<p>My daughter went to BTP the summer 2005. All the auditions are completed by mid February and it seems to me that it didn't take too long to hear the results. I want to say sometime in March we heard. I wish I remembered in more detail for you. Great program! My d really enjoyed it and learned alot. Good luck!</p>
<p>Belterboymom
My D attended last summer 2006 and loved every minute of it. She is auditioning again by videotape since she has a college audition out of state the same day as the NYC audition for BTP. She also is doing fundraisers and we are going to ask grandmother if she might help with the hefty pricetag! But we felt it was worth every penny last year, so she wants to try again this year.
As for notification, the NYC auditions on Feb. 24th are the last ones, and then the letters come within a couple of weeks after that. You have to put a $500 deposit down by late March, so I'm sure the letters are here before that. I just don't remember an exact date.
Good luck to your son! My D made friends she still talks to often, many of whom are auditioning again this year. And the training was phenomenal. And the final performance--Broadway caliber for sure!</p>
<p>L,
you can email the guy who's mentioned on the website - I think his name is Warren Schleisinger? I did cause I wanted more information and he's really helpful. Pretty much, you just do the online application and then they say they'll send you something asking for your transcript and, for musical theater, a film of you doing two songs (1 ballad, 1 uptempo). He said MT is one of the first to fill but if u get everything in by the middle of march you should be fine. However, I did the online application about a week ago and haven't recieved anything in the mail yet (I live in Ithaca! so it shoudn't take too long).</p>
<p>I've skimmed this thread, so I apologize ahead of time if this has already been addressed. I have a D who will be 15 this summer and a rising sophomore. She attended Long Lake Camp last summer and really enjoyed it but hated the show she was put in and the director and was also maybe looking for a more conservatory approach and possibly a slightly less rural camp atmosphere. I've heard good things about Walnut Hill and am seriously looking into that for her. Can anyone give me an idea how competitive the admission process is? Thanks!</p>
<p>Anyone familiar with NYU's 3-week musical theatre program? It is in Steinhardt--not part of Tisch or CAP21. We saw the showcase last summer and my D is thinking of applying. Would love to hear about the program itself, as well as the organizaion of after-class activities and social life. She is currently a junior and would dorm. Thanks!!!</p>
<p>Brbway, have you heard it from the source or are they just trying to guess at this point? I know that one show needs many more men than the other so that would definitely change things!</p>
<p>Lulu'sMomma, I think that the Pajama Game is going to be at Interlochen. I think that Brbway was answering that question posed by danimal. Of course, I could be wrong. It is sometimes challenging to try to figure out who is answering what question! :)</p>
<p>Princessbell, I don't think the Interlochen summer program is about "freedom of expression." In fact, I could argue that musical theater/theater are also not about freedom of expression. They are arts forms that <em>can</em> freely express the playwright/bookwriter/composer's intentions/viewpoints, etc., but I think we can all agree that when you get up onstage to play, say, Penny Pingleton of "Hairspray," you are not expressing <em>yourself</em> freely. You are portraying/interpreting a character according to your own ideas, yes, but mostly according to the ideas of your director and the author. I think Interlochen's notion that having kids wear simple uniforms so that people are not worried about what to wear, what other people are wearing, etc. is a valid approach. It simplifies things, and also ensures that campers/students are (according to the standards of the camp/school/program) "appropriately" dressed. You certainly are not alone in your dislike of the idea of uniforms, and that's great, but plenty of people are OK with it, or are willing to put up with it to study at what has long been reputed to be one of the country's top programs. (BTW: I was never a student there and neither was my D. I just know the place by reputation, as many of my relatives live in Michigan and always talked about how amazing it was!) :)</p>
<p>after i got accepted and read about all the uniform stuff, i was pretty mad because at my high school we wore hardcore uniforms so i wanted to get away from it. but after awhile there i saw how much easier things were without having to worry about clothes, and you only wore uniforms for like 2 hours of the day because as soon as you get to the theatre building you change into dance/ rehearsal clothes, and when you go back to division you can change. the academy on the other hand is a lot more lax on the uniform rules, we get to pretty much wear anything that's light blue on top and navy blue on bottom with anything we want on top of those things.
they also stressed at camp that they had uniforms because there were over 2,000 of us and then there were thousands of tourists SO, they pretty much do it for security. whoa that was an uber long post, sorry homies.</p>
<p>BRbway, what you say makes sense. My younger D attends a school with uniforms, and even though she sometimes moans and groans about having to wear the same thing every day, it does simplify things alot! In fact, my older D had an adjustment period when she went from the school with a uniform code to an arts school where, well, almost anything goes! Uniforms definitely serve a purpose, and one is that teachers and administrators can quickly pick out who "belongs" and who doesn't.</p>