Advice for a junior who is considering applying?

teriwtt
Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:35:47 +0000

lovingtheater -

I would highly encourage you to contact someone from the theatre department BEFORE your visit so that they know you’re coming. Often they will arrange so you can sit in on one of the acting classes, if it’s feasible. Even if you’re there on a weekend, there are often stage combat classes that meet on Saturdays. It might also be very feasible to arrange for you to sit in on a rehearsal of one of their main stages if one is in rehearsal while you’re there.

Both sitting in on a class, and watching a main stage rehearsal were two of the things that really stood out to my daughter when we were visiting. She really got to see the calibre of the program in these venues.

Another thing you might not necessarily pick up through visiting their website, but Muhlenberg is exploding with a cappella groups! For the size campus it is, it has plenty of groups! If you are a decent singer and enjoy a cappella, see if you can also be set up with a current student to hear more about the a cappella options, or even better, again, see if you can manage to sit in on a rehearsal. Only problem with that is that most a cappella rehearsals are very late at night because a lot of people who are in evening rehearsals for mainstages/2nd tiers and black boxes are also in an a cappella group, so they can’t rehearse until stage rehearsals are over with, usually by 10 or 10:30. I think my daughter’s group had rehearsal from 10:30 - midnight, or 11-12:30AM two nights a week and late afternoon on Fridays, or something like that.