Michelle Lehrman News

Tony Award-winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman delighted students as their special surprise guests during the Broadway Artists Alliance 2011 Summer Intensive Session One. Shaiman and Wittman lent their talents for a surprise Q&A with the students of Broadway Artists Alliance. Following the Q&A, they led a Song Interpretation master class.

With Annie returning to Broadway in 2012, Broadway Artists Alliance of New York City was pleased to present the first of several Annie-themed master classes on April 17th. 25 eager and very talented young ladies participated in a full day of triple threat training, including scene study, song interpretation, and learning choreography from a production number in the show.

Jonathan Groff (Glee, Spring Awakening, etc.) joined the Broadway Artists Alliance as a special guest on Monday, January 17th for a Glee-themed master class. After an engaging Q&A, students Emily Pisarra and Alexis Molnar sang for him and received valuable feedback. Just before meeting Groff, the young talent of Broadway's future learned choreography from Glee. The afternoon was spent in an advanced audition technique workshop with a casting representative from Jim Carnahan Casting.

Tony Award-winning actress Bebe Neuwirth delighted students as their special surprise guest during the Broadway Artists Alliance 2010 Summer Intensive (Session One). Ms. Neuwirth (currently starring in The Addams Family) lent her talents for a surprise Q&A with the students of Broadway Artists Alliance, ages 10-21. The Q&A was led by the hilarious Seth Rudetsky.

Tony Award-winning actress Katie Finneran delighted students as their special surprise guest during the Broadway Artists Alliance 2010 Summer Workshop.

Tony Award-winning actress Sutton Foster delighted students as their special surprise guest during the Broadway Artists Alliance Summer Workshop and Summer Intensive (Session Two). Foster also taught a master class on song interpretation during the Summer Intensive (Session One).

Billy Elliot's Tony Award-winning actor Gregory Jbara delighted students as their special 'surprise guest' during the Broadway Artists Alliance Summer Intensive (Session One).

Broadway Artists Alliance, the dynamic not-for-profit educational organization that is quickly gaining a reputation for ensuring the future of great Broadway talent by bringing together Broadway artists and promising young performers, presented their annual Winter Musical Theatre Workshop February 14th through 16th. Michael Cerveris, currently starring in Hedda Gabler, surprised the students with a visit. Seth Rudetsky moderated the Q&A.

Tony Award-winning actor Norbert Leo Butz delighted students as their special 'surprise guest' during the Broadway Artists Alliance Summer Intensive (Session Two)

Gypsy's Tony Award-winning actress Laura Benanti delighted students as their special 'surprise guest' during the Broadway Artists Alliance Summer Intensive.

Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown returned to Broadway Artists Alliance last week to lead a master class, working with talented young people from across the country

Broadway Artists Alliance, the dynamic not-for-profit educational organization that is quickly gaining a reputation for ensuring the future of great Broadway talent by bringing together Broadway artists and promising young performers, continued their 2008 one-day master class series with Spring Awakening's Jonathan Groff and Tony Award Winner John Gallagher Jr.

Mentoring the future of musical theatre, composer Stephen Schwartz taught a master class to the students of Broadway Artists Alliance on Thursday, August 9th

John Gallagher, Jr. of 'Spring Awakening' was the guest speaker for Broadway Artists Alliance's Summer Intensive (Session One) on Friday, August 3.