Tony Winner Betty Buckley to Host Workshop in Denver This June
By: Tyler Peterson Mar. 31, 2016
Tony Award winner, Theater Hall of Fame member and legendary Broadway star Betty Buckley returns to Denver June 1-5 to teach her fifth annual Song Interpretation & Monologue workshop, a master class for actors and singers of all levels: high school students preparing for college auditions, current college students, professional actors and singers, educators and other professionals aspiring to refine their communication skills in word or song.
For over forty 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 City, Los Angeles, Denver and 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 Denver workshop students are now attending musical theatre and drama programs at schools such as The Boston Conservatory, University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, USC, UCLA, University of Northern Colorado, Northwestern University and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
The Denver Summer Intensive consists of five consecutive class sessions - Wednesday through Sunday, June 1-5, 2016 from 1:30pm to 6:30pm daily. Auditors are welcome to apply and 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.
Contact Becky O'Rourke at becky@buckleydenverworkshop.com for more information or go to getacceptd.com/bettybuckleydenver 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. The production of Grey Gardens will be reprised in Los Angeles at the Ahmanson Theatre later this summer.
Ms. Buckley just completed shooting the new M. Night Shyamalan film, SPLIT, in which she co-stars with James McAvoy. The release date for the film is set for January of 2017. 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 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 2015 Royal Albert Hall concert of FOLLIES in celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 85th birthday. She has recorded 16 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 on 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
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