<p>Does Tisch ever put on the bit glitzy (revival?) singing-dancing show? I can usually find anything on the internet but Tisch photos/videos I can’t find. (Millie, Brigadoon, 42nd Street, etc?) You would think there’d be a gallery on their website. If there is, it’s well hidden. 62 MT kids times 4 could certainly well populate some big shows. Or do they do smaller shows that feature legit voices? (Light/Piazza?)</p>
<p>Tisch doesn’t allow their shows to be videotaped and you will not find samples on YouTube.</p>
<p>They certainly put on a range of musicals of all types, including traditional, contemporary, and new works. Also, studios put on musicals. </p>
<p>Some traditional ones I can think of either at Tisch or in studio have been Cabaret, Sweet Charity, Bye Bye Birdie, Pippin (if you are thinking of dance-y shows). I’d have to think back but off the top of my head, these come to mind in the last few years as musicals of the sort I think you mean. Sweet Charity is this spring in fact. </p>
<p>There have also been more contemporary style musicals like Jesus Christ Superstar (my kid was in that), Hair, Urinetown, and Tommy. </p>
<p>And Sondheim…Into the Woods and Assassins (the latter is playing currently in fact). </p>
<p>And new musicals such as Only Children (my kid was in that). </p>
<p>There are lots more but am thinking of ones during my kid’s time there or since, off the top of my head.</p>
<p>There are also the student run musicals. My D musically directed Into the Woods as one of those and played Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors for one, for example.</p>
<p>At Tisch, there are many types of productions such as mainstage Tisch ones, musical cabarets, studio level faculty directed ones, GAP ones (student directed) and student directing projects, independent projects.</p>
<p>As well, of the students I have known there, there are some who are superb legit voices, some who are strong as beltresses, some who are expert dancers, some who are comedic,and so on. There are a mix of types. Today’s world of MT requires all these types too.</p>
<p>Also, I don’t know how it will be at NSB, but I recall in CAP21, in sophomore year, they had what were called Composer Project showcases, where each class of 15 or so students performed music by a certain composer (traditional MT). I am trying to remember the one my D’s class did and it may have been Jerome Kern. Each class did a separate show of a different composer. </p>
<p>Also, Tisch has had a musical cabaret class since my D left such as this past fall it was taught by Sutton Foster and they put on a musical showcase/cabaret at Joe’s Pub of songs by Gershwin and the previous year that show was Rodgers and Hart.</p>
<p>Perhaps someone like alwaysamom may chime in as her daughter attended Tisch before mine did and she may recall the musicals during that period. I cannot get the links to Tisch’s production archives to work. CAP21 only lists their professional productions and new works and not the student musicals in the past.</p>
<p>I just remembered some other musicals done at Tisch/CAP21 (studio level productions)…On The Town, Sweeney Todd, Into The Woods, Nine, City of Angels, Hair, Grand Hotel, Goddess Wheel, Starmites, and Radiant Baby.</p>
<p>I just found some previous mainstage musicals besides the ones I mentioned earlier…these include Pacific Overtures, Carousel, Company, Sweeney Todd, Falsettos, Threepenny Opera, Four by Four (music by Richard Rodgers).</p>
<p>Thanks as always, Soozievt! I just don’t know why I can’t find production photos or trailers as so many of the other schools seem to have.</p>
<p>Others that come to mind are Falsettos, Nine, Sweeney Todd, Parade, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.</p>
<p>I know that a couple of my D’s friends were in new musicals presented during the summer at NYU. I don’t think they were exclusively Tisch shows. If I’m not mistaken, they were collaborations with another college somewhere in the midwest and a department in CAS, although Tischies were involved. I’m sorry I don’t recall more detail but I do know that the performances were at Skirball.</p>
<p>I’m blanking on some of the shows during my D’s early years in the city. Sorry, I see a LOT of theatre! I think the point is that there are so many different types of shows. It’s one of the beauties of Tisch, in my opinion. Some colleges do not experiment at all with their productions and stick mostly/solely to the older MT canon. It’s very limiting, especially in this day and age. Being able to experience a variety of types of shows is such a benefit and advantage for students, especially in this day and age.</p>
<p>One of my favorite shows I’ve seen at NYU was actually a Steinhardt production of Ragtime. It was magical!</p>
<p>classicalbk, you won’t find trailers. As Susan said, Tisch does not allow their shows to be recorded. They follow the licensing agreements very strictly. All schools should do so!</p>
<p>The variety of levels of productions and from traditional MT to contemporary to new works to student directed works, to cabarets, to workshop productions is indeed what I think makes it a great for a MT student. In today’s market, it is essential to experience this range of work. The mainstage musical my D was in at Tisch (Only Children), she got to originate a lead role in a world premiere of a new musical and that itself added to the learning experience. </p>
<p>I didn’t even think about the summers but alwaysamom reminds me. Just in association with Tisch or Tischies…my D was in one musical in NYC one summer in college being directed and produced by fellow Tischies at a theater in the city. Another musical she was in one summer was for the Tisch Graduate MT Writing Program (what a great bunch of people to network with…emerging MT composers and writers working in the field today). Two summers she worked on NYU Reality Show (for pay) both as a performer/writer and musical director (and after graduating, musically directed a version for the Abu Dhabi campus). This involved writing scenes, sketches, monologues and MT songs for a musical review show that was staged at Madison Square Garden for thousands and is now staged at Radio City Music Hall. This was on top of being in regular musicals.</p>
<p>And this all mirrors life after college as my D did a national tour of a regular musical, but has also been in workshops and readings of new musicals, an experimental new play with music (currently in rehearsals), her own original musical (which is more of a rock/pop/folk style), musical theater showcases and cabarets, sketch/musical cabaret shows, concerts of emerging composers, and singer/songwriter gigs. Lots of variation of the types of music and genres…so I’m glad that while at Tisch, she experienced this too.</p>