Chelsea's Blog

Chelsea’s List of Ten Variables to Color Your Singing One of the things I think folks get wrong about musical theatre singing—through no fault of their own, truly—is that we often talk about “good singing” like it is one single destination. Like there is one correct tone.One correct vowel.One correct mix.One correct way to sing […]

I’ve spent the last week and a half in rehearsals for a workshop of a brand new musical here in Raleigh called Almost Like a Dance. It’s directed by Broadway director Josh Rhodes, written by Sandy Rustin, with music by Edie Brickell, Trevor Hagen, and CJ Camerieri, and produced by Carolina Theatre Workshop. And I […]

How Emily Kristen Morris Built Her Legit Voice. Cross Training, Style, and Genre Bending One thing about us musical theatre performers: we love to accidentally train ourselves into a vocal corner and then panic about it later 😂 This week on the podcast, I sat down with my friend, the wonderful Emily Kristen Morris to […]

I want to talk to my sopranos for a minute (the rest of you are welcome to stick around, this will likely apply to you too!). Especially those of you coming from classical or choral background who are trying to make sense of why learning to belt as a soprano feels so slow, so inconsistent, […]

In need of vocal health tips for when it’s 18 degrees out and you’re using hand sanitizer like your life depends on it? Let’s talk vocal health and stamina. Audition season in the dead of winter will never make sense to me… This is cold and flu season, people!! And if you’re traveling for it, […]