Musical Theatre Emphasis

Students wishing to develop the skills necessary to become a musical theatre performer combine preprofessional acting training with music and dance in a program that provides training and experience in those areas. The Musical Theatre emphasis prepares students for dynamic performance experience. The major is grounded in theatre arts, dance, and music theory, and provides experience in acting, voice and movement for the stage, applied voice, music, and dance. The musical theater program at the Idyllwild Arts Academy will help you integrate acting, dance, voice and music to become consistently believable and expressive. You'll develop: 

A well rounded performance technique 

Solid dance technique in Jazz, Tap Musical Theatre Dance Styles

Strong musical skills 

Sight reading and aural skills 

Understanding of the use of music as ‘text’ 

Private voice lessons are required each semester 

Performance opportunities include mainstage productions ranging from classical, contemporary and musical theatre repertoire, plus black box Lab productions.

Individual college/conservatory counseling and exposure to the Unified College Auditions are offered to seniors in order to assist students in advanced training decision making.

Suggested Sequential Courses of study for a four-year Musical Theatre student:
REQUIRED
ACTING (4 YEARS)
THEATRE HISTORY (1 YEAR)
VOICE AND SPEECH (1 YEAR)
STAGE MOVEMENT (1 YEAR)
INDEPENDENT STUDY (1 SEMESTER)
STAGE DICTION (1 YEAR)
THEATRE PRODUCTION (1 YEAR)
BALLET (4 YEARS)
MUSIC FUNDAMENTALS (1 YEARS)
JAZZ  (4 YEARS)
TAP (4 YEARS)
MUSICAL THEATRE DANCE STYLES  (3 YEARS)
MUSICAL THEATRE REP. (4 YEARS)
PRIVATE VOICE (2 YEARS)
PRACTICUM (4 YEARS)
STAGE MANAGEMENT (1 SEMESTER)

Suggested Electives depending on the students needs:

MASK FOR CHARACTERIZATION (1 SEMESTER)

SHAKESPEARE 

TECHNIQUES ANALYSIS (1 SEMESTER)

ACTING FOR THE CAMERA (1 SEMESTER)

IMPROV (1 YEAR)

DIRECTING (1 YEAR)

INTRO TO DESIGN (1 YEAR)

DESIGN ELECTIVE (1 SEMESTER)



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