B.F.A Musical Theatre Webster University

Program Description

Webster University’s Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre, training students to perform in a wide range of styles and with complex material, both classical and current. Our focus on storytelling skills prepare our students for success on stage and on screen. Voice and speech, movement and acting classes form the core curriculum every semester. As the training sequence progresses, students hone and apply the principal tools taught in the core to an array of stylistic approaches — from Greek and Shakespearean verse to the early realism of Chekhov and Ibsen, from the farces of Molière and Oscar Wilde to the contemporary plays of Dominique Morisseau and Paula Vogel. Musical Theatre majors add to their acting sequence a rigorous training program in music (theory, piano, voice), dance (ballet, jazz, tap, musical theatre dance styles) and musical theatre song study (Golden Age, Sondheim, Disney, rock). In the end, the Musical Theatre program is comparable to a triple major involving work in the Sargent Conservatory, the Department of Music and the Department of Dance.

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