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Fly the coup or stay with the chickens?
In a nutshell, much to my friends delight and excitment, I am auditioning for the Fall semester for 2010 for AMDA in NYC. (It's a year away, but go with me here) My voice teacher seems to think I have a very good chance of getting in into the intergrated conservatory (...and because they accept almost everyone. But that's beside the point).
However, I have that inward debate in me...
Stay home and get an actual degree at ASU (B.A. in Theatre with an Acting Concentration), not take any music classes as I'm not music theatre and am not part of the School of Music, take just acting classes my last two years, and have a cheaper tuition.
OR.
Leave my hometown and go to New York and get a Performance Certificate, actually study sight-singing, take MT classes, and pay complete bank for two years. (and possibly take creative writing online.)
My heart is telling me to go for it, that I'll regret it if I don't. I've wanted to go here since I was a junior in high school... But at the same time, there's that "college is what you make of it" playing like a broken record in my head. My dad is telling me to graduate ASU then go to AMDA... That I can't make a living as an actor (... yet he's totally cool with what I'm doing now, so long as I'm taking a creative writing workshop. Whatever. I know it's tough- everything is nowadays!); honestly, he is doing it so I get upset and fired up and prove to him how much I want this.
So now I'm scholarship hunting as each semester there is about 13,000 something (26,000 something a year, plus 3,000 for housing) yet I wonder if it is a waste. ASU graduates in the Fine Arts go on to become teachers. All I have heard of is a girl who is the Glinda s/b (I think) on the 2nd Wicked tour who attended University of Arizona (but they're insanely up themselves as a MT program...) And. Really. I am so tired of this heat and weather. I almost faint from heat exhaustion each summer and fainted in my dorm hallway from mild dehydration and I drink water like a freakin fish.
(And there is just so much going on in the city that I wish I could be there for and I know AZ isn't cool on yet. And I'm off on a total tangent!)
So what I'm trying to say is: In my situation, what would you do, honestly?
However, I have that inward debate in me...
Stay home and get an actual degree at ASU (B.A. in Theatre with an Acting Concentration), not take any music classes as I'm not music theatre and am not part of the School of Music, take just acting classes my last two years, and have a cheaper tuition.
OR.
Leave my hometown and go to New York and get a Performance Certificate, actually study sight-singing, take MT classes, and pay complete bank for two years. (and possibly take creative writing online.)
My heart is telling me to go for it, that I'll regret it if I don't. I've wanted to go here since I was a junior in high school... But at the same time, there's that "college is what you make of it" playing like a broken record in my head. My dad is telling me to graduate ASU then go to AMDA... That I can't make a living as an actor (... yet he's totally cool with what I'm doing now, so long as I'm taking a creative writing workshop. Whatever. I know it's tough- everything is nowadays!); honestly, he is doing it so I get upset and fired up and prove to him how much I want this.
So now I'm scholarship hunting as each semester there is about 13,000 something (26,000 something a year, plus 3,000 for housing) yet I wonder if it is a waste. ASU graduates in the Fine Arts go on to become teachers. All I have heard of is a girl who is the Glinda s/b (I think) on the 2nd Wicked tour who attended University of Arizona (but they're insanely up themselves as a MT program...) And. Really. I am so tired of this heat and weather. I almost faint from heat exhaustion each summer and fainted in my dorm hallway from mild dehydration and I drink water like a freakin fish.
(And there is just so much going on in the city that I wish I could be there for and I know AZ isn't cool on yet. And I'm off on a total tangent!)
So what I'm trying to say is: In my situation, what would you do, honestly?
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Permalink Reply by Kasee Lautour on -
I graduate in 2012. With the Acting Concentration, my last 2 years are just acting classes and workshops. I also want the music classes and learn how to sight-sing... So two years at ASU I will have gotten my generals done (math, biology, psychology, English, government, computer literacy) which is why I want to try AMDA... Something about it I'm drawn to. I've looked about 8 other schools.
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Permalink Reply by Ashley Boone on -
I was looking into AMDA, too and decided that it was better to stay at a 'real' school and get/finish a degree. That way if I ever decided not to do theatre (now or 30 years from now) I'd have something else I could do (and be content with after I've ran the theatre path). I've heard some not-so-amazing things about it-- not to say that they don't get their actors out there... but really going to a school like that surrounds you with theatre and only theatre-- which yeah, sounds awesome to begin... but then there's the whole well-rounded end of things that pulled me over to staying at a university. (And that fact that my parents told me I was on my own if I did anything but go to the college they wanted and majored in something 'practical'... they know I am double majoring, but not that I am trying to focus on theatre-- but that's a whole different story...)
I've always heard if you could be happy doing something else-- do that something else. If you chose to stay-- look at it as a way to save money then move. (Heck, we should move to NYC together. :-P )
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Permalink Reply by Kasee Lautour on
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I've already done the "becoming well-rounded at an actual university" thing and will be continuing to do that this upcoming year. My only "real" class this year is biology. Othrtwise it's dramatic analysis (reading, analyzing, writing about, and ciscussing plays), movement/breathing for singers, an acting class, and voice. So I'm around theatre, but I just am done with school out here. If I stay here, chances are I'll become a theatre teacher. (Not that it's a bad thing, it just isn't MY thing) Besides, I talked to a woman at AMDA NY today and she said, if I have time, I can take non-theatre classes online.
And my degree if I stay at ASU will be/is for theatre. So... there goes that idea of getting a real degree. =P (The only other thing I love doing is to write but I'm not really passionate about it. It's fun, and I'm good at it, sure, but my heart isn't fully in it.)
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