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:Yuriko Yong | Titles: I'd Give My Life for You, Miss Saigon by Claude-Michel Schönberg Lost in the Brass, Band Geeks by Tommy Newman, Gaby Alter, Mark Allen | Home Festival:Take the Stage |
Time:9:15 AM | Name:Noah Riley | Titles: It All Fades Away, Bridges of Madison County by Jason Robert Brown The Best Things In Life Are Free, Good News by Ray Henderson | Home Festival:Pickering GTA |
Time:9:30 AM | Name:Sienna Fatica | Titles: Home, Beetlejuice by E. Perfect When It All Falls Down, Chaplin by C.Curtis | Home Festival:Peel |
Time:9:45 AM | Name:Paige Ivan | Titles: Watch What Happens, Newsies by Alan Menken A Way Back to Then, [Title of Show] by Jeff Bowen | Home Festival:Oakville |
Time:10:00 AM | Name:Emerson Lobzun-Howe | Titles: Somewhere That's Green, The Little Shop of Horrors by Alan Manken Just Breathe, The Prom by Matthew Sklar / Chad Beguelin | Home Festival:Windsor-Essex |
Time:10:15 AM | Name:Ainsleigh MacInnis | Titles: The Beauty Is, The Light in the Piazza by Adam Guettel When The World Was Mine, The Count of Monte Cristo by Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy | Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis |
Time:10:30 AM | Name:Laura Fleming | Titles: One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Man, Wonderful Town by Adolph Green, Betty Comden and Leonard Bernstein Say the Word, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown by Kait Kerrigan & Brian Lowdermilk | Home Festival:Guelph |
Time:10:45 AM | Name:Anna Gaudino | Titles: It's A Perfect Relationship, Bells Are Ringing by Jule Styne I'll Be Here, Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon | Home Festival:Lakehead |
Time:11:00 AM | Name:Tara O’Driscoll | Titles: Pretty Funny, Dogfight by Pasek & Paul The Life I Never Led, Sister Act by Alan Menken | Home Festival:Kingston |
Time:11:15 AM | Name:Sasha Gough | Titles: Stupid with Love, Mean Girls by Jeff Richmond Holding to the Ground, Falsettos by William Finn | Home Festival:Niagara |
Time:11:30 AM | Name:Elizabeth Payne | Titles: Think Of Meryl Streep, Fame - The Musical by Levy & Margoshes Just Breathe, The Prom by Beguelin & Martin | Home Festival:Pickering GTA |
Time:1:00 PM | Name:Zoe Sheviak | Titles: The Lusty Month Of May, Camelot by Frederick Loewe Still Hurting, The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown | Home Festival:Barrie |
Time:1:15 PM | Name:Maggie Baker | Titles: Stay With Me, Into The Woods by Stephen Sondheim Shy, Once Upon a Mattress by Mary Rodgers & Marshall Barer | Home Festival:Norfolk |
Time:1:30 PM | Name:Daisy Cardich-Soria | Titles: She Used To Be Mine , The Waitress by Sara Bareilles It's De-Lovely, Red Hot and Blue by Cole Porter | Home Festival:Toronto |
Time:2:00 PM | Name:Finley Thomson | Titles: When I Look At You, The Scarlet Pimpernel by Frank Wildhorn Right Hand Man , Something Rotten by Karey Kirkpatrick & Wayne Kirkpatrick. | Home Festival:Newmarket |
Time:2:15 PM | Name:Hanna-Marie Toll | Titles: Being Good Isn't Good Enough , Hallelujah, Baby by Jule Styne World Burn, Mean Girls by Jeff Richmond | Home Festival:Peterborough |
Time:2:30 PM | Name:Emma Bishop | Titles: Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber On My Own, Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg | Home Festival:London |
Workshop will be held from approximately 2:45 pm until 4:15 pm.
Announcement of the winners and top two competitors chosen to go to the Playoffs will happen at the end of the workshop.
Senior Musical Theatre Playoff will be held at Chartwell Baptist Church - 228 Chartwell Road - from 4:30 pm to approximately 6:00 pm.