One of the many things that we get to partake in as 2nd and 3rd year students is an annual concert called ‘Music & Lyrics’, a paid show where we perform in the Winchester Theatre Royal to the public.
Welcome back for part 2 of How To Build A Portfolio where I take you on my journey through our showreel module and hopefully these blog help you discover what might be helpful for your portfolio too.
Now in March, just a week before Pippin rehearsals begin, we prepare ourselves to film our show reels for our ‘Technique & Repertoire’ module that helps us set up a portfolio to leave with after completing our course!
Two weeks before we returned for classes, we had our Pippin auditions which I must tell you about in this introductory blog, to show you just how intense things have kicked off! And it’s only the start of the chaos.
This year, in our final winter showcase, I am back on the team, this time as a crew member as it is our turn as student representatives to host these sorts of events.
The realization that we have less than a year left of class, about 8 months to be exact, has stirred the panic of adulthood and the events that go beyond university waiting for us after graduation.
When I came to the UK to pursue my degree in musical theatre, I never thought I would land myself in so many other things outside of performing on stage.
Every semester, my course would host a fund-raiser cabaret where musical theatre students across the years get to perform, and I’ve had the pleasure of seeing them all since I came to university.
Two weeks before classes begin, my cohort returned to the studio for a two-week intensive to workshop a new musical, You’re A Catch! Why Are You Single? By Sarah Wynen.