Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Announces Online Master Class with Broadway Star Marissa McGowan
WHERE: via Zoom
TUITION: free
Click here to register for the the master class which will take place via Zoom. For full details, visit WhartonArts.org.
Marissa McGowan, known for her work in Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway revival of Kiss Me Kate at Studio 54 and the revival of Broadway's A Little Night Music starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, will work with Performing Arts School students online, enabling audience members the opportunity to learn from anywhere in the world. A seasoned vocal coach, McGowan imparts to her students confidence in vocal technique while learning how to really tell a story and nail a great audition.
Said Artistic Director Helen H. Cha-Pyo, “During this season of virtual
learning, Wharton Arts is offering close to 20 free master classes for every
instrument, including voice, with world-renowned artists. Marissa McGowan is an
award-winning singer, actress, and a seasoned master teacher who finds joy in
helping young people find their voice. We are extremely excited about this
master class.”
Marissa McGowan is currently appearing in the Roundabout Theatre Company
Broadway Revival of Kiss Me Kate at Studio 54, playing the Wardrobe
Mistress and understudying Lilli Vanessi, played by the incomparable Kelli
O’Hara. McGowan had the honor to be chosen by Marvin Hamlisch to star as Stella
Purdy in the world premier of Marvin’s last musical The Nutty Professor,
directed by the legendary Jerry Lewis, for which she won the “best leading
actress” award in Nashville for her performance. McGowan has appeared on
Broadway in the A Little Night Music revival alongside Catherine
Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury (Original Cast Recording), Bonnie and Clyde
(Original Cast Recording), and Les Misérables
(Revival and National Tour), where she performed both the roles of Eponine and
Cosette. Television credits include Major Crimes (TNT) and Odd Mom Out (Bravo).
Concert appearances include Lincoln Center in a tribute to Marvin Hamlisch
directed by Mike Nichols, Susan in The Sweet Smell of Success in Concert
(Hudson Theater NYC), and soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony, Naples
Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Omaha Symphony, Houston Symphony,
Kalamazoo Symphony, Phonecia Festival of the Voice, New Albany Symphony,
Annapolis Chorale, Alpine Theatre Project, and the American Cancer Society
Marvin Hamlisch tribute at the Hudson Theater in NYC. As a pedagogue, McGowan
has taught master classes across the country and has a roster of private
students in the NYC area.
The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts’ mission is to
provide the highest quality performing arts education to a wide range of
students in a supportive and inclusive environment, where striving for personal
excellence inspires and connects those we teach to the communities we serve.
Wharton is New Jersey’s largest independent non-profit community performing
arts education center serving over 1,200 students through a range of classes
and ensembles including the 15 ensembles of the New Jersey Youth Symphony, which
serve 500 students in grades 3 – 12 by audition. Beginning with Out of the Box
Music and Pathways classes for young children, Wharton offers private lessons,
group classes, and ensembles for all ages and all abilities at the Performing
Arts School. With the belief in the positive and unifying influence of
music and the performing arts and that arts education should be accessible to
all people regardless of their ability to pay, Wharton teaches all instruments
and voice and has a robust musical theater program. Based in Paterson, New
Jersey, the Paterson Music Project is an El Sistema-inspired program of
the Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts that uses music as a vehicle for
social change by empowering and inspiring children through the community
experience of ensemble learning and playing.
Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts is located in Berkeley Heights, New
Providence and Paterson, NJ and reaches students from 10 counties. All of
Wharton’s extraordinary faculty members and conductors hold degrees in their
teaching specialty and have been vetted and trained to enable our students to
achieve their personal best.