Kristin Chenoweth Kelli O'Hara Stacey Logan (do I need to tell you what she's been in?) Lara Teeter (first OCU Tony nominee) Julie Hanson (current Christine in Broadway's POTO) Ron Raines (Broadway and "The Guiging Light") Alyson Turner ("Boys From Syracuse and "Look of Love") Dan Webb ("La Bohem") Sarah Coburn (Johanna last years "Sweeny Todd" Ny Opera) Kynnie Dye ("Sussical" tour) Amanda Huddleston ("Cosette" Les Miz tour and Broadway) Roy Bean (longest running Mary Sunshine in "Chicago" Broadway and tour) Nichole Andogga (current "Oklahoma" tour) Jeremy Hayes (current Jimmy understudy "Millie" at North Shore)
and..not an alumni..but Eric Devin, current Duke/Pap in the "Big River" tour and General Schmidtz in "Sussical" and in "Ragtime", was director of the musical theater program.
I have a question- In the Drama program at Julliard do you get any vocal training, I know Mandy Patinkin said when he went there he didn't sing at all. Did all these people go to the voice or drama program?
Also, why is it I can't seem to find info on undergrad drama at yale on their website? It's been frusturating me.
Mandy Patinkin-Julliard
"Without Jews, fags, and gypsies, there is no theatre!"
~Mel Brooks, To be or not to be
Kelly Karbacz (current Maureen in Rent) - Tisch I am not sure if it was said but: JLT - University of Michigan Shoshana Bean - CCM Saycon Sengbloh - Agnes Scott College (I think) Jason Biggs - New York University (attended for one semester); Montclair State University Stephanie D'Abruzzo - Northwestern University John Lithgow - B.A. in history and literature from Harvard University; and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art Carolee Carmello - State University of New York Norbert Leo Butz - B.F.A. from Webster University; M.F.A from Alabama Shakespeare Festival
Wow, way to rain on our parade. I happen to think all of these people are respectable, no matter how "famous" they are. I hope to be on one of these lists one day. Does that mean I want to be famous? No. Being recognized and respected does not necessarily mean being famous. And I think theatre folk accept that. I, for one, do. I won't lose sleep over that fact that I probably won't be nationally or internationally known. After all, this is the theatre community and not Hollywood.
Plum: "Yep. It's always between Williams, Amherst, and Swarthmore. Not that I read the rankings 3,452 times back when I was searching." I go to one of those schools, and it's not like we, uh, pay a lot of attention to that or anything. Never. But we went up a slot this year, and our applications went up by something like 12%. Go figure.
As to not be entirely off-topic, Sondheim went to Williams (bastard!), Cole Porter went to Yale (where he wrote most of their fight songs), and George Gershwin never bothered to go to college at all.
Oops. I guess they aren't very "recent." But I think they're still interesting.
"WHEN is the winter of our discontent?"
"NOW is the winter of our discontent!"
Visit My Blog
before he went to juliard, mandy patinkin went to the University of Kansas for two years. a funny story... he was asked to give a master class at harvard, and afterward he got this package in the mail. it was a certificate that read something like "harvard university would like to thank mandy patinkin for her contributions...she has benifited our school greatly..." and he says it's the first thing you see when you walk in his house.
Yes, Ana Gasteyer went to Northwestern, as did Brian d'Arcy James and Spencer Kayden.
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
Hey guys, does anyone have a definite on whether Michael Arden studied voice or acting at Juilliard? It's my guess that he studied voice and his acting skills are incidental, rather than the other way around . . . those chords have GOT to be classically trained, am I right?
"I am the sound of distant thunder, the color of flame."
CARRIE the Musical
Hmmm, I was actually thinking the other way around. At Juilliard, the voice department trains singers to sing operatically. I took master classes with one of the faculty members and I almost went there (but stupid people lost my admission CD, ugh). So, I'm guessing the drama department, although I'm just guessing.
Really? He totally strikes me as an opera singer who also acts, not vice versa - I mean, he's such a ham acting-wise, and his vocal technique is so wonderful that any of his pop flourishes sound put-on. I'd be surprised if he studied acting, not opera, at Juilliaaahhhd.
"I am the sound of distant thunder, the color of flame."
CARRIE the Musical