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       college-conservatory of music       a nationally recognized conservatory within an outstanding state university
 
   
   



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The program at CCM is remarkable and unique. I have been researching college programs for a while and this is the first I have found that truly trains young performers to be triple-threats. The students that graduate from the program are dedicated, driven, and passionate about what they do, and I admire them very much. In talking to students before and after my audition, it seemed that everyone was eager, hungry to learn and supportive of others in the program. Thank you  for making this audition experience such an enjoyable one."
 

 

Alex DeLeo
Walnut HIll School
accepted for admission, Fall 2009

 




 



Many things are special about the musical theatre at CCM. Perhaps the most special are the performers who graduate from our program: men and women well grounded in the demanding techniques of musical theatre—imaginative and creative, and capable of bringing their intellectual and artistic gifts to bear on the problems of the art.

Our graduates can think and do, can explore their art in depth, and communicate their intentions in fluid and expressive ways. Musical Theatre demands a high level of commitment from our students. Discipline and professionalism are the essential components of this program. Hours spent in the classroom, the studio and the rehearsal room are long and grueling, but the rewards are great.

The program has a limited enrollment so that it can provide the individualized attention that this area demands. Today, a performer wishing to pursue a career in musical theatre should be able to sing and dance and act with technical mastery and craft. And that is the minimum requirement!

At CCM, training in musical theatre is not about being famous or becoming a star. It is about learning to work in ways that contribute positively to the art of the musical theatre. It is about freeing our own creativity, establishing a love of "the art in ourselves" and building a lasting appreciation for the performing arts.


There's no denying you'll find music at CCM—we're one of the oldest conservatories of music in the United States. But if you look past our name and into our curriculum, you'll find a lot more. CCM is a comprehensive school for the arts with programs in opera, dance, musical theatre, dramatic performance, theatre design and production, television, radio, music performance, music education and arts administration.

Over 1200 undergraduate and graduate students (representing 44 states and 35 foreign countries) attend CCM. In the Corbett Center for the Performing Arts they create over 800 public performances each year—more than any other arts organization in Ohio.

As a CCM student, you'll have an opportunity to perform in state-of-the-art theatres. You'll have dance studios, rehearsal halls, a scene shop, a costume shop, a make-up lab and dozens of practice rooms, teaching studios and general purpose classrooms at your disposal. And if that's not enough, the superb facilities also include a proscenium theatre, a thrust stage, a new vocal arts center, a space dedicated for master classes in all performance areas, an acoustically-perfect concert hall and a versatile "black box" studio theatre.
 

Put it all together and you get — a high-energy, conservatory style training center for artists of all kinds situated right in the middle of a dynamic state university. For the student intent on pursuing a professional career in the arts — it's the place to be.
 

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SHARON WHEATLEY

Class of 1989

 
 


Sharon is currently appearing in the Broadway production of Avenue Q. She is the author of  'Til the Fat Girl Sings (from an Overweight Nobody to a Broadway Somebody) -- the true story of a 230-pound singing kid who grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, with big dreams of a Broadway career. "Throughout my childhood," Sharon says, "I was told there was no place for me in show business because of how my body looked and this book tells the funny, sad and surprising stories of how I overcame the hurdles to make it on Broadway."

 
 


 

Banner above: Valerie Williams in Elegies by William Finn, Cohen Family Studio Theatre

 



Musical Theatre Program І University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music І P O Box 210003 І Cincinnati І OH  45221