Summer musical theatre intensive program

GRACEMT
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:31:54 +0000

I did the summer intensive program the summer before when I went to ninth grade. I really enjoyed it and got the chance to improve my dance, acting, and voice technique. Plus a lot of repetiore which is really helpful for auditions. My experience was very positive and I enjoyed the program a lot. I really liked how professional and focused everyone was. It will definately be really good for you if you go to a regular high school and don’t get much studio theater training, I found the classes really helpful and definately prepared me for going into the performing arts high school I attend now. Although I had a friend who did the program last summer (she attended summer before senior year) and she said that she didn’t find it beneficial because she had already learned everything that they were teaching, this is probably just because she had had so much training at the performing arts school before she went. Personally I would recommend this program to anyone who really wants the chance to do musical theater at a high level and work hard. You will definately learn a lot in the workshops and have a lot of fun. If anything you will learn new material and have new songs to add to your rep.
The way the program was structured when I attended was that we had classes in the morning in dance, acting, and voice, and in the afternoon we would rehearse the show. The program is only two weeks long so they will mail you all the music and scenes before hand and you will be expected to have the material learned and memorized when you start rehearsals which really gives you a taste of what its like in the professional world. They also had workshops with proffesionals working in theater and musical theater, which was something really nice and I enjoyed a lot. We actually had the oppertunity to work our solos with one woman who came from New York city to work with us, she helped us with the acting (beats and intentions), which was a new concept to me when I went to the intensive.
I couldn’t tell you how long its been around but I would guess about ten years, it seemed to be the fourth or fith year of the program when I attended. They make it clear though that they are looking for students that really have a passion for musical theater so just be confident and know your material when you audition and you’ll be great.