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.
Chartwell Baptist Church - Sanctuary
228 Chartwell Rd
Oakville, ON L6J 3Z8
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:9:00 AM | Name:Aoibhin Davidson | Titles: Just You Wait, My Fair Lady by Frederick Loewe My Party Dress, Henry and Mudge by Brian Lowdermilk | Home Festival:Niagara |
Time:9:15 AM | Name:Jack Young Spice | Titles: Take a Chance on Me, Little Women by Jason Howland Diamond in the Rough, Aladdin by Alan Menken | Home Festival:Peel |
Time:9:30 AM | Name:Lucy Knapp | Titles: Quiet, Matilda by Tim Minchin Popular, Wicked by Stephen Schwartz | Home Festival:Oakville |
Time:9:45 AM | Name:Maya Greenough | Titles: Everlasting, Tuck Everlasting by Chris Miller Killer Instinct, Bring it On by Tom Kitt | Home Festival:Peel |
Time:10:00 AM | Name:Donna-Lynn Laughton | Titles: Johnny One Note, Babes in Arms by Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Lorenz Hart My New Philosophy, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown by Andrew Lippa | Home Festival:Lakehead |
Time:10:15 AM | Name:Abigail Lupson | Titles: One Perfect Moment, Bring it On by Tom Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda Castle on a Cloud, Les Miserables by Claude-Michel Schönberg | Home Festival:St. Thomas |
Time:10:30 AM | Name:Julia Zhuang | Titles: Notice Me Horton, Seussical the Musical by Stephen Flaherty & Lynn Ahrens Requiem, Dear Evan Hansen by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul | Home Festival:Take the Stage |
Time:10:45 AM | Name:Braelyn Bird | Titles: Some Things Are Meant to Be, Little Women by Jason Howland The Lamest Place In The World, 13 by Jason Brown | Home Festival:Quinte |
Time:11:00 AM | Name:Molly MacInnis | Titles: It Roars, Mean Girls by Jeff Richmond and Neil Benjamin In My Dreams, Anastasia by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens | Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis |
Time:11:15 AM | Name:Rory O'Neill | Titles: Shy, Once Upon A Mattress by Mary Rodgers In My Dreams, Anastasia by Stephen Flaherty | Home Festival:Peterborough |
Time:12:45 PM | Name:Lyrik Alkema | Titles: Someone You'd Be Proud , The In-Between Musical by Laura Tisdall Good Girl, Winnie Foster, Tuck Everlasting by Chris Miller | Home Festival:Barrie |
Time:1:00 PM | Name:Grace Morton | Titles: Defying Gravity, Wicked by Stephen Schwartz On My Own, Les Miserables by Claude-Michel Schonberg | Home Festival:Kitchener-Waterloo |
Time:1:15 PM | Name:Danika Hardie | Titles: Stupid With Love, Mean Girls by Jeff Richmond, Neil Benjamin Before it's Over , Dogfight by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul | Home Festival:Barrie |
Time:1:30 PM | Name:Julia Dartsch | Titles: The Wizard and I, Wicked by Stephen Schwartz World Burn, Mean Girls by Jeff Richmond | Home Festival:Guelph |
Time:1:45 PM | Name:Changhong Gong | Titles: I’d Give My Life for You, Miss Saigon by Claude-Michel Schonberg Burn, Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Home Festival:North York Live |
Time:2:00 PM | Name:Melody Farhang Nia | Titles: The Physician, Nymph Errant by Cole Porter Somewhere, West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein | Home Festival:Toronto |
Time:2:15 PM | Name:Alexis Bell | Titles: Freddy my Love, Grease by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey The Mad Hatter, Wonderland by Frank Wildhorn | Home Festival:Woodstock |
Time:2:30 PM | Name:Lilly Bauer | Titles: Shy, Once Upon A Mattress by Mary Rodgers One Perfect Moment, Bring It On: The Musical by Tom Kitt & Lin-Manuel Miranda | Home Festival:Kingston |
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 Junior Musical Theatre Playoffs will be held at Chartwell Baptist Church - 228 Chartwell Rd. - from 5:00 pm to approximately 6:00 pm.
Playoff competitors will have to travel to Chartwell Baptist Church.