Worth the trip?

sashusmom
Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:41:02 +0000

Kitkatt565-
Congratulations on your acceptances. My D and I visited Hartt twice. We still haven’t heard if she is in or out. But when we went on the tour with the present students, we weren’t thrilled with the idea of not being able to audition until your junior year for their main shows. We were told they changed the program and freshmen do their shows just for themselves(no outside audience) and sophmores are now doing sophmore shows with no outside audience and they no longer audition for main shows in the spring of their sophmore year. The mainshows are now reserved for the junior and senior students. So as a parent, we wouldn’t see our kids perform till their junior year if they got cast. There may be student directed programs available for the underclassmen, but I don’t know much about them. They do have a strong dance program and were told sometimes they mix into the mainstage productions if they need strong dancers. I hope this helps.