Abstract
When unsure of next steps, a choral educator can rely on training in choral methodology and voice pedagogy to make sure there is a balance of the fun and excitement of musical theatre performance with vocal health, building on the pedagogical principles established in the choir program. [...]the advice of mentors who have experience ^k in both the choral music and musical This article shares strategies from Catherine A. Walker, Associate Professor in the University of Michigan's Department of Musical Theatre, for applying voice pedagogy in the overlapping rehearsal contexts of choral music and musical theatre. There's something different about the energy within the note, the onset, the offset; everything about it has a different feel when the performer understands what's going on underneath. Because if I were a soloist, I might back phrase? {Back-phrasing is a way for singers to create musical tension by delaying the delivery of the expected or written rhythm of the melody and lyric. Because we're building tension for the listener.