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Sing!

• By Dave Coffield
• Posted October 23, 2006 4:38 PM
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The 2006 version of the “All School Sing,� an annual highlight of this weekend’s HSU Homecoming festivities, is in final rehearsals. Although the theme is top secret (there is a persistent rumor that it has something to do with a dead and somewhat ignobly named HSU mascot) I can tell you a little bit about the completely outrageous emcee for the evening.

Coleen Mallette

Singer, actress, comedienne Colleen Mallette has been charming audiences across the US and abroad with her one woman recital spoof The Lamaze School of Singing Presents: HOW TO BIRTH A SONG! After years of serious study and numerous roles on the musical theatre and operatic stage, Ms. Mallette has combined her love for traditional singing with her love for having a good time into a career art form. Ms. Mallette received rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, the oldest and largest arts festival on the globe. Her East coast premiere was at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Most recently Ms. Mallette was the featured vocal soloist with Van Cliburn and the Fort Worth Symphony New Years Eve 2003 where it was noted that ….Colleen Mallette “caressed� the song Somewhere and romped through the sexually impish I Can Cook Too and led tuxedo clad audience members in a conga line to close the evening…Star Telegram. Ms. Mallette recently performed with theTCU Voice Faculty at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.

Ms. Mallette’s unique approach to singing improv and audience involvement has kept her in demand in such places as North Carolina Museum of Fine Art. The Spectator of Raleigh Durham says… she’s carving out a niche for herself…her career should go far! Other concerts have taken her to Winchester England, Grand Rapids Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony and West Palm Beach, Florida where critics acclaimed…Ms. Mallette was easily the plum in this holiday pudding…her lyric tones outright stole the show! (Palm Beach Post) Ms. Mallette is currently on the touring roster for Texas Commission on the Arts and The Heartlands Touring Roster.

Ms. Mallette has performed and worked with children through Young Audiences and Opera to Go, and she is currently developing a new children’s television series entitled Two Bad Aunts, an educational program featuring the antics of two prankster aunts who teach children through whimsy and mirth.

Mallette received her classical training at Hardin Simmons University (30 miles from the nearest sin) and completed her Master’s in Vocal Performance from the University of North Texas. Ms. Mallette was on the voice faculty for Texas Christian University for 12 years.

All School Sing tickets are on sale daily from 10am until 2pm in the lobby of Moody Center up to and including Homecoming Oct. 27, and 28. Ticket prices are $11, $10, $9, and $6 depending on where you sit. Sing is Homecoming weekend October 27 and 28 at 8pm in Behrens Auditorium and is produced by Sigma Alpha Iota and Phi Mu Alpha, both music fraternities of the School of Music.