What are some Broadway performers who didn't go to college for musical theater/voice/etc.? I'm sure there must be a bunch, but who actually makes it to the stage and is successful?
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Carolee Carmello went to school for business. I believe she's never taken voice lessons, either- which is incredible
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yep eden worked at disneyland & universal instead from a broadway.com interview: I never went to school; I spent my college years working. These jobs helped me to find my own way, in terms of performing." http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=42348
Many, many performers are and were very successful onstage without college degrees- not just the people of the most recent generation listed. Some people have "it" naturally. Ethel Merman never got a freakin' Tisch degree.
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At the risk of annoying a lot of people who have their degrees in this field...it isn't a necessity to have a degree in something theatre related to make it, at all. If you've got it, you've got it.
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I don't believe NORM LEWIS (Les Miserables Revival (Javert), Little Mermaid(King Triton)) went to college for theatre, but I could be wrong. I thought I read an interview somewhere that said he did something with journalism.
"Many of them even learned how to spell "college," too."
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yes, i remember her saying on the American Theater Wings, Performing In The Theater and she said that they told her that she will never make it on Broadway and she will get no where.
"In the U.S.A.
You can have your say,
You can set you goals
And seize the day,
You've been given the freedom
To work your way
To the head of the line-
To the head of the line!"
---Stephen Sondheim
"A lot of the SA cast are still too young for college!"
yea i know, thats why i said, b/c everyone is so young. don't have to get harsh: a lot of the spring awakening cast didn't go to college, prob because everyone is so young. some are in school currently though.
I only ask because I've recently discovered how disappointed I am in the american schooling system. However, I wanted to go to college for the extra training.
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There are probably just as many actors with degrees out of work as there are without. The only difference is the ones without aren't $180,000 in the hole.
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