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  • 3.00 Credits

    The techniques involved in finding work in today's commercial musical theatre are skills that students can learn and practice. In this course, students will learn to select and prepare audition material suitable to their particular type, strengths, and abilities. Prerequisites: (THEA 3657 AND Admission to Musical Theatre Program Emphasis ) OR Instructor Consent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Students will bring together the three elements of the Musical Theatre they have until now been studying separately; acting, singing, and dancing. In this course, students will apply the scene work and musical skills they have prepared in the previous two years, using them to interpret the lyrics of a song by researching and analyzing their characters' goals and needs. They will chart a path physically, intellectually and emotionally through the song with the aim of illuminating their character for the audience. Prerequisites: 'C' or better in (THEA 2320 AND Admission to Emphasis in Musical Theatre) OR Instructor Consent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Having learned how to develop a character and chart the character's path through a song in order to move the audience, the actor will now practice the skills learned and apply them to their work with fellow actors in the rehearsal process of developing a moving song/scene. This course will present 2 sung scenes for the Performance Workshop during the semester. Prerequisites: "C" or better in THEA 3657 OR Instructor Consent.
  • 1.00 Credits

    This course for advanced dancers is designed to introduce the integration of song with dance. The students will apply both song and dance to various choreographic styles of movement, both historical and current. This course gives the successful student the opportunity to perform at the weekly performance workshop. Four semesters of Musical Theatre Styles (3639, 3649, or 3659) are required. Placement in the proper level is by audition. Prerequisites: "C" or better in THEA 3659 AND Admission to Emphasis in Musical Theatre OR Instructor Consent. Corequisites: "C" or better in (THEA 3650).
  • 2.00 Credits

    This elective dance course is designed to give Musical Theatre students the skills to successfully negotiate a movement rehearsal. They will learn terminology and basic tenets of putting movement together for Musical Theater so that they can facilitate progress in a movement rehearsal. Prerequisites: "C" or better in ((THEA 3620 OR THEA 3630) AND Admission to Emphasis in Musical Theatre) OR Instructor Consent.
  • 2.00 Credits

    This choreography course provides students the opportunity to practice storytelling through movement and dance. The students will be guided to discover movement vocabulary and learn storytelling devices. Prerequisites: "C" or better in ((THEA 3640 OR THEA 3650) AND Admission to Emphasis in Musical Theatre) OR Instructor Consent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Theatre Core Requirement. This is the first semester in a two-semester course tracing the history of theatre and performance in societies all over the globe. Through lectures, discussions, and readings students explore the unique problems of studying history of a transitory art form; examine possible origins of theatre; study relationship between societies and their theatres from 500 BCE through 1650 CE. Students conduct individual research and produce papers discussing their findings.
  • 3.00 Credits

    History of Theatre, part I (Honors) 1st semester in a 2-semester course tracing the history of theatre in society. Through lectures, discussions, and readings students explore unique problems of studying history of a transitory art form; examine possible origins of theatre; study relationship between societies and their theatres from ancient Greece to Restoration England. Students conduct individual research and produce papers discussing their findings. Honors students apply historical research in creative projects.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Theatre Core Requirement. This is a second semester in a two-semester course tracing the history of theatre and performance in societies all over the globe. Through lectures, discussions, and readings students explore the unique problems of studying history of a transitory art form and trace the history of theatre and performance from the 17th century through the present day. Students conduct individual research and produce papers discussing their findings.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This is the second semester in a two-semester course that traces the history of theatre in society. Through lectures, discussions, and readings students trace the history of theatre from the 18th century through the present day. All students conduct individual research and produce papers discussing their findings. Honors students apply their historical research in creative projects approved by the instructor.