Guaranteed casting. The good, the bad?

[fishbowlfreshman]

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I was under the impression that Juilliard actors did not perform in public until junior year.

From self-identified Juilliard student Annabelera …

I thought the program was by far the most interesting and impressive of those I looked at – the small classes, the age variation, the fact that you’re always in a play, the chance to work on classics, the incredible faculty, the playwrights program was a big selling point to me, I’m a huuuuuge lover of new work and a major fan of Durang and Marsha Norman…these were all great…I liked that there wasn’t a big cut system…I liked that you were always working on a show, right from the beginning of first year…I liked that there wasn’t a particular “method” they prescribed…and I just got a great impression of the school from the auditions and everything I saw. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/957646-post632.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/957646-post632.html&lt;/a&gt;

That’s the only way they could have as many as sixteen in-house productions on their resumes by showcase time although a lot of them were undoubtedly workshopped … [Group</a> 42](<a href=“http://4yr.juilliard.edu/]Group”>http://4yr.juilliard.edu/) </p>

<p>And it makes me smile when I see people refer to much of anything one does in college as preparing them for the real world. It’s college pure and simple although I’d suggest that if you want to be an actor, the best thing you can do for yourself is to do a lot of … ummm … acting? Like under the direction of experienced people who’ll hold you to something resembling a professional standard? How revolutionary to suggest that to be an actor you should do a lot of acting! ;)</p>

<p>I have a friend who is a staff teacher at one of the name LA studios. It’s always awkward for them when they have a prospective student with a lot of student directed work and whatnot on his resume do his audition/assessment and they have to recommend the beginners’ class because he doesn’t have anything approaching the craft it takes to do the advanced or even intermediate level work. It not always, but it happens more than you’d think. They usually get all huffy, stomp off and write negative Yelp reviews or some such …</p>

<p>Oh, and I just linked this on another thread, but here’s what my experience was at a school where they don’t have guaranteed casting and allow freshmen to audition followed by some discussion with kjgc … <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/745268-schools-allow-freshman-audition-4.html#post8490221[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/745268-schools-allow-freshman-audition-4.html#post8490221&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;