杨百翰大学（BYU）的音乐舞蹈剧院（MDT）计划是一个跨学科的有限注册计划，旨在培训年轻表演者从事音乐剧院和相关表演学科的职业。该计划将专业培训与基础广泛的文科教育相结合，植根于恢复耶稣基督福音的原理和实践。计划的毕业生将是表演，唱歌和跳舞方面专业竞争的表演者。他们将了解并分析音乐剧院艺术形式以及音乐剧院作品的流行经典的历史和社会影响。毕业生将致力于智力探索，终身学习和职业发展，成为表演艺术界领导力，灵感，诚信和成就的榜样。
The Musical Dance Theatre (MDT) program at BYU is one of the top-tier university training programs in the United States for students seeking a career in musical theatre. For over 30 years, our graduates have successfully taken their college training directly to Broadway and other prominent regional and national performance venues. This limited enrollment BFA program is unique for many reasons, but chief among them is that students are trained equally in the three essential disciplines of music, dance and theatre in an atmosphere that is spiritually and personally edifying. Here at BYU, teachers who understand the profession as experienced performers and academicians carefully and individually mentor them through their development as performing artists.<br><br>The stage is our laboratory. Each year there are significant opportunities to perform work from the existing cannon of musical theatre as well as new and experimental pieces, music videos and reviews. Recent productions include Phantom of the Opera, Light In The Piazza, and Into The Woods.<br><br>Though we appear isolated in the Rocky Mountains of Utah, our program has a unique connection to many of the finest Broadway artists of our time. Stars like Sutton Foster, Audra McDonald, Mandy Patinkin and Lea Solanga regularly come to BYU to perform and individually coach our students in special master classes. In a recent master class, Frank Wildhorn, writer of The Scarlet Pimpernel and Bonnie and Clyde, was so impressed with the talent of our MDT students that he chose BYU to stage the USA premier of his new work, Count of Monte Cristo.