Motherofthemall

We got back from Texas State and my daughter was very impressed with the musical theater dance program. Robin Lewis has so many Broadway credits, you're right AlexaMT. We wished we could have meet with him but his studio is in Austin. However, we met with Kaitlin Hopkins personally(!) and the program seems to be really taking off. We gained a lot of information from her and she suggested a book (she could tell I was green). I found it on Amazon when I searched college audition guide - I'll share it with ya'll on the book thread since this is about TCU. Going to TCU and OU next! And EricsMom I'll ask more about the TCU dance.

Ericsmom

From what I've heard, the MT majors do not get to dance with the dance majors at TCU. If you want to dance in MT, you need to check out what is going to be offered. I'm concerned it may not be as much dance as in some other programs.

austinmtmom

Motherofthemall - Robin Lewis is a wonderful teacher (and a very nice guy as well!) Just got an email with the ZACH Theatre 2010-2011 season and he is choreographing both Rent and Hairspray for them. Just wanted to let you know in case you wanted to check out of his shows.

Motherofthemall

We learned at TCU that musical theatre students take dance every semester for 4 years and are offered every kind of style you can imagine including dance conditioning (a new one on me!) Also, the more advanced dancers in the musical theatre dept. may take class with dance majors in the dance department, but they have to audition to get in.
Didn't have time to get to OU, but hope to soon.

Rice1961

Can students who are not theater majors audition for plays? Is there a comedy improv group/troupe on campus?

kamtca

Hi all. After searching this website for about a year now, I'm actually going to post something!

Does anyone know how intense the dance audition is for TCU (specifically at the LA unifieds, if that makes a difference)? I'll be auditioning in February and, seeing how I only have a few years of jazz/modern under my belt, I'm a little intimidated!

megpmom

My D auditioned on campus last year and said that the dance portion was the most difficult of any of her auditions. And she has 10 years of dance. BUT, it may not be the same at Unifieds. Just go in with a positive attitude and have fun. Smile!

kamtca

Thanks for the response. Do you remember what was included in the dance audition (what styles?)? This is my only school with a dance audition so I'm really not sure what to expect.

And Rice-any major can audition for the shows.

megpmom

Last year's on campus dance audition was jazz. D said "afro-carribean" jazz - but the selection will probably be different this year.

snapdragonfly

Well, thought I'd pop in here because D is auditioning at TCU in 3 weeks. We haven't paid a lot of attention to it because we sort of already knew it was pretty much a top notch school and program in every way and didn't feel the need to investigate for ourselves much other than how can she get IN. :-) I have about a dozen family members who are alumni's and many of D's high school friends will be going there. You really can't find much bad to say about TCU. At least that's my impression because I've heard people who either love or don't really love so much, just about every school in our area, but I've never heard a bad thing about TCU so far.

Anyway, I'm really hoping they like her and give her an offer, including some money, because it is a private school and none of them are an option for us without some fairly decent aid.

Does anyone know if they cap their freshman admittances into MT or acting and if so, how many they take?

D is primarily wanting an MT program but she is completely open to a good Acting program if she has access to voice and dance. She's already very accomplished in dance so she just needs to be able to stay in practice and learn to fine tune it for MT; and the most important thing she needs for her voice right now, I think, is to continue getting good private coaching; those things can be accomplished in an Acting program if the school has and allows her access to the dance and voice. So she'll audition for both if they let them do that.

Anyone have any recent information on the auditions and program?

typecast

My D just auditioned was accepted on the spot,I believe they take five girls and five boys, also M.T. and Drama BFA's can cross over and audition for all shows plus not wait for junior year to do so .Sounds like a great program to me....

kksmom5

^^^Wow! Congrats to your D typecast.

typecast

Thanks so much..

Rice1961

Good luck! TCU has an amazing MT Program!