Being a Theatre Major... stress & venting- Page 3

[WayWicked]

Posted: 8/9/04 at 10:51pm

Congrats to those of you smart enough to check out and choose Oklahoma City University as your musical theater college.

With the smallest class size of any other major MT college (thirteen to one class ratio), a brand new 35 million dollar music school building (with three theaters) and one of the lowest tuitions for a nationally ranked MT program, you can't loose.

Don't believe me. Just ask Kelli O'Hara....Stacey Logan...Ron Raines...Jordan Ballard...Lara Teeter...and Kristen.

http://www.okcu.edu/music/alumni.asp

Email me with any questions! I go there!

Updated On: 8/9/04 at 10:51 PM

[NYUstud]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 12:13am

I was just at the OCU campus last week and it was a lot of fun. Lots of amazing things happen there. Kristin is giving a gala concert there in September b4 her Carnegie Hall concert. Only 250 people will be there! I wish I could go. The new stuff is going to be amazing!

NYU's teacher to student ratio is also 13 to 1.

[kitkatgirl54]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 6:23pm

yeah that 13 to 1 class ratio thing doesn't add up. i'm pretty sure a lot of schools have that. doesn't carnegie melon only have like 13 or 15 MT kids in the entire program?

but regardless, yes OCU is a good school to look into.

Posted: 8/10/04 at 7:22pm

This guy I went to high school with (i was a freshman when he graduated) got a theatre scholarship to NYU and he's a theatre major or whatever...but last i heard he was serving in some resturant, and hadn't made it big yet.

unless you're the greatest actor of all time, don't be a theatre major.

[PJ]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 8:50pm

In everything I've read about NYU, they claim their student/faculty ratio was 12:1 or 13:1. This cannot be true for the theatre dept. b/c CMU's is usually 10:1 or 11:1 and they take a 1/3 of what NYU usually takes for their Drama dept.

[kitkatgirl54]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 9:03pm

my theater classes at nyu all had 14 students. keep in mind that nyu takes the 300 students they accept and split them into "studios," depending on what they want to study and then into smaller groups from there. so even though individual attention at such a large school seems impossible, they offer plenty of it. as far as academic (theater studies, etc.) classes, usually there were about 10-12 kids in the class. the accompanying lectures, though, are more like 200 people per class.

[PJ]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 9:04pm

That is correct. I forgot that they split all the students into different studios.

[stagemaster333]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 10:18pm

Just wondering what some good school options for technical theater are. I'm interested in being backstage, stage mangaging, building sets and the like and it seems like most of the schools previously mentioned are for people who want to perform.

[kitkatgirl54]

Posted: 8/17/04 at 1:36pm

i really only know about my school, but NYU's Tisch School of the Arts has a very competitive technical theater program with i think about 12-14 admitted each year. they get a lot personal attention, work very hard and are a huge part of the theater program.

[TTL]

Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:10pm

I went to a dance program at Point Park University in Pittsburgh...good school! I love theatre and hope to make a living out of it! I'm a Senior in HS this year, but I'm a dancer/Singer first! So I'll be majoring in Dance and do my Singing/Acting on the side. I just hate the fact that some colleges, if you enroll in Musical theatre - like PPU...you can't perform freshman year, you're stuck with crew! Although I know crew is helpul to know/learn. I have been looking at Point Park, SUNY Brockport, Julliard, SUNY Purchase, Adelphi University among others

[xluckystar2107x]

Posted: 8/18/04 at 12:25am

is Pace University any good?...its in NY and has a pretty big theatre department i believe. im not sure. does anyone know anything?

[brunettebabe]

Posted: 8/18/04 at 12:35am

Typically you don't want a BIG theater department. Big department usually means lots of students. The more students you have, the less one-on-one time you get. I am currently a musical theater major at the U of Michigan and although it is a big school, the theater department holds only 80 students maximum. This includes all aspects and all years.

[Flam1ngo]

Posted: 8/18/04 at 9:56am

I am surprised at seeing Syracuse on several lists for theater. When I attended there (many moons ago) it was NOT known as a good program. When did it acquire this reputation?

[Mr. Tuttle]

Posted: 8/18/04 at 12:41pm

Syracuse is not a great program..people think cause it's in New York that it is. Guilt by association. Neither is Emerson.

[Coondiggitydogg]

Posted: 8/18/04 at 12:46pm

except that it is nowhere near the city, and it is a good program

[kitkatgirl54]

Posted: 8/18/04 at 2:12pm

yeah i doubt it being in upstate new york has any appeal to theater majors.

i don't know much about the program but it was always mentioned when i was auditioning for schools.

[lyfeisacabaret]

Posted: 8/18/04 at 2:37pm

Hi all, I'm new to the board. I just finished my whirlwind tour of colleges, and the verdict... I love Muhlenberg. Maybe it's just me, but the fact that they have a great theater program AND the traditional "college experience" makes it a top choice. The campus is GORGEOUS and the theater facilities are great. I have to say that I found Marymount Manhattan to be lacking in much depth. I feel like going there would be like High School: The Sequel. The theater programs are pretty good, but I just found the staff unequipped to deal with the students, and the all-around package wasn't great. I feel that NYU is grossly overrated. My parents can't personally afford to pay $43,000 a year for me to go to a school where it's so easy to get swept up in the shuffle. I have an A/B gpa (3.3) and a 1440 on my SATs... and I'm still not eligible for any scholarships. bah... Whatever NYU... I never liked you anyway. I visited some other schools with varying theater programs... none worth mentioning. My only school left to visit is Shenandoah. I guess it'll come down to that or Muhlenberg. There... My 2 cents.