This week, The Stage includes a comprehensive guide to musical theatre training. With all you need to know about getting to grips about musical theatre, the supplement looks at all the aspects to consider, including choosing a course, tackling auditions and addressing performing weaknesses. Also included:
Dance is often the first element of musical theatre to be assessed at an audition, so Kevin Berry examines the variety of training on offer and how to tell if a course is right for you
Although reality TV shows can offer trained musical performers a platform to launch their careers, contestants with little training are unlikely to gain adequate skills and stamina from the experience, suggests Matthew Hemley
Spotlight award nominee Emma Higginbottom, who is about to graduate from the BA acting course at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, talks to Paul Vale about her training background in musical theatre
Tutors from ten performing arts schools tell Susan Elkin what skills they are looking for in students wishing to train in musical theatre
Six months after Lamda Examinations launched its musical theatre qualification, there has been a positive response, with children as young as five taking part
Browse our listings of schools offering musical theatre training
Also in this week’s issue of The Stage:
From Gold Blend to Buffy and Little Britain, Anthony Head has played a variety of TV roles. He talks to Matthew Hemley about his new BBC1 series The Invisibles, and his ambitions to return to theatre
At 21, playwright Polly Stenham has become a theatrical sensation. She talks to Nick Smurthwaite about trying to live up the hype as her play That Face transfers to the West End. Plus, That Face actor Matt Smith talks to Matt Trueman
Broadway legend Angela Lansbury may have widened her mainstream appeal when she starred in hit TV series Murder, She Wrote, but her heart is in theatre. She talks to Mark Shenton as she makes a rare return to the London stage for a special concert celebrating Jerry Herman’s work
Insight: Theatregoers need to be more aware of the extra costs piled on to tickets, says Mark Shenton — and now a trend from Broadway is turning producers into their own touts with ‘premium’ seats for in-demand productions
Politics and theatre have gone hand in hand since the Second World War, with characters such as Margaret Thatcher providing lots o material. Nick Awde examines how playwrights have benefited from the state of the nation
Ian Herbert on the International Association of Theatre Critics congress
Richard Jordan on the Adelaide Festival in Australia
Dear John: “What is the best way to learn the business — training, reading or just getting out there and doing it?”
Training: Susan Elkin meets Alan Justice, a performer who has established his own school to offer others high quality training in the profession
Zoe Tyler continues her exclusive review of BBC talent show I’d Do Anything
Backstage Focus: As society becomes more aware of the effect cars have on the environment, theatres around the country are working to improve transport connections to venues, from car share schemes to night buses back into town
This weekend the High Tide Festival is descending upon the Suffolk town of Halesworth for the second time. Its founder and joint artistic director Sam Hodges tells Al Senter about the festival’s aim to provide he right creative environment for emerging stage and film writers, and what to expect from this year’s programme
Showpeople: meet singer Caroline Fields, artistic director Abigail Yeates and contemporary dancer Joel Corpuz, all of whom are appearing at Galleries Lafayette in Paris
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