Broadway Singing Lessons in Iowa. Amazing Teachers.

Need help auditioning for that School Musical? Want to get a lead role in the next Show? I teach how to sing and act. I give you instructions on site-singing, vocal techniques for Broadway, Classical, Opera, Pop, Gospel and many other styles of Vocal Music. I also work on stage presence and acting.

Classic singing technique and good performance skills are at the heart of what I teach. The best singers on Broadway develop a unique sound and style that requires both good singing technique and the ability to put feeling and emotion into your performance. Lessons start with exercises to improve breath control to support your voice and ear training to help you sing on key. Progressive vocal exercises will help you develop the quality of your voice and increase your range to make it easier to hit those high notes. You will also do exercises to improve your diction. As you develop your performing skills you will learn how to using phrasing to put feeling into the words and connect with the audience. As your voice develops you will build a repertoire of Broadway-style music that you can use for auditions.

Learn to sing Broadway songs from all types of musical theater including The Sound of Music, Music Man, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, Grease, Les Miserables, Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Annie, and much more. Learn how to move, dance, and sing on the stage, overcome stage fright, and sing and act with confidence. Karen has been a musical theater actress off and on since her teenage years. She played a nun in the Sound of Music, The Little Red Haired Girl in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, an Opera Singer at Night at the Opera, Mrs. Paroo in Music Man, and Mrs. Bucket in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Teach appropriate technique with singing as well as creating an audition cut book.

- song selection
- key choice
- breath control
- solfege
- increasing throat space by lowering the larynx
- developing controlled muscular adduction in the vocal tract
- developing more effortless projection through tonal focus
- phrasing
- understanding and hearing the difference between basic vowel categories.

Reading the detailed "About" section below should give an aspiring singer all the information relevant as to how and what I teach, with regard to vocal performance and technique. As a lover of Broadway, then and now, I incorporate my knowledge of what is necessary to perfect the craft of being a confident singer on a theater stage. To capsulize my mission statement as an instructor: You WILL be a better vocalist AND performer. THIS I GUARANTEE!!