Are there BFA Musical Theatre programs that are non-audition?

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 2/7/08 at 3:16pm

Im just curious, I'm only a sophomore. :)

Updated On: 2/7/08 at 03:16 PM

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 2/7/08 at 5:22pm

bump

[lovelyspotlight]

Posted: 2/7/08 at 7:55pm

I am not certain, but I'm pretty sure that the answer is no.

[AnnaK<3LMIP]

Posted: 2/7/08 at 9:03pm

Columbia Chicago, I think. I dunno. I guy I know wants to go there. I asked him if he would earn his BFA, and he said yes. Then I asked him how his audition went and he said he didn't need to audition...

Honestly? I wouldn't trust a school that doesn't require auditions.

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 2/7/08 at 9:18pm

thanks
idk though, annaleigh ashford went to a non-audition school

here comes the anti legallyblondewicked comments...

[RENT123]

Posted: 2/7/08 at 11:08pm

FYI, Annaleigh Ashford went to Marymount Manhattan in New York. And you do have to audition to get into the musical theatre program.

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 2/7/08 at 11:16pm

Really? Someone told me it was non-audition.
Oh, well, wasn't planning on going there anyway.

[lovelyspotlight]

Posted: 2/7/08 at 11:40pm

To my knowledge, there aren't many non-audition theatre programs of renown (there are SOME, that's for sure), but I KNOW that I haven't heard of any BFA non-audition schools.

If you find some, let us know. I'm intrigued.

[dramatothemax]

Posted: 2/8/08 at 12:16am

Lets just say this, if you don't have to audition for a BFA program in musical theatre...the program most likely isn't worth looking at.

[SarahBeth]

Posted: 2/8/08 at 12:49am

I go to a non audition program. Don't knock it, we're very good.
It's not musical theatre though.

[AnnaK<3LMIP]

Posted: 2/8/08 at 11:26am

As I said before, Columbia Chicago doesn't require an audition.

[lovelyspotlight]

Posted: 2/8/08 at 12:06pm

I go to a non-audition school too, Sarah Beth. It's alright. People don't generally look down AS MUCH upon non-audition non-MT schools.

I mean, at Northwestern, they DO have auditions for the MT Certificate Program. So, there's that. But y'know. Everyone's so quick to judge.

[SarahBeth]

Posted: 2/8/08 at 12:37pm

We technically do have a MT major that is by audition but I think there's like..2 people in it right now and anyone else that was in it has switched to the theatre performance. We are by no means a musical theatre school.

[erinrebecca]

Posted: 2/8/08 at 6:02pm

Columbia is a non-audition BA. Students who want to enter the BFA in MT have to audition for it after sophomore year. I hope that since they are now offering a BFA in MT, that they have adjusted their curriculum accordingly.

Posted: 2/9/08 at 8:48pm

cal state fullerton i'm pretty sure is non audition

[AnnaK<3LMIP]

Posted: 2/9/08 at 11:38pm

Ah thanks for clearing htat up, erinrebecca.

[maui_diver21]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 12:06am

There's an audition at the end of your sophomore year at Fullerton.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 12:21am

Not sure if something like this has been posted, but (and maybe ALL BFA programs are like this) but my school would only let you audition for a BFA AFTER you had completed a certain number of courses. SO you were a student there and had gotten used to the school and everything by the time you audition. Most students usually started out as a B.A. major (if they had even declared a major......although MOST theatre classes only take theatre majors) and then changed to a BFA once they got in. I'm sure there are many others like that too.

[dancnqn5]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 5:38pm

Yeah, Cal State fullerton is DEF an audition school. You not only audition the end of your sophomore year for the bfa, they make a cut the middle of sophomore year for the musical theatre class. And then, once you make it into the program, you have to audition basically until you graduate to keep your place in the program (i've seen actors get kicked out after one semester).

[theatrejock310]

Posted: 2/19/08 at 4:13am

I have read that CSUF is ranked number 8 in the country for its BFA program, and number 1 on the west coast.
How do they determine statistics such as those?

[Soozie]

Posted: 2/20/08 at 2:52am

There is no official ranking of BFA in MT programs. Programs making such claims....well....