BWW Blog: Parade and the Relevancy of Today
When the time came to pick which musical I was to write about for my NYU outsider class, I combined my two classes and loves and landed on one of my favorite musicals, Parade.
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When the time came to pick which musical I was to write about for my NYU outsider class, I combined my two classes and loves and landed on one of my favorite musicals, Parade.
Do you know that feeling when you love the arts so much, but you don't really want to pursue them as a career, but you also don't want to let them go? Well, let me tell you something: Arts Management & Entrepreneurship is the major for you.
When I woke up this morning, I opened Facebook to see that the Broadway shutdown had been extended until early January.
Here are some tips and tricks that helped me stay focused and organized during my freshman year.
A little girl walks into an audition at the age of ten.
This is a time of necessary change, change that is urgent.
College can be quite daunting.
Juli Biagi graduated Anderson University this year with a BM in Musical Theatre, and now will be performing at Six Flags St. Louis until the end of this year.
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I remember being in high school weeks before graduation and being so unsure of what I wanted to do.
I will be the first to admit, I do not know everything about self-taping.
Ah, summer reading: the assignment that nobody asked for, yet everyone received.
I'm not always perfect, but I have been better about finding what works for me and actually following through.
You may think that you don't have time for anything else by rehearsals, but I promise you that with the proper time management you can play a sport and be the lead in your high school musical.
Have you ever wanted to create your own musical? Probably.
No. I did not get into one of my top college choices because I am black.
Ultimately, TikTok has become a place where theatre kids can express themselves and share their love for theatre while shows are shut down around the world.
Virtual Theatre Collaboration, or VTC for short, seeks to connect artists and audiences regardless of the platform, through digitally capturing original shows written by students, directed by students, performed by students, and designed by students.
Full disclosure, it involves a lot of snacking.
I think I can speak for all theatre kids when I say, High School, would've been awfully dreadful if we didn't have our school plays.
My name is Maura Consedine, I'm 19, and am currently a sophomore at St. John's University in Queens, NY.
I'm being represented and now my experiences, especially being a composing/theory major in college, with the way songs I write are perceived are now being shown in a song! How apropos!
Like most small-town theatre lovers entering college, the extent of my theatrical experience was the annual school musical and a smattering of community theatre productions.
It was incredibly educational, moving, and I am not only grateful for the opportunity but I'm eager to do it again (and again and again!)
When I auditioned for Fake Moos in January, I was definitely not expecting to be belting out the show's songs in the comfort of my childhood bedroom to an open laptop screen, but I'm really excited to keep the magic of theater alive in any way that I can!