ABSTRACT
Composers may work with singers who can act and actors who can sing. Sometimes a single performer embraces both disciplines with equal mastery, but more usually the performer concedes to a feeling of inferiority in one or the other, at some level. Actors and singers mayor may not be predestined, share personality traits, or demonstrate similar practical considerations about performing. But certainly as a result of their too-often separate training and education, their differences often become polarized. This chapter is an attempt to clarify some of their differences and similarities as they might affect a composer intending a collaborative relationship.
