Fordham

[scottshilstone]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 8:41pm

I am currently looking at Fordham University in NYC does anyone have anything to say about their musical theater or drama program?

[bythesword84]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 8:45pm

No but I'll be attending there (FCLC) as a transfer this fall. I'm just not going to be in the theater department.

[shesings]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 8:48pm

I had a really amazingly talented friend who hated it and switched after a semester. I think he was a fluke though and I would definatly check it out if I were you. He ended up switching to a smaller school where he could be a "bigger fish". So go with that in mind. Its a fairly large school and competitive - but worth looking in to.

[wildparty20]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 8:57pm

My best friend went to Fordham (in the Ailey dance program however). She took a couple musical theatre classes and I attended one of them on a visit, and it was awful. I also attended a production of Blood Brothers which was pretty amateur. I would look elsewhere for a theatre school. That's my opinion.

[thezackshow]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 8:59pm

Whatever you do, stay away from the theatre program at Hunter College.

[PJ]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 9:00pm

Fordham doesn't have a M.T. program for undergrads. Don't know about grads, though.

[Phantess]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 9:31pm

It's a pretty comprehensive acting program. It's got a great teaching staff. I don't think there is MT either.

The acting program is at the Lincoln Center campus and like someone said it's very competitive.

[scottshilstone]

Posted: 8/17/04 at 1:38am

I really would love to go to a school in new york city, do you recommend any with great theater or musical theater programs?

[kitkatgirl54]

Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:42am

NYU. Tisch School of the Arts is what is renowned for theater but Steinhardt's M.T. program is very up and coming. Other schools in NYC you should look at: Juilliard, The New School and Marymount Manhattan College.

[OhSoWicked]

Posted: 8/17/04 at 5:46pm

Though not in the "city", Pace University and Manhattanville College have good musical theatre programs.