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:9:30 AM | Name:Una Roulston | Titles: I'm the First Girl in the Second Row, Look Ma, I'm Dancin'! by Hugh Martin Till There Was You, The Music Man by Meredith Willson | Home Festival:London |
Time:9:45 AM | Name:Claire Miller | Titles: Home, Beetlejuice the Musical by Eddie Perfect What More Do I Need?, Saturday Night by Stephen Sondheim | Home Festival:Grey County |
Time:10:00 AM | Name:Molly Marshall | Titles: Not for the Life of Me, Thoroughly Modern Millie by Jeanine Tesori Wait a bit, Just So by Julie Atherton | Home Festival:Toronto |
Time:10:15 AM | Name:Maggie Norton | Titles: Pulled, The Addams Family by Andrew Lippa I'd Rather Be Me, Mean Girls by Jeff Richmond | Home Festival:Norfolk |
Time:10:30 AM | Name:Grace Odorizzi | Titles: In My Dreams, Anastasia by Ahrens/Flaherty A Little Bit Less Than , It Shoulda Been You by Anselmi/Hargrove | Home Festival:Pickering GTA |
Time:10:45 AM | Name:Graeden Bourne | Titles: I Am What I Am, La cage aux folles by Jerry Herman Little Bit of Good, Chicago by John Kander | Home Festival:Hamilton |
Time:11:00 AM | Name:Ruby Rivington | Titles: Some Things Are Meant To Be, Little Women by Jason Howland Ireland, Legally Blonde by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin | Home Festival:Windsor-Essex |
Time:11:15 AM | Name:Jasper Lash | Titles: Calm, Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon Requiem, Dear Evan Hansen by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul | Home Festival:Barrie |
Time:11:30 AM | Name:Sydney Forster | Titles: I Say No, Heathers the Musical by Laurence O'Keefe, Kevin Murphy Just Breathe, The Prom by Matthew Sklar | Home Festival:Newmarket |
Time:1:00 PM | Name:Adonis Lok | Titles: If I Could Tell Her, Dear Evan Hansen by Pasek and Paul Grow For Me, Little Shop of Horrors by Rick Moranis | Home Festival:Unionville |
Time:1:15 PM | Name:Lekha Sivakumar | Titles: Someone to Watch Over Me, Oh Kay! by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin One Perfect Moment, Bring It On by Tom Kitt, Amanda Green, Lin-Manuel Miranda | Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis |
Time:1:30 PM | Name:Olivia Dennis | Titles: Vanilla Ice Cream, She Loves Me by Jerry Bock Everything I Know, In The Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Home Festival:Oakville |
Time:1:45 PM | Name:Avery Kasper | Titles: If I Didn't Believe In You, The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown Tonight At Eight, She Loves Me by Jerry Bock | Home Festival:Niagara |
Time:2:00 PM | Name:Kelly Huang | Titles: Stupid With Love, Mean Girls by Jeff Richmond, Nell Benjamin Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart | Home Festival:Peterborough |
Time:2:15 PM | Name:Gianna Spironello | Titles: When I Marry Mr. Snow , Carousel by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II Astonishing, Little Women by Mindi Dickstein, Jason Howland | Home Festival:Sault Ste. Marie |
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.
The Intermediate Musical Theatre Playoffs will be held at Chartwell Baptist Church – 228 Chartwell Rd. - from 4:45 pm to approximately 6:00 pm.
Playoff competitors will have to travel to Chartwell Baptist Church.