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True dat. Just be glad your kids are channeling their energies towards MT instead of the on-camera world where sex appeal plus staying around ten pounds underweight are at a premium. I’ve already publicly offered up my body to the first geek who can come up with a camera that doesn’t add ten pounds to a girl’s frame so I can enjoy the occasional pint of ale without having to worry about spending extra time on the treadmill … ;)</p>
<p>Seriously, though, here’s a link to this year’s CCM showcase site … [Musical</a> Theatre Showcases](<a href=“http://www.ccm.uc.edu/musical_theatre/showcases.htm]Musical”>http://www.ccm.uc.edu/musical_theatre/showcases.htm)</p>
<p>There are certainly some hotties in the mix, but no more so than what I’ve seen from some of the other “top” schools’ showcase sites. I also see some who seem to be going for the quirky, comic character roles based on their headshots although there is a complete dearth of endomorphs. </p>
<p>Just hypothesizing, but it seems to me that what Berg finds “sexy” is a young MT performer who in his judgment and long experience stands a good chance of having a sustained career with proper training and, yes, that includes a combination of talent and looks. I wish I could find the post, but there was a father of a CCM grad posting on here a few years ago who indicated that something like eighty percent of his daughter’s classmates were still actively working in the business five years after graduation. That’s unheard of - especially considering the tiny percentage of work available in MT compared to the greater worlds of straight theatre, tv, film and commercials. I’m about to graduate from one of the “top” acting schools and it’s pretty well understood that if half of us are still “‘in the game” five years from now and a quarter in ten, the class will have been a roaring success. </p>
<p>Think what you want about Berg and the way he runs his program, but I don’t think you can reasonably argue with his results!</p>
<p>He does make another statement in that interview with which I completely disagree, but there are two schools of thought on it and I’m going to leave it alone for fear of it’s corollaries sparking a fierce, off-topic debate that’s taken place several times on here in the past. Here’s a link to a (long) interview video with Scott Sedita who has an equal amount of experience in another part of the business where the important part of my primary disagreement is covered … [Judy</a> Kerr: Interviews with Industry Insiders: Scott Sedita](<a href=“http://judykerr.com/vid-scottsedita-book.html]Judy”>http://judykerr.com/vid-scottsedita-book.html) Most of it is more related to “‘what it takes” in the TV & Film scene I‘m about to step into, but I think a good bit of what he says is relevant to MT performers as well.</p>