[NEohioPAL] MORE INFORMATION about Joan Ellison's MASTER CLASS on Musical Theatre Auditions this summer at FPAC !

[Fred Sternfeld]

*Master Class with Joan Ellison: The Musical Theatre Vocal Audition*

To register, call 440-338-3171. Spaces are limited so make sure you reserve
your spot now!

This course will be offered twice this summer, and is open to current FPAC
Summer '09 students or alumni from our previous seasons.

Joan Ellison, adjunct Professor of Voice with Baldwin-Wallace’s
nationally-renowned musical theatre program, will work with students on
fine-tuning their musical theatre audition, addressing such issues as
developing an athletic-yet-efficient vocal technique, choosing appropriate
audition material, acting the song, singing different styles of musical
theatre, reducing performance anxiety, and physical presentation in an
audition setting.  Participants are asked to bring sheet music for at least
two songs from the musical theatre repertoire that they already know and for
which they would like to receive coaching.


Two Sessions: Saturdays, June 13 and June 20, 10:30am - 11:30am at Mayfield
Village Civic Center.
Fee: $40 (maximum of 12 students)

OR
Three Sessions: Tuesdays, July 14, 21 & 28 from 4:35pm - 5:35pm at Hathaway
Brown School.
Fee:$60 (maximum of 12 students)


*Joan Ellison - Teaching Bio (‘09)*

    Joan Ellison is adjunct Professor of Voice at Baldwin-Wallace
Conservatory, working exclusively with musical theatre majors in B-W’s
nationally-renowned program.  She holds an M.M.T. and a B.Mus. in voice
performance from Oberlin Conservatory; while serving as an adjunct faculty
member at Oberlin, she wrote the curriculum for the course, “Teaching
Children to Sing.”  Further studies in belted and popular vocal styles and
pedagogy were with Leon Thurman, author of *BodyMind & Voice*, and piano
study with Robert McDonald, accompanist of Midori and Isaac Stern.

    Ms. Ellison’s students have performed principal and ensemble roles in
numerous Broadway musicals, national tours, feature films, and with top
regional theatres, as well as at the Cleveland Play House, Great Lakes
Theatre Festival, Playhouse Square, Opera Cleveland,  and every other major
Cleveland-area venue.  All five members of her ‘09 graduating class at B-W
signed (or are still considering multiple offers) with NYC agents, several
are currently in callbacks for Broadway shows, and one already has been cast
in *Memphis* (opening on B’way in October).  Her students have also been
admitted to college or graduate-level theatre/musical theatre programs at
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, University of Michigan, Baldwin-Wallace,
Case (MFA), Otterbein, Boston University, Carnegie-Mellon, NYU, The
Guildford School of Acting (U.K.) and many others.

   In 2005, Ms. Ellison made her Severance Hall debut as a featured soloist
with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, opposite Broadway baritone William
Michals, and returned as their headliner on New Year’s Eve.  Recent
theatrical roles include Julie in *Carousel*, Lizzie in *110 in the Shade*,
Nellie in *South Pacific*, and Claudia in *Nine*, as well as the revues *A
Grand Night for Singing* and *The Music of Jacques Brel*.  She
co-created/arranged the cabaret show, *Gershwin ‘29*, performing multiple
engagements at Stages at the Cleveland Play House, Nighttown, Cain Park, and
on numerous concert/cabaret series’ (www.circa1939.com).

    A member of Actors’ Equity Association and the International Voice Care
Network, Ms. Ellison has music-directed over 25 theatrical productions and
maintains a select home studio.
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