teaching the basics with non-dancers for a High School Musical Production.  Only brief/informal instructions.

This project will consist of two components. The first is a written Concept Statement and the second is a Visual Concept Design Board. Both parts of the project...

A character building/acting excersize using etudes from Great Scenes for Young Actors - Volume II.

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Teachers introduce open scenes to students. Helpful actor coaching exercise. Focuses actor in importance of working with partner. Boosts imagination and variety of approaching scenework.

Using a varied soundtrack, students improvise on a given start topic and adjust as the soundtrack changes

This exercise helps students learn to hear harmony and learn to listen to other parts while singing their own notes independently.

Students select a 15-minute scene from a film or tv show and stage it for a live performance

Using at least an 8.5” x 11” piece of poster board, please design a “Show...

Useful lessons to correspond with the ensemble members for the King & I.  The Royal Wives and children get to create characters through the choice and use of real names from Siam. ...

A study of Vaudeville history culminating in a classroom vaudeville show.

Students will learn basic dance steps from a new genre to increase their dance vocabulary and tranfer knowledge from previous lessons.

Vocal Improvisation in ostinato choral parts

Students will gain part-holding independence via a vocal warm-up

Four Stage Managing Handouts were distributed during the Session C Broadway Teachers Workshop. They are entitled "Scenic Elements", "Stage Managers Calling Script", "Actors Script", and "Stage...

Enhanced physicality, reaction, expression and connection between characters

A great way to help students memorize monologues or scenes without getting into a set rhythm and delivery is to have them say the lines as a wide range of characters. This not only helps in the...

Throughout the entire run of the show, I am always giving the students things to read and to think about how it relates to the show and how it relates to life.  I have found that it makes a...

Global awareness of our ecological footprint is a responsibility of our global community.  Global action to prevent the destruction of our planet is a human necessity.  International...

A soundscape is comprised of characteristic types of sound commonly heard in a given period or location.

Use when studying how the music moves the plot or sets the tone of a show.

Each selects a classmate’s name out of a hat, and I keep track on my own list of who has whom. I suggest they keep it a secret, but you know how that can go!  They have several days to write...

1) To remove much of the fear of performing from timid students. 

2) To  emphasize how the entire body is needed to promote a character.

3) To provide a group project where...

Student introduced to the concept of pretending/role playing and how each actor brings his/her own experiences to a performance.

To familiarize students with essential performance principles that are directly related to the musical theatre genre.  These principles have some application in solely dramatic presentations...

Aim: How can we use various levels to present a clear and specific “tableau vivant”?

“You can do anything for 15 minutes.”
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In the theatre, we have so many areas to keep track of that we sometimes feel like maintenance...

Students will understand the structure, strategies and performance style ofproducing a show for children, but performed by adults.

This is an excellent exercise to begin working with the members of a new company/production. I’ve had success with players from ages 8 through adults with both performers and technicians. All...

Students create costumes made out of garbage bags.

Teach your drama students the art of storytelling, using activities from the book The Power of Story: Teaching Through Storytelling, by Rives...

To teach students how to express emotions onstage by identifying and practicing these emotions, investigating examples of melodramam and eventually writing and rehearsing an act in a melodramatic...

Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of team work and the role cooperation in achieving life goals and how musical theater can communicate that message.

A list of thought provoking questions to get an actor thinking about his or her craft and the nature of acting.

To memorize a song in order to clarify the meaning of its text, to practice diction, to place emphasis on being present and preparing a set up, and to develop coordination of rhyhm of text.

Discuss the use of tactics: How do we get what we want?

Allow students to share information with each other and see if they can identify wants and goals in the story.

A few ideas for anyone interested in producing or directing Little Women.