Labs
Year Two Labs are an intimate weekly critique experience with an advising faculty team of three (a composer, a lyricist, and a librettist), your collaborator and you. Each week you present new material from your thesis musical.
No where else in the world can you find the range of disciplines in one school. Over the last 50 years as we forged new programs, built our home in New York and expanded to our global academic centers, institutes emerged. Each are built with shared values, common goals, and a priority for putting students first. The result – a place where artists and scholars create the future.
Composer/Lyricist/Bookwriter teams are formed at the end of Year One. Each collaborative team spends Year Two writing a full-length thesis musical.
While writing your thesis musical, you attend Labs, Seminars, Tutorials, and Master Classes:
Year Two Labs are an intimate weekly critique experience with an advising faculty team of three (a composer, a lyricist, and a librettist), your collaborator and you. Each week you present new material from your thesis musical.
Year Two Seminars continue the study of masterpieces of contemporary and historical musical theatre. Seminars also illuminate practical information about the production process, as well as the legal aspects and business of musical theatre.
You will attend tutorials in your discipline, concentrating on writing the full-length musical.
As in the first year Master Classes are offered by established directors, choreographers, composers, lyricists, bookwriters, producers and designers.
A series of seminars on the business of being a creator of musical theatre.