So You Want to Sing Cabaret: A Guide for Performers: So You Want to Sing David Sabella Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

So You Want to Sing Cabaret

A Guide for Performers

So You Want to Sing Cabaret

A Guide for Performers

Description

Cabaret performances are often known for bringing alive the Great American Songbook from the 1920s through the 1950s for contemporary audiences. But modern-day cabaret does much more than preserve the past—it also promotes and fosters the new generation of American composers and creates a uniquely vibrant musical and theatrical experience for its audiences. So You Want to Sing Cabaret is the first book of its kind to examine in detail the unique vocal and nonvocal requirements for professional performance within the exciting genre of cabaret.

With a foreword by cabaret legend Lorna Luft, So You Want to Sing Cabaret includes interviews from the top professionals in the cabaret industry, including Michael Feinstein, Ann Hampton Callaway, Roy Sander, Sidney Myer, Jeff Harner and many others. There are also chapters devoted to crafting your show, lyric connection, “do-it-yourself” production and promotion, and working with your musical team. David Sabella and Sue Matsuki have crafted the perfect one-volume resource for both the aspiring cabaret singer and the singing teacher who seeks to learn more about this unique art form.

The So You Want to Sing series is produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing Cabaret features online supplemental material on the NATS website. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources.

Part I – Cabaret 101

Chapter 1 – A Brief History of Cabaret, Erv Raible
Chapter 2 – From Bounty to Bust to Blossom, Roy Sander
Chapter 3 – What Is Cabaret?
Chapter 4 – Critically Speaking: Roy Sander
Chapter 5 – The Mayor of Cabaret: Sidney Myer

Part II – Singing in Cabaret

Chapter 6 – The Great American Songbook: Michael Feinstein
Chapter 7 – The Singer-Songwriter in Cabaret: Ann Hampton Callaway
Chapter 8 – On “Legit” Singing: Dawn Derow
Chapter 9 – Finding Your Authentic Voice
Chapter 10 – Singing and Voice Science, Scott McCoy
Chapter 11 - Vocal Health for Singers, Wendy LeBorgne

Part III – The Craft of Cabaret

Chapter 12 – Crafting Your Show
Chapter 13 – Lyric Connection
Chapter 14 – Using Audio Enhancement Technology, Matthew Edwards
Chapter 15 – The Music Director: Alex Rybeck, Tracy Stark, Gregory Toroian
Chapter 16 – The Director: Jeff Harnar, Lina Koutrakos, Tanya Moberly, Lennie Watts

Part IV – The Business of Cabaret

Chapter 17 – DIY (“Do-It-Yourself”) Production
Chapter 18 – DIY (“Do-It-Yourself”) Promotion
Chapter 19 – Organizations and Associations

Part V – The Royal Family of Cabaret

Chapter 20 – The Queen of Cabaret: Andrea Marcovicci
Chapter 21 - The Crown Prince of Cabaret: Steve Ross
Chapter 22 –The Countess of Crossover: Karen Mason
Chapter 23 - The Princess of Birdland: Natalie Douglas

Part VI – The Future of Cabaret

Chapter 24 – Training Tomorrow’s Singers: Private and Institutional Training
Chapter 25 – Spanning the Generations: A Multigenerational Art Form

Product details

Published	09 Jul 2020
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	490
ISBN	9781538124048
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations	26 b/w illustrations; 51 b/w photos; 7 tables
Dimensions	221 x 153 mm
Series	So You Want to Sing
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

So You Want to Sing Cabaret is a fitting volume to bring this far-reaching, first-of-its-kind set to its appropriate conclusion, sending the series out on a high note.

Classical Singer Magazine
When it came to producing this Guide For Performers NATS had the benefit of two authors who have spent their lives immersed in the cabaret community as entertainers, as leaders, as teachers . . . Clearly, Matsuki and Sabella are devoted to the industry and to the art form that has nurtured their individual artistic souls, rendering them a natural choice for such an endeavor.”

Broadway World
I applaud the author-editors. . . for a yeoman job. They took on the task of creating a "guide for performers" of cabaret. In its 400 pages, the book offers a cornucopia of good advice and one inspiring example after the other. The compendium is appreciated for filling an important void, first and foremost, by defining the practice of singer's cabaret and its craft. . . . I am interested to see how the book So You Want to Sing Cabaret will be used as the guide it hopes to be, the manual that can set the cabaret performer, and their traveling companions of pianists, voice teachers, coaches and directors, on a journey to successful practice and broader audiences.

Quarter Note: The Quarterly Newsletter of Chicago Cabaret Professionals
Such important information and a must-read for all singers and teachers. I was fascinated.

Chita Rivera, Tony–Award winning actress
The quintessential text on everything Cabaret! So You Want to Sing Cabaret should be required reading for every performer and teacher who wants to delve into this art form and industry. An absolutely invaluable resource!

Regina Zona, singer and voice teacher
‘The complete works’ of cabaret—the book is a banquet of history, inspiration, and resources on invaluable singing technique.

Julie Boyd, director, Fordham University Musical Theater Summer Intensive