Legendary Broadway Star Betty Buckley Continues 'Song Interpretation' Workshops 9/3

Legendary Broadway star, actress/singer Betty Buckley will continue her successful Song Interpretation Workshop hosted by Imagination Celebration in September and October 2009. The Fort Worth native will assist aspiring young artists and experienced performers and educators in the craft of singing, acting and storytelling.

Ms. Buckley will share her expertise for telling stories in song and guide her students through a methodology to facilitate audience connection through songs and monologues. Her emotional connection to songs and audiences is renowned, and that very connection is at the heart of what Ms. Buckley imparts to her students.

The Tony award winner has thrilled audiences for years with acclaimed performances in such Broadway shows as Sunset Boulevard, Cats, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and 1776. Recently her highly praised starring role in the M. Night Shyamalan feature film The Happening, joins her other memorable film performances which include Tender Mercies, Frantic, and Carrie. She also has an extensive concert career, and recently received rave reviews for Broadway by Request at New York City's prestigious Feinstein's at Loew's Regency nightclub. In 2009, Ms. Buckley was honored with the Texas Medal of Arts Award for Theater and was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in 2007.

The Song Interpretation Intensive class schedule consists of six sessions beginning on Thursday, September 3. Classes begin at 6:30pm and last 4-5 hours. For further details and to arrange an interviews, prospective participants should call (817) 875-0256 or email Septimus12@gmail.com. An accompanist will be provided. For more information go to www.bettybuckley.com or www.icfw.org.

Ms. Buckley has been a teacher for 37 years and has taught numerous singers, actors and professionals including investment bankers, athletic coaches and persons who want to perfect their ability to effectively communicate in their work and in relationships.

The class also welcomes auditors who participate in all aspects of the class except the individual singing coached by Ms. Buckley.

Last January, Ms. Buckley, directed a benefit concert for Imagination Celebration featuring workshop participants. Mark Lowry's review celebrates "The results, we must say, were heavenly." You can watch Ms. Buckley's video interview regarding the concert at www.theatrejones.com.

"Why is Buckley so good? Let me count the ways! For one thing, she has a voice that is one of the wonders of the world. In addition, she acts with great style, pizzazz, and above all intelligence!" - Robert Osbourne, The Hollywood Reporter

"Buckley owns the best pipes in the musical theatre and is a gifted actress as well! A singer whose instrument is a peerless melding of vulnerability and power!"- Jeremy Gerard, Variety

Betty Buckley is also an Emmy-nominated television (Eight Is Enough, Law and Order:SVU and HBO's Oz) and film star (Tender Mercies, Carrie, Frantic, Another Woman and The Happening).

The Actor-Singer works regularly in concert with her ensemble of musicians. Her solo CD, Stars and the Moon: Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar Warehouse, received a Grammy nomination. In 2007, she released a new CD Betty Buckley 1967, which hit the Billboard charts. Her newest recording Quintessence, with long-time collaborator Kenny Werner and her quintet was released by Playbill and Sony BMG Broadway Masterworks in Spring 2008.

Named for Buckley's outstanding contribution to the musical theatre, The Betty Lynn Buckley Awards honor outstanding Musical Theatre in Tarrant County high schools.

The Imagination Celebration program, founded by Executive Director Ginger Head, began in 1977 as an outreach project of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It was created to develop arts awareness in school children and an arts alliance between educators, their arts counterparts, and the community cultural network.

It is their philosophy that the arts inspire and communicate ideas and give reality to the past and imagined future. The arts aid in the development of critical thinking skills, enhance every discipline of study, and most importantly, should be accessible to everyone. As a not for profit organization, ICFW is dependent on generous gifts and grants from Government entities, private foundations, corporations and individuals to continue its mission to provide programs which create learning in, through and about the arts and enhance the education of students from kindergarten through university, their teachers and their families.

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