<p>Hello, my D was accepted to Broadway Theatre Project and CCM summer immersion for MT. We would love reviews from recent attendees or parents, so that she can choose which one would be best for her. She is a 16 year old sophomore</p>
<p>My S attended CCM’s program last summer and absolutely loved it. They stay in the freshman dorms and its very well supervised. He is still friends with several of the kids he met last summer, they met up at college auditions. He found the acting training with Joe Deer (head of WSU’s MT program) invaluable, not sure if Prof. Deer is there this year but he’s an incredible guy. They had a session on college auditions, which led me to this site. Oddly enough, he really liked the pilates class, this was daily first thing in the AM! The first day or so they audition for the showcase that it performed at the end of the program. One of the dance captains from Mary Poppins taught them a number for the showcase, it was really good. They also saw a few shows in town in the evening, completely supervised as well.</p>
<p>My D attended BTP last summer, and called it “life changing”. She met faculty from many different college programs (Texas State, Point Park, CAP 21 and more…), got to sing for Donna McKechnnie, got to sing for Piesha McPhee (an American Idol producer, and mom of Catherine McPhee of Smash fame… and a BTP alum), got to work with Christopher D’Amboise on a dance piece, learned real Fosse style, worked with Ann Morrison and Mana Allen, both OBC Merrily We Roll Along (they are on full time faculty - not guest artists!) Also, David Sabela Mills heads the voice faculty - who you’ve probably heard on the Chicago revival recording as Mary Sunshine. It was a stellar group of faculty both in-house and guest. I know this summer Todrick Hall is a guest artist. They also always bring Jay Binder in (casting agent) and everyone gets a chance to audition for him. It’s mainly a mock audition - but he has been known to cast BTP apprentices. One of the highlight’s for my D. </p>
<p>I’m guessing she can’t go wrong with either program! BTP is very intense - they are singing/dancing/acting from 8 in the morning until 10-11pm, every day for 3 weeks solid. Best of luck to you as you decide!</p>
<p>Thank you so much, that is really helpful information!</p>
<p>I think both are fine programs. Do you know how many kids are involved in each? That may give an indication of how much individual attention she would receive.</p>
<p>TPAP usually only takes 95-100…last year they got up to 115 but they really don’t want more than 100.</p>
<p>I think CCM may be about a third of that.</p>
<p>Yea CCM had maybe 40 students.</p>
<p>BTP was at around 60-70 last summer - but they subdivided them into 4 separate groups for most classes - so the class size was not more than 20, except for some of the guest artist sessions that were all student sessions. The showcase numbers were often smaller yet. D was in a group of 8 that did an awesome song/dance number for the showcase. We haven’t been to TPAP yet… but I would presume that they are similar in terms of breaking the total number of students down into smaller groups for most things.</p>