Real talk: can she carry a tune or not? If she has a good ear/pitch, a teacher can work to teach her how to breathe correctly, other tips to improve tone, control, transitions, etc. If she is often off key, can’t reliably match pitch, or just does not have a good rhythmic sense it might be a difficult goal to achieve. Voice teachers are best for taking good singers to the next level. Also, maybe times are different now, but a lot of musical theater is typecasting. As a young person who often got lead roles, I was never cast as the ingenue because I’m not some wispy Juliet type. Always Rizzo, never Sandy. Always wicked witch, never Dorothy. Etc. It may not be her voice.

Jenni McGinnis has a small studio and she sounds like she might be a good fit. https://www.mcgmusicstudio.com

Harmonic in NW DC has voice teachers who will focus on musical theater singing with your DD. Some of the teachers still do Zoom lessons, so it is really convenient.

Levine school of music offers voice lessons - when our dd took them, she had an evaluation, at which we talked about about goals (also musical theatre), and they set us up with a weekly teacher. Lessons were at Strathmore. You pick the length of lesson (more time = more money), and there's an open recital at the end. Recital is all ages, kids and adults, all ranges.

We, and dd, were happy there

Anonymous wrote:Where are you willing to travel?

Montgomery County

Any voice teacher will teach her what she wants to learn.

Where are you willing to travel?

If she doesn't want to work at singing, do you really want to pay for lessons?

I have a 13 y.o. dd interested in improving her voice for musical theater. She would like to be a better singer to shoot for leading roles in the future. She is not a particularly hard worker and likes to keep things more on the fun side.

I don't have experience with voice lessons, and I am not.sure where to.look for a teacher that will help improve her singing, but will keep it on the lighter side. Any thoughts about options that might work?