A workshop for singing actors focusing on how to use the qualities within the music as clues for interpreting and personalizing your performance. In this workshop, you will learn how the contributions of the composer can spark exciting new performance pathways to illuminate character and situation in musical theatre songs. Presented as a “group performance” and “think aloud conversation,” the workshop will be highly participatory with participants engaged in singing and determining how the basic musical properties of melody, rhythm, and harmony can serve as cues for interpretation and personalization. Participants will be encouraged to sing in group setting and invited to demonstrate as soloists. The intended audience for this workshop would be singing actors seeking to advance their performative skill set. Additionally, this workshop would be ideal for any high school and university teachers looking for additional instructional approaches to musical theatre acting. A great majority of musical theatre acting training focuses on the lyrics as the primary means for developing interpretation and personalization. While the lyrics carry the textual value of the character and situation, similarly the contributions of the composer, utilizing non-literal language – tones as words, musical phrases as sentences, and musical passages as paragraphs – offer valuable properties that smart singing actors can explore to deepen their work and develop more detailed and sophisticated interpretation.