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3.00 Credits
Course focuses on proper techniques for breathing, projection, voice placement, and articulation taught through singing. Instruction emphasizes text interpretation and characterization in song. This is not a class that teaches the actor to be a singer, but a class that teaches singing technique to broaden the actor's spoken vocal range. Course instruction makes actors more comfortable with singing as part of their acting equipment. Students give public performance at semester end. Course is required for all students with an Acting concentration. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-1305 BODY MOVEMENT FOR ACTORS I, 31-2200 ACTING II: ADVVANCED SCENE STUDY, 31-2300 VOICE TRAINING FOR THE ACTOR II
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3.00 Credits
A continuation of 31-3305 Singing for the Actor I, this course further develops vocal techniques and interpretive study of songs. Students give final performance at semester end. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-3305 SINGING FOR THE ACTOR I
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3.00 Credits
Course teaches advanced techniques of unarmed rapier and dagger, broadsword, and small sword combat. Goal is certification with Society of American Fight Directors as actor combatants. Course involves extensive physical work. Students give final performance during performance weeks. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-2320 STAGE COMBAT II
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3.00 Credits
Students work with advanced stage combat weapons, including sword and shield, knife, quarterstaff, and single sword (in the style of Hollywood swashbuckling). Goal is to pass a skills test with Society of American Fight Directors at term's end. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-3315 STAGE COMBAT III
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3.00 Credits
Viewpoints is a movement philosophy geared towards the stage that explores the issues of time and space. It allows a group of actors to function spontaneously and intuitively and to generate bold new work quickly by developing flexibility, articulation, and strength in movement and to use writing and other resources as steps to creativity. Students will learn the vocabulary and theory of the 9 Viewpoints and use this information practically as a methodology of performance. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-2200 ACTING II: ADVANCED SCENE STUDY, 31-2700 DIRECTING I
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3.00 Credits
Two-level course in the American musical is offered over two consecutive semesters. Course is required of all Musical Theater Performance majors, who must take both courses sequentially in one school year. Class includes extensive work in scenes, solo and ensemble musical numbers, dance training, and historical research. Students develop and perform studio musical over two semesters with performances scheduled during both fall and spring semesters. Students prepare and perform repertoire of songs and dance routines for use in auditions. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-2205 ACTING II: CHARACTER AND ENSEMBLE 31-2400 MUSICAL THEATER II: SCENES AND SONGS, 31-2430 MUSICAL THEATER DANCE II, 32-2131 KEYBOARD I
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3.00 Credits
Two-level course in the American musical is offered over two consecutive semesters. Course is required of all Musical Theater Performance majors, who must take both courses sequentially in one school year. Class includes extensive work in scenes, solo and ensemble musical numbers, dance training, and historical research. Students develop and perform studio musical over two semesters with performances scheduled during both fall and spring semesters. Students prepare and perform repertoire of songs and dance routines for use in auditions. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-3400 MUSICAL THEATER III: WORKSHOP I
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3.00 Credits
This is the capstone course of the BA in Musical Theater Performance (MTP) and employs a comprehensive approach to the discipline of musical theater as a whole. Selections from the musical theater canon (including scenes, songs, and ensemble numbers) will be performed by students, who will also take the responsibilities of stage manager, dramaturg, director, choreographer, casting agent, and theater critic. Invited guests from the profession will lecture and (on occasion) offer master classes. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-1200 ACTING I: BASIC SKILLS, 31-1205 ACTING I: SCENE STUDY, 31-1301 VOICE TRAINING I: MUSICAL THEATER, 31-1400 MUSICAL THEATRE I: FROM THE BEGINNING TO 1945, 31-2120 TEXT ANALYSIS, 31-2201 ACTING II: ADVANCED SCENE STUDY FOR MUSICAL THEATER, 31-2400 MUSICAL THEATER II: SCENES AND SONGS, 32-1100 SIGHTSINGING, MUSICIANSHIP, AND EAR TRAINING, 32-1120 THEORY, HARMONY, AND ANALYSIS, 32-1540 MUSICAL THEATER VOCAL WORKSHOP I, 32-2707 PRIVATE LESSONS: MUSICAL THEATER VOICE
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2.00 Credits
As the capstone course of the Musical Theater Dance curriculum, this course incorporates all the techniques and skills acquired in previous Musical Theater Dance classes, with an emphasis on the elements of style in musical theater dance. Students will be taught original Broadway choreography as often as possible. Attention will be focused on the process of taking and incorporating notes from a choreographer. Students will be required to choreograph two original short numbers of differing styles and forms. Students will be encouraged to audition for Columbia College and also in local community and professional theater productions. 2 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-2430 MUSICAL THEATER DANCE II
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2.00 Credits
This is an advanced-level class to broaden the student's technique, performance, and repertoire in musical theater tap. While some musical theater tap is introduced in the Musical Theater Dance classes, this is an intense focus on the particular style and technique of musical theater (Broadway) tap. Students are challenged with advanced dance technique, more complicated material; greater demands are placed on speed of learning. Significant attention is paid to style and technique with particular attention to learning original Broadway choreography specifically for tap. 2 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-2430 MUSICAL THEATER DANCE II
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