<p>My D got home from school today to learn that she has been accepted to the Musical Theater program at Interlochen Arts Camp for the summer!!! It’s even more competitive than many highly selective colleges and her acceptance was totally unexpected. She’s so charged that she’s going to be an alumna of the same summer program that Josh Groban participated in! There was just about as much screaming as there was when she found out she got into her EA school!</p>
<p>great experience ahead for her this summer…good for her!!</p>
<p>Congratulations to your daughter. She has an amazing summer AND fall to look forward to! For MT kids, the audition/acceptance process never ends.</p>
<p>quiltguru~</p>
<p>Well, we are VERY familiar with what the Interlochen Arts Camp is, and all I can say is OMG, WOW!!!</p>
<p>We have actually seen the Interlochen Center for the Arts campus several times as dh is from Michigan, and the Traverse City area is one of our favorite spots on earth! Talk about GORGEOUS!!!</p>
<p>Musical Theatre is actually quite big where we live, and for our area, we have some truly astounding musical theatre venues. One of them, Music Theatre of Wichita, puts on five Broadway-quality productions each summer, and the executive director hires an extremely talented company from all over the nation (he audtions at UMich, New York, LA, Chicago, Dallas, etc.). </p>
<p>One year, there was this amazing girl in the company who stood out for her breathtaking beauty and her endless talent. She had gone to The Interlochen Arts Academy and graduated from UMich with a BFA in MT–she is a native Michigander. Now, I’m glad that I took sooooooooooooooooooooo many pictures of my girls and her because she currently has a role in Showtime’s “Barbershop”!!</p>
<p>MTW brought her back two years ago for a lead in “West Side Story.” I so hope they bring her back again this summer!</p>
<p>At any rate, congrats to your obviously extremely talented gal…what an absolute honor to have been accepted to a program of that quality!</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>My daughter did her last two years at high school at Interlochen and worked at the camp for two summers. It is a magical place and I am excited for your daughter. Go visit as often as you can. I miss it so much! Interlochen was life-changing for our daughter and our family. (my son, Wild Child, thought the place bore no resemblance to anything HE cared about on this planet!)</p>
<p>WWWWWWOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!!! Congrats. Just the topping after the EA acceptance. Sounds like D is very talented and brag, brag, brag! She may have earned it, but you deserve it, because we know all the hours you put into her developing her talent.</p>
<p>I second all the congrats- My dd is not in musical theatre, but is a performer, and I know what time and devotion it takes to be one’s best!
I’m sure yours will continue to shine and have a blast through all the hard work!</p>
<p>When I saw the title to this thread, I was sure that someone had saved money with GEICO insurance.</p>
<p>Congratulations to your D, QuiltGuru, it’s really gratifying to see someone’s ship come in like that.</p>
<p>Congratulations to your daughter. </p>
<p>When I was quite young I was accepted to the music program, but I was invited to play in a rather prestigious concert during the dates of the program, so I turned down Interlochen. I always wish I could have done both. </p>
<p>Also, another tidbit for your daughter, the character “Mark” from Rent (the movie and the original production) is very involved with Interlochen. He went there for several summers and goes back to visit pretty often. She’ll want to keep her eyes open for him!</p>
<p>That is so exciting! Our daughter did a year of camp at Interlochen in Creative Writing and loved it so much she went back for her senior year of high school. Then, last year, she worked in the box office for the summer.</p>
<p>As everyone says, it’s a magical place. The kids are SO INCREDIBLY TALENTED! World class. You feel you are seeing the stars of tomorrow.</p>
<p>I believe it’s very difficult to gain acceptance to the theatre program, so your daughter must be very talented. Hope she has a great time.</p>
<p>This is so great! I grew up in Michigan. I never went to Interlochen but a number of my friends and their children did over the years. Most of them were in instrumental music, and they all really loved it. She should have a wonderful time.</p>
<p>My Dad taught at Interlochen for 4 summers when I was a kid, and we got to attend as “day campers” there. (We stayed with our parents in a faculty cabin just down the lake, but took classes with the regular campers. Just didn’t have to wear the blue corduroy knickers 
) What a truly magical place it is!!! I still feel a huge wave of nostalgia when I hear the Interlochen theme played. Congratulations to your daughter!!!</p>
<p>Woah, QuiltGuru - that’s amazing! What a nice “admit” during this admissions season! :)</p>
<p>Thank you all so much for your kind words and good thoughts. We’re all so excited for her!</p>
<p>Get your tickets for the performance early – it always sells out. We never miss the high school musical; it’s as good as most professional shows. Congratulations to your daughter!</p>
<p>We always try to get to Interlochen each summer to catch a performance. Congrats to your D quiltguru. What a great summer she is going to have.</p>
<p>Quilt
Congrats to your D.I always wanted my D to apply when she was in HS,and she salivated over the brochures,but couldn’t bring herself to conform to the blue cordorouy knicker dress code!
Hope she has the summer of her life!</p>
<p>Northern Michigan in the summer is fantastic, but let’s keep it to ourselves. There are already too many people going “Up North” as we call it in Michigan.</p>
<p>Congratulations Quiltguru!!! Your d sounds like ONE amazing kid!!! She has a lot of fun in store for her!! And so do you because you’ll get to watch her!</p>
<p>andi</p>