<p>Don't know how I did that; I can only type with 2 fingers! ;)</p>
<p>My turn to chime in. ;) I too have climbed up & down those (internal) Spruce stairs!
As for the auditions, MichaelNKaT and Shellipearl have said it well.<br>
I must add that if you thought you were an actor in high school, as the song goes "you ain't seen nothing yet." You will learn so much more.</p>
<p>Just checked the campus map & the sketchy dorm was Pine.</p>
<p>i'm sorry you found Pine to be sketchy, stickershock. i must just say that my experiences in the dorms at uarts were very positive and significantly better than the experiences many of my other friends at other colleges had. having visited some friends at other schools, i felt really grateful for how much more space i had than the rest of them. so don't let the dorms stand in the way of looking into the theater program at uarts. it really is stellar and i have grown so much in the last (wow) almost 2 years!!</p>
<p>Nice to hear from you, BroadwayWannabe! It's great to know you continue to enjoy your time at UArts and to thrive there. Please post more about your own experiences when you have time: you are a great rep of the school. :)</p>
<p>My daughter has also had friends visit from other colleges and they were "impressed" and told her how lucky she was to have a spacious apartment with her own (shared with one other girl) kitchen and bathroom. They also thought it was great to go shopping and make your own meals. They were more then tired of their required meal plans.</p>
<p>I am always happy to talk about my experiences at UArts because I love the school...sophomore year has definitely been a lot harder than freshman year in many ways, but if the school weren't kicking my butt, it wouldn't be getting me anywhere haha!</p>
<p>this semester my theater classes are: acting studio technique II (meisner is all year sophomore year), voice lessons, fundamentals of singing and acting, ballet, jazz, music skills, piano lab, voice and speech for actors IV, and musical theater history. i also have an additional liberal arts class of a Spain History class, which is actually GREAT this semester! I have weekly coachings in addition to my private voice lessons, plus we also have 3 master classes with our voice teachers a semester. i also have a semester of crew, but fortunately I was on wardrobe crew for a show from this past weekend so I'm done for the semester now. I was glad to have an early show to get it out of the way! </p>
<p>Next week, we also have sophomore evaluations. There are 4 major evaluations at UArts: 2nd semester freshman year, both semesters sophomore year, and first semester junior year. This semester our evaluations are with our acting studio teacher, our voice and speech teacher, and the head of the musical theater program who is our teacher for fundamentals of singing and acting. It's just a way for teachers to check in and let you know how you are doing. It's not a high-pressure thing as we have no cuts, but it's a good informative and beneficial way to see where things stand. </p>
<p>One thing that also has been very helpful this semester is that we video tape a lot of our work in my fundamentals of singing and acting class and it's posted on a private uarts website. it's really helpful because we can watch our performances on our own and self-correct.</p>
<p>As usual, theater thrives in Philly. Avenue Q was here a few weeks ago. My Fair Lady, Gypsy, Les Miz, and many others are on the way.....and all in the backyard of UArts.</p>
<p>i'm always happy to talk to prospective students, so feel free to send questions my way!</p>
<p>Having done summer programs, I felt fortunate for everything UArts had to offer with apartment-style dorms. </p>
<p>I had a different experience than BroadwayWannabe with rooms. I lived in a studio with one other girl in Spruce. That was the option I wanted, and I still don't think I would have changed it. </p>
<p>First of all, freshman year I tended to be terminally late (something which I haven't completely amended, but have gotten much better at), and Spruce was the closest dorm to the Terra building, where we MTs have most of our classes. </p>
<p>Second of all, being an only child, I needed to be eased into living with somebody else. Though you are living in close proximity in Spruce, you run the risk of doing the same in Pine or Furness. While living in Pine, you could potentially live with one roommate or more. While living in Furness, you MUST live with multiple people, which did not appeal to me at all, regardless of the common room.</p>
<p>I agree with BroadwayWannabe that you should try to expand your horizons and not live with somebody in your major. However, I had the experience where my roommate and I both requested to live with somebody in a major other than our own, and lo! and behold, we were two MT freshmen placed together. </p>
<p>Regarding auditions: Being as busy as you will end up being, one round of common casting auditions is definitely enough. The shows are cast this way so no one person is spreading themselves too thin during a semester and so shows are cast fairly with directors and faculty in on casting meetings. There are separate auditions for some student pieces, though whether they are directing scenes for a class or auditions for the student-produced one-acts called EQUINOX, depends on the semester. I don't feel lacking in audition knowledge because we are taught it in classes before we leave. I find it is nearly impossible to recreate a professional audition situation with casting in universities because we still know exactly who we're auditioning for and who we're up against. There is material I would never choose to use for a UArts audition that I would use freely and openly for an audition for a paying job, and vice versa.</p>
<p>Have I gone off on a tangent? My apologies if I have, I'm just a bit addled from the fact that it's a Wednesday night and tomorrow is Thursday, and I still have so much homework to complete. BroadwayWannabe will tell you that you can find me schlepping a suitcase around every Thursday without fail, so I can carry everything I need to my myriad classes and then some! :)</p>
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This is a very good point I had not thought of!</p>
<p>haha i did notice your suitcase today!! and i agree totally about the auditions...when i was one of five girls called back for a role last year, i knew exactly who the other 4 girls were and what their abilities were....that certainly doesn't happen in the real world where you don''t know everyone haha. yay uarts!</p>
<p>Congrats to Noelle's mom and her acceptance!</p>
<p>HI. My daughter, Katrina, has been accepted to Uof Arts MT and we are coming to visit on April 8 or 9 through to the 10th or 11th. Is there any way she could meet some of you who are already there? I haven't picked a hotel yet as I am not sure what day we will be there, but we will definitely be there on the 9th in the late morning and all day the 10th and 11th. Can anyone help?</p>
<p>bktheater -
Congrats on your D's acceptance. I would call the school and arrange a tour - I believe they have a tour at 11:00a.m. and another at 1:00p.m.(?) on certain days. These tours are given by students. Good luck with your decision!</p>
<p>Congrats on the acceptance!! We also are visiting for the first time and we arranged a tour through the school. We are arriving tomorrow evening and our tour is on Thursday. There is a dorm tour and a performing arts tour. I would also suggest seeing a show, if possible when you are there. Have fun!!</p>
<p>hello bktheater, i am a uarts sophomore MT and i'm happy to meet up with you and talk to you about UArts and my experiences! just private message me and we can arrange a time</p>
<p>AZKMom -
I believe UArts "Into the Woods" is opening tomorrow @ the beautiful Merriam Theatre! Luckily you'll be there!! ;)</p>
<p>P.S. bktheater - YES, BroadwayWannabe is a GR8 tour guide (she was ours last yr!!) :)</p>
<p>Yes, we are attending INTO THE WOODS on Thursday night!!</p>
<p>Bktheater, Neil Simon's The Dinner Party is being presented the weekend of April 10,11,12,13; it is in the blackbox theater which is a small theater so call ahead to see if you can get tickets if you'd like to go.</p>
<p>Thanks, I'll call them up and see if we can get tickets.</p>
<p>Hi bktheater,</p>
<p>Along with BroadwayWannabe, I would also be happy to meet with you to give you an additional perspective! </p>
<p>Feel free to PM me as well if you'd like to meet separately, or if BroadwayWannabe would be willing to meet as a group, I would be happy to do that. Would that be okay with you, BroadwayWannabe?</p>