Burning Coal is excited to announce that Carolyn McKenna Dorff will return to Raleigh on Saturday, September 13th, 2008 to conduct a masterclass, Auditioning for Musical Theatre.  The class will be held at Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh.  The class will run from 11 am to 2 pm.  The fee is $75, payable prior to the class. 

ABOUT CAROLYN MCKENNA DORFF - Carolyn holds a Master’s Degree in Opera Performance from the NC School of the Arts. Carolyn performed extensively across the United States, most notably as “Lily” in the second National Broadway Tour of The Secret Garden.  She has done many operatic and musical theatre roles including the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, Papagena in The Magic Flute, Josephine in Pirates of Penzance, Lady With a Cake Box in Postcards from Morocco, and leading roles in The Music Man, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Dames at Sea, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Carousel, and The King and I, to name a few.  She has also performed solos with many orchestras, including Green Eggs and Ham with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, and the NC Symphony.  Carolyn is the owner/operator of a successful voice-teaching studio, Power Performance, Inc.  She teaches all styles and all ages, and has students that have performed in Broadway musicals and won scholarships to Classical music programs.   In 2006, Carolyn appeared as a soloist in NCSU’s TheatreFest production of Anything Cole, as Reba in Last Night of Ballyhoo at Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy, as Abigail Adams in Burning Coal’s production of 1776, as Titania in Burning Coal’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and in the chorus of NCT’s production of Music Man staring Tom Wopat.