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Cinderella

Jul 28
3 min

Time with the Bard

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it as many of our players do, I had a...

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Karen Pauley

Jul 22
2 min

Acting Through Song

What makes a convincing and moving performance of a song in musical theatre? Many singers seem to think this is about the perfect studio ...

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Karen Pauley

Jul 17
1 min

Broadway Teachers Workshop: Day 5

The day started with Ian Weinberger, the Musical Director of Hamilton on Broadway talking about rehearsal practices. He started with the...

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Karen Pauley

Jul 13
3 min

Broadway Teachers Workshop: Day 4

Jenn Colella opened the day with a brilliant example of how you should coach singers online. She was incredibly positive and kind. Ther...

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Karen Pauley

Jul 13
2 min

Broadway Teachers Workshop: Day 3

The day started with a talk from Jeffrey Seller, who is the Tony winning producer of Hamilton. I have been really enjoying hearing the st...

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Karen Pauley

Jul 8
4 min

Broadway Teachers Workshop: Day 2

The day started with a chat with Gavin Creel who originated the role of Elder Price in The Book of Mormon in London. This was followed b...

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Karen Pauley

Jul 7
3 min

Broadway Teachers Workshop: Day 1

Not everything about no international travel has been bad. Many more conferences have moved to being virtual so that I can now study from...

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Karen Pauley

Jul 6
3 min

A Tale Told By An Idiot

This summer I had been hoping to travel to the UK to attend Shakespeare workshops. I have been thinking about directing Shakespeare for ...

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Karen Pauley

Jul 2
1 min

TIP Interview

My good friend Jonah Hagans and I were interviewed for the current edition of Tokyo International Player's newsletter. This newsletter al...

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Karen Pauley

Jun 22
1 min

Back to the Studio

Last week I was back in a recording studio for the first time since the state of emergency was declared. I had to travel via train to ge...

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Karen Pauley

Jun 10
3 min

Rehearsal Safety

I'm supposed to be going back into rehearsal in September. At the minute it would be possible in Tokyo for a cast to meet to rehearse as...

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Karen Pauley

Jun 5
2 min

Working with Boys

During the Spheres of Singing conference I listened to two talks specifically about boys. One was given by Patrick Freer "Pedagogical I...

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Karen Pauley

Jun 4
3 min

Conferencing Online

Given the ever changing landscape of lock-downs and travel restrictions I have been researching different ways to keep working and studyi...

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Karen Pauley

Jun 1
4 min

First Online Performance

I work with a youth theatre, and this weekend we attempted to put on a private online performance. Trying to perform over Zoom or Google...

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Karen Pauley

May 22
1 min

Cinderella: Cast Singing at Home

The production of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella that I was directing for Tokyo International Players was postponed until next year. ...

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Karen Pauley

May 14
2 min

Group Singing Dangers

Since the beginning of the novel coronavirus pandemic the Japanese government have been warning the public about the 3 Cs: closed spaces;...

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Karen Pauley

Mar 28
1 min

Postponement

Nearly everything I'm working on has been postponed or cancelled. Last night we made the difficult decision to postpone our production o...

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Karen Pauley

Jan 2
1 min

10th Season TIP Youth

I am working as vocal director for TIP Youth. The program is in it's 10th Season and we are working on Madagascar Jr. for our group of 8...

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Karen Pauley

Dec 30, 2019
1 min

Cinderella Cast

The cast list for Tokyo International Player's production of Cinderella has been announced. I'm thrilled to be working with some old fri...

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