音乐剧院计划的目的是以系统的方式培训学生，使他们为在复杂的音乐剧院专业世界中进行实际竞争做好准备。要实现这一目标，就需要工作室和学术工作之间精心设计的平衡。音乐剧院的工作室工作不仅需要戏剧表演的技能，而且还需要音乐和舞蹈的技能。学生以结构化，密集的格式发展自己的技能，该格式具有仔细和专家指导。绩效是128学分计划的主要重点。学生将在各种音乐剧院模式中获得技能和经验：歌剧，传统音乐喜剧，轻歌剧以及新的和实验形式。课程内容包括表演，声音，舞蹈，戏剧历史，音乐理论和通识教育研究之间的平衡。
The purpose of the musical theater program is to train students in a systematic way that prepares them to compete realistically in the complex professional world of musical theater. Achieving this goal requires a carefully structured balance of studio and academic work. Musical theater studio work requires skills not only in dramatic performance, but in music and dance as well. Students develop their skills in a structured, intensive format that features careful and expert guidance.<br><br>Performance is a major focus of the 128-credit program. Students gain skills and experience in the various modes of musical theater: the revue, traditional musical comedies, operettas, and new and experimental forms. Coursework includes a balance of acting, voice, dance, theater history, music theory, and liberal education studies.<br><br>The first year is the foundation for all future training. It focuses on techniques of acting, ballet, voice-both singing and speaking-sight-singing, music theory, dramatic theory, and technical theater crafts. Writing is also a requirement for all musical theater majors. The first year is a non-performance year, but students are assigned to work on one production behind the scenes. They may elect to work on additional productions in a wide variety of jobs.<br><br>Student Learning Outcomes<br>1. Sing with a flexible voice that can execute the requisite sounds and styles of the MT repertoire, drawing on a wide and diverse heritage of music genres<br>2. Exhibit technical and stylistic proficiency in the various dance forms of musical theater, drawing on a wide and diverse heritage of dance genres<br>3. Demonstrate the acting techniques to create and inhabit various characters, including material with which they can personally and artistically identify<br>4. Apply the acquired skills of analysis, in music and acting, to the preparation of a wide and diverse variety of literature for performance<br>5. Demonstrate the ability to participate and contribute to collaborative artistic endeavors to a professional standard