Acting in Musical Theatre ─ A Comprehensive Course

Acting in Musical Theatre: A Comprehensive Course offers a complete guide to mastering this highly specialized area of acting. Packed with practical tips, useful exercises and advice from professionals, this book offers step-by-step instruction for an integrated performance, looking at:

the fundamentals of acting

how to analyze the script and score for clues to developing your character

how to make a song come to life

staging a performance

acting in different styles and genres of musical theatre.

Rocco Dal Vera is a Professor of Drama at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music where he specializes in voice and speech for actors. He is also on the faculties of the Xavier Leadership Center at their Williams College of Business and Proctor and Gamble's clay street project. He is the author and editor of six books, many of which have influenced curricular design at a number of schools and been translated extensively.

Joe Deer is Head of Musical Theatre at Wright State University, as well as being an experienced director, choreographer, actor, dancer, stage manager and artistic director. He is the award-winning director or choreographer of productions from Off-Broadway to America’s finest regional, summer stock and university stages. Joe has been a musical theatre educator for almost thirty years, teaching in New York City at Steps Studio, Dance Theatre of Harlem, The American Dancemachine and many regional studios. He is a frequent contributor to theatre publications including Teaching Theatre Journal and The Voice and Speech Review.