English for musical theatre actors 60211100 Study manual for students of musical theatre actor

Private vocal lessons

Dance classes

Acting classes

Task 1. Answer the questions using your knowledge.
1. What qualities does a great actor need to play role?
2. What is the acting technique?
3. What is the exceptional talent?
5. Try to describe the concept of extra edge.
6. What kind of ways do you know to get the musical theatre?
Task 2. Match terms with their definitions.

1.Performer	a) Ensemble members
2.Lead Actor/Actress	b) A theatrical performer
3.Thespian	c) Which is performing with only your voice
4.Stage Acting	d) Plays role on the stage
5.Voice Acting	e) Which is all about being in movies and on television
6.Musical theatre people	f) Need to know how to act, sing and dance.
7.Screen Acting	g) The largest role of production
8.Triple-threat	h) Which is performing in theatres in front of a live audience

Task 3.The Change of Roles
This exercise is one of the easiest ways to make your acting more lively and diverse. Different roles require different intonation, gestures, emotions and energy. Once you get used to acting different roles, you can easily change the nature of your speech and the shape of the material. In this exercise, you will be asked to try acting 5 very different from each other roles. Then you’ll be able to expand the list of such typecasting.
A very boring lecturer
Gypsy
Pensioner
Angry boss excoriate.
Charismatic leader
Your task is to get the first role and improvise it for 40-60, and then switch to the next one and so on. Make sure you stay in each role for at least 40 seconds to work out not only the skill of entering into the character, but also the ability to stay in it for a long time.Once you have played all 5 characters, your partner who has been observing you all this time, evaluates you (from 1 to 10) and gives you a feedback. Together you should come up with ideas of how to improve your acting. Once you get 10 points for each role, you can choose some new ones.