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My sense from DramaQueen's post is that it's competitive for the drama majors themsleves, not just the one's minoring, hence my comments. I trained at a school that did NOT audition for the plays, roles were assigned according to what a student needed to be working at-and everyone played large roles at least once. Having that responsibility and challenge is an important part of the training. I also don't quite get auditioning when there are only a few of you to begin with, unless an outside director is brought in each kid's work is well known to the faculty by the time they're casting a play.
I'm very much in favor of the U of M/Guthrie program where roles are assigned, it shows a dedication to training the actor fully, which I think is the school's #1 job, not pyschologically training them for the business.
BTW my D also got into Fordham, several years ago , as a theatre minor and it was indicated at that time that many started that way and with attrition it was not unusualy for the minors to fill spaces that opened up after freshman year. But it was run by a different person then-and she wound up at Tisch. |