So...it's something we know coming into this school the Freshman DO NOT perform. We are assigned crew and costume work for all the shows. WELL, the director of the theatre program comes into class (we were in Musical Theatre Chorus Lab) and he tells us that they've decided that Sophomores will not be allowed to perform their first semester!!!!!!! They based this decision off the present sophomore class. All the guys were cast and one girl except for 9 other girls who were deemed unprepared and not ready to be in a mainstage production. What kind of BS is that? Just because the present sophomore class wasn't good enough, we're not allowed to perform our first semester!!!
We're paying money and working our asses off to get the chance to perform and because one class messes that up, we lose our privilege!! I mean, it's not that we don't get to perform period. But we have to participate in a "project" which is basically a straight play, directed and performed infront of no audience! Only the students. How lame is that?! We're MTs not ATs. We're here to perform in musicals and gain experience!
We were supposed to audition in April for the fall semester shows and but we can't obviously. We want the chance to audition and if they think we're not ready, put us in the project, but at least we had the chance to audition. Not ALL of us are unprepared, some of us are ready to move on.
I don't know, some of us called our parents about it and they're furious. We're planning a Freshman MT meeting to discuss if we should write a letter or if to bring it up at all.
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