Don't knock the B.A.s!

SongSearcher
Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:33:11 +0000

One of my professors actually wrote a (not very positive though) blog post arguing against the BFA, based on many of those facts and I have to agree. Sometimes I feel that the BFA is just too specific towards playing tours and Broadway that the students would never consider anything else in the world of theatre! Of course, that is not the case, but rather an impression.

Here’s the blog post for anyone interested: [a poor player , Archive The BFA Musical Theatre Degree Should Die](http://www.apoorplayer.net/2011/07/the-bfa-musical-theatre-degree-should-die/)

On another note: the BFA degree is intense. More so than most people seem to realize. My school, we are allowed up to 18 credit hours and anything over that, we need signatures and forms signed. Most theatre majors, regardless of your actual degree, do go over, I think I’m taking 20 credits this semester. But between classes, shows, rehearsals, private lessons…I actually had a professor tell one of my BFA classmates this week that he would refuse to let her take more than 18 credits next semester because she was going to crash and burn the way she was going otherwise (and next semester happens to be her barrier semester!). I’m not saying that the BA is so much easier because it’s not, we still have a lot of work, but depending on your interests, you can generalize or focus it more so that a BFA could.