<p>I went to CSSSA/Innerspark if anyone has any questions!</p>
<p>Amazing experience</p>
<p>My D attendend the Triple Threat Summer Intensive at Cumberland County Playhouse in Crossville, TN. It is a 2 week day camp with a daily 2 hour MT class and the rest of the focus is on dance. It is very reasonably priced and out of town participants can be housed with a local family with with a nominal contribution to them for food/transportation.<br>
Website is [Cumberland</a> County Playhouse, Tennesseeās Family Theater](<a href=āhttp://www.ccplayhouse.com%5DCumberlandā>http://www.ccplayhouse.com). Excellent program.</p>
<p>Has anyone attended something called Summer Theatre InstituteāNYC? The website is [url=<a href=āhttp://www.youththeatreinstitutes.org/]Youththeatreinstitues[/urlā>http://www.youththeatreinstitutes.org/]Youththeatreinstitues[/url</a>]</p>
<p>I would also be interested. Iāve come across the website several times, but Iām not sure just how credible it is.</p>
<p>Has anyone here heard of the Broadway Artist Alliance (BAA) Summer Intensive? Several friends of my son are going there this summer for a one week intensive instead of a pre-college program.. JW how credible it is?? Cost is ~ $900 plus room and board in NYC. This summer the intensive is being held at Alvin Aliey studios. Thanks for any input.</p>
<p>Anyone familiar with Yaleās Summer Conservatory for Actors? [url=<a href=āHome Page | Yale Summer Sessionā>Home Page | Yale Summer Session]Drama[/url</a>] apparently they do a Musical theatre workshop as well. This is a āfor college creditā program as well, and is made up of kids from pre-college up through college age.</p>
<p>iām curious about what books people are required to get for the pre-college programs. i went to CMU last summer and had to get 3 plays, shakespeareās words, mythology, and audition.</p>
<p>I went to BAA over the summer and it was amazing. All our dance teachers were currently on broadway, We had Lea Salonga and Jonathan Groff come talk to us, Top Voice teachers, and the acting program seemed good. I was a voice major. Itās a great place to make connections, learn in the vibrant city of NYC top professionals, and We got to audition and get feed back from industry. My year it was two Talent Agents and Casting Director of Spring Awakening. Some kids got sign. Wonderful program.</p>
<p>My D will be attending BAA this summer, we will be there for the second session August 3 thru the 9th. The last day is a Final Showcase in which casting directors and Agents attend. It has a very vigorous and varied program. We are excited. When we come back Iāll report in to everyone.</p>
<p>Can someone lead me to the thread that has MT Schools by State. Iāve seen it before but canās find it in this mass of threads and post.</p>
<p>First, just like this thread is āstuckā at the top of the list of threads on the MT Forum, so is another thread:</p>
<p><a href=āhttp://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/25033-faq-link-well-link-big-list-mt-colleges.html[/url]ā>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/25033-faq-link-well-link-big-list-mt-colleges.html</a>
This thread guides you to the FAQ, as well as the Big List of MT Colleges arranged by state. </p>
<p>But to just get you there directly, here is the link to the FAQ:</p>
<p><a href=āhttp://www.geocities.com/musicaltheatercolleges/[/url]ā>Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos;
<p>What month and where was the BAA held that your d attended</p>
<p>What a wealth of information to begin to sort throughā¦but I am finding (looking at the latest in the big listā¦thread) that many of the clickable links take me to a ānot foundā page. I know that some programs change/take down their pages between years, but was wondering if people could put either direct web addresses or some specifics to help in the search (i.e. X program, at XYUā¦). </p>
<p>Also, of the programs Iāve found, many appear to be for age 16+ and going into senior year of HS. Iāve got a sophomore, who will be 15 next summer. Any good, strong programs available for younger juniors? (Sheās gone away since 12 to 6+ week ballet intensives, so sheās way good at doing her own durn laundry and finding her way around a campus!)</p>
<p>Thanks for helpā¦and for posting this info, everyone!</p>
<p>There are programs but they are not all āpre-collegeā but very good theater programs. Iāll point out that your D could look into my childās summer theater programā¦she went there for 8 years up until heading to college and never thought to change to any other program, or pre-college one. I cannot recommend it highly enoughā¦we think it is fantastic and it played a significant role in our childās life in this field: STAGEDOOR MANOR.</p>
<p>***However, I HIGHLY recommend, if you are interested, to sign up immediately as slots fill up around now. Many miss out who do not sign up by late September.</p>
<p>mommafog-
My son went to MPulse at Michigan the summer of his sophmore year. I do not think you have to be a certain age for that program.</p>
<p>Broken links ------</p>
<p>I just want to point out that many of the links may appear broken, because often times you are being ālinkedā to registration pages of years past. Generally speaking, if you eliminate all the extra web address information that follows the ā////'sā, and go back to the core, i.e. ā<a href=āhttp://www.abc.eduā>www.abc.edu</a>ā, you should be able to get to the respective programās home page and take things from there :). </p>
<p>mommafrog - my D attended Broadway Theatre Project as a rising junior (she had barely turned 16 at the time), and absolutely loved it. </p>
<p>[The</a> Broadway Theatre Project](<a href=āhttp://broadwaytheatreproject.com%5DTheā>http://broadwaytheatreproject.com)</p>
<p>My D and I are in the process of looking at pre-college/independent summer programs and looking for any current opinions thoughts. We did read through the entire thread, which was helpful, but a lot of the particulars are a year old or olderā¦we would love to hear from anyone who attended, or whoās child attended(recently) at CMU, mpulse, the california state run program (canāt recall the name!), interlochen, etc. Does anyone feel like one program is a real āvalueā over anotherā¦they are all pretty expensive!</p>
<p>Thanks so much!</p>
<p>To mybroadway baby-My son went to MPulse last summer. He totally loved it. It was exactly what he was looking for, but from talking to him, it may not be what everyone is looking for. They are in classes all day and into the evening so there is not a lot of social time. They learn a lot about the business and autditioning and how to prepare for things. This program was not about a bunch of kids getting together and showing their stuff and putting on this big performance at the end so if that is what you are looking for, it is not the place. But, if she is looking for a place to learn and the opportunity to work with great people and get great feedback and improve her own skills, then it is great. My feeling is they are looking for people who want to learn, not show what they already can do.</p>
<p>I just want to let all of our newer members know that this thread is meant to just be a listing of summer programs that is added to or revised. For all DISCUSSION of summer programs, we have another thread devoted to just that:</p>
<p><a href=āhttp://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/24364-summer-programs-discussion.html?highlight=Summer+Programs+Discussion[/url]ā>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/24364-summer-programs-discussion.html?highlight=Summer+Programs+Discussion</a></p>
<p>Another resource would be to use the āSearchā function for just the MT forum and either put in āsummerā or āsummer programā and many other discussions or program-specific threads come up. As well, if you search a program by NAME, there often is an existing thread discussion on it. If it happens to be affiliated with a college, that thread often can be found in the sub forum for that MT College.</p>
<p>Iām in kind of an interesting situation. I am currently a college freshman and my major is Music Education w/ a flute concentration. However, although flute is my first love and I wouldnāt give it up for anything, I LOVE musical theater as well. I was in every show at my high school and I have found that I miss being on stage, a lot more than I realized I would. I have talked with my parents and (luckily)they are willing to support me so that when I finish with my Music Ed Undergrad I can somehow incorporate voice and/ or musical theater into my education either through a graduate degree (which I intended on getting anyway) or through a second bachelors, I still have a long time to decide this. I believe training in these areas will make me a better overall music educator in the long run. Anyway, I am looking for a summer program that is open to students no longer in high school. Iām going to apply to NYUās program, but I know this is a long shot. I have been lucky enough to keep up my private voice lessons (1 hour each week) with a new teacher while at college. He believes I do have a shot and thinks Iām improving, but I would like to apply to some other programs as well. I have looked at the Penn State program which seems like a good option. Is a summer program a good option now or would it be best to audition for some community shows to build a resume? If anyone as any advice it would be greatly appreciated!</p>