Theatre BFA Degree Plan – 音乐剧 Concentration
培训
B.F.A. students with a concentration in 音乐剧 at UM are trained in Stanislavski-based acting techniques, rigorous text analysis and acting for the camera, but pursue a larger sequence of performance-based classes aimed towards integrating their acting, 唱歌, dance and movement skills to successfully audition for and perform in musicals and plays of various styles. 我们还为您在UM的4年提供培训，帮助您准备和提交有效的自录磁带，以获得各种试镜机会, as well as technique for auditioning on Zoom/online platforms.
While 音乐剧 students will hone their 唱歌, 舞蹈和表演技巧, 我们的目标是培养你成为一个与众不同的人, versatile performer capable of playing complex roles not only in musicals, but a wide variety of theatrical styles as well as TV and 电影. This is essential for employment and a career in the contemporary entertainment industry.
你将在歌曲方面做大量的工作, text and music interpretation with the goal of bringing your authentic self and unique sensibility to your interpretation of a role, so it is distinctive and individual (which greatly impacts on the casting process as well)!
我们的声乐老师艾米·墨菲将培养你的艺术水平，并提供扎实的声乐技巧，这样你就可以自信地演唱传统音乐剧和当代流行/摇滚风格, but also the important ability to MAINTAIN vocal health and ease over a run. 最近几季, our students have successfully sung challenging and diverse vocal styles such as CHICAGO, 凯莉, 普丽西拉沙漠女王, 60年代的爱情摇滚音乐剧《HAIR, URINETOWN, 石南花, 偷灯贼, 斯蒂芬·桑德海姆的公司, William Finn’s A NEW BRAIN and Jonathan Larson’s RENT.
Our dance classes are designed to develop your stamina and technique, and improve your skills in required core classes such as Ballet, 爵士乐, 和利用, as well as various other styles (recent offerings have included Contemporary, 嘻哈及西非舞蹈).
高级展示
*我们的BFA主修音乐剧和表演的专业目前正在纽约参加一个高级展示，我们与The Growing Studio合作担任制作人(www.thegrowingstudio.com)在2021年春季新冠疫情期间，我们在曼哈顿中城举办了一场在线展示，之后我们的展示又于2022年和2023年在曼哈顿中城举行了工作室展示. After researching and preparing a showcase cut with UM faculty and online coaching from an industry guest in NYC, 我们的专业向代理商展示他们的材料, Casting Directors and Directors at invited and open sessions. NOTE: with the exception of the online showcase year, 到目前为止，我们的学生每年都收到经纪人的签约或自由职业者的邀请，以及全国巡演音乐剧的试镜，如“亲爱的埃文汉森”, 《摩门经》和《澳门在线赌城娱乐》.
除了, 作为展示体验的一部分, our seniors also participate in 4-5 workshop sessions with Casting Directors, 导演和经纪人参加电视试镜, 电影, and Theatre; Marketing and Branding themselves in the Industry; and commercial and voice-over auditioning. *NOTE: these workshops take place on Zoom and in person in NYC to provide our students with a range of training opportunities.
校外试镜机会
*澳门大学音乐剧学院的学生也积极参加每年秋季由the Growing Studio举办的全国“A1”试镜, 在那里，他们可以参加1月份在纽约举行的专业夏季戏剧工作的试镜(以及其他地区的专业试镜，如中西部, 国家经贸委, UPTA, 户外戏剧协会及草帽). *注:2021年秋季, 2022年和2023年10月, UM has hosted the Birmingham area A1 screening auditions on campus in our new 艺术中心 Complex. * *另外, 戏剧学院一直在夏季为学生(也包括我们的毕业生)发布工作机会，要求提交自拍照带.
*大流行之前, the Amy Murphy Studio offered annual NYC 音乐剧 Intensive Workshop: Since 2010, UM 音乐剧 students have been eligible to attend these annual workshops, providing opportunities to study with and/or audition for leading industry professionals. 自2020年3月起, the Studio has offered a series of online guest artists workshops including the ”Broadway Q&这是UM MT专业学生在Zoom上参加的一系列活动. 除了, 在2022 - 2023, 我们的一些专业与其他学生和专业艺术家一起参加了工作室在纽约劳里·比奇曼剧院的各种歌舞表演.
*UM BFA Theatre majors are also eligible to audition during the school year, 得到全体教员的同意, for professional productions in nearby Birmingham at Red Mountain Theatre Company, 伯明翰儿童剧院, 弗吉尼亚桑福德剧院. These organizations also offer our students employment opportunities during the summer, including working with K-12 students in summer theatre camps as well.
表现的机会
Students have an opportunity to perform in class showcases of musical revues and staged readings of musicals; departmental rep classes; guest artist workshops; vocal juries; UM’s original, annual student-written and 生产 homecoming “College Night” musicals; as well as audition for two fully 生产 musical productions a year in the Theatre Department. 2021年秋季, 音乐剧专业的学生也写道, 生产, directed and performed in a New Musical adaptation of the film FLATLINERS (book by Annslyn Pilkington; Music by Jennifer Hartsell), with its cast recording now available on Spotify.
NEW MUSICAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES/NEW INITIATIVES IN SPRING 2022: In spring 2022, we provided our 音乐剧 students with an exciting opportunity to help develop a new musical with a professional team. We cast 13 students in a semester long workshop process based in our THEA 463: 音乐剧 III class, 他们在纽约的作词人丽贝卡·阿帕里西奥和作曲家斯蒂芬·安东尼·埃尔金斯共同创作的新音乐剧《澳门在线赌城娱乐》中工作，并与UM剧院教师讲师和来自伯明翰的客座音乐总监合作. 编剧们大部分时间都是通过Zoom上课，学生们有机会重写乐谱，并在两场公开演出中呈现30分钟的音乐剧“正在进行中”. *We plan to continue to work on new musicals as part of our curriculum in reading and workshop formats, 也可能是完整的生产.
特邀艺术家大师班
2021—2023 Guest Artists (Zoom and In Person): Casting Directors Jeffrey Dreisbach (Pat McCorkle Casting—On Camera Auditioning); Chad Eric Murnane (Binder Casting—Theatre Auditioning); Michael Cassara (Michael Cassara Casting—Theatre Auditioning); Elizabeth Brummel (Commercial and Voice Over Casting); Barry Shapiro (Commercial Casting); Shorey Walker (The Growing Studio –Industry/Career Preparation; Agent Interview Preparation); David Ruttera (NYC Freelance Director and Broadway Associate Director—Monologue/Song Coaching)
2020-2021年(全屏放大): Broadway/National Tour performers Krystina Alabado (“Gretchen Weiners” in MEAN GIRLS; MYSTIC PIZZA); Desi Oakley (“Jenna” in WAITRESS; “Roxie Hart” in CHICAGO)—Zoom Workshop with UM students performing live on campus; 音乐剧 Auditioning.
Casting Directors Kevin-Metzger-Timson (Tara Rubin Casting—音乐剧 Auditioning) and Barry Shapiro (Barry Shapiro Casting—Commercial Auditioning); Jacqueline Wheeler (Agent—Nicolosi and Co., NYC; The People Store, Atlanta—Interview Preparation and Song/Monologue Coaching); Shorey Walker (The Growing Studio—Industry/Career Preparation; Agent Interview Preparation); Broadway/Regional Music Director Steven Cuevas; “Q&A” Master Class/Broadway series with the Amy Murphy Studio: Jen Colella, 布兰登·洛根, Arbender罗宾逊, 尼克·拉沙德·巴勒斯, Angela Birchett和其他人.
Prior Years (On Campus at UM and in NYC): ON CAMPUS: Angela Birchett (THE COLOR PURPLE); Eden Espinoza (WICKED and BROOKLYN); Ryan Jamaal Swain from the FX television hit POSE: NYC based choreographers Chip Abbott and Parker Esse; Tina-Marie Libby, producer of the musical CHASING RAINBOWS (with productions at Goodspeed Musicals and Papermill Playhouse); Greta Lambert (Associate Artistic Director, Alabama Shakespeare Festival—代理 Shakespeare); Melissa Firlit (NYC based freelance Director—Scene Work); Michael O’ Neill—On Camera Auditioning; Cliff Williams (Intimacy Choreography and Stage Combat and others. 在纽约: Casting Directors from Tara Rubin Casting and Wojcik Casting; Agents from The Mine, 名人才, UIA and others; Danny George, Shorey Walker and Ricky Loftus from The Growing Studio—Industry Preparation and showcase choreography; Anthony Daniel (freelance Director)—material selection and coaching.
毕业后的目标
澳大音乐剧专业的学生很聪明, 积极主动，多才多艺的艺术家，为当代娱乐行业和各种专业市场做好了充分的准备, including self-taping and using virtual audition submission platforms. We also encourage students to create their own work opportunities and to be versatile in their careers, 在相关领域工作，包括导演, 生产, 编舞和指导, 还有表演!
Check out the link on our BFA 音乐剧 Program in 关注的焦点 来自《大学音乐剧指南.
