Timothy A. Bernard

Deaf performers have extraordinary talents. More than you can maybe imagine from the deaf community. Many deaf performers can be found at Deaf Expos or local community Deaf events in the loc. Deaf performers are pretty impressive, but what is mind-blowing is many of the deaf performers translate the music, movies, tv shows, or performing […] The post 4 Deaf Performers appeared first on Cennarium . Article source here: Cennarium

Musical leads carry a story on their back, in most cases. While we love our secondary characters with all our hearts, it is hard to deny that the lead characters are the ones who are the center of the show. We would like to look at some of our favorite lead characters in musicals.   […] The post 6 of Our Favorite Musical Leads appeared first on Cennarium . Article source here: Cennarium

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been sharing our Broadway born friendships through a little tour de Broadway c/o Goldstar . With Valentine’s Day coming up (it’s Thursday !!), we really can’t imagine a more fitting way to celebrate love than a night at Broadway. We reflected on a few stories of how Broadway united us with our best friends and to celebrate V Day this year, we want to hear about your Broadway love moments.   We love a creative plot line so here’s the gig… basically anything symbolizing love + Broadway for you, we want to hear about it. So whether you’re enjoying Phantom for the umpteenth time with your Broadway bestie, or on your first date with a soon to be Broadbae or rejoicing in your independence and sharing love from the front row to your fav leading ladies and gents, we are here for all of your love scenes!   How To:   Share a a video or picture to showcase # MyBroadwayLoveStory (hashtag translation: YOUR Broadway love story) Photos can be #TBT...

Hello, Fit for Broadway!   Welcome back, for week 3 out of 4, in this series on vocal athletes. We ended last week by considering, essentially, the schedules that sports athletes keep.   To refresh your memory: Football games happen once a week. No NFL athlete would play 8 games a week; but what’s more, no NFL athlete would play 8 games a week, then run 5 miles between games, take a boxing class at halftime, and then go home and do more pushups and planks. That is what many singers end up doing, analogously, when they sing 8 shows a week, do interviews or auditions between shows, go out to dinner at loud restaurants with friends, and go home and talk with their family, friends, or roommates.   I happen to be a New England Patriots fan (I know some of you will stop reading immediately at this moment. #sorrynotsorry), and I like using what I imagine Tom Brady’s schedule to be as a template for illustrating some ways that vocal athletes might consider their activities d...

In 2019, You define training. We’re just here to inspire. Mason Alexander Park for Training for Broadway 2019. “I’ve always been a little confused with what exactly “training” meant as an artist in particular, because to me just about anything we do counts towards my training and preparation. All of our life experiences, no matter how insignificant, are what we use to build and tell stories, which are also based on someone else’s own experience with the world. So in a way, some of the best training I’ve ever received has happened when I watched and listened to the world around me, and observed how both myself and others dealt with different situations we’ve been thrust into as time has gone on. That’s my annoying cerebral answer. The other half of what training means to me is mainly focused on preparation, and what it means to be as ready as you possibly can for a specific challenge, socially, artistically, or otherwise. There is no moment in which you will ever tap out or be at yo...

Hello again, Fit for Broadway!! I’m delighted to be here with you for week 2 of our series, “Vocal Athletes.” This week’s post delves more deeply and directly into the substance of what we mean when we speak about singers as vocal athletes. In other words, I’m here today to convince you that you, vocal performers, are athletes in every sense of the word, as completely and legitimately as sports athletes are. Some of you may find this obvious – but you turn out to be an enlightened minority! I spend a lot of time in my office counseling vocal performers by preaching the truth – the science – of vocal athleticism. Frankly, many just seem not to believe it, much less internalize it! So I’m here this week to start to make a case for singers as vocal athletes, so that you in turn might internalize these principles, live them, and in doing so – you will start to think the same way I do about taking care of your instruments, and your bodies. This is the foundation for all of us creating cha...

All art worlds have standards and rare gems. The genre of opera is no different. Rock and roll has the Beatles and The Rolling Stones, while film has great actors like Clark Gable and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Every art form that exists has classics that are shown repeatedly, be in on your television, your computer, or […] The post 4 More Famous Operas appeared first on Cennarium . Article source here: Cennarium

(pictured above: Jane Jourdan, Carrie St. Louis, Justin Ramos) A few weeks ago, Fit for Broadway was featured on a panel at BroadwayCon about building projects or companies within the Broadway community. A few questions into the presentation, we were asked “What is the greatest joy you’ve experienced throughout your journey of creating X?” Our collective answer was “The community” and my extended answer, had time allowed, would have been a laundry list of every meaningful friendship I have born from Broadway.   Reflecting on almost five years of Fit for Broadway, the friendships cultivated through Broadway are without a doubt the most meaningful, joyful and supportive relationships we’ve discovered. If I were to take inventory of my best friendships, I would realize our commonality has and remains Broadway and most of my friendships actually started with a dialogue about Broadway.   For example, my best friend, Justin and I originally bonded over our shared love of Phantom ...

Photo Featuring: Drew Gehling, Kurt Crowley, Paul Kwak, Elizabeth Stanley, Ryan Branski “Hi, Fit for Broadway family!   Hello, vocal athletes!   Yes, YOU – VOCAL ATHLETES! We are so excited to launch this initiative, and most specifically, this series of blog posts, with our great colleague, Jane Jourdan, founder of Fit for Broadway. We value our partnership with Fit for Broadway, not least because of the ways it prompts us all to think about fitness. Typically, when people hear the word “fitness,” they think of the ways we use the body to become more healthy. Whether through strength training, cardiovascular exercise, high-intensity intervals, calisthenics, or any of the enormous number of fitness activities that have arisen in recent years, our culture has seen the evolution of incredible diversity in the ways we train our bodies. In addition, as we learn and perceive more about the connections between mind and body – meditation, yoga, and other practices to train ...

Born just after the turn of the twentieth century, Vasily Vainonen is one of the most notable choreographers in Russian Ballet history. Throughout his dancing career, Vainonen created dances for some of the most remarkable ballets the world has ever seen. In fact, his style and innovations in dance were so profound his ballets are […] The post 5 Vasily Vainonen Works appeared first on Cennarium . Article source here: Cennarium

In 2019, You define training. We’re just here to inspire. Kristine Bendul for Training for Broadway 2019. “We can think of training as part of a process we have been through or are about to go through to prepare ourselves for an upcoming event or situation. This is however, just one facet of the potential of the word. Training is not just a verb or an action. It is also state of being. Training is not only what we have learned and studied. It is an ongoing practice, a choice, a habit or a way of life in order to continually be as immersed and present as possible in our crafts and in our every day living. Training is waking up that 30 minutes or an hour earlier than we like to in order to do our daily meditation or prepare our first meal of the day or to do our daily work out whether that means going to yoga, dance class, lifting weights, doing Pilates, running, swimming or the like. You get my drift. Training becomes awareness. What we do with our bodies, what we put into our bodie...

Not everyone likes to head out to a bar or restaurant to ring in the New Year. Some of us prefer to stay off the street and relax with our loved ones at home. Maybe put together a nice dinner and have a little champagne, or not. Whatever it is you choose to do on […] The post 3 Musical Works for New Year’s Eve Viewing appeared first on Cennarium . Article source here: Cennarium

The historical theater Teatro di San Carlo, located in Naples, Italy, was an idea of Charles VII, a Bourbon King. The existing theater at the time, Teatro San Bartolomeo built in 1621, was too small and old. Charles VII wanted to bestow Naples with a grand theatre for future operas and ballets. Teatro di San Carlo opened […] The post 6 Operas Premiered at Teatro di San Carlo appeared first on Cennarium . Article source here: Cennarium

A look at some films that have flopped over the past couple of decades, and whether or not stage productions of the same subject matter might be more effective. The past decade has demonstrated rather flawlessly that we never really know what will succeed on Broadway, or on stage in general. After all, who would […] The post 5 Bad Movies That Could Be Good Shows appeared first on Cennarium . Article source here: Cennarium

Many actors started their humble beginnings on the stage, whether it was a high school play, a middle school musical, or community theater. Usually the call to the stage has successful actors turning back to Broadway, sometimes to fulfill a dream of starring in a role that he or she really wanted to play, or […] The post 5 Hollywood Stars Who Turned To Broadway (And Why) appeared first on Cennarium . Article source here: Cennarium

The holidays are a great time to get together with the family and watch some movies and musicals with the family. Since that time of the year is upon us, we thought it might be fun to look at some of the holiday musicals that have made their way into our hearts.   1. White […] The post Holiday Musicals: 10 Holiday-Themed Works We Love appeared first on Cennarium . Article source here: Cennarium

Attending your first acting audition can be one of the scariest experiences of your life. From memorizing the script to performing in front of a director, it’s crucial that you prepare as best as possible for your audition. Here’s what you need to know to prepare for an audition, starting off with your confidence.   […] The post How To Prepare For An Audition appeared first on Cennarium . Article source here: Cennarium

As much as we love to see our favorite characters happy, there is something in sad moments in movies or plays that touch us as well. It’s called empathy. No, we have never been in front of a wizard begging him to help us get home to our family while he just laughs and jeers. […] The post 5 of the Saddest Moments in Musicals appeared first on Cennarium . Article source here: Cennarium

Operas are stories to music and vocals. A few opera composers have reached successful heights with their work with worldwide acclaim centuries later. Here we have five opera composers that created fantastic operatic pieces, yet only the meticulous opera fan are able to recognize them.   1. Ella Georgiyevna Adayevskaya This composer not only wrote […] The post Opera Composers: 5 Composers for the Meticulous Opera Enthusiast appeared first on Cennarium . Article source here: Cennarium