<p>You are really smart to be starting so soon. Singing lessons, dance lessons, school and/or community theater, summer theater programs are all good ideas. Your daughter should also be seeing shows, whenever possible, at whatever level of professionalism is feasible for you. (i.e., You don’t have to spend $150 a ticket for Broadway, or at least not very often. There’s plenty of quality college, community and summer stock theater around in most places.) She should be listening to MT scores, too – a lot of times, libraries have a ton of old records. We were really fortunate to find a good, supportive youth theater near us, almost by accident. (We were looking for another summer camp one time, mostly to help out with child care, and my son ended up with a lifelong passion for Shakespeare.) It’s a wonderful thing to watch your kid find his or her reason for being – you have some exciting stuff ahead of you.</p>