Deanna Peden: From Lincoln Center to The Villages

Deanna Peden: From Lincoln Center to The Villages

Exploring the Musical Journey of Deanna Peden in The Villages

In this episode of Open Forum in The Villages, Florida, Mike Roth interviews celebrated performer and educator, Deanna Peden. Deanna discusses her extensive career in music and theater, from her early beginnings to her performances at notable venues like Lincoln Center. She provides insights into her journey as a voice teacher and highlights her recent move and activities in The Villages, including her upcoming role in Camelot. Deanna also shares her approach to teaching and the fulfillment she finds in mentoring young talents. The episode includes special shout-outs to supporters and information on how to stay connected with the show.

00:00 Welcome to Season Seven
00:41 Meet Deanna Peden: A Celebrated Performer
02:16 Deanna's Journey to The Villages
07:34 Highlights of Deanna's Career
08:24 Teaching and Mentoring Future Stars
09:25 Upcoming Performances and Future Plans
09:51 Alzheimer's Research with Dr. Craig Curtis
11:17 Developing Talent and Dedication to the Craft
18:43 Involvement with Local Productions
21:07 Contact Information and Closing Remarks

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Deanna Peden: From Lincoln Center to The Villages
[00:00:14] Dolores: Welcome to Season seven of Open Forum in The Villages of Florida. In this show, we talk to leaders of clubs and interesting folks who live in and around The Villages. We also talk to people who have information vital to seniors. You will get perspectives of what is happening in The Villages, Florida area.

We are a listener supported podcast. There will be shout outs for supporters.

[00:00:36] Mike Roth: This is Mike Roth on Open Forum in Villages, Florida. I'm here today with Deanna Peden. Deanna. Thanks for being with us today.

[00:00:47] Deanna Peden: Of course. Anytime.

[00:00:48] Mike Roth: Let me tell everyone about your background. Deanna Peden is a celebrated performer, educator, director and producer, an Ohio native. She earned her bachelor's degree of music from the College of Wooster and a master's degree in vocal performance from the New England Conservatory. Her career includes extensive summer stock, regional theater, and a solo debut at Lincoln Center.

After nearly a decade in New York City, she shifted her focus to teaching mentoring singers who have gone on to, Broadway and international opera stages.

In The Villages, Deanna has sung at both the Sharon and the Savannah Center. At Temple Shalom. During the high Holy Days. She was singing in Hebrew.

She has been featured at The Villages for Veterans. And with concert Bands of The Villages. She has also done a concert with Sean Pollock at The New Covenant Church and will soon be singing at the Old Mill Playhouse. Along with Mary Jo Vitali in the show entitled Broadway On the Road.

In addition. Deanna is very excited to announce that she will be doing the leading role of Guinevere in KC Production's upcoming show, Camelot, which will be taking place at the Savannah Center in March. Along with her leading man, Alex Santoriello.

[00:02:16] Mike Roth: Now, Deanna, how long ago did you move here to The Villages? 

[00:02:20] Deanna Peden: I've been here about two years and a couple months. 

[00:02:22] Mike Roth: Okay. And you've had a lot of background in theatrical performances? 

[00:02:28] Deanna Peden: Yes. Okay. 

[00:02:30] Mike Roth: What or when did you realize that you wanted to sing as a career? 

[00:02:34] Deanna Peden: I think I didn't really realize I wanted to sing as a career probably until I was about 17. I sang at a very young age. I picked up a lot of songs with my mom singing to me. But I auditioned for my first musical when I was about 15 and I ended up getting the lead in the musical. So that. Prompted me to go I have some talent here. And I did No, no Nanette. And then I auditioned for a play and I got Ruth Bly spirit, and then I auditioned for Oliver and I got Nancy Oliver. And then I went to my first real big show, my junior year high school.

And that was when I realized I thought maybe I had what it takes. 

[00:03:12] Mike Roth: As I was reading your background, you did summer stock. Yes. We did nine musical shows in the season. 

[00:03:19] Deanna Peden: Correct. In two and a half months. 

[00:03:21] Mike Roth: Wow. That must have been a lot of work. 

[00:03:23] Deanna Peden: Yes. But when you love something, it doesn't feel like work.

At all. 

[00:03:26] Mike Roth: And what made you decide to become a voice teacher? 

[00:03:30] Deanna Peden: I lived in Boston for eight years. I went to grad school there at the New England Conservatory of Music and, my major influence there told me I didn't need to really move to New York City, but I did and I worked. A lot, but I didn't work enough to live the lifestyle that I felt I wanted to live.

So when I was just about 40 years old, I called my voice teacher, who was alive at the time and very well respected. Helen Hoda was her name, and I asked her if she thought I'd make a good voice teacher, and I knew if she said yes that I would, because I had a lot of respect for her. 

 I love to perform, but I really love teaching and I enjoy the students. Okay. 

[00:04:11] Mike Roth: That's good. And since you've been here in The Villages have you performed at any shows? 

[00:04:17] Deanna Peden: Oh, sure. When I first arrived here, I sang for a gentleman in The Villages, and I immediately started working, doing like musical theater.

Cabaret type stuff at the Savannah along with other singers. Did several of those. I sang Musette and La Boem at the Sharon just last January. So I've done a lot of stuff like that variety shows between the Savannah And 

[00:04:41] Mike Roth: Why did you tell our listeners a little bit about what's coming up?

[00:04:44] Deanna Peden: Sure. I have a January 31st at the Old Mill Playhouse. I'm doing a show called on With Broadway, something like that, with Mary Jo Vitale and Mark Kirschenbaum. Mary Jo and I have performed on the stage before doing Change the World at the Sharon, but this is the first time we'll be doing duet together.

And sharing the stage with just. Just the three of us. So it's gonna be a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to it. Yeah. Yeah. 

[00:05:12] Mike Roth: It's a good theater. 

[00:05:13] Deanna Peden: Yes. I like the seating there. It's very comfortable. 

[00:05:15] Mike Roth: And they may have the best sound system. 

[00:05:18] Deanna Peden: I don't know about that yet, but I'm soon to find out.

[00:05:21] Mike Roth: Our experience with the improv group, the sound was absolutely superior. 

Top draw. 

[00:05:25] Deanna Peden: Wonderful. 

[00:05:26] Mike Roth: And what do you have coming up after the performance with Mary Jo? 

[00:05:29] Deanna Peden: I'm really excited about this because I hadn't auditioned for any of the theater groups at all until I auditioned for Camelot and with rigorous, auditions. I think we had about five callbacks. It felt like. I ended up with the role of Guinevere, which is one of my favorite. It's a wonderful role. I've never done it before, but it's a beautiful role and it's a beautiful show. Alex Santoriellio will be my King Arthur Gary Gibbons will. My lands lot, so looking forward to it.

[00:05:58] Mike Roth: I know. I bought my tickets to it. 

[00:05:59] Deanna Peden: Oh good. It's with KC Productions. 

[00:06:01] Mike Roth: And you get 'em through The Villages Box office. . 

Now you originally grew up in Ohio. . 

[00:06:07] Deanna Peden: And right on Lake Erie. 

[00:06:08] Mike Roth: That makes it the Cleveland area. 

 I hated the lake effect snow. 

[00:06:14] Deanna Peden: I experienced many of those. 

[00:06:15] Mike Roth: Yes. Yes.

[00:06:16] Deanna Peden: I'm here in Florida now for one of, that's one of the reasons, 

[00:06:18] Mike Roth: How did you wind up here in The Villages?

[00:06:20] Deanna Peden: That's a good question. I think like a lot of people do I've lived all over the country. I've lived in Boston, New York City, Southern California, Houston, the Woodlands, specifically Arizona, Minnesota. I grew up in Ohio. I moved to Florida in an area called. Punta Goda and thought I wanted to live on a canal and have a boat in the back because I love to be on the water.

I love to fish. I love all that good stuff that comes with being in Florida. And then Hurricane Ian came along and there was talk of 16 foot surges and I thought with my dogs I'd be standing on the roof. I really didn't like that so much, so I went over to Miami, stayed with a friend for a couple weeks.

When I came back, it was very devastating to see and how. Insurance companies handled claims. I had a couple friends unbeknownst to me that lived in The Villages and I came up to visit and I fell in love with it. I love it. And so I. Having the experience of moving so many places, it was no big deal for me to move again.

So here I am. 

 And I chose the house that I did because it was redone on the inside completely. And I love the location. 

[00:07:29] Mike Roth: It's great location. They have big trees up there. 

[00:07:31] Deanna Peden: Yes, they do. Big, beautiful live oaks.

[00:07:34] Mike Roth: And what was the highlight of your career as a singer? 

[00:07:37] Deanna Peden: There were many and they didn't always come with the best job or the most money attached. They came from roles that I really loved and wanted to do. Like I did Kathy in the Student Prince with the Ohio Light Opera Company.

Another, big highlight of my career was when I sang for Plácido Domingo at the Metropolitan Opera. 

[00:07:57] Mike Roth: Really? That must've been fantastic. 

[00:07:58] Deanna Peden: Yeah, it really was. He wanted to play the piano for me, but I brought my own pianist. I was recommended to do so for some odd reason. 

[00:08:05] Mike Roth: You knew what your pianist was going to do.

[00:08:08] Deanna Peden: Yes. Although, ironically. She played a piece for me from La Boeheim and she fumbled the beginning of it because I think she was more nervous than I was. 

[00:08:18] Mike Roth: Oh, wow.

[00:08:19] Deanna Peden: That happens. 

[00:08:20] Mike Roth: Do you have any highlights as being a music teacher, a voice singing teacher? 

[00:08:24] Deanna Peden: Oh, sure. I've been teaching private voice lessons now for, it's hard to believe, 25 years.

And I've had a lot of students go on to excellent colleges, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, Cincinnati Conservatory Music, Eastman I've had students that have gone on to Broadway. I have had students that have sung in Europe, met the Soper in Germany. So I've had a lot of, lot of wonderful experiences with my students and my older students that like to perform and sing karaoke and do shows.

I love working with them because they're like kids again, and some of 'em didn't have a chance to learn as much when they were younger for whatever reason. Getting married, having make a living, I really enjoy what I do. 

[00:09:05] Mike Roth: Yeah. It's interesting in the singing I've attempted to bring a little bit of.

Singing into improv. 

[00:09:11] Deanna Peden: Okay. That's great. 

[00:09:12] Mike Roth: And those of you who go to the improv shows over the next two years, we'll see more singing improv. 

[00:09:18] Deanna Peden: Okay. Fantastic. Hopefully we'll need more people that will need to train with me for that. 

[00:09:22] Mike Roth: We see an improv, you can sing more of key. 

[00:09:25] Deanna Peden: True. 

[00:09:25] Mike Roth AI4: Okay. But 

[00:09:26] Deanna Peden: It's nice if you can sing on key.

That's always a plus. 

But you get to pick any. Key you wanna be in because you're singing acapella. 

[00:09:33] Mike Roth: That's funny. When Wayne Richards, our accompanist asked me the first time, what key do these people singing? Mike? And I looked at him and I said, Wayne, they're gonna sing in the key of "I" for improv.

[00:09:44] Deanna Peden: Okay. That's funny. 

[00:09:45] Mike Roth: For those of you who don't know, there is no such thing as a key FI. 

[00:09:48] Deanna Peden: No, there isn't. There's lots of other keys though. 

[00:09:51] Mike Roth: Yes. Let's take a short break and listen to an Alzheimer's tip from Dr. Craig Curtis. 

 Dr. Curtis, what is the biggest limitAtion for Alzheimer's research in America? 

[00:10:03] Dr. Craig Curtis: The biggest limitation for Alzheimer's research is our shortage of patients that get involved in clinical research trials.

For example, a couple of years ago where a report came out that showed there were approximately 25,000 open positions. For patients with Alzheimer's disease to get involved in research, yet only about seven to 8,000 of those positions went filled for the year. So every year , we run a deficit in the United States in filling these clinical trials, which in turn slows our overall, ability to complete the clinical trials.

[00:10:41] Mike Roth: Dr. Curtis, to get more information about what you're doing for Alzheimer's, is there a website that they can go to? 

[00:10:51] Dr. Craig Curtis: Yes, sir. My website. www.craigcurtismd.com is the best place to go and it's a great resource for patients and a great way to get in touch with my office.

[00:11:04] Mike Roth: Is there a telephone number they can call? 

[00:11:06] Dr. Craig Curtis: Yes sir. 3 5 2 500 5 2 5 2. 

[00:11:12] Mike Roth: And there's a way for them to leave a message 24 hours a day? 

[00:11:15] Dr. Craig Curtis: Yes, sir.

[00:11:16] Mike Roth: Thank you, Dr. Curtis. Now Deanna, how did you develop your talent? You said you from a very early age, you could sing, but how did you develop the talent?

[00:11:27] Deanna Peden: I think at a early age I was a very hyperactive child and had a really good sense of make believe, and I used to actually get in front of. My babysitter and her friends and sang and pretend like I was holding a microphone. I think it really came naturally to me and how I actually honed my skills was I got involved in theater and music.

I actually played instruments. I started out playing the saxophone and clarinet. And oboe. And I read music from a very young age. But when I went to college, I went to a small liberal arts school, the College of Western Ohio, and I was a big fish in a small pond, so I got to perform constantly.

And then I was ready to move on to Boston, which is a bigger city, obviously, and study with top-notch people. And I've always been a hard worker and dedicated, and that's what I try to pass on to my students, that it really takes dedication, love, hard work.

 Lots of hard work. I went to school for six years for acting and singing I just learned to really dig into my characters. Do a lot of background on who I am, where I came from, all kinds of details, which makes the character much more believable. And as far as singing goes, just gosh countless hours of practicing 

[00:12:39] Mike Roth: For instance, for the role in Camelot, how many hours of practice are you gonna do For that show? That's probably two hours long. 

[00:12:47] Deanna Peden: As far as the singing goes because I'm a trained classical singer, I do musical theater as well. The singing isn't that difficult.

Memorizing the songs. But because of my background, I'm trained to sing Camelot. Is a lot easier than doing something like La Boeheim for instance. What I spend the most of my time with is really memorizing the lines, and I find memorizing the lines is really helpful. When you already know about what's going on in the show, it's a lot easier to memorize.

You don't just, I just don't memorize rotely. I really think about. What I'm doing or who's coming in and who's leaving, and how I feel about the different characters. So when I actually get to rehearsals, I have a good idea, but that can all change in a minute. Depending on the person and how they respond to me.

I've spent hours. When it comes down to it, I can't even tell you how many hours because I'm a perfectionist, so I never stop learning and I never stop studying all the way to the nth. 

[00:13:40] Mike Roth: That's good. That's good 

advice for people. Never stop learning. 

[00:13:43] Deanna Peden: Yep. I believe it. 

[00:13:44] Mike Roth: It's true.

[00:13:45] Deanna Peden: No matter how much experience a person has, I always take things as if this is my one opportunity. 

[00:13:52] Mike Roth: Yeah. I did a piece called The Baby Photographer and it was an extremely funny piece with two other players, and it was set up in such a way that it was very difficult to get the lines out of order.

[00:14:09] Deanna Peden: That's nice.

[00:14:10] Mike Roth: Oh, yes. 

[00:14:10] Deanna Peden: It's not that way in Camelot. 

[00:14:12] Mike Roth: You gotta get the lines in order. Now you've been in theater how many years roughly 

[00:14:18] Deanna Peden: A long time. I would say 

[00:14:19] Mike Roth: you're probably only 16 now.

[00:14:21] Deanna Peden: Probably, yeah. Going on 17. Waiting for life to start. I've been in theater since I was. Probably 13 or 14. But I've been in music since I was seven. Like I said, I started out with instruments. so 50 years or less? 

[00:14:36] Mike Roth: 50 years of experience. 

[00:14:36] Deanna Peden: Maybe 45 years.

[00:14:37] Mike Roth: I know recently you did a short stint in, was it off Broadway in New York? 

[00:14:42] Deanna Peden: No, actually I performed in Lincoln Center for a couple engagements and I did the lead in an operetta with a company called Little Orchestra Society. And I got that gig by, What's the name of the paper?

Backstage. You Audition? And that's how I got the role and it was, that was exciting. That was a highlight, I would say. 

[00:15:00] Mike Roth: Now, did you audition from here in The Villages or did you have to go to New York to audition? 

[00:15:04] Deanna Peden: I lived in New York at the time. 

[00:15:06] Mike Roth: Oh, okay. Oh, 

[00:15:06] Deanna Peden: So you're talking recently? 

[00:15:07] Mike Roth: Yes, recently.

[00:15:08] Deanna Peden: Recently I did a concert over at the New Covenant Church with Sean Pollock. And Mark Steven Schmidt and a girl named Cynthia who lives on the East coast of Florida. And I also performed with a concert band in July. one of the things that's nice about being here is the more people know that I am lickety, Splish and can get things happening right away.

I got. They invited me to sing with them because the woman who was supposed to sing and she lost her voice. So at the 11th hour, I stepped in and did that, and that was fun. And I have a, I like my relationship with the concert bands because it's different from what everybody else is doing.

[00:15:45] Mike Roth: I just went to the Tuba Christmas concert. Down at the Tracy on the 20th and. That was an unusual band, about 75 players. 

[00:15:57] Deanna Peden: I can't imagine 

[00:15:58] Mike Roth: They were all bass brass instruments from Sousaphones baritone horns. And double bell Euphoniums. 

[00:16:04] Deanna Peden: Only in The Villages? 

[00:16:06] Mike Roth: No, that's all over the country.

[00:16:07] Deanna Peden: All over the country. 

[00:16:08] Mike Roth: They do Christmas. And that's something you should look into for next year 

[00:16:13] Deanna Peden: That I can sing with them. 

[00:16:14] Mike Roth: Yeah. They had one male singer came in and sang with the band. 

[00:16:17] Deanna Peden: Really? 

[00:16:17] Mike Roth: Yeah. That really was interesting. 

[00:16:20] Deanna Peden: I bet. Yeah. I have a kindred spirits with the band because that's how I got started.

So when I'm with concert band it brings back nice memories. 

[00:16:28] Mike Roth: Was a nice concert. I actually put out on my YouTube channel. Set of short excerpts from that concert. It was an hour concert, and I think I put 14 minutes out. 

[00:16:39] Deanna Peden: I'll have to check that out. 

[00:16:40] Mike Roth: Yeah. Now I know you, you're looking forward to the Camelot show.

[00:16:45]  : . But that's good. You, get exposure. 

Yep, absolutely. 

[00:16:48] Deanna Peden: School and playing that one. I'm hoping people really start revving up on buying tickets.

It looks like it's starting to ramp up and we're starting to just advertise. 

I had problems getting the seats that I wanted. 

Yeah, that's what I always tell people. Jump on it if you have certain seats that you like. 

That's right. We had to take. Seats at the bottom of the balcony section.

Okay. As opposed to in the orchestra section. 'cause I wanted to sit on the aisle. 

Yeah. I don't blame you. That's a good way to get out if you need to. And I wanted to say we've only had one read through Sing through about a week and a half ago, and I'm really excited that I think Alex and my voices are very complimentary to each other.

[00:17:29] Mike Roth: Where do you practice?

[00:17:31] Deanna Peden: I practice at home? 

[00:17:32] Mike Roth: No. Whatever you're singing through with the cast. 

[00:17:34] Deanna Peden: Oh we, I can't remember where we did it. Sea Breeze. We do lake Miona Bradenton. And then there's another one in the South. There's four different places that we rehearse. 

[00:17:43] Mike Roth: Okay. . 

[00:17:43] Deanna Peden: The production company has certain set places that they rehearse. 

 Okay. 

Yeah. 

That's good. 

Yeah. . We don't start until the second week in January, but it's gonna be fun. 

Good. And people can call The Villages Box office. 

 Or they can just go on villagesentertainment.com and Pull up the tickets there too, 

Great. 

Do you have any plans beyond that? 

Right now, I don't I'm pecking around trying to see, what is needed here in The Villages. I like the amount of performing I'm doing now 'cause I like to pick and choose certain things that I really wanna do. So when those come up, I'll audition for them.

Or when someone asks me if I'd like to perform with something, then. I definitely would like to consider it, but right now, Camelot's, my main thing that I'm focusing on and then my trip to Tahiti after that. 

You going to Tahiti? I'm to sing 

Probably, yes. I'll be doing a few islands when I'm there.

Okay. That's a cool place. 

Yes. I'm gonna swim at the humpback whales. 

[00:18:40] Mike Roth: Yeah, that sounds like a fun place to go. Now I ran into you at first because you were teaching some of the singers in the last year's high school production. 

[00:18:50] Deanna Peden: The Fiddler on the roof. 

Yeah. And Sweeney Todd. Prior to that, 

[00:18:53] Mike Roth: I didn't know about Sweeney Todd. Okay. 

[00:18:55] Deanna Peden: Yeah. 

[00:18:55] Mike Roth: They 

[00:18:55] Deanna Peden: put on some good shows.

[00:18:57] Mike Roth: Yeah. Are you working with him again this year? 

[00:18:59] Deanna Peden: Yes. I actually have quite a few high school students from The Villages charter school. Jack Dasher is one of the favorites I think of The Villages. He's done the lead, he did the leading role in Fiddler and 

[00:19:11] Mike Roth: He was very good. 

[00:19:12] Deanna Peden: Yeah he's very serious.

He's auditioning for some of the prime schools in the country. And Lehnowski invited me to work with the leads in the cast of Sweeney Todd and Emily Veri

did the lead in that, Mrs. Lovett, and she went on to New York, and she's studying there now with, I think it's called AMDA, American Musical Dance Academy she's doing really well. But I love working with the high school students because they're really hungry and a lot of them haven't worked with anyone before, so they're easy to work with.

They don't have any embedded issues with their voices. 

[00:19:45] Mike Roth: What is their spring show going to be? 

[00:19:48] Deanna Peden: I think little Shop of Horrors.

[00:19:50] Mike Roth: What I like though is that the orchestra is mainly villagers, Who had really good musical talent. And there's probably 10 out of the 30 who were high schoolers, but there was a phenomenal orchestra.

[00:20:04] Deanna Peden: I have to tell you, I have let the kids know what an honor it is to get to perform with a live orchestra. I always did. But things have changed with technology.

Do you know how many people tell me that they don't have singing talent? And it turns out that they do, or they've had somebody taint them a young age and tell 'em they ,can't sing in tune.  And those people don't really know what that means to begin with, but yet they're telling someone they're outta tune.

That happens a lot. So you may have a hidden talent. 

[00:20:29] Mike Roth: Oh yes. I've been accused of that a lot. 

[00:20:32] Deanna Peden: So maybe it was a blessing. 

You know what's interesting is that. From a marketing standpoint, I've learned that when I produced Pirates of Penance in the Woodlands, for instance I did do some productions.

I had DLP production, that was the name of my company. Houston on Broadway, it was called. And we did Pirates of Penance and I marketed as a English musical use a word like opera. And that's not gonna really be a selling point. 'cause people hear the word opera and they're like, Ugh.

[00:20:57] Mike Roth: Now have I forgotten to ask you one important question? 

[00:21:00] Deanna Peden: I don't know, have you? It's up to you. You're asking me, 

[00:21:03] Mike Roth: have we left anything out that you want to include? 

[00:21:05] Deanna Peden: Lemme see. Yeah. I'd love to include if anyone's interested in, studying that singing they're serious Sure.

And acting. 'cause it goes hand in hand. Sure. The words and the singing go hand in hand. That's something I'd like to touch on too, is that voice lessons for me isn't just about getting this beautiful tone. It's also about connecting the words with the music, because that's what makes a good performer and that's what makes the audience go, Ooh.

[00:21:29] Mike Roth: Do you have a website that people could go to? I do. 

[00:21:32] Deanna Peden: It has some, testimonials from different people in the business about it.

[00:21:35] Mike Roth: Sure. Why don't you tell everyone what the website is? 

[00:21:38] Deanna Peden: It is deannapeden.com.

D-E-A-N-N-A-P-E-D-E N.com. 

[00:21:47] Mike Roth: And is there a phone number that come of your call about information on singing lessons? 

[00:21:52] Deanna Peden: Sure. My phone number is (801) 557-6693. You can text or call if I'm not available. I will get back to you soon as I can. And then my email is DLPvocalstudio@gmail.com.

So that's D as in David, L as in Larry, P as in Peter, vocalstudio@gmail.com. Yeah. 

[00:22:13] Mike Roth: That's great. Thanks for being on the show, Deanna. 

[00:22:15] Deanna Peden: That's my pleasure. 

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