Florida State University
Musical Theater

Session1	June 20 - June 25, 2010 CLOSED
Grades	9 - College Freshman
Tuition	$1100
Audition	No Audition Required

Tuition includes room and meals
Grade entering in Fall 2010

Musical Theater Camp/Workshop Details

Workshop Head: Nancy Dussault
Choreographer: Tom Pardoe
Faculty: Valentine Mayer

Join professional Broadway musical theater artists in a six day intensive Musical Theater camp. This outstanding summer Musical Theater workshop offers daily instruction in the three essential components of musical theater; acting, singing, and dancing. Curriculum will include improvisation, scene study, vocal instruction, audition techniques, and dance workshops for all levels.

Here are two short videos taken by a parent of US Performing Arts Musical Theater Camp work in progress at Florida State.

* Florida State Camp/Workshop Additional Information

Students will be housed at Dorman Hall on the FSU campus.
Students check-in between 1 - 2:30pm on the first day of camp.
Flights should arrive into Tallahassee Regional Airport(TLH) on the First Day of camp between 10am and 12:30pm.
Flights should depart from Tallahassee Regional Airport(TLH) on the last day of camp after 6pm.
Transportation is available to and from Tallahassee Regional Airport(TLH) for $30 each way.

You might
also like:
Kentucky - Musical Theater
UCLA - Musical Theater
TCU - Musical Theater

Directors and Faculty

Nancy Dussault

Workshop Head

In 1962, Dussault stepped into the role of Maria in the Broadway production of The Sound of Music. She received a Tony Award nomination in 1961 for Best Featured Actress (Musical) for Do Re Mi and was nominated for her performance in Bajour (1965). Of her performance in Do Re Mi and later career, Bloom and Vlastnik wrote: "Confidently clowning alongside such pros as Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker...she never faded into the scenery. Equally comfortable as a pure soprano or a rangy high belter, her versatility was well captured on the...cast album...Well cast as a situation comedy wife, she spent much of the 1970s and 80s in California." Other stage shows included Quality Street in 1965 at the Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania.[3] She also appeared in the City Center Gilbert & Sullivan NYC Company, directed by Dorothy Raedler, with such Metropolitan Opera singers as Nico Castel, Muriel Costa-Greenspon, and Frank Poretta, Sr. Dussault took over as the Witch in Into the Woods on Broadway (1987-89). On television, she was a regular on the 1970s series The New Dick Van Dyke Show, and played Ted Knight's wife in the role of Muriel Rush on the 1980s situation comedy Too Close for Comfort. She was the first anchor of Good Morning America, working with David Hartman, when the show started in 1975. She was the first actress to portray the character of Theresa Stemple, the mother of character Jamie Stemple Buchman, in season one of the long-running NBC 1990s TV series Mad About You.

Valentine Mayer

Faculty

Arrived in New York City after completing a Master of Arts degree at the University of Pittsburgh and a two year residency at The Pittsburgh Playhouse and Point Park College. Mayer acted in and/or stage managed 12 Broadway plays and musicals in the ten years he lived in New York, including THE VISIT, CHEMIN DE FER, HOLIDAY, THE RITZ, LEGEND, HAROLD AND MAUDE, SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (76 & 81)THE HEIRESS, and THE WEST SIDE WALTZ; while working with Zero Mostel, Rachel Roberts, Richard Kiley, Jane Alexander, Sandy Duncan, Jack Weston, Jerry Stiller, Rita Moreno, Herschel Bernardi, Nancy Dussault, Larry Kert, Georgia Brown, Hermione Gingold, Dorothy Loudon and Katharine Hepburn, while working for Harold Prince, Robert Whitehead, Rogers Stevens and Jerome Robbins, to name but a few.

Since New York, Mayer has made his home in Los Angeles, and has directed multi-camera comedies for all of the networks, including The Facts of Life, Too Close For Comfort, My Two Dads, Everything's Relative, Sweet Surrender, The Thorns, Karen's Song, USA High, working with such artists as Ted Knight, Dana Delaney, Cloris Leachman, Charlotte Rae, George Clooney, and Halle Berry.

Tom Pardoe

Program Head (Movement)

Tom Pardoe joins the UCLA Arts Camp Faculty teaching movement and dance in the College Audition Workshop. Tom got his start n the acting program at the University of Iowa. He studied with Gus Giordano's Jazz Dance Chicago before entering PCPA Theaterfest theater program. He attended The Theater School at De Paul University where he received his degree. Not a newcomer to Broadway Tom has appeared in Miss Saigon and Beauty and the Beast as well as An Evening with Betty Buckley at Carnegie Hall. He is well known to many audiences as he has been a part of world premieres such as A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden, Eliot Ness in Cleveland at the Denver Center and Narnia at PCPA. He has performed in over 40 musicals in regional theater and in the European Company of Jerome Robbins' West Side Story. When you meet him you may think he is your best friend because he has appeared in many television shows including The Drew Carey Show, The Education of Max Bickford and as a recurring role with Jennifer Love Hewitt in Time of Your Life. No newcomer to education he is an Adjunct Faculty at Cypress College in both Theater and Dance wih a growing list of choreographic successes including Sweet Charity, Bat Boy, and Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Tom Pardoe was the movement instructor for the new Warner Brother's movie Aqua Man and currently teaches an ongoing movement class for actors in Hollywood California. He is a welcome addition to the College Audition Workshop.

Location Information

Florida State University is an internationally recognized teaching and research institution committed to preparing its graduates for the ever-expanding opportunities of a global society. The School of Theatre at Florida State is one of the top-tier theatre training programs in the nation. These summer acting camps at FSU School of Theatre challenge students to grow as artists and individuals as they explore the world of theatre and their place in it. The School of Theatre invites students to dream and to take chances with their dream. You don't have to wait until you start college. You can begin that dream in these summer acting camp programs.

If you have questions or need help registering, please call 888-497-3553

Dates, Directors, and Faculty subject to change without notice. The faculty is comprised of college professors representing their schools and professional industry artists. Images are of USPA programs, but may not represent actual program or location. Photos by Tito Deverya (UCLA TFT), and Lauren di Matteo.

** USPA highly recommends that students secure travel insurance to cover trip cancellation, interruption, and/or medical emergency. For more on travel insurance, please visit: Assurance Solutions.

top