<p>I would like to find some schools with recognized / very good B.A. Musical Theatre programs. If someone could help me out, that would be really helpful. Thank you!</p>
<p>Well its not technically a MT BA program but Marymount Manhattan College has a BA in Theatre Performance and you can minor in Musical Theatre. The minor is very competitive and combined with the major coursework is basically like a major. You take dance everyday and voice lessons once a week in the minor then there are a bunch of courses in Musical Theatre aside from those classes.</p>
<p>Its a young program but there have already been success stories, the most famous being Annaleigh Ashford (Legally Blonde, Wicked) who only graduated a few years ago.</p>
<p>Muhlenberg has an excellent theatre program where you can major in theatre with an emphasis on acting and take as many classes as you want from its excellent voice and dance programs to create a "major" in MT. The performance facilities are excellent and Muhlenberg stages a couple of musicals per year as well as offering students the opportunity to participate in its professional MT summer stock productions. You need to have the grades to be accepted academically but if you qualify, Muhlenberg is one of the better BA choices around for MT.</p>
<p>Northwestern also has a very highly regarded BA Theatre program in which after your first or second year you can audition for its 2 year MT certificate program. Northwestern is a very selective school academically, even more so than Muhlenberg, so you really need high academic credentials for this school to be a good one for your list. If you can meet the academic criteria for admission, however, you should definitely give it a close look.</p>
<p>The University of Alabama has a MT track under the BA theatre, if you're looking in the south. It's a new and up and coming program.</p>
<p>I believe Wagner College has a BA, but it does require an audition.</p>
<p>I Coordinate the BA Musical Theatre program at James Madison University in VA. I used to teach in the BA Musical Theatre program at Plymouth State University in NH. Both of these programs are BAs by audition.</p>