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I just went to mention that even IF Emerson has some agents for the whole day......the comparison that the person made at Emerson is not accurate to other programs (again, they need to tout their own program rather than tell what other colleges do or don't do). At my D's program, they bring agents and casting directors into school for an entire week at a time to work with students and into classes all the time (not on the showcase days). They used casting directors to even conduct the auditions to get into the showcase and to select the students. So, the showcase is not the only time agents or casting directors see or work with the students. Also, add to that, since they are in NYC, such people sometimes also attend productions on campus. So, if Emerson invites these agents or casting people to work with their students for a day, that is NOT unique. Several programs, including my D's, bring in such industry folk to work with their students BESIDES attending showcase. Maybe Emerson makes a day of it on their showcase day, but some programs have these agents in at other times of the year. For instance, CAP21 has an entire semester working with agents and casting directors prior to the showcase. In fact, one of my D's best friends and college roommate her first two years, with whom she has been doing theater since they were kids, during her CAP showcase semester, obtained an agent who was one of the agents brought in to work with the kids during the semester (this is the thrust of their final semester in that program) and was cast as a lead on a National Tour on her last day of school (she graduated mid year this school year). She had all that in place before she even performed in the showcase....all because the agent was working with the class during the semester.
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