<p>Thank you so much for all the amazing advice! To answer a lot of your questions, I think I might be able to compromise academics for the right theatre program that would give me the training I would need to excel. To give you a little more information about me, I have been singing and performing in musicals since I was five, and about two years ago I started performing in Shakespeare, and fell in love with it! That’s why I am more interested in a “classical” training per say, but I don’t want to give up singing. That’s why the post about the JMU program from one of their staff interested me so much, because they said MTs get the same training but still get voice lessons. I really thought I didn’t want to go into musical theatre but with the right program I could. And what some of you said about stage combat and clowning is exactly why I wanted to go into acting, because I thought MTs didn’t get that opportunity. I know I do have to make decisions about what I want, and hopefully I can do that soon, and but I am still trying to figure that out so I can really choose a program and school that fit me.</p>