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The Concentration in Musical Theater began in the Fall of 2008. Excitement about the budding new program has been rapidly increasing since its inception. Students study with the Department of Theater's excellent full-time faculty as well as Visiting Instructors from the professional musical theater. Interested incoming theater students are auditioned by the Head of Musical Theater, Director of Movement and a representative from Acting to gain entrance into the Musical Theater Concentration. The audition is rigorous and includes singing, dancing and acting. High school seniors, college freshmen, and transfer students are invited to audition for acceptance into the Musical Theater Concentration.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please contact the Assistant for Musical Theater, Nancy Boykin at 215-204-1428 or at nboykin@temple.edu or visit http://www.temple.edu/undergrad/
Sweeney Todd, 2010
Audition Information
New Musical Theater Concentration students are accepted only in the Fall semester.
Auditions for the 2014-2015 school year will be held:
February 8, 2014 - 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
February 23, 2014 - 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
March 9, 2014 - 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
Please e-mail nboykin@temple.edu to request an audition appointment. Include in your e-mail if your prefer the morning or afternoon session on the audition date you select, for example: "February 8 - morning"
Audition Requirements:
- 2 contrasting musical theater songs, bring sheet music in your key, an accompanist will be provided.
- 1 contemporary monologue from a play or musical no longer than 2 minutes in length.
- Picture and Resume.
- Participation in a dance call, bring appropriate dance clothes.
PLEASE NOTE: A student cannot be accepted into the Musical Theater Concentration without first being accepted to Temple University.
For more information: Please contact Nancy Boykin, Assistant for Musical Theater, Dept. of Theater, at nboykin@temple.edu
Ragtime, 2006
MEET OUR FACULTY
PETER REYNOLDS - Head of Musical Theater Peter Reynolds has directed Urinetown, Sweeney Todd, Sweet Charity, Damn Yankees, Into the Woods, Ragtime, Company, Pericles, Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery and Beautiful Thing for Temple Theaters. He is the Artistic Director of Philadelphia’s Mauckingbird Theatre Company (www.mauckingbirdtheatreco.org). In the Philadelphia area, he was worked with Act II Playhouse, Media Theatre, Hedgerow Theatre, Villanova Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, Cape May Stage, and the Lenape Regional Performing Arts Center in New Jersey. Peter hails from the Midwest and for 6 years served as Artistic Director of HealthWorks Theatre-Chicago, winner of the 2000 Award of Excellence in Prevention Education presented by Mayor Daley and the Chicago Dept. of Public Health as well as the 2001 Hall of Fame After Dark Award. Regionally he has worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, HotCity Theatre-St. Louis, Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, Theatre Building Chicago, Apollo Theatre-Chicago, Maples Repertory, Face to Face Productions, Lillian Russell Theatre, and on the stages of the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, Arcadia University, Drexel University and Southern Illinois University.
NANCY BOYKIN - Assistant for Musical Theater Nancy has worked as an actress in the professional theatre for more than twenty years. She has performed a range of roles from Shakespeare, the classics, contemporary and new plays in theatres such as The Long Wharf, New York Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival. She was honored by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle as Best Actress for her portrayal of 'Juno' in Juno and the Paycock. In Philadelphia, Ms. Boykin has worked at the Wilma, the Arden, Interact and Act II Playhouse. She holds her MFA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
MAGGIE ANDERSON received her MFA from CCM, her BFA from Elon University, and her high school diploma from North Carolina School of the Arts. She is a member of Actor’s Equity and has performed in numerous productions in NYC and regional theatres across the country. Favorite venues include: Walnut Street Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Fulton Theatre, Trump Plaza, Galveston Grand Opera House, Gateway Playhouse, Heritage Rep Theatre, NC Theatre, Blue Heron Theatre, The Duplex, and Surflight Theatre. She has been in several Barrymore award winning productions in Philadelphia and was also nominated for NJ best actress in a musical (premiere of Silver Dollar) by Playbill critic Peter Filichia. TV credits: As the World Turns and Soapnet, as well as commercials, pilots, independent films, and industrials. Maggie performs at cabaret venues, clubs, and festivals with her husband and songwriting partner, Gregg Cagno. She also works with AIR contemporary dance company in Bucks County, PA and is a yoga instructor. Maggie has been teaching, choreographing, and directing in performing arts programs across the country for the last fifteen years, and most recently was a guest teacher for NYU’s Cap21 Music Theatre Program, Wagner College, and Moravian College. www.maggieanderson.net
JULIE BISHOP, soprano, holds bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in voice performance from Susquehanna University and Temple University, respectively. An active participant in Temple’s opera productions, Ms. Bishop has sung Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Clori in L’Egisto, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and White Dove in the world premiere of Violet Fire. She has also performed Belinda in Dido and Aeneas with Intermezzo Opera, Angelina in Trial By Jury and Pitti-Sing in The Mikado with the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Chester County, and Constance in The Sorcerer with the Philadelphia Gilbert and Sullivan Union. A proponent of contemporary music, Ms. Bishop has sung del Tredici’s Dracula, Berio's O King, and Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 2 with Temple’s chamber ensembles, premiered Matthew Greenbaum’s Nameless with Cygnus in New York City, and premiered the role of Young Flo in Leslie Burrs’ opera Transitions: Sung Stories in Philadelphia. She has appeared three times as a featured artist with the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra, and has performed the soprano solos in Handel’s Messiah, Fauré's Requiem, Haydn’s Creation, Rutter’s Mass of the Children, and Britten’s Ceremony of Carols. Ms. Bishop also performs professionally in musical theater, having recently appeared as Sister Margaretta in The Sound of Music at the Centre Theater in Norristown, PA. She is an adjunct voice professor at Temple and Widener Universities, and also operates a private voice studio in her home.
JENNIE EISENHOWER is a Philadelphia based actor and teacher. She is a three-time Barrymore Award winner, most recently for Best Actress in a Musical for her work in Forbidden Broadway at the Walnut Street Theatre. She has performed regionally at the Walnut, Philadelphia Theatre Company, The Wilma, People’s Light & Theatre Company, The Arden Theatre, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Mauckingbird Theatre Company, 11th Hour Theatre Company, the Barter Theatre, Gateway Playhouse and others. Off Broadway credits include Suburb at the York Theatre and Dreamhouse with Midtown International Theatre Festival. Jennie has taught and directed at Temple University, Conestoga High School, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Blake High School for the Performing Arts, and Consortium for the Arts. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Northwestern University.
Temple Theaters' 2010 smash hit production of the musical Rent.
RECENT GUEST ARTISTS
FARAH ALVIN Broadway Actor
CHAD BEGUELIN Broadway Lyricist/Bookwriter
MICHAEL BERRESSE Broadway Actor
JEFF BOWEN Composer, Lyricist, Actor
MICHAEL CASSARA Casting Director, Director and Producer
TIM CRASKEY Dancer
David Garrison Broadway Actor
Marc Kudish Broadway Actor
BAAYORK LEE Broadway Actor, Choreographer, Director
FORREST McCLENDON Broadway Actor
JOHN McDANIEL Conductor, Composer, Orchestrator, Record Producer
Marcia Milgrom Dodge Broadway Director
Da'Vine Joy Randolph Broadway and Film Actor
Amina Robinson Broadway and Film Actor
KATYA
Stanislavskaya Composer, Lyricist, and Musical Director
Charity Wicks Broadway Musical Director and Billy Porter Broadway Actor
CHRISTOPHER WINDOM Choreographer, Director, Actor
Into the Woods, 2007
COURSE OF STUDY
The B.A. degree in Theater with a Musical Theater Concentration will be awarded to students who complete the following requirements:
1. Graduate requirements of Temple University, including successful completion of the University Core Curriculum.
2. Completion of the following required Theater requirements with a grade of “C” or better in each course:
Required Courses - All Theater Majors
1003: Creativity: Basic
1096: Introduction to Theater Process
1231: Acting I (formerly Introduction to Acting)
1411: Welcome Backstage (formerly Technical Theater Production)
2411: Introduction to Design
3001: Theater History I 3 s.h.
3002: Theater History II 3 s.h.
4097: World of the Play 3 s.h.
1087: Production Practicum
Required Courses - University Electives
Art History: Elective
Elective: Non-Dramatic Literature 3 s.h.
(3) Electives: any of the Arts or Liberal Arts
Required Courses - Musical Theater Concentration
2131: Music Theory/Sightsinging: Basic
2231: Speech for the Actor
2261: Acting II
3132: Musical Theater Voice & Acting
3012: American Musical Theater History
3279: Acting III
4131: Musical Theater Scene Study
4132: Senior Cabaret Workshop
4133: Musical Theater: Dress Rehearsal
2101: Ballet I for Mus. Thea.
2121: Ballet II for Mus. Thea.
3101: Jazz I for Mus. Thea.
3121: Jazz II for Mus. Thea.
4101: Tap for Mus. Thea.
4121: Musical Theater Dance Techniques
Additionally: Vocal Instruction every semester you are a Musical Theater Concentration student. See MU 1256, MU 1257, MU 1258 and MU 1259.
Visit: http://www.temple.edu/bulletin/ugradbulletin/ucd/ucd_music.html
Damn Yankees, 2008
ADDITIONAL WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS
Throughout the Musical Theater Concentration student’s 4 years of study, workshops and seminars are made available featuring Musical Theater professionals from New York City and Philadelphia.
MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS
To support the Musical Theater Concentration, Temple Theaters will produce an annual musical, either in the Fall or Spring semester. A small scale musical or cabaret (with minimal departmental financial support) featuring Musical Theater Concentration students will be produced in the alternate semester.
Company, 2005
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