Perfect pitch

The new Singing for Musical Theatre syllabus is a recently published and welcome addition to the ABRSM stable of musical expertise and is perfect for getting students ready for auditions and stage performance. New songbooks are available, which save teachers much precious time and trouble in finding the music.

Musical theatre is a greatly demanding style of singing, needing subtle interpretation, voice control, expression and stamina, and this new syllabus fulfils all these criteria, designed as it is for safe singing at high or low voice, carefully selected, featuring age-appropriate songs and a huge choice of repertoire from stage and screen musicals, from the 1920s to today. There is a vast selection indeed: Gershwin to Disney, via Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter and the Sherman brothers, while also featuring modern favourites such as Matilda and Frozen.