Description: Spend six weeks learning the craft of song presentation and interpretation, with musical theatre professional Kate Holland, and music director Jason Kraack. Class will include basic understanding of song structure and analysis, acting a song, developing a character, and presentation. Each week students will bring in prepared material, with guidance from the instructors. In the final week of class, the students will each present one or two songs for an invited audience.
Who is this class for: Anyone ages 14 to 99+ who wants to learn how to deliver a song. Students should have some vocal facility, and be able to match pitch, but need not be trained singers. This class is not voice lessons, rather song presentation. Perfect for those who are preparing for an audition, wanting to build confidence, or just love to sing.
Schedule:
Monday, February 6, 2023 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Monday, February 13, 2023 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Monday, February 20, 2023 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Monday, February 27, 2023 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Monday, March 6, 2023 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Monday, March 13, 2023 6:30 PM, Presentation at 7:30 PM
Location:
Triad Stage Upstage Cabaret – 3rd Floor
232 South Elm Street
Greensboro, NC 27401
Tuition: $250 (no drop-in rates available)
Class is limited to 12 students.
About the instructors:
Kate Holland (She/Her) is the Executive Director of Triad Stage. She built her theatre career on Musical Theatre, with degrees from Shenandoah Conservatory and New York University, as well as a myriad of regional and touring performance credits. A member of Actors’ Equity Association since 2008, Kate has been teaching and coaching musical theatre to actors and non-singers for much of the past 15 years. Favorite credits include Carrie Pipperidge (Carousel), Eliza Doolittle (My Fair Lady), Mrs. Mister (The Cradle Will Rock), The Wife (In Trousers), and National Anthemist for a variety of sporting and special events. Kate teaches acting in the vein of Seth Barrish and the Barrow Group, as well as the physical work of Michael Chekhov.
Jason Kraack was fortunate to play the role of Jean Valjean in the Third Broadway National Tour of Les Miserables in addition to several regional productions across the country. Previously, he traveled the country as a Touring Actor/Director for Missoula Children’s Theatre, worked alongside Mickey Mouse and others as a singing performer at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida and tackled such regional theatre roles as John Wilkes Booth in Assassins, Richard in A New Brain, Che in Evita, John Rutledge in 1776, Freddy in Chess, The Beast in Walt Disney’s Beauty and The Beast and Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde in Jekyll & Hyde. He has performed concerts with the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the Atlanta Symphony at the Woodruff Arts Center and the University of Miami Frost Wind Ensemble in Miami and at the 2012 CBDNA convention at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, WA. Jason completed studies for his Master of Music in Voice Performance in the spring of 2018.
For more information about Song Class contact learning@triadstage.org.