Last year at Broadway Con there was a college talk. The Director from Pace said they get over 4,000 submissions and audition around 500. 3/4 of the submissions are girls.
I should add that they said to keep in mind that only 37% of lead roles on Broadway are female.
@mamaboyz That 4000 number must be across all disciplines. Pace has a lot of performing arts degrees.
I wonder if when they whittle down the 4000 to 500 they get to a 50/50 split for male/female (so 250 guys, 250 gals) for the audition portion?
The speech was specifically about MT and the speaker was the head of BFA for MT. Other speaker was from AMDA so specifically dealing with musicals.
UCF has a prescreen for their MT program but not their acting program.