Betty Buckley to Host Song Interpretation & Monologue Workshop in Denver

Tony Award winner, Theater Hall of Fame member and legendary Broadway star Betty Buckley returns to Denver June 15-19 for the fourth consecutive year to teach her Song Interpretation & Monologue Workshop.

This fall, several of her students are headed to some of the top music and theater programs nationwide. Buckley's students in the current graduating class are moving on to continue their music and theater training at The Boston Conservatory, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, USC, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Northwestern University and UC Santa Barbara.

Her incoming 2015 Denver students are traveling far and wide to attend her upcoming session June 15-19th, representing schools in Colorado as well as nine other states coast to coast. While the class is nearing capacity, applications are still being accepted for participants and auditors.

During her workshops, Ms. Buckley shares her expertise and guides her students through a methodology that facilitates audience connection through songs and monologues. Her emotional connection to songs and audiences is renowned, and that very connection is at the heart of what Ms. Buckley imparts to her students.

For over forty years, Ms. Buckley has taught scene study and song interpretation workshops at various universities and performing arts conservatories throughout the U.S. She continues to share her talents with professional and emerging actors through her musical theater workshops. Her professional workshops are in Fort Worth, New York, Los Angeles, Denver and other cities nationwide.

The Denver Summer Intensive consists of five consecutive class sessions - Monday through Friday, June 15-19th from 1pm to 6pm. Auditors are welcome to observe the class at a reduced fee and will participate in the group exercises. Full participants prepare two contrasting songs or monologues and will also do individual work under Ms. Buckley's direction. An accompanist will be provided for singers. For more information or to request an application, contact Becky O'Rourke at becky@buckleydenverworkshop.com.

About Betty Buckley:

Betty Buckley, who has been called "The Voice of Broadway," is one of the Theater's most respected and legendary leading ladies. She is an actress and singer whose career spans theater, film, television and concert halls around the world. To honor her lifetime achievement in the American Theater, she was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2012.

She won a Tony Award for her performance as Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, in Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS. She received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Hesione in Triumph of Love and an Olivier Award nomination for her critically acclaimed interpretation of Norma Desmond in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway.

Buckley added to her acclaimed work the role of Mama Rose in the great American musical, Gypsy, for the renowned Papermill Playhouse. Her other Broadway credits include 1776, Pippin, Song and Dance, the original New York Shakespeare Festival production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Carrie. In London, she starred in the UK premiere of Jerry Herman's Dear World in 2013. She also starred in the original London company of Promises, Promises, for which she received an Evening Standard Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical.

Off-Broadway, Buckley most recently starred in the world premiere of Horton Foote's The Old Friends at The Signature Theatre in 2013, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination. In 2014, she reprised her role in The Old Friends at the Alley Theatre in Houston, where she received high critical acclaim, as well.

Other Off-Broadway credits include White's Lies, Elegies at Lincoln Center, The Eros Trilogy, Juno's Swans and Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road. Other regional credits include Arsenic and Old Lace at the Dallas Theater Center, The Threepenny Opera at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Camino Real at Hartford Stage, A. R. Gurney's Buffalo Gal and Joyce Carol Oates' The Perfectionist.

Buckley co-starred in M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, released in 2008. Other films include Stephen King's Carrie, Bruce Beresford's Tender Mercies, Roman Polanski's Frantic, Woody Allen's Another Woman and Lawrence Kasden's Wyatt Earp.

On television, Buckley appeared in the HBO series The Pacific, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks in 2010. She was on the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors as part of the tribute to honoree Andrew Lloyd Webber. This was her second appearance on the Honors - her first was in 1983. For three seasons she played the role of Suzanne Fitzgerald in the HBO series Oz and starred for four seasons as Abby Bradford in the hit series Eight is Enough. She has guest starred on Getting On, Pretty Little Liars, Without a Trace and Law and Order: SVU.

In addition to her Theater Hall of Fame induction, Betty Buckley received the Texas Medal of Arts Award for Theater in 2009 and was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in 2007. She has received two Emmy nominations for her work in television and two Grammy nominations for her recordings. To recognize her contributions to the American Theater and to honor excellence in high school musical theater, Casa Mañana established the Betty Lynn Buckley Awards in 2001. The awards are presented annually in Fort Worth, Texas.

Betty Buckley performs regularly in concert with her ensemble of musicians. Her newest recording, Ghostlight, produced by the legendary T Bone Burnett and released by Palmetto Records in September 2014, was selected to the USA Today's Top Five Albums for 2014. Her upcoming concerts and other performances can be found on bettybuckley.com