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Course Criteria
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8.00 Credits
This culmination course in Voice and Speech synthesizes Voice and Speech technique with Acting technique into a single artistic endeavor. It is taught in four 7 week modules by several senior faculty members. The modules may include, depending on the specific needs of the senior class, monologue preparation, extensive dialect work, characterization of the dramatic and animated voice (live and voice-over), a Shakespeare intensive, cold readings and audition flexibility and improvisation, and presentational skills in professional interviews. Prerequisites: TH342 or permission. 2.5 hours weekly; 1.5 credits
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2.00 Credits
A study of the major plays, trends and developments in modern drama and theater from Ibsen to the present day. Plays will be examined in their historical, socio-political, cultural and performance contexts. The class is structured around lectures, discussions and student reports. Course requirements include readings, papers, reports and exams. Open to students from other divisions, as a liberal arts elective. 3 hours weekly; 3 credits
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2.00 Credits
Continuation of Directing 1 & 2. Emphasis on the practical aspects of directing including play selection, auditions, casting, rehearsals, scheduling, etc. Concentration upon a director's concept, dealing with actors and staging of scenes. Workshop productions with production books are required. Open to seniors by permission only. 3 hours weekly; 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
Supervised exploration of musical theater and popular repertoire, and preparation of organic, new material and existing 'hybrid or collage'revue material. Both theoretically musical and conceptionally theatrical approaches are explored. This course is the foundation for developing material that may be used in the senior showcase in Boston and New York City in early May. Open only to those seniors participating in the showcase and waived for students who choose not to or who are not eligible to participate in the showcase because of degree deficiencies. arr; 1.5 credits
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3.00 Credits
An internship involves work in the field that is germane to the student's program of study and supervised by a Conservatory faculty member and an on-site supervisor. Approval for internship credit is granted by petition through a form available in the spelling correction- Registrar, the Theater Division, and the Academic Affairs offices. The amount of credit approved is based on the average amount of work to be accomplished off-site on a weekly basis. 0.5 - 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
Students may petition to do independent work mentored by a theater division faculty member. Approval is granted when the project specified is substantive, meaningful, and is something that the individual student can accomplish through primarily independent work. Petition forms are available in the Registrar's, the Theater Division and the Academic Affairs offices. 0.5 - 3 credits
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2.00 Credits
This course helps students free and expand their individual instrument and remove tension and inhibition, in order to become flexible, creative and expressive actors. Students are given a way of working with the fundamentals of acting, including concentration, pursuing an objective with both physical and psychological actions, and discovering the truth using both improvised and scripted scenes. Includes two hours per week devoted to Voice and Speech for the Actor. Required of first year graduate students in Musical Theater. 4 hours weekly; 1.5 credits (I believe that Voice and Speech is now a separate grade for .5 credit for two hours with Acting at3 hours for 1 credit?)
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2.00 Credits
The study of mental and emotional connection to movement in acting. Required for students in the first year of undergraduate training. Elective possibility for graduate musical theater students. First semester students use visualization and movement improvisation to expandunderstanding and control of the emotional/physical connection. Second semester is designed to develop conscious control of mind/body connections. Exercises focus on rhythm, tension, and body language. 1.5 hours weekly; 0.5 credits
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2.00 Credits
Basic principles of truthful acting. The course moves from foundation exercises to experience with monologues and scene work. Required of graduate Opera majors and an elective for vocal performance and graduate musical theater majors. 4 hours weekly; 1.5 credits
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2.00 Credits
Focus is on the preparation of the singer-actor as interpreter of song using a variety of popular American and Musical Theater vocal styles. The goal is the development of a flexible, expressive vocal instrument with a personalized interpretive approach: music, lyric and interpreter as one. Required of first year graduate students and elective possibility for graduate students in Musical Theater. 2 hours weekly; 1 credit
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