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.
Glen Abbey United Church
1469 Nottinghill Gate
Oakville, ON L6M 1X7
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:9:00 AM | Name:Valentina Dixon-Scirgalea | Titles: Good Girl Winnie Foster, Tuck Everlasting by Chris Miller Home, Wonderland by Frank Wildhorn | Home Festival:Kitchener-Waterloo |
Time:9:15 AM | Name:Ena Mujakic | Titles: The Sound of Music, The Sound of Music by Richard Rodgers Live Out Loud, A Little Princess by Andrew Lippa | Home Festival:Hamilton |
Time:9:30 AM | Name:Yuchen Wang | Titles: Consider Yourself, Oliver by Lionel Bart It's Possible - McElligot's Pool, Seussical the Musical by Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens and Dr. Seuss | Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis |
Time:9:45 AM | Name:Kolbe Reitzel | Titles: Middle of a Moment , James and the Giant Peach by B. Pasek & J. Paul Being a Geek, 13 the Musical by Jason Robert Brown | Home Festival:Newmarket |
Time:10:00 AM | Name:Ayla DeAgazio | Titles: Shy, Once Upon a Mattress by Music by Mary Rodgers; Lyrics by Marshall Barer Home, Beetlejuice by Eddie Perfect | Home Festival:Lakehead |
Time:10:15 AM | Name:Wren Sawyer | Titles: Dead Mom, Beetlejuice the Musical by Eddie Perfect The Wizard and I, Wicked by Stephen Schwartz | Home Festival:Orillia |
Time:10:30 AM | Name:Isabella Xiang | Titles: When I Grow Up, Matilda by Tim Minchin My New Philosophy, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown by Andrew Lippa | Home Festival:North York Virtual |
Time:10:45 AM | Name:Maximilian Hadala | Titles: If I Only Had a Brain, Wizard of Oz by Harold Arlen Put on a Happy Face, Bye Bye Birdie by Lee Adams, Charles Strouse | Home Festival:Toronto |
Time:11:00 AM | Name:Sophie MacCormack | Titles: Naughty, Matilda by Tim Minchin Home, Wonderland by Frank Wildhorn | Home Festival:Oakville |
Time:11:15 AM | Name:Kyla Johnston-Potter | Titles: My Grand Plan, The Lightening Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical by Rob Rokicki Unruly Heart, The Prom by Matthew Sklar | Home Festival:London |
Time:11:30 AM | Name:Tessa Pritchett-White | Titles: I Know Things Now, Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim Everlasting, Tuck Everlasting by Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen | Home Festival:London |
Time:1:00 PM | Name:Lyra Spakauskas | Titles: Quiet, Matilda by Tim Minchin Born to Entertain, Ruthless by Marvin Laird | Home Festival:Peel |
Time:1:15 PM | Name:Olivia Padfield | Titles: Quiet, Matilda by Tim Minchin Six Hours as a Princess, Children's Letters to God by Douglas Cohen and David Evans | Home Festival:Stratford |
Time:1:30 PM | Name:Ava Murray | Titles: Naughty, Matilda by Tim Minchin Maybe, Annie by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin | Home Festival:Guelph |
Time:1:45 PM | Name:Evelyn Fu | Titles: I Speak Six Languages, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Wiliiam Finn On Your Way Home, James and The Giant Peach by Justin Paul and Benj Pasek | Home Festival:Take the Stage |
Time:2:00 PM | Name:Harper Reid | Titles: My New Philosophy, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown by Andrew Lippa Quiet, Matilda by Tim Minchin | Home Festival:Barrie |
Time:2:15 PM | Name:Sophia Palpallatoc | Titles: Quiet, Matilda by Tim Minchin Up on the Fridge, Dear Edwina by Zina Goldrich | Home Festival:Niagara |
Time:2:30 PM | Name:Shanaya Dhillon-Birmhan | Titles: Burn, Hamilton by Lin Manuel Miranda I Love Play Rehearsal, Be more Chill by Joe Iconis | Home Festival:Unionville |
Workshop will be held from approximately 3:00 pm until 4:30 pm.
Announcement of the winners and top two competitors chosen to go to the Playoffs will happen at the end of the workshop.
The Elementary Musical Theatre Playoffs will be held at Glen Abbey United Church - 1469 Nottinghill Gate - from 5:00 pm to approximately 6:00 pm.
Playoff competitors will have to travel to Glen Abbey United Church