| My son and I just wrapped up a 3 day visit to Tisch including this year's version of Saturday in the Square. He had so much fun and we had so many great opportunities...HE LOVES NYU. Emails went out Friday with studio assignments and he is in Stella Adler as he thought...we got lucky and ended up meeting up with an old friend that is a casting director in New York and he teaches at Atlantic so we got to go watch a 3rd year group working on their monologues for showcase and that was great. Then we stood in line for standing room only tickets to Jersey Boys with a lady that did 2 year program at AMDA and now is working as a dancer (musical theatre) in the city. She gave him so much great info and did not recommend the AMDA route as she felt it better to come out with a degree and not just a 2 year conservatory training with no degree. She told him to go to NYU, if at all possible (as did the other industry people we met) because the "intangible" of being in the city and making the connections for the next four years was THE MOST IMPORTANT aspect for all of them. They said it gives a huge advantage four years from now when everyone else arrives in the city and has to acclimate, meet people, etc. and the kids who have gone to school in the city (no matter where) are already there, connected, no people, etc. Maybe disheartening to some, but the truth of the business "it does matter who you know and the contacts you make". Anyway...we found the trip really enlightning and had a great time. Hope everyone else did too. |