Friday, June 14th
Musical Theatre - Advanced & Open
Adjudicator: Mary Saunders Barton
Mary Saunders Barton
Mary Saunders Barton is a Penn State Professor Emeritus, currently residing in New York city where she maintains a private studio for professional musical theatre performers. She is also an adjunct professor in the musical theatre program at Montclair State University. Her own performing career spanned twenty years and included Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, television, and film credits.
While at Penn State, Mary served as head of voice instruction for the BFA in musical theatre. She also created an MFA in Voice Pedagogy for Musical Theatre with colleague Norman Spivey to meet the growing demand for voice teachers who specialize in vernacular techniques. In this and recent seasons students have been seen on Broadway in Wicked, The Music Man, Shucked, Merrily We Roll Along, The Book of Mormon, Funny Girl, Beetlejuice, Beautiful, Bandstand, Moulin Rouge, and Ain't Too Proud, among others, in addition to many national tours and regional productions. Graduates of the Pedagogy MFA have gone on to teaching positions at universities in New York, Massachusetts, Nevada, Virginia, the Netherlands, and Greece, and contribute to the profession in performance, writing, and research.
Mary is frequently invited to present master classes and workshops at universities and voice conferences in the US and abroad. She gave the keynote musical theatre presentation at the 2013 International Congress of Voice Teachers (ICVT) in Brisbane, Australia. She has served twice as a master teacher for the NATS Intern Program.
Mary has produced two video tutorials, Bel Canto Can Belto: Teaching Women to Sing Musical Theatre, and What About the Boys? The book "Cross Training in the Voice Studio: A Balancing Act" (2018 Plural Publishing) was the result of her collaboration with Penn State colleague Norman Spivey. She contributed Chapter 6 to the NATS publication "So You Want to Sing CCM," (ed Matthew Hoch) and is a contributing author in "The Vocal Athlete" by Wendy LeBorgne and Marci Rosenberg, the 2 nd edition of "A Spectrum of Voices" by Elizabeth Blades, and "Training Contemporary Commercial Singers," by Elizabeth Benson, to name a few.
Mary is the 2018 recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah University.
She is chair of the American Academy of Teachers of Singing.
Location
Trinity United Church
1250 McCraney St.E.
Oakville, Ontario L6H 3K3
Musical Theatre - Advanced
| Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time:10:00 AM | Name:Shreya Malhotra | Titles: Cockeyed Optimist, South Pacific by Rodgers and Hammerstein My House, Matilda by Tim Minchin | Home Festival:Oakville |
| Time:10:15 AM | Name:Jazia Djoudad | Titles: At the Ballet, A Chorus Line by Marvin Hamlisch It's An Art, Working by Stephen Schwartz | Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis |
| Time:10:30 AM | Name:Marena Skaff | Titles: Smell of Rebellion, Matilda by Tim Minchin When He Sees Me, Waitress by Sara Bareilles | Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis |
| Time:10:45 AM | Name:Amanda Yang | Titles: Times Are Hard For Dreamers, Amélie by Daniel Messé See, I’m Smiling, The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown | Home Festival:Oakville |
| Time:11:15 AM | Name:Aoibhinn Macken Luyt | Titles: Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, Richard Stilgoe I Want the Good Times Back, The Little Mermaid by Alan Menken, Glenn Slater | Home Festival:Guelph |
| Time:1:00 PM | Name:Jessica Kennedy | Titles: Someone Like You, Jekyll & Hyde by Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse Much More, The Fantasticks by Harvey Schmidt | Home Festival:Norfolk |
| Time:1:15 PM | Name:Sydney Hart | Titles: On the Steps of the Palace, Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim The Simple Joys of Maidenhood, Camelot by Frederick Loewe | Home Festival:Chatham |
| Time:1:30 PM | Name:Gabrielle Addison | Titles: Waiting for life, Once on this Island by Stephen Flaherty With You, Ghost by Dave Stewart | Home Festival:Peel |
| Time:1:45 PM | Name:Rebecca White | Titles: She Used To Be Mine, Waitress by Sara Bareilles The Wizard and I, Wicked by Stephen Schwartz | Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis |
Musical Theatre - Open
| Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time:2:00 PM | Name:Zachary Bolognone | Titles: Top Of The World, Tuck Everlasting by Chris Miller and Claudia Shear Only You, Lonely You, Cinderella by Andrew Lloyd Webber Almost Like Being In Love, Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe Being Alive, Company by Stephen Sondheim I Stole A Bus, Bubble Boy by A.J. Holmes | Home Festival:Oakville |
2:45 PM - Workshop and Announcement of Winners – MANDATORY
Workshop will be held from approximately 2:45 pm until 4:15 pm.
Announcement of the winners will happen at the end of the workshop.