What is Triple Threat Musical Theatre Training?
A "Triple Threat" performer is a performer who can Act, Sing and Dance. "Triple Threat" performers are multi-talented and well-rounded individuals who have generally had extensive education and performance experience in acting, dancing, and singing. The Toledo Met’s musical theater training program’s goal is to offer high quality training in all three disciplines.
Toledo Met Triple Threat Musical Theater Students Will…
- Develop the acting, dance, and singing skills needed to become a versatile performer
- Establish a consistent and reliable acting process that can adapt to a particular script and/or style
- Nurture a clear, healthy, and resonant speaking and singing voice
- Develop a physicality in optimal conditions to do whatever is required in a rehearsal or performance
- Conceptualize a wide range of possibilities within the world of performance
- Integrate classroom concepts from a wide range of material through performance practice
- Instill a sense of professionalism and resilience
Fall 2023 Drama Club
Fall Drama Club, Tuesdays, Little Mermaid Core Class - Mondays 4:30 - 7:30 pm and Saturdays 10:00 - 1:00 pm
Open to students ages 10-14 or grades 4-8, Toledo Met's Musical Theatre Core Class is a 6 hour a week musical theatre educational intensive that culminates in the production of Little Mermaid Jr. on May 14, 2023. Students enrolled in the core class will cycle through acting, voice and dance classes twice a week while they work on the production. The show will be cast from the students registered in this class. Casting will occur during the second week of class. All students will have a pivotal role in the production and leave the class with improved triple threat musical theatre technique.
Details
- On Mondays, students will need to pack a dinner or place a weekly pizza order. Students will eat dinner in the studio from 5:15-5:30 pm.
- Tech Week is May 8-11th at the Franciscan Center.
- Student attire is work out gear that is danceable; tap shoes, jazz shoes, ballet shoe.
- There will be an additional $100.00 costuming/production fee for participants in the show.
- Class is part of the volume discount program at Toledo Met. The class counts for 5.75 hours of instruction on the fee schedule.
Additional Classes Involved in Little Mermaid Production
Little Mermaid Jr. Creative Movement, Ages 3-4, Mondays, 4:45 – 5:30 pm Maria Jacoby
Little Mermaid Jr Beginning Tap/Jazz, Ages 5-9, Mondays, 5:30 - 6:15 pm Maria Jacoby
Musical Theatre Singing/Acting, Ages 6-9, 10:15 – 11:00 am, Saturdays, Katie Trumbull
Acting Class
The Acting curriculum of Toledo Met will focus on inner realism. Core training in acting technique is supported by a curricular focus on voice, diction and stage movement, giving students the tools required to maximize their expression. Advanced techniques such as acting for the camera and stage acting will provide students the tools needed to succeed.
Acting classes are divided by age in order to best meet the developmental needs of Toledo Met students.
Acting - ages 7-12
Acting - ages 13+
Voice
Toledo Met Voice students can experience one-on-one private lessons, weekly studio classes, and voice workshops throughout the year. Students will work closely with Toledo Met faculty, who will help students define and develop technique and confidence through developmentally appropriate voice instruction. The goal of voice instruction is for students to develop a functional understanding of the anatomy and physiology of their singing mechanism, voice pedagogy and fluent stage articulation in a systematic developmentally appropriate approach to both classical and musical theater technique.
Voice classes are divided by age in order to best meet the developmental needs of Toledo Met students.
Voice Class Offerings
Musical Theater Ensemble Singing, Ages 5-9 on Saturdays
Private Voice - ages 8-22, Mondays with Liz Baldwin
Group Vocal Class - Little Mermaid Jr. Core Class with Liz Baldwin on Mondays
Musical Theater Dance
Toledo Met’s Musical Theater Dance program is for students who wish to pursue dance outside of the rigorous leveled ballet track. Students in the Musical Theater Dance program can study and perfect their dance technique in various dance genre’s developing both confident and proficient performers.
Class Descriptions
Musical Theatre Ballet and Tap, Saturdays with Katie Trumbull
These classes are designed specifically for students who want to improve their musical theatre dance game! Because ballet is the base of all dance, musical theatre ballet helps aspiring musical theatre performers improve not only the dance portions of their auditions but also their performances once cast in a show.
Tap Class -
Primary Tap/Jazz Combination, Ages 5+
Suitable for students with beginning tap/jazz dancing experience. Some of the steps introduced in beginner classes include the brush, shuffle, ball change, heel drop, flap, cramp roll, Irish, and an introduction to time steps. Saturdays,Spring 2023
Intermediate Tap, Ages 8+
Intermediate Tap Dance explores the relationship of tap dance to jazz music and builds upon skills learned in advanced beginning tap with emphasis on more refined musicality and acquisition of intermediate level tap vocabulary and technique., Tuesdays, Spring 2023
Musical Theatre Tap, ages 13+
Musical Theatre Tap includes tap-dancing routines typical to the musical theatre genre and beginning acrobatic tap steps and combinations. Saturdays, Spring 2023
Jazz
Jazz dance combines techniques of classical ballet and modern dance with the current forms of popular dance. Jazz also has its own movement vocabulary ranging from the isolation of certain body parts to the movement of the entire body with the accents of musical rhythms. Jazz dance can take on many different characteristics and styles, including Street Jazz, Percussive, Broadway, Contemporary and Lyrical. Jazz classes can be patterned in any of these styles or a combination of them. Emphasis is on the importance of energy, rhythmical accuracy, and style
Beginning Jazz/Tap Combo, Ages 5+, Saturdays, Spring 2023
Intermediate Jazz, Ages 10+, Tuesdays, Spring 2023
Hip Hop
Hip Hop Dance is a style of movement characterized by bounces and rocks, executed to Hip Hop music. While frequently referred to as a singular dance style, Hip Hop dance is part of a whole culture of Hip Hop, that includes Deejaying, Graffiti, Emceeing, and Breaking.
Beginning Hip Hop, ages 7+, Mondays, Spring 2023
Contemporary Dance
Contemporary dance is a style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical and classical ballet. Contemporary dancers strive to connect the mind and the body through fluid dance movements. Contemporary dance stresses versatility and improvisation, unlike the strict, structured nature of ballet. Contemporary dancers focus on floorwork, using gravity to pull them down to the floor. This dance genre is often done in bare feet.
Jr. Contemporary, ages 9+, Saturdays, Spring 2023
Advanced Contemporary, ages 13+, Saturdays, Spring 2023
