Acting Through Song
eBook - ePub

Acting Through Song

Techniques and Exercises for Musical-Theatre Actors

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Acting Through Song

Techniques and Exercises for Musical-Theatre Actors

About this book

An impassioned and invaluable guide for actors and students of musical theatre.

In Acting Through Song, ? Paul Harvard takes the techniques of modern actor training – including the theories of Stanislavsky, Brecht, Meisner and Laban, amongst others – and applies them to the fundamental component of musical theatre: singing.

With dozens of exercises to put these theories into practice, and numerous examples from a broad range of musicals, the result is a comprehensive and rigorous acting course for those training in musical theatre or already performing, whether amateur or professional, to realise their potential – and act better.

'The most methodical, thorough and practical book on the subject that I've ever read.' Daniel Evans, from his Foreword

'If you want to maximise your potential in this tough profession, this is not just a must-read - it's your bible.' Stuart Barr

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Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781780011912

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Contents
  4. Dedication
  5. Foreword by Daniel Evans
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Part One: Key Acting Skills
  9. 1. Self-Consciousness is Death
  10. 2. Limitless Attention and the Imagination
  11. 3. Interaction
  12. Part Two: Preparing to Rehearse
  13. 4. The Actor’s Homework
  14. 5. Creating a Performance Score
  15. 6. Listening to the Composer
  16. Part Three: Rehearsal
  17. 7. The Through-line of Action
  18. 8. The Psycho-physical Actor
  19. 9. Characterisation
  20. 10. Integrating the Singing Voice
  21. 11. The Soliloquy Song
  22. 12. Style: Lessons from Musical-Theatre History
  23. Part Four: Performance
  24. 13. The Actor and the Spectator
  25. Part Five: Into the Profession
  26. 14. Acting a Song in Audition
  27. 15. Manifesto
  28. About the Author
  29. Copyright Information

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