<p>I will do you a favor with ONE school…Yale. </p>
<p>Have you examined their Shen Curriculum for Musical Theater? (courses through Music dept. cross listed with Theater Studies)?</p>
<p>Have you looked at their Theatre Studies list of courses? For example, Musical Theater Performance I, Musical Theater Performance II? American Musical Theater History? Various acting courses? Libretto Writing for Musical Theater?</p>
<p>Dance courses?</p>
<p>Directed Independent Studies? (such as staging your own musical)? Senior Projects? many musicals are staged</p>
<p>Extracurricular theater at Yale? Yale Dramatic Association (known as Yale Dramat…this organization alone puts on numerous plays and musicals each year…RENT production opens tonight…my daughter’s close friend is playing Roger)? "New Musicals at Yale’ (which includes workshops and staged readings of student created musicals)? Opera Theater of Yale College? Yale Drama Coalition?</p>
<p>My D has good friends at Yale who are hugely talented in MT and I know while there, they have taken voice or MT classes with Victoria Clark (Tony winning Broadway actress).</p>
<p>Right after my daughter’s graduation from NYU/Tisch, she was awarded a national award for theater given to one student graduating college who studied theater and I was able to attend the dinner for this in NYC with her where she was given this award with scholarship money, and we happened to be seated at the dinner next to Annette Jolles who was there because when she was younger, she had been the recipient of the award my D was receiving that evening. We chatted with her quite a bit. She is a Lecturer at Yale and in fact, her courses are in Musical Theater at Yale and coincidentally, she had several of my D’s friends who attend Yale as her students. So, we got some first hand information on MT at Yale that way too. </p>
<p>While not FOR students at Yale, Yale also puts on the Yale Institute for Music Theatre where they workshop with NY professional actors and directors two new musical theater works they select from submissions. I know that this past June, in one of the two new musicals, one student who had just graduated in theater at Yale in May was cast along with the professional Equity actors, as well as two Yale MFA students. </p>
<p>My daughter, who did not attend Yale (went to NYU/Tisch) and has since graduated college, takes private voice lessons now in NYC with Vicki Shaghoian. Vicki is on the faculty at Yale Drama School and teaches singing there. My D says she is fantastic.</p>
<p>I did not provide you with links but mentioned many things at Yale pertaining to your interest in MT. All of this is easy to find on their site.</p>