Kellster,
Cool to see somebody is following my “plan.”
I didn’t realize they’d had that much recent success. Most of what I know about the school as a whole comes from my mom being an alum of their nursing program. CoC is located near the beach in a really beautiful historic port city and the academics have a decent - but not spectacular - reputation. I remember that it’s fairly easy to graduate in three years if you bring in a lot of AP credit. It’s also very much a party school though I doubt anybody will pin you down and funnel beer down your throat if you don’t want them to.
The theatre department itself is recommended in the Arco guide for what that’s worth. Everything I’ve gathered is that the students love most of the faculty in general and completely worship the ground that Joy Vandervort-Cobb walks on. There are also a lot of performance opportunities outside the main stage. I’m not sure if they allow students to participate or if they even have time, but there is a lot of theatre in Charleston in general – both professional and “community” – as well as a good number of film shoots. The city also hosts the
Spoleto Festival and CoC students get to intern. Besides that, there are some professional studios like the
Actors’ Theatre of South Carolina. Check out the teachers’ resumes. Nice, eh?
Chrism,
The ones I labeled “selective” are just the ones I personally know to be so. It’s definitely not scientific. I know absolutely nothing about UArts and very little about Roosevelt except that my school has had people accepted and none ever went. They could well be very selective as could some others. There are still others that are very good that I wouldn’t label “selective,” though. For instance, I understand that Hartt admits a lot of kids expecting to only have a fairly small percentage actually attend and there’s no doubt in my mind that you can get excellent training there. There are others like Catawba College that offer very good training as well, but the audition for the BFA doesn’t happen until the spring of freshman year and admission is no gimme. I notice that I did make a booboo. The University of Oklahoma is the one that has a presence at the Unifieds – not Oklahoma State.
Yay! Evansville has a notoriously lousy website with no pics, etc. and somebody sent me links to pics of some of last year’s productions. I can’t wait to work with these people!
Handler Jane Eyre, The Musical Flyin’ West Our Town
They also did "Three Sisters" and "A Bright Room Called Day" though no pics.
Oh, yeah ... Freshmen can and often do get cast.
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