The magic of middle school musicals : inspire your students to learn, grow, and succeed

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Where to find it

Music Library

Call Number
MT955 .B575 2009
Status
Available

Summary

Working on a musical is exciting for students, teachers, and the entire middle school community As the first musical theater book especially for middle school productions, The Magic of Middle School Musicals provides a step-by-step guide for success. Bobetsky approaches planning and producing musicals in the context of a curricular unit of study and includes strategies for assessing student learning. Dr. Victor V. Bobetsky, a former New York City middle school music teacher, begins with advice on how to select a musical, obtain copyright permission, and arrange the music for middle school voices. He discusses strategies for teaching the music in the choral classroom, auditioning, casting, and rehearsal procedures. Practical suggestions show directors how to work with student actors, create choreography, and manage scenery, set design, costumes, lighting, and more. The Magic of Middle School Musicals gives music teachers the information and confidence they need to artistically adapt musicals from the American repertoire to the middle school level so that teachers, students, and audiences can experience and enjoy this unique, familiar, and musically expressive genre

Contents

Select your show -- Create a unit of study -- Arrange the music for middle school voices -- Auditioning and casting procedures -- Involve your performing groups -- Organization, scheduling, and your master plan -- Acting, stage and tech crew, and choreography -- Scenery, set design and construction, costumes, makeup, and lighting -- Student, parent, and school-wide involvement in fundraising, publicity and promotion -- Create an original musical -- Assess the unit of study.

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