ANMT’s sixth annual MUSICAL THEATRE BOOT CAMP presents:
LYRIC LAB - ONLINE!
Instructor: Larry Todd Johnson
Make your own schedule!
THIS COURSE IS OFFERED COMPLETELY ONLINE
Course Fee: $795 (Early Bird/ANMT Member Fee: $695)
If you’re planning to take the Core Curriculum, this course will fulfill your Lyric Lab requirement. Topics covered will include: prosody, structure, rhyme, character through diction, spotting songs, and progressions.
Only during the summer - this online Lab is available for $695.
To register (or for more info) - CLICK HERE
INSTRUCTOR INFO:
Larry Todd Johnson’s most recent musical, 40 IS THE NEW 15 (with composer Cindy O’Connor), recently completed a critically-acclaimed run at the NoHo Arts Center, receiving a Best New Musical award from StagesceneLA. The developmental production of 40 IS THE NEW 15 received a 2010 GLAAD Media Award Nomination for Outstanding Los Angeles Theatre., and was chosen by Stephen Schwartz for the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop. NOW AND THEN A HERO (with composer Jake Anthony) was seen this year at the Montana Rep as part of the Missoula Colony Festival; and his musical drama, ALL THAT HE WAS (with composer Cindy O’Connor) was seen earlier this year at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. For this same show, Larry also won the Kennedy Center National Playwright’s Award and the ACTF Musical Theater Award. His historical-fiction musical, THE LAST PRINCESS, (with music by Allen Hong) was also featured in the Disney/ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop.
Author: Elise Dewsberry
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc., Elise has been involved in the development of new works for over forty years: as an actor/singer, as a director, as a dramaturge, and as a writer. While living in Toronto, Elise served as the Assistant Artistic Director of the Muskoka Festival; the Co-Ordinator of the festival’s annual Musical Theatre Writer’s Colony, the Associate Dramaturge of the Canadian Stage Company; the Resident Dramaturge of the Smile Theatre Company; and was the co-founder of Toronto’s Script Lab. Elise spent many years touring Canada with Nine Months – a one-woman musical which she commissioned from writers Carl Ritchie and Stephen Woodjetts. Elise and Carl also co-wrote Any Body Home?, which was produced by the Cordova Bay Theatre in Victoria, British Columbia, and published by Dramatic Publishing. Elise joined ANMT as Associate Artistic Director in 2003; joined Founding Artistic Director John Sparks as Co-Artistic Director in 2010; and became Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc. in 2013. Elise is also the author and evaluator of the Book Lab and the Outlining Lab, offered online through www.writingmusicaltheatre.com, and publishes a monthly blog on the craft of musical theatre available at https://nmi.org/elises-video-blog/.