Overwhelmed in Texas

arrdad
Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:58:09 +0000

KatMT, I saw “Texas” recently and noticed you had a student in the production. They did a great job as always. Looking at the souvenir program, I noticed the ensemble was full of kids from college theatre and MT programs.

Some of the schools I remember seeing represented were:

WTAMU (for obvious reasons, this school had quite a few in the cast, including faculty)
JMU
Illinois Wesleyan
University of Houston MFA program (3 of the leads)
Alabama
Texas Tech
TCU
OCU
Greensboro College
And several others that I can’t recall off the top of my head.

We’ve seen “Texas” at least 5 times in the last 20 years. But now that we have a daughter pursuing college theatre programs next year, it’s the first time I’ve paid much attention to the cast bios. I was shocked and pleased to see that so many of the cast members were recent grads or upperclassmen at well known theatre programs.