Betty Buckley to Lead 'Song Interpretation & Monologue' Summer Intensive in Denver

Tony Award winner, Theater Hall of Fame member and legendary Broadway star Betty Buckley heads to Colorado June 5-9th to lead her sixth annual Denver Song Interpretation & Monologue Workshop, a master class for actors and singers of all levels.

Her students are primarily high school and college Theater students, professional actors and singers, Voice and Drama teachers and other professionals aspiring to refine their communication skills in word or song. Auditors are also welcome to apply.

For more than 40 years, Ms. Buckley has taught scene study and song interpretation workshops at several universities and performing arts conservatories throughout the United States. She continues to teach regional workshops regularly in New York, California, Colorado and in Texas, at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

During her workshops, Ms. Buckley shares her expertise, guiding her students through a methodology that facilitates 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.

Several of Buckley's previous Denver workshop students are now attending Musical Theater and Drama programs at schools such as Boston Conservatory, USC, UCLA, University of Michigan, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, University of Northern Colorado, Oklahoma City University and Otterbein University, representing five of the Broadway Big 10 colleges, among other outstanding university programs nationwide.

The Denver session consists of five consecutive class sessions - Monday through Friday, June 5-9th from 1pm to 6pm daily. Auditors observe the class at a reduced fee and will participate in the group exercises. Full participants will prepare two contrasting songs or monologues and will also do individual and group work under Ms. Buckley's direction. An accompanist will be provided for singers. Options for lodging are available for out-of-town students and limited scholarships are available to full participants.

Contact Becky O'Rourke at becky@buckleydenverworkshop.com for more information, or go to getacceptd.com/buckleycolorado to apply.

Betty Buckley, who has been called "The Voice of Broadway," is one of Theater's most respected and legendary leading ladies. She is an actress/singer whose career spans theater, film, television and concert halls worldwide. She is a 2012 Theater Hall of Fame inductee.

Betty Buckley won a Tony Award for her performance as Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, in Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS. She received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a musical for her performance as Hesione in TRIUMPH OF LOVE and an Olivier Award nomination for her critically acclaimed interpretation of Norma Desmond in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's SUNSET BOULEVARD, which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway.

Her other Broadway credits include 1776, PIPPIN, SONG AND DANCE, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD and CARRIE. In London, she starred in PROMISES, PROMISES, for which she was nominated for an Evening Standard Award, and also the British premiere of DEAR WORLD in 2013.

Off-Broadway credits include the world premiere of Horton Foote's THE OLD FRIENDS, for which she received a 2014 Drama Desk Award nomination; WHITE'S LIES, Lincoln Center's ELEGIES, the original New York Shakespeare Festival production of EDWIN DROOD, THE EROS TRILOGY, JUNO'S SWANS and GETTING MY ACT TOGETHER AND TAKING IT ON THE ROAD. Regional credits include THE PERFECTIONIST, GYPSY, THE THREEPENNY OPERA, CAMINO REAL, BUFFALO GAL, ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, THE OLD FRIENDS at Houston's Alley Theatre and GREY GARDENS at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, and reprised at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles.

Buckley currently co-stars with James McAvoy in the new M. Night Shyamalan hit film, SPLIT. The film is one of the top 10 grossing movies in the world since its January release and Buckley's performance earned her a Saturn Awards nomination. Her other films include her debut in Brian De Palma's screen version of Stephen King's CARRIE, Bruce Beresford's TENDER MERCIES, Roman Polanski's FRANTIC, Woody Allen's ANOTHER WOMAN, Lawrence Kasden's WYATT EARP and M. Night Shyamalan's THE HAPPENING.

On television, Buckley starred as Abby Bradford in the iconic TV series EIGHT IS ENOUGH. She recently guest starred on NBC's CHICAGO MED, HBO'S THE LEFTOVERS and GETTING ON, appeared in THE PACIFIC for HBO and performed twice on the Kennedy Center Honors. She also starred for three seasons in the HBO series OZ and has appeared as a guest star in numerous television series, miniseries and films for television including LAW & ORDER: SVU and PRETTY LITTLE LIARS.

Buckley tours in concert worldwide with her ensemble of musicians and was featured in the 2016 concert, DEFYING GRAVITY: THE SONGS OF Stephen Schwartz in Sydney, Australia, and in the 2015 Royal Albert Hall concert of FOLLIES in celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 85th birthday. She has recorded 17 CDs including Grammy-nominated STARS AND THE MOON: Betty Buckley LIVE AT THE DONMAR. She received her second Grammy nomination for the audio book, THE DIARIES OF ADAM AND EVE. Her most recent recording, GHOSTLIGHT, produced by T Bone Burnett, was released in 2014. Buckley's concert recording, STORY SONGS, will be released this spring by Palmetto Records.

In April of 2009, Ms. Buckley received the Texas Medal of Arts Award for Theater and was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in 2007. She has two honorary doctorates from The Boston Conservatory and Marymount Manhattan College and three Lifetime Achievement Awards: from the New England Theater Conference, The Shubert Theater in New Haven and the Terry Schreiber School in New York City. She is the 2015 recipient of the Stephen Bruton Award from the Lone Star Film Festival.

To recognize her contributions to the American Theater and to honor excellence in high school musical theatre, Casa Mañana established the Betty Lynn Buckley Awards in 2001, which are presented annually in Fort Worth, Texas. For more information on upcoming engagements, go to bettybuckley.com.

Photo Credit: Scogin Mayo

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