Burke Moses
ASIN: B00JJ729J0
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 267
Finally, a book about acting on the musical stage! Ask any director who stages musicals at any level, and you will hear the same: acting is the musical theater gold standard, the skill hardest to find in the audition room. Acting facility almost always separates leading player from ensemble, and, frequently, employed from unemployed. In film or on the dramatic stage, great acting stands in the spotlight. It has its own dressing room. It’s paid top dollar and walks the red carpet. Yet in the musical theater just a little acting skill goes a long, long way. With only a measure of dramatic ability, the fine singer with leading man looks will find consistent employment at mid-level, and even top venues. In the largest and most fiercely competitive group in the marketplace, the ingénue capable of speaking dialogue with mere competence rises far above her peers. The skilled ensemble ...