BA (Hons) Musical Theatre

Course summary
This course received a 92% rating for the quality of teaching in the National Student Survey 2016. 88% of students on our music courses said they 'would recommend their course to others'.

This course encourages an intellectual and practice-based interrogation of musical theatre in addition to giving the actor/singer a respect for the various demands of written text and musical score.

This course is intended for those students who have a practical expertise in performance and wish to develop these skills in actor-singer training further to enable entry to the professional world of performance. The individual exploration of 'sense over sound' is a notable and distinctive feature of this course.

The important work of Feldenkrais supports both the physical and vocal (sung and spoken) development of our actor-singers. In addition to the acquisition of a strong performance discipline, the course seeks to develop each student as an inspired self-thinking practitioner with the ability to devise and perform original musical theatre works - much of this pioneering work will be completed in conjunction with Mercury Musicals.

Research
All the department's teaching staff are actively involved with their own professional disciplines. You can find out more about this in the staff biographies, but our teaching staff's research involvement with the industry includes:
directing new work in association with composers and writers; mercury musicals and other associated activities funded by Arts Council and other initiatives
choreography
actor movement
the methods of study within a performance career
textual studies
the relationship between the sung and spoken voice
current publications in progress associated with the art of the actor-singer, processes within musical theatre and such practitioners as Feldenkrais and Stanislavsky in the work undertaken by the students on this course.
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