As the Musical Theatre syllabus is about acting through song it is all about the choices made to support both the spoken and sung text that a song requires in moments of delivery. There should be a sense of: Understanding how breathing works, the difference in diaphragmatic breath and clavicular breath and when you might need a high breath in engaging with individual technique and particular support on difficult notes for a vocal range. It is about how we breath to support the phrasing of the dramatic text being delivered (the song lyric in MT is a dramatic text) Understanding how breath informs acting, so a sense of recognising character breath that supports situation, thought process and again melodic phrasing. How breath support differs between differing songs that require differing style of sung voice, legit, belt or contemporary for instance, what does a style require in terms of support for the voice to move from start to end. Basically, the question is about how you have had to breath to support the differing styles of song and the character. Learners should be able to understand some technical terminology: Where the voice comes from so diaphragm, intercostal muscles, xiphoid area, abdominals, rib reserve so basically the areas that help someone doing musical theatre to breath. Some ideas as to how breath supports voice production including resonance and articulation (a patter song requires breath control in a differing way to a torch song and a character song is acting/speaking driven – so voice production for success is vital to breath support).