This workshop is for singers who want to better understand their instrument and become more confident, capable musical theater performers.

We’ll spend the morning working on the anatomy and mechanics of the singing voice, effective vocal warm-ups, healthy vocal production, and the practical side of using your voice for musical theater. We’ll also work on performance skills, storytelling through song, vocal troubleshooting and tendencies, and work through common mental blocks with singing and performing. 

Participants should come prepared with a 32-bar cut of a musical theater piece and sheet music. We’ll use your repertoire for personal feedback and as a way to put the technical and performance concepts into practice.

This is geared toward all levels of singers who already have some experience and a working foundation in singing and are interested in taking their vocal and performance skills further. Come ready to work, learn, experiment, and have some fun with your voice!

Please bring:

A 32-bar musical theater cut

Sheet music for your selection, in a binder

Accompaniment track

Pencil and notebook

Wear comfortable clothing

An open mind and a willingness to sing

*this workshop is appropriate for students ages 15+

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, environmental collapse, privatization of natural resources, bureaucracy, municipal politics, and musical theatre itself! Hilariously funny and touchingly honest, Urinetown provides a fresh perspective on one of America's greatest art forms.

In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity's most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides that he's had enough and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom!

Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Urinetown is an irreverently humorous satire in which no one is safe from scrutiny. Praised for reinvigorating the very notion of what a musical could be, Urinetown catapults the "comedic romp" into the new millennium with its outrageous perspective, wickedly modern wit and sustained ability to produce gales of unbridled laughter.

For tickets or information about upcoming auditions and classes, 

call (334) 262-1530 OR email info@cloverdaleplayhouse.org.