I'm just, recently, finished the two year musical theatre program at Sheridan College in Oakville Ontario and I plan to move onto another school; hopefully National Theatre in Montreal or AMDA in NY... it all depends as you know fellow theatre student.
One I'd say that if you want to see a stellar example of big money, big risk musical theatre you could find it on Broadway in Avenue Q... I sadly feel like I should be supporting the off broadway, darker and far less known shows but, alas, I am a sucker for the neon lights and big sounds and sights of Broadway. At the same time, as Derwood said, you are going to easily find shows that provide social commentary and push the bouderies of entertainment through taboo themes and such; explore dude, especially if this is something you want to pursue.
I feel as if we have the same ideals. Small ensemble casts in a black box theatre at a university... scraping by but changing lives. To answer Fresnelly's question about the draw of small company theatre, no chorus casts, small production costs... there's two ways to answer this. First there is the idealist in me, the one who is in love with the process, the heart, soul and guts of theatre, so to speak, (especially musical-theatre) and say that there is more heart, less of an iron and plastic atmosphere, in those tiny unknowners... you feel as if you should love them because they are a part of you. At the same time there is the second answer... it's almost like this sad pseudo-bohemian elitist culture where we rank each other based on talent, lack of financial success, and knowledge of underground/off broadway hits. It's almost orgasmic when you suggest a show someone has never heard of... makes you feel like a big man to tell someone that "Tick, tick... boom!" is Larson's original Rent and that Pucini's La Boheme is the real classic, that Jason Robert Brown's real genious is found in Songs For A New World and not in The Last Five Years and that it's silly to think so... it's rediculous but true.
Do I love Broadway... fucking right I do; I love every part of it except perhaps the horrible competiveness. But I would never admit that.
The best show I've ever seen is an amature company I used to be part of doing A Chorus Line... amazing director, spectacular talent (dance/vocal/acting), and minimalist set.
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