Colleges For Musical Theater - Part 40!

happy_days
Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:00:38 +0000

It has been months since I have visited this board and have been a little surprised about the discussions on sexual orientation. Society has changed greatly in the last ten years for gays/lesbians/transexuals to be open. The arts community has been the first to be accepting, however I suspect that there are many individuals that do not have that luxury of being openly accepted. My advice to the parents that are questioning this aspect of music theatre need to also start thinking about what they can do to change this discrimination?
I am also constantly amazed at the numbers of musical theatre programs. I know that there are certain programs that are thought to be among the “best”, however I have known actors to be very successful that have not attended ANY college program, and also have known students that have attended a well known program considered to be one of the “best” and have given up on musical theatre after years of auditions and not much work. This information may not help at all…but to those students that don’t get accepted at their dream school…passion and hard work may just get you where you want to be. This will not be an easy life even for the most talented, as every show will at some time close. Good luck to all. :)