Overview: This course is designed to give students the background, overview, and hands on training in what it takes to be a director of a fully staged musical theater production. The course is divided into 15 hours of classroom instruction and the second have of the course practical “real life” experience in working with actual directors, musical directors and choreographers as they produce a fully staged musical production. The lab hours for this part of the course vary from 35-50 hours. The class is designed to study the process of directing a children’s theater production in a classroom setting and then the following week receive hands-on training applying the concepts that were addressed in class.

Objectives: The objective of this course is to give the students a thorough and comprehensive view of what it takes to be a director of a musical. The students will receive training and experience in all aspects of directing. Areas that will be covered are pre-audition preparation, the audition process, casting, the rehearsal process, techniques and methods of teaching performance and post production.