The College Thread...- Page 3

[Chitty]

Posted: 5/12/05 at 7:18pm

Here's the OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY alumni:

Kristin Chenoweth
Kelli O'Hara
Stacey Logan (do I need to tell you what she's been in?)
Lara Teeter (first OCU Tony nominee)
Julie Hanson (current Christine in Broadway's POTO)
Ron Raines (Broadway and "The Guiging Light")
Alyson Turner ("Boys From Syracuse and "Look of Love")
Dan Webb ("La Bohem")
Sarah Coburn (Johanna last years "Sweeny Todd" Ny Opera)
Kynnie Dye ("Sussical" tour)
Amanda Huddleston ("Cosette" Les Miz tour and Broadway)
Roy Bean (longest running Mary Sunshine in "Chicago" Broadway and tour)
Nichole Andogga (current "Oklahoma" tour)
Jeremy Hayes (current Jimmy understudy "Millie" at North Shore)

and..not an alumni..but Eric Devin, current Duke/Pap in the "Big River" tour and General Schmidtz in "Sussical" and in "Ragtime", was director of the musical theater program.

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

Updated On: 5/12/05 at 07:18 PM

[IveGottaBeME]

Posted: 5/12/05 at 7:31pm

did anyone go to UARts in Philly? i'm going there next year... Billy porter is my idolllllll

[babygiraffeboots]

Posted: 5/12/05 at 7:37pm

I have a question- In the Drama program at Julliard do you get any vocal training, I know Mandy Patinkin said when he went there he didn't sing at all. Did all these people go to the voice or drama program?

Also, why is it I can't seem to find info on undergrad drama at yale on their website? It's been frusturating me.

Mandy Patinkin-Julliard

[ikmbway]

Posted: 5/12/05 at 8:44pm

Kelly Karbacz (current Maureen in Rent) - Tisch
I am not sure if it was said but:
JLT - University of Michigan
Shoshana Bean - CCM
Saycon Sengbloh - Agnes Scott College (I think)
Jason Biggs - New York University (attended for one semester); Montclair State University
Stephanie D'Abruzzo - Northwestern University
John Lithgow - B.A. in history and literature from Harvard University; and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Carolee Carmello - State University of New York
Norbert Leo Butz - B.F.A. from Webster University; M.F.A from Alabama Shakespeare Festival

thats it for now til i find more

[Ruthie211]

Posted: 5/12/05 at 9:42pm

Chester Gregory from Hairspray went to Columbia College Chicago.

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 5/12/05 at 11:40pm

What does CMU stand for?

I've found this thread very helpful. I'm currently searching for schools as a musical theater major and am glad I found this thread. Thanks everyone.

Posted: 5/12/05 at 11:52pm

Here are some Broadway people who came from NYU-Steinhardt

Comden and Green
Alan Menken
John Patrick Shanley
Haviland Stillwell and Elena Shaddow (Fiddler on the Roof)

There are others but they escape me at this moment...

[BroadwayGirl107]

Posted: 5/12/05 at 11:55pm

Not sure if I said this and missed it but:

Julia Murney- Syracuse University

[bronxboundexpress]

Posted: 5/12/05 at 11:59pm

im sorry but hardly anyone on this thread is famous!

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 5/13/05 at 12:20am

Wow, way to rain on our parade.
I happen to think all of these people are respectable, no matter how "famous" they are.
I hope to be on one of these lists one day. Does that mean I want to be famous? No. Being recognized and respected does not necessarily mean being famous. And I think theatre folk accept that. I, for one, do. I won't lose sleep over that fact that I probably won't be nationally or internationally known. After all, this is the theatre community and not Hollywood.

~Steven

[iwearshoes]

Posted: 5/13/05 at 12:29am

I totally agree. I want to be on the list not because i want the "fame" but because i want to continue to do what i love.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/13/05 at 12:33am

Guys, don't even bother trying to clarify or explain yourselves; it's bronx.

[Liz_Bennet]

Posted: 5/13/05 at 12:58am

Plum:
"Yep. It's always between Williams, Amherst, and Swarthmore.
Not that I read the rankings 3,452 times back when I was searching."
I go to one of those schools, and it's not like we, uh, pay a lot of attention to that or anything. Never. But we went up a slot this year, and our applications went up by something like 12%. Go figure.

As to not be entirely off-topic, Sondheim went to Williams (bastard!), Cole Porter went to Yale (where he wrote most of their fight songs), and George Gershwin never bothered to go to college at all.

Oops. I guess they aren't very "recent." But I think they're still interesting.

Updated On: 5/13/05 at 12:58 AM

[thawikedclown]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 1:41am

BRAD PITT WENT TO AMDA!!!!!!!!!!!! then dropped out!

[thawikedclown]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 1:41am

BRAD PITT WENT TO AMDA!!!!!!!!!!!! then dropped out!

[feinstein9]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 4:05am

before he went to juliard, mandy patinkin went to the University of Kansas for two years. a funny story... he was asked to give a master class at harvard, and afterward he got this package in the mail. it was a certificate that read something like "harvard university would like to thank mandy patinkin for her contributions...she has benifited our school greatly..." and he says it's the first thing you see when you walk in his house.

[DBillyP]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 11:19am

Yes, Ana Gasteyer went to Northwestern, as did Brian d'Arcy James and Spencer Kayden.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 11:57am

Jennifer Barnhart (Avenue Q) - University of Connecticut (BFA in acting with puppetry concentration)

Brad Oscar (The Producers) - Boston University (BFA - not sure if it was acting or directing)

Jason Alexander - Boston University, but was either kicked out or he dropped out year shy of graduation

[breakneckspeed]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 12:30pm

Jason Alexander wasn't kicked out - he left to join the original company of Merrily We Roll Along as Joe. Same reason Tonya Pinkins left CMU!

[Aigoo]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 4:15pm

What does CMU stand for?

Carnegie Mellon University. PA.

[Broadway_freak]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 5:28pm

Kathy Voytko is AMAZING. She should never be denied star status!!

[TheColorOfFlame]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 6:01pm

Hey guys, does anyone have a definite on whether Michael Arden studied voice or acting at Juilliard? It's my guess that he studied voice and his acting skills are incidental, rather than the other way around . . . those chords have GOT to be classically trained, am I right?

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 7:17pm

Hmmm, I was actually thinking the other way around. At Juilliard, the voice department trains singers to sing operatically. I took master classes with one of the faculty members and I almost went there (but stupid people lost my admission CD, ugh). So, I'm guessing the drama department, although I'm just guessing.

~Steven

[birdboy782]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 7:29pm

Updated On: 5/20/05 at 07:29 PM

[TheColorOfFlame]

Posted: 5/21/05 at 5:06pm

Really? He totally strikes me as an opera singer who also acts, not vice versa - I mean, he's such a ham acting-wise, and his vocal technique is so wonderful that any of his pop flourishes sound put-on. I'd be surprised if he studied acting, not opera, at Juilliaaahhhd.