February 2013 Academic & Specialist Nick Hern

Acting Through Song: Techniques and Exercises for the Musical Theatre Actor Paul Harvard

Acting Through Song is Paul Harvard’s impassioned and invaluable guide for actors and students of musical theatre, tackling a problem found in many drama schools, where he teaches, and on the professional stage, where he has worked. Taking the techniques of modern actor training, including the theories of Stanislavsky, Brecht, Meisner and Laban, Acting Through Song applies them to the fundamental component of musical theatre: singing.