| Hi, just thought I would put in my two cents on the UB program. I was a freshman music theatre major at UB from 2006-2007. I left the program after a year, but I can tell you that it was NOT because of the training I was given.
The Dance program is excellent, and while it is true that dancing for MT majors is limited, you still do get a lot of good out of it. In my personal experience, I had not dance a day in my life before coming to UB, in fact I was lucky if I could walk across the room without tripping. However after a year of dance at UB I find that I now can dance in shows very confidently and at least appear (if not actually being) competent with my dancing.
The Acting is also very strong, there are many great professors in the program and between acting, singing, and dancing you recieve the most training in acting.
Singing, well let me say it's not as bad as people make it out today. True it could improve and i would have loved to have longer voice lessons, but even with just the half hour per week I found that my singing improved immensley.
Another great thing about the program is that the freshmen have just as good a chance of being cast as anybody. I was cast in two department productions while I was there and I must say that both were excellent. In addition to department productions, there a several student productions each semester and it is more than likely that between the department and student productions that everybody will be cast in something.
To make it clear I left the program not because of the training I was getting, but because I didn't fit in with the other students and it was making it miserable for me to be there. But I thought the training I recieved was excellent and I would suggest at least giving the program a look.
Glad I could help. |