<p>do you want to compose music for musicals? or are you thinking of book and lyrics?
If you’re looking to compose the music, it’d probably be very feasible to go for a music composition major at a school with a reputable musical theatre performance program, such as Ithaca College. I also read on this site <a href=“http://www.yale.edu/musicals/aboutus.htm[/url]”>http://www.yale.edu/musicals/aboutus.htm</a> about a yale student (eric) who is double majoring in linguistics and theatre studies, hoping to write musicals. Double majoring could be another possiblity.
I’d assume they give you some freedom as a music comp major in what you’re composing for projects etc, and you can certainly take inspiration from your MT-studying peers. In the end, music composition requires the same skill regardless of the genre: a quater note is still a quarter note, ya know?
You could also do this for your undergrad, and take a look at NYU Tisch like chrism suggested for a graduate degree.</p>