ACCEPTED: Fordham Lincoln Center into Theater program!

NotMamaRose
Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:15:25 +0000

India, yes, my D is a musical theater major at Tisch’s CAP21 studio, which is the only musical theater studio. However, last year when she was a high school senior, she did some auditions for acting programs (Fordham and Minnesota/Guthrie, for instance) along with her MT auditions. She got into both Fordham and UM/Guthrie but chose to go to NYU for various reasons, including the fact that Tisch offers a conservatory style program housed within a large, comprehensive university that also emphasizes the “well educated” actor.

It’s pretty intense at NYU, but then again, she attended an arts high school where she had actor training classes about four hours a day five days a week (the program is modeled on college level conservatory programs) so she was used to a schedule that ran from about 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with a lot of homework and prep afterwards, not to mention rehearsals.

As freshmen, you have three days (running approx from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. with a short lunch break if you’re lucky!) of studio classes (this year, that is Tuesday, Thursday and Friday) and two days a week (this year, Monday and Weds.) of required academic classes. Though most of the studio classes are “hands on” classes, they still require a good amount out out of class prep, including music theory homework (they give A LOT) and time spent memorizing and rehearsing scenes, monologues and songs, etc.

The two academic days are “lighter” in that the kids don’t have classes back to back all day, but because they are academic classes (Writing the Essay and Intro to Theatre Studies) they require more book work, writing and regular old homework. Plus, for the essay class, kids have to attend (in addition to the regular lecture class) a plenary session every Monday night that involves presentations, performance art and things such as that.

I wouldn’t say that there is NO free time at all, but it is limited.

Feel free to ask more questions here or you can PM me. And congrats to all on their acceptances!!