Opinions sought about musical Theater schools

I'm trying to get an idea of what musical theater schools in my area (Northeastern Ohio)have to offer. Does anybody have an opinion about Kent State University's Musical Theater program? My daughter is a vocal performance major at another school, and can't get much in the way of acting classes or experience there. She did a big musical in regional professional theater this past summer and wants to be on stage for the rest of her life. Advice? Thank you!

*cough* and Jennifer Laura Thompson and Gavin Creel :)

<--huge fan of everything Michigan does, and their shows are AMAZING (can't comment on classes, though)

Try University of Michigan, thats where i'm gonna go, but you need a 3.8 GPA or higher to have a good chance, but I think the majority of the depends on your audition, but for the audition you need two monolgues, one dramatic one cometic. 2 songs, but they can't be from a long list of songs, you need one ballet and one fast tempo. and there is a huge danceing section.

Did you see 'Chorus Line' this year?

nope, i'm in NYC for college! but my mom saw it and liked it, i think. but besides this year, i've seen almost every show there for the last 10 years. of course 10 years ago i was 8 so i really don't remember much!

Updated On: 11/18/04 at 09:46 PM

Hehe. All these schools are in Michigan...apparently I'm not the only Michigander around here.:) Yay! Westerns program is very good, too.

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Northwestern University in Illinois, University of Michigan, Roosevelt University, and DePaul University in Chicago all have great musical theatre programs. I am personally looking to get into Columbia College Chicago for their musical theatre performance program. They are an all arts school right in the heart of downtown chicago - parents won't let me go to NYC, they says that it's too far from home (I live in Michigan), but they love Chicago and the fact that it's only a four hour train ride from home is a plus for them too.

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Here is a website that might help you:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2

Near the beginning of the forum, you will almost always see a thread titled "Colleges for Musical Theater Major - Part 30," which contains an ongoing discussion of this topic by parents, students, and at least one professor. (He happens to be from Otterbein College, which is in your area.) The first page in the thread contains the link to page 29 from the site before it was revised earlier this year, and from there you can trace it all the way back to page 1. The discussion has been going on for at least two years and contains information which is so hard to find in ordinary college evaluation books, which seldom review musical theater programs.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

My friends are auditioning this weekend for Oklahoma City University. Good luck!

OCU will not allow you audition either unless you have been accepted to the university. They actually did not admit another friend cause they had too low an ACT score (20). Oh well..guess that's they there's CCM!