Colleges with BFA Acting/and MT Opportunities

duxellen
Mon, 09 Nov 2015 22:20:58 +0000

Hi All-

Hoping college confidential members can help me out as everyone seems to be so knowledgeable. My daughter is in the process of applying to colleges. She is interested in a BFA in acting with ample opportunities for musical theater opportunities, or at the very least being able to audition for musicals …participate in acappella groups and take voice lessons . She considers herself an actor who sings. She doesn’t want to lose her singing skills while in college (she has taken weekly voice lessons for years and had taken weekly dance for 10 years but had to quit last year as drama was too demanding to squeeze in dance anymore)…She is also in an audition only chamber music group at school where she sings every day. So, we have tried to find colleges where even though she would be an acting major, she could still home her vocal/mt skills. Sadly, we took Hartt off the list today because when I spoke to someone in the department, they mentioned that actors in the BFA program cannot audition for any musicals on campus… Yet the musical theater kids can audition for the straight acting plays . I was a little taken aback by that comment as it seems unfair. If anyone knows more about this, please chime in. It doesn’t seem like a good fit for my daughter anymore, so we are taking it off the list. She wants to stay in new England or the Northeast preferably close to a city… She especially loves New York… So far her list of schools is: NYU, Marymount Manhattan, Pace, Fordham, Long Island University, Syracuse, Ithaca, UConn, Boston University, Emerson, Montclair, Wagner/ Drew is a safety. Any thoughts? TIA!