Team-taught by two facilitators, Musical Theatre in the Classroom is an engaging, interactive workshop designed to introduce participants to the dramatic power of music through acting, movement and singing. Drama games allow participants to express their imaginations through improvised movement and song. Vocal warm-ups encourage the healthy use of young voices. Singing songs they are already familiar with, participants are asked to express different emotions and display varied character traits. And they are exposed to recordings of many different genres of music, presented with scenarios and encouraged to react ‘dramatically’ to the music. They are also invited to devise their own scenes inspired by the various genres of music played for them. Older participants are exposed to a song from the musical theatre repertoire and given an opportunity to learn the piece, exploring its dramatic content with movement and emotion.
Musical Theatre in the Classroom promotes teamwork and confidence through ensemble performance, and develops imaginations, physical alertness and musical awareness. This workshop embraces the idea of storytelling through music, utilising all the youthful expressive energy present in the classroom.
Teachers, who are asked to participate, will also be provided with suggested follow-up activities for classroom use.
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2 X 1-HOUR WORKSHOPS ONLY
Overall length 2 hours
Participants Up to 35 per workshop (70 in total)
Fee €380 (additional fees apply to workshops outside the Dublin area)
Discounted fee €342 (for schools classed as DEIS by the Department of Education)
Details
Day Subject to facilitator availability (please contact us)
Facilities needed Large classroom or hall, CD player, whiteboard/markers or blackboard/chalk
Booking Booking of workshops requires a deposit, payable no less than seven days before the scheduled date of the workshop, and a signed workshop contract (outlining our requirements and the workshop format). Please contact us for more information.
Facilitators Sinéad Flynn and Michael Fay
Sinéad Flynn received a Bachelor of Music Performance degree from the DIT Conservatory of Music and also trained in the Gaiety School of Acting, the Academy Drama School, London and Navan Youth Theatre. She has performed in the Peacock Theatre, the National Concert Hall, Waterfront Hall and Theatre les Treateaux, Brussels. Theatre roles include Grusha in Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle and various roles in Hades with Upstate Live. With Opera Ireland/DIT she sang Firodiligi (Cosi fan tutti) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) in a Mozart cycle in the Gaiety Theatre and the USA. With the Opera Ireland Chorus she has sung in Tosca, The Magic Flute, Jenufa and Orfeo, which toured to Germany. Television and film work includes Glenroe (RTÉ) and Beached (Samson Films). In addition to the Musical Theatre in the Classroom workshop, she teaches singing and musical theatre at the New School and has taught drama and singing for Meath VEC and Theatre Train Ireland.
Michael Fay begin his musical career in Tosca on the Gaiety stage at the age of eight, and since then he has been involved in productions of Bizet's Carmen, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Godspell, The Hired Man, and many others too numerous to mention. He received a B.A. in Music from NUI Maynooth and has been involved in musicals for many years, working as musical director for West Side Story, The Full Monty, Little Shop of Horrors and Jesus Christ Superstar, among others. Michael is an accomplished accompanist and chorus master and is currently musical director of the acclaimed Electric Maynooth Gospel Choir, which has recently toured Ireland with Jack L. In addition to his work with the New School, he continues to perform with some of the best musicians around.
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