UCLA - Musical Theater

Intensive training in acting, voice, movement, dancing, and singing for the musical theater stage.

Week 1:	July 19 - July 24, 2009
Week 2:	August 2 - August 7, 2009
Grades:	9 - 12 (Entering in Fall 2009)
Tuition:	$1350 (Includes room and meals)

Details

This weeklong camp provides a professional foundation for performing in the musical theater. It not only is for the curious but also for the advanced as it offers on many levels, intensive training in acting, voice, movement, dancing, understanding music and singing for the musical theater stage. A strong focus will be training performance both individually and in groups. The camp is taught by working professionals and/or members of the professional faculty of UCLA's Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program, who bring years of their expertise and guidance to the training of each camper. It is a unique camp experience that will have every musical theater student humming and singing show tunes in the halls of their dormitory at night and dancing to the rhythms of Sondheim, Hammerstein, and Kanter and Ebb during the day. This camp fills quickly, so register early!

* Additional Information

Students check-in between 1pm and 2:30pm on the first day of camp.
Flights should arrive into Los Angeles International (LAX) on the first day of camp between 10am and 12pm.
Flights should depart from Los Angeles International (LAX) on the day after camp ends (Saturday) between 9am and 12pm. There will be an additional $100 fee for the overnight stay.
Airport transportation is available to and from Los Angeles International (LAX) for $30 each way.

College Credit Information

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Program Directors

Dan Belzer, Program Co-Director
Dan Belzer is a graduate of Drake University and has performed throughout the United States and Europe on numerous occasions. He has been musical directing and accompanying for more than twenty years and is frequently called upon to accompany Broadway and national tour auditions in Los Angeles. While at UCLA, Dan has served as associate musical director and performance pianist for the Ray Bolger Musical Theater productions of Company, Hair, and Into the Woods. Dan teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in singing, dance, and movement for the actor and is also on the faculty of the UCLA Arts Camps. Dan is an Associate Artist of Interact Theatre Company, where his credits include A Little Night Music and Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens. Additional L.A. productions include: Pulp, Plane Crazy, Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story, Oliver!, The All Night Strut and Earnest in Love. Clients and former students of Dan have appeared on Broadway and national tours. He is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and Local 47 Musicians Union.

Karen Morrow, Program Co-Director
Voice and Music Co-Director Karen Morrow is an award winning actress/singer. She has starred on Broadway in such productions as A Joyful Noise, I'm Solomon, Music, Music, the Grass Harp, and the Tony Award winning Mystery of Edwin Drood. Her Off-Broadway credits include her starring roles in The Sing Muse and the Boys from Syracuse. A favorite actress of New York theater audiences, Miss Morrow appeared for five seasons with the New York City Center and most recently she stared in the National Tour of Jerome Kern's Showboat. Miss Morrow has received an Emmy, the coveted Theatre World Award, an Ovation nomination and five Dramalogue Awards. Along with her theatre, television, commercial, concert and cabaret appearances, Karen conducts a bi-monthly Master Class in performance and audition skills. Most recently a professor in the Bolger Music Theatre Program at UCLA, Karen Morrow is a well sought after teacher/performer who travels the U.S conducting Master Classes for other universities and Arts Conferences.

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Location Information

UCLA is one of America's most prestigious universities, and their theater department is rated number one in North America. Bordered on the north by protected wilderness and on the south by Westwood Village, UCLA has long been known as an entertainment magnet for the entire Los Angeles area. Selected for their artistic and professional achievements, UCLA 's exceptional faculty from the School of Theater, Film and Television lead these inspiring workshops.

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) is the only university in the country where the study of theater, film, television and digital media is integrated within a single professional school.

The Department of Film, Television and Digital Media offers a wide range of courses for undergraduates in the study of three areas of moving images: Critical Studies, including the history, theory and aesthetics of both film and television; Production/Directing, including film, television (studio and field), digital, experimental and animation; and the film and television disciplines, including writing, producing, cinematography, sound recording and editing.

At the graduate level, there are five areas of concentration: Critical Studies, which offers film and television history and theory; aesthetics and popular culture, films from diverse genres and extensive national cinemas; Production/Directing, which trains students in all aspects of directing narrative fiction, documentaries and/or experimental film, emphasizing the aesthetic components; Screenwriting, in which the elements of character, dialogue, story and tone are explored; Animation, in which students are trained to create an individual style and voice; and the Producers Program, in which students learn the business and art of making films and television programs.

At UCLA's Department of Theater, we believe that great theater programs must prepare and train students for careers in all contemporary and emerging entertainment forms -- including live theater, film, television, video, themed entertainment, interactive gaming, and more. Our students live in a world that is interactive, collaborative, and fueled by their passion for our art form -- one that encompasses the many forms of professional practice as well as the theoretical exploration of current and emerging entertainment forms.

Igniting our students' talent and passion to achieve success is our goal. That is why students work with a distinguished faculty composed of professional and creative artists who have excelled in their fields. UCLA Theater has some of the most distinguished faculty and visiting artists in the world, among them Mel Shapiro, Annette Bening, Anthony Hopkins, Larry Moss, Neil Jampolis, Deborah Scott and Jerry Katzman. With this professional training, students are following in the footsteps of such illustrious alumni as Francis Ford Coppola, Tim Robbins, James Dean, Carol Burnett, Susan Egan, Jack Black, Ben Stiller and many others.

TFT's extraordinary undergraduate and graduate students are drawn from an admissions pool of the finest students from around the world, and enjoy participation in small classes with faculty members who themselves are accomplished artists and industry leaders.

We invite you to explore our US Performing Arts Camps web site further where you can register online for any of the ucla summer programs offered to high school students.

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