<p>This whole process is incredibly difficult and my biggest fear was that my d would go for her dream and have her heartbroken. She didn’t start really being involved with theatre until her Junior year of high school (she is a senior now). I think mostly because she was afraid that my husband and I would be against it. My D has never made it into a school choir (when an audition was required) and has only had ensemble parts in her school musicals. But she was adamant that this is her passion and has devoted every spare moment for the last 18 months to getting ready for college auditions. She found a voice teacher last January that really focuses on musical theatre techniques and she has taken dance for 14 months. She has done some community theatre but has only had straight acting parts, no MT to put on her resume. Her Dad and I have lost many hours of sleep wondering how she would be able to compete with so many that have had years of training. No one was more shocked than my daughter (and her parents) when she found out last week that she was accepted into the MT program at Marymount Manhattan! She has 8 more auditions scheduled and maybe this will be her only acceptance-but it doesn’t matter because she has one! She knows that she is a “diamond in the rough” and I am just thankful that someone else saw that too! Hang in there preklbt!</p>