UCLA - Musical Theater Conservatory

Intensive training in acting, voice, movement, dancing, and singing for the musical theater stage.
Limited Enrollment by Audition Only!

Week 1:	June 21 - July 11, 2009
Ages:	16 - 22
Tuition:	$4000 (Includes room and meals)

Details

The Musical Theater Conservatory will be training young talent in the musical theater forms that are prevalent today both on Broadway and in National Tours. While its foundation will be based in the tried and true musical form that was born in the United States and consists of some of the classics of the musical theater, the conservatory will also be introducing and developing the student's acting and musical performance and movement techniques in such areas as rock and roll, gospel, operatic and jukebox musicals. This closely reflects the form and structure of musicals that are being written for the 21st century and will challenge the student and offer them the training they need to compete in the musical theater environment that embraces the actor who can also sing and the singer who can also act. This is an intensive three week program that culminates with a produced and directed performance with live musicians, which will be a complete review of these different styles and will be critiqued on stage by a panel of professionals who will add further guidance to the students training.

UCLA Musical Theater Conservatory Audition Requirements

* 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 last day of camp after 7pm.
Airport transportation is available to and from Los Angeles International (LAX) for $30 each way.

College Credit Information

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Program Directors

Kay Cole
Kay Cole brings her renaissance sensibilities to all her work as both a director and choreographer. She is well known in the musical theater world and has directed and choreographed productions at The Hollywood Bowl, The Coconut Grove Playhouse, the Pasadena Playhouse, Reprise, and The Geffin Playhouse. Some of her inventive staging and directing credits include A Chorus Line, Getting My Act Together, Robber Bridegroom, Sweeney Todd, and Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks (The Geffin and Broadway). She has worked in London's West End where she choreographed Snoopy and Blockheads and the recent Los Angeles hit production of Bark! The musical theater has been Ms. Cole's entire life. Some of her acting credits include the original company of A Chorus Line, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair, The Roar Of The Greasepaint The Smell Of The Crowd, and Bye Bye Birdie among others. Her expertise in the field is known throughout the country and she provides the other half of the whole as the co-director of our Musical Theater Conservatory.

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Faculty (Faculty subject to availability)

Steven Kaminski
Steven Kaminski is a Musical Director who has scored original music for many motion pictures and television and was musical arranger for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. The original music he scored for Showtime at the Apollo was heard weekly for years all over America. He was the Musical Director for a Smothers Brothers Special and for a one-woman show by Cloris Leachman that toured the country. He continues to be one of the leading vocal coaches in Los Angeles and although fluent in all styles of piano and vocal repertoire, his technique is rooted in the classical style for performance development.

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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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