<p>I am pretty sure the Sour Kangaroo in last spring's Seussical was not an MT major--but BOY could she sing! And I know a friend of my D was cast in an opera last year. I am pretty sure a dance major friend was recently cast in a musical also. I'd have to check with her on that one. I am not sure about the actual classes though, other than I know we were told my D could take dance classes with the dance majors not just MT majors (if she's so lucky as to be accepted for MT!!!).</p>
<p>Congratulations to Theatermom's D for Singin' in the Rain. Seems like a perfect role for her. Break a leg!</p>
<p>UMMom, actually, the first licensed amateur production ever of Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL was put on this past August at Stagedoor Manor. Perhaps Pioneer is the first high school, not youth or amateur production.</p>
<p>HI,
I am new on the site and am finding it so helpful in helping my s prepare for college. U of M is his first choice as we live in Mich and the costs would be so much more affordable than out of state choices, not to mention the quality of the program. I have a question regarding the Mpulse program. Does anyone know if it is beneficial in anyway with getting into their MT program? Are there many or any, who attend Mpulse that have gotten in U of M? My s has done Interlochen and we are trying to decide which summer program would be more beneficial for him. Thanks!</p>
<p>mombull, welcome! </p>
<p>If you read through the UM threads or maybe the summer program threads, I believe this topic has been addressed before, maybe several times, and I believe there have been a few from each summer program who then are accepted for college. I believe there are more from summer who ultimately are not accepted than are accepted for college.</p>
<p>Sorry to have taken this long to reply to Soozievts reply to me about Pioneer High School doing the first liscensed performance of Disneys High School Musical. I have been out of town and I wanted to be sure I had my facts straight before I posted. Stage Door Manor, as Soozievt reported did do HS Musical last summer but it was a workshop not a liscensed performance. Most shows are put though workshops to help them get up and running. UofM has done several workshops for different musicals since my son has been there. These have been great experiences for all those involved since the original creative teams are usually involved. </p>
<p>The point of this post is that since my son has been in school I have realized that another advantage of being at some schools may be oppurtunities such as the one my son is currently having. He is practicing for one of UofMs mainstage musicals this fall but is also the director of HS Musical.(a paid position) He does not know if he is coming or going but he would not miss one minute of any of it.</p>
<p>Being apart of a BFA program has been all and now even more than we ever expected. Using connections he has made, he had a great internship for a large production company in NYC this summer. Now he will be on the first production team for HS Musical. He is planning to spend the spring semester at RADA. These are things that we had no idea to look for when thinking about what school would be best for him!<br>
- Just one more thing to think about.</p>
<p>I think the experience your son is having directing a high school production is just great. I think it broadens his experience in the field. I wish him luck with this project. I am sure the high schoolers particularly enjoy and get a lot out of getting to work with college students who are talented in this field, and can relate well to them and look up to them. It is huge undertaking for your son and his peers who are doing this project. I can relate as my own daughter is currently the musical director for a show at her BFA program, and has also directed productions for high schoolers in our state. She also has an internship in the city teaching and working with youth in the arts. These are all elements of opportunities at a BFA program that some may not have thought of and you are pointing out and sharing. Thank you.</p>
<p>With regard to the musical, High School Musical, Stagedoor Manor was the first LICENSED production of this musical. Pioneer may be the first licensed SCHOOL production, however. The production done at Stagedoor Manor was not a workshop. A workshop is when the musical is still being developed before licensure. In fact, this past summer, Stagedoor did work with MTI on a workshop of RENT. MTI is preparing to develop a version of RENT for iicensure for high schools, etc. High School Musical was not workshopped at SDM, but rather SDM was the FIRST LICENSED production of this new musical. Now, some high schools are going to be putting on the first school productions, as is the case with Pioneer HS. As well, some professional theaters, are going to be doing the first licensed professional productions. Stagedoor Manor's production of High School Musical was an actual world premiere of the newly licensed full scale production.</p>
<p>You may be interested in the following:</p>
<p>Regarding High School Musical, not only does Stagedoor Manor state on its website the following:</p>
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Stagedoor produced the world-premiere production of Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL!
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Music Theatre International and Disney Theatricals allowed Stagedoor Manor to produce the first licensed amateur production ever of Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL!
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<p>They do not say they workshopped it but that they produced a licensed production. They actually DO say that they workshopped RENT because that is exactly what RENT was, a workshop of a show that MTI is developing FOR licensure.</p>
<p>There is also the following article published in Playbill.com</p>
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"Camp" Site Gets First Dibs on Stage Version of Disney's High School Musical</p>
<p>By Ernio Hernandez
01 Aug 2006</p>
<p>Stagedoor Manor the summer theatre camp made famous by the movie "Camp" will be home to the first stage production of Disney's original movie "High School Musical."</p>
<p>Disney Theatrical Productions and Music Theater International granted the first license of the amateur stage production to the Loch Sheldrake, New York program, which is slated to perform in August.</p>
<p>The stage version based on the Disney Channel Original Movie written by Peter Barsocchini features a book by David Simpatico with songs by........</p>
<p>...MTI licenses a full-length stage musical that runs approximately two hours with an intermission and is "geared toward high-school and amateur adult performers." The stage version contains all the songs from the Disney Channel movie soundtrack with the addition of two new songs and a "High School Musical Megamix." A 70-minute, one-act version "geared for middle-school age performers" is also available.</p>
<p>A number of high schools have already reportedly lined up the adaptation as well. For more information on the stage version and licensing, visit <a href="http://www.mtishows.com%5B/url%5D.%5B/quote%5D">www.mtishows.com.
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<p>From MTI's own website:</p>
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First Licensed Amateur Productions for
Disneys HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL Confirmed</p>
<p>Renowned Theatre Camp Stagedoor Manor to Present Premiere Production</p>
<p>Disney Theatrical Productions and Music Theatre International (MTI) have confirmed the first licensed amateur stage productions of the newly adapted stage musical Disneys HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL with the premiere show to be presented by Stagedoor Manor, the renowned kids/teens theatre summer camp based in Sheldrake, N.Y. in August, 2006. Other confirmed amateur productions include Green Valley High School (Henderson, NV), James H. Blake High School (Silver Spring, MD), Woodhills High School (Pittsburgh, PA), Upper Dublin High School (Fort Washington, PA), Woodlands High School (The Woodlands, TX), Steven F. Austin High School (Austin, TX) and New Albany High School (New Albany, IN). </p>
<p>Based on the international smash hit Disney Channel Original Movie "High School Musical," the licensed stage adaptation, Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, is available as a full-length, two-act production as well as a one-act, 60-minute adaptation. Both versions are available for schools and amateur productions.</p>
<p>We have already received an overwhelming response from schools all over the country says Thomas Schumacher, Producer, Disney Theatrical Productions. With Disney titles, including Beauty & the Beast and Aida, already having been performed in over 1500 schools, by the end of 2007 we can anticipate some 2,000 schools will produce HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL. That would mean, at the end of the first year alone, over 60,000 students will have the thrill of bringing live theatre to their communities. It is simply astounding to think of how many young artists will have the opportunity to work on HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL. As someone who grew up working in amateur productions and dreaming of a career in the theatre, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL will give these students their first taste of presenting a show.</p>
<p>Since its premiere January 20, 2006 on Disney Channel, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL has been televised 13 times and was seen by over 37 million unduplicated total viewers. Its premiere telecast alone set household ratings records for Disney Channel and the movie has since set ratings records in Australia and Southeast Asia..................................
For more information and to license the full stage version of
Disney's High School Musical, click here: <a href="http://www.mtishows.com/show_home.asp?id=000304%5B/url%5D">http://www.mtishows.com/show_home.asp?id=000304</a> </p>
<p>For more information and to license
Disney's High School Musical One Act Edition click here: <a href="http://www.mtishows.com/show_home.asp?id=000311%5B/url%5D%5B/quote%5D">http://www.mtishows.com/show_home.asp?id=000311
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<p>You may also be interested in this article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about PCLO who will mount a professional production. It also mentions Stagedoor Manor as the first licensed production:</p>
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High School Musical' to open CLO season</p>
<p>Wednesday, September 20, 2006
By Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</p>
<p>Pittsburgh CLO is opening its 2007 season with a certified phenomenon, "High School Musical." It debuted as a TV movie on the Disney Channel on Jan. 20 and has already set records on TV and in DVD and karaoke form, attracting more than 40 million viewers. Its CD ranks as the best seller of 2006, and a TV sequel is in the works.</p>
<p>If you don't believe all this, just ask your local preteen, who may already know its songs by heart.</p>
<p>That was Van Kaplan's experience. This summer he asked his 11-year-old daughter, Jessica, if she had heard of it, and she said, "Duh-uh." So he said he was going to buy the DVD and she said, "Da-ad, it's on TV every night!"</p>
<p>The stage version made its debut last month at Stagedoor Manor, a kids/teens theater summer camp in Sheldrake, N.Y., and Disney is now testing the professional waters by licensing it to just five companies for 2007. Atlanta's Theater of the Stars does it first, in January; the CLO's own production (not a tour) will be June 5-17.</p>
<p>That won't be the first production in Pittsburgh, however: Woodland Hills High School in Churchill, one of seven schools from Maryland to Nevada to which Disney first granted amateur rights, will stage it in the spring. Amateur rights are available in both one- or two-act versions.</p>
<p>"High School Musical" has been described as the Brady Bunch does "Grease." The story centers on jock Troy and brainy Gabriella who decide, to the dismay of the school's usual drama stars, to audition for their high school musical.......................</p>
<p>Kaplan expressed pleasure that CLO was "hand-picked" to be one of the first professional companies and is "excited because it's a new show aimed at all audiences."
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<p>From Wikipedia:</p>
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It was announced in Playbill on August 1, 2006 that Stagedoor Manor the summer theatre camp made famous by the movie Camp was to be home to the first stage production of Disney's original movie High School Musical.
Disney Theatrical Productions and Music Theater International granted the first license of the amateur stage production to the Loch Sheldrake, New York program, which was performed on August 18, 2006.[5][6][7] The part of Troy was played by Jordan Campbell and the part of Gabriella was played by Andrea Ross."
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<p>I have shared what I know about this, and the sources. The production in Michigan is likely the first high school to do it, but is not the first licensed production. Stagedoor did not workshop High School Musical. They produced a full scale production open to the public, as a world premiere. They did workshop RENT, however, which is not yet licensed to amateur or school productions.</p>
<p>To my knowledge, my sons, and the MTI representative, Pioneer HS is the first LICENSED production of the LICENSED material High School Musical. This past summer Stagedoor worked on creating the actual stage script with MTI, producing public performances of the DRAFT EDITION. My son has spoken directly to some of the produciton staff involved with the Stagedoor production and MTI Reps who both say that they were creating the show and making revisions as they went.
As a matter of fact, my son has been in rehearsal for his production of HSM for over a month and just received the OFFICIAL LICENSED scripts this week. For the past month MTI allowed them to use the DRAFT EDITION script, (the same that Stagedoor used), until they confirmed the offical licensed edition. My son called me last night to tell me of all the changes in the two editions! There have different lyrics, dialouge, character names and added verses to songs! He has to go back and re-teach stuff now! MTI apologized, but said that the script Pionner HS had been using was the DRAFT EDITION, from the "workshopped" production at Stagedoor. After MTI saw the show on its feet at Stagedoor they saw the need for changes and have been back at the drawing board for the past few months making the appropriate changes.
I also remember my son telling me this summer, (while he was in NYC working for a Bway Producing Office), that other NYC workshop productions of HSM were going on in the city with Bway actors playing the roles. Disney and MTI used this as another chance to see the show up on its feet and make the appropriate changes.
Having said all of this, I am under the impression that Pioneer indeed is the first stage production producing the OFFICAL LICENSED MATERIAL (with the offical changes made) of High School Musical.
Sorry for the confusion!</p>
<p>UMMom,
I completely understand what you are saying. First, you had posted this:</p>
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Pioneer HS is preforming High School Musical that weekend as well. Disney choose them to be the first to perform it on the stage.
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<p>As I knew they were not the first to perform it on stage, I had just mentioned, in case you were unaware (though you ARE aware, as it turns out), the following:</p>
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UMMom, actually, the first licensed amateur production ever of Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL was put on this past August at Stagedoor Manor. Perhaps Pioneer is the first high school, not youth or amateur production.
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Stage Door Manor, as Soozievt reported did do HS Musical last summer but it was a workshop not a liscensed performance.
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<p>Since you then stated that it was NOT licensed performance, I just tried to clarify through many sources, including Stagedoor Manor and MTI itself, along with many publications, that SDM's production was indeed a LICENSED production. It was the first licensed production. </p>
<p>At the first production, Disney and MTI people were present. And yes, after seeing the first performance, they has created some changes to the script and music. The performance was in late August and as you know with Pioneeer HS, as well as the articles I quoted about other high schools that have received a license to put this show in in the near future, those licenses were likely approved in August (or earlier?) if schools like Pioneer started working on them in early fall. So, the show was already licensed when SDM put it on. With RENT, they workshopped the show and it is not yet available for license. I'm sure they are making changes and so on. That production was not a full scale production but High School musical was. Like with many shows, after the first production, changes are made. Even on Broadway, during the previews, changes are made. So, I very much understand what you are saying. </p>
<p>I simply was responding to your initial statements that Pioneer was the first amateur production and also that Stagedoor Manor was NOT a licensed production. SDM was the first amateur production and Pioneer is the first high school production. The words "first licensed production" with regard to SDM are stated in every source, including MTI's. That is ALL that I was saying. It isnt' even an issue (for me anyway). I just read your initial statements and pointed out what I knew and also have read many places. Last year, SDM also put on Aida and Miss Saigon and officials from the licensing companies attended. There is always going to be a first showing and changes may be made. But the production of HS Musical at SDM was not "workshopped" in the usual sense of what that means, where the folks at places like MTI work with the cast and revise the show as they continue developing it. The SDM show was their first licensed production and since they viewed it, they obviously are making some changes. I understand and actually already knew that. The RENT workshop at SDM was a work in progress, not meant to be their licensed finished script ready to license. The license is not yet available. The SDM production of HS Musical, a licensed production at the time, was put on during the same period the licenses were going out to schools like Pioneer. With RENT, they were workshopping it and the license is not yet available for that reason. </p>
<p>In any case, I think what your son and his peers are doing is GREAT and I wish them lots of "break a legs". I never meant to discuss this but only originally responded to the statement you had made in your initial post on the subject and shared what I knew. </p>
<p>I totally understand what you are saying in your last post and do not doubt one word of it :D. I understand they have since made changes. I was only saying that SDM put on the world premiere by amateurs and also it was considered by MTI and other publications as the "first licensed production." As you say, Pioneer will be the first to put on the revised edition of it, which is ALSO very exciting! Again, best of luck to these talented students both on stage and behind the stage!</p>
<p>Best,
Susan</p>
<p>Ladies, does it really matter?</p>
<p>Congratulations to all involved with this new, exciting show! :D</p>