Does anyone here know the status of the program? Under application instructions, it says “Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Contemporary Musical Theatre (coming fall 2019)” with no option for clicking to get specifics. I can’t tell if this means it’s delayed for another year or if it hasn’t been updated yet. The other BFA options are updated with instructions for this year.
We will call this week but I thought maybe someone here might already know.
I have not heard anything myself but I think it’s great to have another BFA MT option on the west coast. We live in California and are finding our west coast options are very limited. Unfortunately my son is more into legit musicals so this likely won’t be of interest to him.
Mine is more suited to Legit as well.
We toured the campus earlier in the summer and met with the School of Dramatic Arts (where the new MT BFA program will be housed). It is still expected, but they are still working out a great number of issues regarding curriculum, etc. It will be a combined program between their department, music, and dance…but they have some hurdles to make it through before anything is solidified. One thing I found interesting is that they are not sure they will have a trip to NYC to spotlight seniors at the end. They are very LA focused overall. They still can’t answer a great deal of questions about it…but do expect to only accept about a dozen students for the first year.