<p>Many of the musical theatre schools have completed their senior showcases in New York. Please post if you have heard about the successes of individual schools/programs and their students - their exciting news - shows they've been cast in -- agents they've signed with, tv, film etc......</p>
<p>Northwestern had their NY showcase a few weeks ago (not everyone gets to go…you have to audition to make the NY showcase. They do have a Chicago showcase for anyone who wants to do it though).</p>
<p>As far as I know, everyone had offers from agents and most got calls from casting directors. I’m not positive on specifics but my roommate is signing with CAA, I believe.</p>
<p>typecastme22 - when you say “everyone had offers from agents” do you mean that they got an interview with an agent OR they got signed with an agent?</p>
<p>^^I am not sure what typecastme meant either as it is not the same to get agent responses/interviews and to be signed with an agent. When you do a showcase, you may or may not get agents to respond and if they do, then they call you in for an interview. Not each interview will necessarily lead to an offer of representation. So, I can’t tell if typecastme means that every person in that showcase got responses from agents or all signed (it takes time to do the interviews and get to the point of signing and I am GUESSING she really meant all had agent responses, and are not yet all signed with an agent). </p>
<p>I will share that my D was recently in the Tisch MT Industry Night (which is a showcase that is Tisch wide, not just CAP21 and students from various studios are in it and you must audition to get in…they take 15…this is not the same as the CAP21 showcase which is not by audition). I can’t report how many kids got agent responses…I don’t even know if my kid knows the answer to that and likely only talked to her friends that were in it and some others she did not know as well to discuss it with. My D had five agents contact her from the showcase and has been to interviews with them since the showcase and signed with one of them yesterday. Her friends in her friendship circle got agents from this or from the CAP21 showcase.</p>
<p>Exciting for your D, soozievt! Congrats!</p>
<p>Thank you NewbieMTMom. Very kind of you. I think it will be helpful to have an agent when she graduates and hits the audition pavement.</p>
<p>Susan, bravo to your D! She’s done extremely well and I know that she’s going to have great success. I’m glad to hear that she’s signed. Another important step along the way! :)</p>
<p>Good job, Susan’s D!</p>
<p>soozievt - That is wonderful news for your D to be signed by an agent. Congratulations to her! I look forward to reading about her successes in the future!</p>
<p>Soozievt, congrats to your D! I think we are going to be hearing/seeing big things from her. This is so exciting and well deserved. Promise to keep us all posted on news when you can share it.</p>
<p>Awesome news, soozievt! Very exciting and very well deserved.</p>
<p>soozievt, congrats to your D! Please keep us posted when she is performing in the NYC area, as there are a number of CC’ers who would love to see her!</p>
<p>Hey you guys, thanks very much for the supportive wishes. I hesitated to even post that and did not when I first saw the thread and original post. I then thought to respond to posts 2 and 3 about agent interest/response at a showcase and how that is not equivalent to offers of representation. Once I responded, I realized that having been a participant here for 7 years, and there are many who have also been around a while and know my D is a senior, that I was ignoring the thread and so I did post the agent stuff but am choosing for now to not post any other details. </p>
<p>I don’t know what the future holds for my D but can simply say that she has had a wonderful four years at her college and has learned a great deal and has enjoyed it so much. There have been so many opportunities and she has also sought out and created many of her own. I know she is grateful to have gotten agent representation as it should be beneficial as she begins her auditioning in NYC (she refrained from NYC auditions her four years during college). Right now, her main focus, besides getting the agent, is to school itself and a major focus is her staging of and performing in her own original musical which she has worked on writing, composing and staging all year and goes up in a few weeks right before she graduates. And tonight is her final on campus performance with N’Harmonics if anyone from NYU is reading, go see it! N’Harms will also perform at Joe’s Pub on May 24. This group has been a significant part of my D’s time at NYU the past four years. She is also the musical director of it. Thank you once again for your kind posts.</p>
<p>Soozievt, CONGRATULATIONS on your daughter’s successes. I SO respect your caution and discretion in not posting any further news at this time. As one of the best sources and most experienced on this board, I am hoping that in time you will share more info concerning agents, without your d’s specific contract, on topics such as what questions to ask and what to consider when choosing an agent, pitfalls and advantages, and whatever other issues you deem important, especially since hopefully our kids will get agent offers and have choices at the end of their schooling. Maybe you should write a book or pamphlet! ;') I’d buy it!</p>
<p>ttmom, I don’t mind sharing some in’s and out’s of the agent process. I meant earlier that my D had other happenings this week and other details that I did not wish to share at this time. </p>
<p>I’d be happy to engage in a conversation that is general about agents, not that I know all there is to know about it by a long shot. If you have a question, ask me and I can try to answer it.</p>
<p>Soozievt - Congratulations to your daughter. You must be very proud of her!</p>
<p>Soozievt- I am so happy for your talented daughter. Congrats to her.</p>
<p>Soozie~ Congratulations to your D and to you because you have been such a big part of her success! Can hardly wait to hear the big news when you are able to share!</p>
<p>Yay for SoozieVT’s daughter!! I say that semi-calmly because I’ve been telling SoozieVT for years that her daughter is going straight from NYU to the Broadway stage; no surprise there!! I am curious, however, how she narrowed it down from the 5 agents she had interest from; I know standard contracts are 10%; what else should one look for??</p>
<p>Susan,
Congrats to your D. on getting an agent!!</p>