University of Michigan Musical Theatre Senior Entrance 2020

A new generation of well-trained bland performers!

Not one straight guy among them.

I thought it was going to be serious or a comedy. Little did I know it would be a parody. Okay, you sure fooled me.

Maybe my taste is all in my mouth, but I thought they were refreshing!

Gave me hope for their generation. Thanks, OP!

You guys know what musical theatre is, right?

I count one straight guy -- a blond guy.

The campus looks beautiful.

Someone needs to have a frank conversation with the whistle tone girl and that key change bit was, shall we say, not nailed, but otherwise I see a lot of potential. There were some very good voices and a lot of them were very cute. The campus really is gorgeous!

If this was a group of straight guys, they would be standing around a wood-paneled room reading directly from their scripts lit by exposed fluorescent light bulbs.

You people are such saps. These people seem really young for seniors. I found it tiresome. Is this what all drama majors are like?

At least one of them will get a role on Broadway because of this.

Oh dear God. Is Six the new Wicked?

That took a lot of rehearsing

r10 if Broadway ever returns

Is this to welcome the freshmen or warn them off?

Cute kids, but I cant even begin to imagine the endless (wait for it ...) D-R-A-M-A of that program. Im sure they all slept with each other by November of their first year ...

I thought the diversity kids breakout was really interesting ... not sure they quite get that Broadway is not that diverse over all ..

This makes me want to be in musical theatre.

[quote]This makes me want to be in musical theatre.

Come over here so I can slap you.

OP piece is interesting, and laugh some may ; but UM has an extensive and diverse list of famous theater, film and drama alumni .

This includes DL faves such as Ann B. Davis, David Burtka, Darren Criss, Gilda Radner, Arthur Miller, and James Earl Jones.

Madonna got in on scholarship, but dropped out after one year IIRC.

Not one of those kids will have a career on the stage.

Not. A single. One.

Amazing how Alanis Morrissette's music is still relevant to college students.

Tragic.

So when Broadway returns will dancers all need to be six feet apart?

She actually spent two years at U of Michigan, and pretty much got straight As, although almost all she took were dance classes.

If one had to rank drama, musical theater majors by college/university where would U of M fit? Say compared to NYU, Julliard, Yale...

Am speaking of alumni who go on to successful careers to some extent; I mean U of M seems to have an excellent reputation in that area which is more interesting it being a state university.

Top 10 musical theater programs in the US.

Not all the people you list or are listed on that Wikipedia page were actually in the Musical Theater program at Michigan.

Performer alumni include Gavin Creel, the Keenan-Bolger siblings, and Alexander Gemignani. The duo who wrote the music and lyrics for Dear Evan Hanson also are alumni.

The video was shot across the two main campuses of the University, North Campus and Central Campus. The School of Music, Theatre, and Dance is located on the university’s North Campus, which was developed mostly in the 1950s-1970s according to a master plan by Eero Saarinen from what had been farmland. The scenes with modernist buildings and more bucolic backgrounds were shot there. Two miles away is the Central Campus, which is the original campus and is more integrated into the town of Ann Arbor. The scenes of older college buildings and of town streets were shot there.

I was an out gay liberal arts student on Central Campus in the mid-1980s. I should have made bus trips up to North Campus to troll for theatre dick. Oh well

R25

Thank you!

Totally forgot about Pace, but surprised Purchase wasn't on list.

Always thought Sean Hayes went to U of M; but he choose University of Illinois instead.

The credits show that the film and dance departments were involved in editing and choreography. Missed Lourdes Ciccone by a year.

Singer from Michigan's Gay Cabaret.

Alumni concert to honor retiring professor Brent Wagner's retirement.

What’s with all the blue and yellow?

Descend into madness with a bunch of University of Michigan music theater kids

Do they "belt their faces off?" Are they "fierce?"

Can they major in Ryan Murphy’s Glee studies?

"Can they major in Ryan Murphy’s Glee studies?"

Already taken care of..................

When I go to see Broadway shows, I always look at the bios of the performers in Playbill. Many performers graduated from University of Michigan.

I can't think of musical theater majors without thinking of Liza Minnelli nearly doing a spit take when the caller to Larry King identified himself as one (see 1:03 and following).

If Juilliard did a video like this, it would be filled with self-serving dramatic monologues and the comedy would have been written from an earlier century.

Happy monologues from Juilliard

R41 is that sarcasm?

"Our energy is pretty extra"

No, R42, this is " happy" at Juilliard.

Some Sweeney Sisters moments from people who were alive then.

R39 - that video of Liza in so very sad - the nasty smoker's laugh/cough is disgusting

Do any of the boys wear jockstraps at Michigan?

R31

Step aside bitch and let a Julliard grad show you how Meadowlark should be done!

And then they wonder why they can't get a job after deliberately going into debt for these pointless, ultra-specific majors.

Its definitely no CMU.

“That’s all right, that’s ok, you’re gonna work for us some day.”

R49

I hope you are not comparing attending UofM with a major in drama/musical theater to some random trade school.

List of alumni from University of Michigan in their various drama/arts/theater majors who have gone onto good if not excellent careers is extensive. Even if they don't end up household names and just jobbing actors they still are productive members of society. This is true if they (like many other graduates of other colleges) end up in careers totally unrelated to their majors, again they still are doing something with their lives.

R48, at least when the boy sang " Meadowlark," the lyrics could be understood.

R52 "jobbing actors"

"end up in careers totally unrelated to their majors"

That was my point. Getting a degree in something as peculiar and limiting as "Musical Theatre" (not even just plain Theatre) is a recipe for disaster in the current job market. I guess they'll keep their minds occupied struggling to pay off their student loans.

The tall thin red-headed girl at 3:30 is Broadway ready