<p>tenormadre, most of the voice professors do not let their students participate in the campus musical theatre productions without their permission. Sounds draconian, but there is a reason for it. They are usually too busy anyhow. DD was allowed to do one her sophmore year that was written by one of the composition students. But that was it. There are a lot of fun activities they can do, though. DD chose Rice because it was a conservatory in a university that was not too big so there were a lot of things that she could do not music related.</p>