The College Thread... — Page 3

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

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

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Chester Gregory from Hairspray went to Columbia College Chicago.

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...

im sorry but hardly anyone on this thread is famous!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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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!

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

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

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.

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