does anyone attend a professional performing arts high school?

other than me? lol

i just want to see how mine compares to other performing arts high schools in the country.

we perform an average of 3 shows a year, in addition to performing polished numbers for CEOs of different countries, performing for many openings of pavilions, and even touring JAPAN!
we have regular bells like other high schools, but with musical theatre subjects being Dance [ballet, tap, jazz, modern, movement], Singing [italian, classical, belt (my favorite class!)], acting [stage, monologue, tv, mime, etc], and other helpful classes like Audition tech, musical theatre performance, and broadway literature.
we have guests from everywhere come and rate our level as a performer [such as Frank Wildhorn] and teachers off of broadway like 42nd street and cats.
there are only 26 musical theatre members at our performing arts school [out of a possible 700 that audition for it]. It's my second family and i love it so much there! the other departments include Theatre [about 80 people], Visual Arts [50], Instrumental [90], Vocal [60] and Dance [40]. its amazing.

i'd love to hear about somebody else's performing arts high school. please!

Updated On: 8/21/05 at 12:31 AM

stagebeauty- which school do you attend?

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the governor's school for the arts

EDIT: http://www.gsarts.net

Updated On: 8/21/05 at 06:57 PM

LaGuardia...that's a fantastic school in the city, they study conservatory style and all--very intense. Got in for fine art, but I took the academic route and went elsewhere, espcially when I found out that you can't take drama studio courses when your in art. :/

http://www.insideschools.org/fs/school_profile.php?id=959 <--LaGuardia if you're interested.

My Fair Lady is right, I do attend La Guardia High School.
There are several majors at my school - Technical Theater, Drama, Art, Dance, Vocal and Instrumental.
I am in the drama department. Freshman and Sophmores have four drama classes in the morning and their academics in the afternoon and Juniors and Seniors have their academics in the morning and their 4 drama periods in the afternoon.
In the drama department, our 4 periods are each 40 minutes long. For the first two periods we have rotating classes (Vocal Tech, Vocal Production, Dance, Improv, Theater Movement, Make up...), the second two periods is your studio class.
Your schedule at La Guardia is the same every day except some majors (such as drama) have rotating classes.

I also go to LaGuardia, but I'm in the Vocal department. We take 3 to 4 classes in music each semester. In my freshman year, I took Voice (Italian and German), piano, sight singing, and beginning chorus. In my sophomore year, I took voice (french and english), mixed chorus, and theory. In my junior year, I will take music history, senior chorus, and opera workshop. In the senior year, there are many electives including New Music, jazz, and opera. There is 1 musical a year, which is actually rehearsed in a special class you take during school, but some teachers are working on having an additional musical with after-school rehearsals. There is also an opera and numerous concerts each year. We have the same schedule every day, and we take every class that every other regular high school offers. It does stink that we cannot take classes in other majors, but otherwise I love it there and the whole school is like a huge, gigantic family.

I was about to go out for La Guardia..but then discovered I could not board there since I wasn't a New York citizen.

sb- does your school have board?


I'm starting this performing arts school that I'm sort of rotating with my regular high school..but I don't think it's professional..

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Updated On: 8/22/05 at 03:38 PM

no it doesnt. i go to a reg. high school for my regular classes for about a quarter of the day. at 12 i leave and go to GSA [in a different part of the state that i live in] and train there till about 9 pm everyday


That's exactly what my school is like..

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No it's not GSA..it's this school in Trumbull, CT and a bus takes me half day from my high school to this school..it's called MCA

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SALLYBROWN...omg I used to go there...it's called RCA. I went my sophomore and junior year...but I didn't go back this year because I really didn't like ti anymore and I wasn't learning anything.

It's not for everyone. I mean the first year I went I loved it but then things changed. I think it also depends on your skill level because the teaching is far from great. I would try it out tho. It's jsut a place that you either love or hate...there is really no inbetween.

And also to answer your question...it's NOT a professional performing arts school because anyone can go there (from certain schools or course)...there's no audition or anything.

Good luck to you tho!

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I find it funny that most people are better off at a well funded public or private school over a creative and performing arts school. the one in cincy sucked.

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I don't go to a performing arts school, but I think it might as well be called one. I go to Bradford High School in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and we do 9 shows a year (6 musicals, 3 straight shows). We have 6 teachers that are involved in the theater department (3 directors, 1 stage craft teacher, and 2 dance teachers). We have dance classes that you can take and a school dance company. We have 4 different choirs, Madrigal Singers, music theory classes, acting classes, television classes etc. We usually go to International Thespian Festival at least every other year and bring a mainstage show. We've gone to the Edinburgh (sp?!) Festival twice. But it's a public school. Our program is run a little differently than most schools though. Students from 5 different schools in the county can audition for the shows and be involved in the program so it's not just strictly kids from Bradford, it's kids from 4 other schools as well that are in the shows.

We also do shows that are pretty rare to find in high school. We just got done with "Sweeney Todd" (which we took to the 2005 ITF) and "Violet" last year. We've done "Parade" (which went to the 2003 ITF), "A Chorus Line", "Side Show", "The Secret Garden", "Man of La Mancha", "Sunday in the Park with George" and others.

I love my high school. I couldn't be happier!

Updated On: 11/4/05 at 12:17 AM

I graduated from Hs Capa in Philadelphia. My mother graduated from LaGuardia for Dance.

I think the performing arts high school concept is simply remarkable and it works for those who really have what it takes to succeed in anything they do. whether they want to pursue a career in the arts or not, it always prepares them for whatever.

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