Join Broadway and Off-Broadway veteran Sam Gravitte ’17 and the Lewis Center’s Resident Music Director Vince DiMura for musical theater performance classes. These drop-in sessions offer focused, individualized coaching on songs for auditions, callbacks, or pure artistic growth. Sam, Vince, and students will dig into acting and vocal choices, moment-before work, musicology, and more to sharpen the tools needed to nail song performance. In addition to performers, musical theater writers are also encouraged to bring material they’d like to workshop. Students should bring sheet music for an accompanist.
Spring 2026 Class Schedule
Classes held on Mondays from 4:45-6:15 p.m. on the following dates:
- February 2 — Led by Sam Gravitte
- February 9 — Led by Vince di Mura
- February 16 — Led by Vince di Mura
- February 23 — Led by Sam Gravitte
- March 16 — Led by Sam Gravitte
- March 23 — Led by Sam Gravitte
- March 30 — Led by Sam Gravitte
- April 6 — Led by Sam Gravitte
About the Instructors
Photo credit: Benjamin Rivera
Sam Gravitte
Sam Gravitte (he/him) is an actor and playwright. As an actor, highlights include playing Fiyero in Wicked on Broadway. Other shows include White Rose and Lyrics & Lyricists Off Broadway, Deceived (Bay Street), Frozen (Paper Mill), Joseph… Dreamcoat (Sacramento Music Circus), Sweeney Todd (TUTS), Almost Famous (Old Globe), and Beautiful (Cape Playhouse). Sam’s plays include Hurricane (2024 O’Neill Semifinalist), The Death Lectures, Burn, and Ventriloquists (developed with Life Jacket Theatre). He has other publications with Broadway Licensing and The Licensing House. Member of Life Jacket Theatre Co’s Writers Room. Producer of Pride Plays. As a vocalist, Sam has headlined shows at the 92nd Street Y, the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, Birdland Jazz Club, Provincetown, Westport Country Playhouse, and more. At Princeton, Sam received his AB in Anthropology along with certificates in theater and music theater, played lacrosse, was a Mathey RCA, and a proud member of Shere Khan. He is a Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio.
Photo courtesy Vince di Mura
Vince di Mura
Di Mura has appeared on concert stages and theaters throughout North America,Canada, Europe and Latin America. He has conducted theater seasons in virtually every region of the United States. He is best known for his arrangements of My Way: A Tribute to the Music of Frank Sinatra, Simply Simone, and I Left My Heart, (with over 1,000 productions nationally). He is also the author of A Conversation With The Blues, a 14-part web instructional series on improvisation through the Blues produced by Soundfy, Inc. He holds fellowships from the William Goldman Foundation, Temple University, Meet the Composer, CEPAC, the Union County Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Puffin Cultural Forum, and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. He has released seven CDs and has just completed a collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa entitled Echos of the Great Migration, which is currently being workshopped for a New York City premiere in 2026. Most recently, he has served as Musical Director, arranger and pianist for Summer Breeze, Chinese Jazz Fusion Ensemble, which has played concerts and festivals throughout the tristate area and released three albums in 2023-24, six music videos and an award-winning documentary. His most recent collaboration with Yusef Komunyakaa is an orchestral mega opus confronting the issues of climate change, commissioned by the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey. The work premiered at the Trenton War Memorial in October 2025.
Admission & Details
Each class is free and open to all Princeton students. All classes are drop-in; no registration required. No experience needed!
Directions
Get directions to the Godfrey Kerr Studio (W216), located on the second floor of the Wallace Dance Building at the Lewis Arts complex.
Accessibility
The Godfrey Kerr Studio is an accessible venues. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Students in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.