04-16-2008, 08:16 PM
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| The numbers who audition for Tisch Drama are higher than mentioned above. Here is a post made by Arthur Bartow in '05 which covered this as well as other issues. Quote:
Regarding our musical theatre program: This is an acting program that trains singers and dancers. Being a belter is not helpful if your head voice is not also developed. In fact, belting can be destructive to the voice without developing the head voice. You must be equally strong as an actor to any musical theatre skills you may possess. We have 1,000 applicants to our musical theatre program annually. We select 75 in order to make a class of 64.
Regarding taking a second choice studio for students who are not selected to the musical theatre program. With the huge number of applicants we have, not all the talented people who audition can be accepted into that studio. We ask our applicants to musical theatre if they might be interested in a second choice studio if they are not chosen for musical theatre. There is no obligation to have a second choice and it has no bearing on whether or not an applicant is accepted into musical theatre. If fact, we urge our applicants please not to say they have a second choice if they cannot be happy studying in a non-musical studio. Once the determination has been made about the musical theatre class for these applicants, we then examine if these students have the "chops" to do well in a non-musical acting studio. If we feel that they do, they are invited to take their second choice. If a student is rejected for the program, he/she is not invited to the second choice. We maintain the quality of all our studios equally. We currently accept 15% to 17% from the 2,500 to 3,000 applicants we have for all studios. Students who accept a non-musical studio do not have the opportunity to move to musical theatre once they are in the program until they have completed two years in the non-musical studio.
Sincerely,
Arthur Bartow
Artistic Director
Tisch Drama
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