Starlight Academy - Musical Theatre

Musical theatre combines music, song, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called simply, "musicals".

Musicals are performed all around the world. They may be presented in large venues, such as big budget West End and Broadway theatre productions in London, or in smaller fringe theatre productions, on tour, or by amateur groups in schools, theatres and other performance spaces.

Some famous musicals include - Hairspray, Wicked, We Will Rock You, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Mamma Mia, Oliver, Lion King and Grease.

At Starlight Academy of Dance and Performing Arts, we realise that many of our pupils attend classes for pleasurable purposes. It is now becoming important to guide and advise our pupils of the career opportunities that training can lead onto especially with the popular uptake of Performing Arts at GCSE, A Level and Diploma levels.

It is widely known that an all round performer is extensively knowledgeable in the three genres of the arts- dance, drama and singing. In order to give the best prospects for our pupils attending the Academy we offer Musical Theatre, which comprises of all three genres.

Pupils warm up their voice and body through fun exercises and skills based activities.

A comprehensive repertoire is developed in the three core areas

Drama

Improvisation
Script Interpretation
Use of Props, Costumes and Make Up
Character Development
Vocal Projection
Mime

Vocal

Pop, Jazz, Blues, Folk and World Music
Musical Theatre
Part and harmony singing
Exploring pitch, tone and rhythm
Tongue Twisters

Physical

A fusion of modern music and dance styles. The Musical Theatre performance will be theatrical with a balance of the three core skills, acting, singing and movement.

Examinations

• IDTA Group Musical Theatre Awards from Introductory - Stage 6
• IDTA Solo Medal Awards from Introductory - Gold Star
• IDTA Musical Theatre Rosettes
• IDTA Musical Theatre Duets & Trios
• LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts)