Jennifer Clary
02:25:24 PM
Welcome!
Hello friends, welcome to our web and R for how to participate with the School of Music, Theatre and dance for non majors.
My name is Tom crabs. I do recruiting and emissions and scholarships for the School of Music, Theatre and dance.
Jennifer Clary
02:30:48 PM
Hi!
And with me monitoring our questions and in the chat window is Jennifer Clary, who is the director of communications for the School of Music, Theatre and dance. So we're going to take you through a short presentation here show you some of our various things that we have to offer, and then at the end of the session, will take questions on whatever it is that you occurs to you as. You're listening. So if there are no objections.
We will go ahead and proceed. I'm waiting for my little blue wheel to spend. I just click share screen so hopefully our presentation is being blasted out to the computers.
All over wherever you guys are watching from.
Jennifer Clary
02:31:26 PM
The presentation is available here as well: https://smtd.colostate.edu/get-involved/
Oh, and look at that generate there for. So for some strange reason my screen share won't go through. You can also look at the presentation through the link that was just posted.
I am wondering why this little Blue Wheel is just spinning and spinning. We're going to go with control the slides.
OK, I'm back. That was fun. Being able to see the slide show on your screens.
Jennifer Clary
02:32:48 PM
I can see the slides
That's mostly what I'm looking for there. Or do you just see a big white space in the center?
Excellent, let's Rock and roll. So first we started by talking about music. CSU the best thing to know is a non major is that you do not have to be a music major or minor to participate in any of our ensembles. They are open to everyone regardless of what your major is. Now we have some ensembles that are open to everyone regardless of major means. You don't have to audition, you could just sign up for them and you can plan on them being in your schedule.
When you would orientation, so that's University course. Our concert orchestra, which is a string based ensemble and then our concert band, which is in the spring semester, is available from wind players in the fall wind players. You can participate in marching band without being a major. If you would like to, and that is a good time, let me tell you that's a class that you take for credit, and you get a grade in. So the key thing with these things, as you can count on them, you can plan on now all of our ensembles.
Are open to every on but with music ensembles. We don't hold auditions for those ensembles until right before classes begin, so usually classes are starting on Monday, were usually having auditions on Saturday, and typically freshman move into the dorms on Thursday, so don't forget to bring your instruments with you, but.
Once we have those on Saturday, we have a real quick turn around time, so we have the auditions. They are blind auditions. If you are a great player, you can win a great seat in one of our ensembles. Winds and brass do blind auditions. They literally don't know who their hearing and so if you prepare the material which we have posted online links right on the slide, here you can see that every instrument has an excerpt prepared. In some cases, they've asked to hear some scales or other things, but no matter what the instrument is.
Jennifer Clary
02:35:06 PM
email SMTD@colostate.edu
We've told you what you need to prepare, so it's it's not going to be a surprise. And if you look at it and have any questions, the one kind of recurring theme that you'll hear from me over and over again is you can always email us at SMTD. That School of Music, Theatre and dance SMTD at colostate.edu and that's our general email address and whatever your question is, we will know how to get it to where it needs to go.
So we've got our top ensemble auditions are going to happen on Saturdays. We will turn around and get you the information as far as what ensembles you're OK to be in as quickly as possible. Just no. But if you're wanting to do one of our higher level ensembles that they typically meet in the late afternoon, usually mid to late afternoon, we hold open for ensembles. For music majors, 'cause obviously they have to be able to do it all together and in the morning we have our music academic classes.
I'm so just keep that in mind. If you have the choice of taking P Y100 either at 9:00 AM in the morning or at 3:50 in the afternoon, 9:00 AM is going to be a safer bet if you're going to want to do like a band, require more jazz ensemble or something like that.
Moving right along here. So what if you don't have an instrument? This is one of our more common questions. Not everyone owns a bassoon or a cello and you are not alone in that situation. So we do have instruments available for rent. Again, tell us what you're looking for in our general dress and we will work with you to get you hooked up with an instrument in time for your audition and hopefully you have one that you have access to that you can use sort of getting ready for the audition. The price of renting an instrument varies.
It is more expensive to run something like a bassoon then it then it is like a clarinet or flute or something, but whatever it is will help you figure it out and get you connected with where you need to go.
If your voice student looking to rent an instrument, I'm sorry to say you're fresh. Out of luck.
Now these are the classes that you're seeing on your screen that you can sign up for right now as a non major.
Jennifer Clary
02:37:07 PM
Music audition information link: https://music.colostate.edu/auditions/
Most of our music courses, the academic music courses, music theory in music history and literature. Most of them are restricted to music majors and minors. However, these are the courses we have and they're all of our ensembles plus some other courses like history of jazz, history of rock-and-roll R musictheory fundamentals. If that's something you're interested in learning about, these are open to everyone, regardless of major, and many of these courses, like music theory fundamentals, music appreciation, they will count for your AUCC.
Arts and humanities requirement. So everyone is part of the core curriculum has to take something that intersects music, theater, dance, art, literature, those kinds of things, and these courses are many of them will fulfill that requirement. But be sure to ask your advisor about your situation just to make sure. In fact, some majors even require a specific one. So if you are going to be like a construction management major and have to take drafting that particular degree might say Hey, we really want you to take.
Art as your arts and humanities requirement or something like that. So it is important to check with your advisor as far as which one you're going to do.
That is the central overview of what's going on with music and what's available to you. Just know that the things that I have talked about, these are things that are available through the School of Music, Theatre, and dance. They are classes that you take for credit and get a great. There are so many other things available on campus that our student run Austin or as an not part of the School of Music, Theatre and dance. But they're still there. And so you know, if you are, if you are into Ukrainian throat singing.
Uh, or you want to be in the Bagpipe ensemble or whatever it might be. Just because you don't see it here doesn't mean it doesn't exist on campus. It just means that it's not a class, and so you know whatever you're into. If you want to find a band to play with or something, all those things exist as well, and a good resource for that is the slice office, which is student life, and they have a list of all the different kinds of registered student organizations that you can peruse through. There's about 1200 of them, so if you want to swallow swords or juggle fire or whatever it might be.
It's there and then. Honestly, I gotta tell you, there's a ton of things going on that you'll just see as you walk around campus. Posted on billboards or chocked on the sidewalk. Tonight only luau, dancing club or whatever it might be. So urine for urine for a treat. There's a lot to digest.
I'm gonna move on here and talk about theater at CSU for non majors so.
Our theater program, just like music, all of our performance opportunities are accessible to everyone, no matter if you're a music major or minor. We just cast the best person for the role and so don't feel like if you're not doing that, that you can't be in a show. We typically do a group of auditions for the shows. Usually it's around the end of September, but we do have available on our website a link to where the information.
About the auditions will be and I think I skipped ahead here, so I'm going to go back a slide, but this link this on your screen now is where you can find it.
And that's where you find out. We typically do them as a group so that all the directors for the different shows can see you at once. However, sometimes we have faculty on sabbatical, usually once a year we hire A guest director to do a production, and obviously they can't necessarily be there other than when their show is being run. So you'll get the details and then generally speaking, you kind of know, OK, all the directors will see you. You'll get call backs from the different shows, and then if you're cast in a role you'll know from.
You know from February 7th until April 16th, that's when the rehearsal period for my show is running. These are the weekends that it's running. If you're cast in a show just like the music ensembles, that's a class. It's a practicum class and you will take it for credit and you will get a grade. It's a one. It's a one credit class. Common question that we get asked is when I rehearsals for theater shows. Probably just like the shows you're working on now, they are at night, and they typically are from 7 to 10.
Jennifer Clary
02:41:39 PM
Rehearsal schedules are also shared on the audition for a play page: https://theatre.colostate.edu/audition-for-a-play/
The directores do their best to not have to call everyone at once all the time, every night, but sometimes just due to the nature of the show. As you already know sometimes that just has to happen and then there's always of course Tech week and performance and you can expect those to be long nights just like they are for you. Now with this shows that you're working on in high school.
So I skipped one slide. So I'm going to go back. We do have opportunities throughout the year if you're interested in looking at theater as a major or something that you want to participate more in. We offer these theater visit days as a way to calm and meet our faculty to see all the facilities in the UCA and sort of get a sense for if it's if it's for you, it's usually on a Friday and it does take place during the day, so you might have to cut a few classes.
Don't tell your professors. I said that I can't. I can't write you an excuse as much as I would like to, but that shows you everything and it's a good way to sort of.
Feel what the environment is now. A common question that we get for theater students, particularly people who are interested in design and technology or what you might be calling now. Technical theater.
All of our Theatre classes, including technical theater as well as perform.
These are all open to non majors. There's no rule or barrier that says that you can't do them. The only thing that stands in your way or that you have to wait for is we need to make sure that there's room in those courses for all of our students who actually are theater matrix. As long as there any seats left in the course. I have never known a professor, uh, not to give you an override. That's what you need to join a course. So if you were to try to sign up or they would say this course is restricted to theater majors.
But the truth is, if you contact professor Smith or whoever is teaching that class and say, Hey, I'm actually really interested in playwriting. and I wrote a one act when I was in high school and I really like to do your class.
Honestly, the professors just want interested people that want to be there in the classes, so if there's room will be able to accommodate you, and if there's not room that semester, there might be room the next semester, so just know that what you see in the course catalog are things that you could take. They may or may not count as an elective towards whatever your major is. It just depends, but they're certainly going to count towards your GPA. There's certainly a class they might not fulfill a specific requirement, but they are going to count towards your total.
120 credits that you need to graduate. We have a lot of non majors that take class after class after class and so actually you can get a lot more training in theater at CSU. Then you cannot accord a school that might have an official theater minor or something. A lot of times in those cases they say Well it's six classes and then we're done. You can do as much as you want here. The professors will ask just to make sure that you're at the right skill level to be in the class. So if you're wanting to sign up for.
You know basic lighting design.
But you don't know what up stages or down stages or any of those things you might not be given the override. They'd say you know you need to take intro to Theatre first, because otherwise if you don't have that knowledge, you're not going to be able to pass the class. Or if it's a performance class. Since it's collaborative, you know you don't want someone that doesn't know that you're not supposed to read the stage directions. Trying to be an advanced acting class where the other students are just giving you the side eye or whatever it is, so know that those are available too.
Here's the contact information for theater, so if you see a course it should have in the course catalog or in the schedule who the instructor is. Sometimes we don't know till the last minute or we're making changes so you can see our whole faculty at the theater. Colostate backslash people and it tells you what their area of speciality is. So it's a pretty safe benefits of scenic design class that it would be taught by Roger Hanar, Professor of scenic design, or whatever it might be. Or you can always reach out.
Surprise Johnston, who's our director of theater? But we're going to get that email to him through our smtd@colostate.edu just to make sure it gets seen and that you get your question answered quick.
Finally, as far as dance goes, we do have opportunities for non majors to participate in dance, particularly are beginning techniques courses. The main areas that the dance program at CSU focus on our ballet and modern.
And we have techniques courses across those areas. We also have other academic courses that are available in dance. This is kind of a similar thing to theater were going. You're going to need to get an override from the professor of the dance course. Who's going to ask you to do, you know, sort of a really truncated 2 1/2 minute audition to see before we put you in a ballet two course that you know what first position is and you know any one of the 27 French words that are always used in.
In ballet and what they mean because our dance productions are danced concerts of which you know, we do several a year. There were Hearst during class and so everybody sort of needs to be at the same skill level to make that happen. And you know, it's typical. If you've been dancing it would not be uncommon for you to start at level 2 on the level one. Techniques courses are generally more for folks that are thinking, ha, I don't really know that much about modern dance or.
I've taken some dance, but I would like to try an introductory ballet class.
So yes, those things are available to you. Again, I'm repeating myself. There are many other kinds of dance available on campus, and so don't think that these are the only two things here, but they're the ones that right now you can take for credit and you can get a great. Our students also are going to do kind of choreography presentations. Or I should say concerts throughout the semester where you don't necessarily need to be a dance major as they find sort of their own time to rehearse those things.
I'm dance is just a little different than everything else, 'cause it's so dependent on rehearsal schedules, spaces being available and that and that type of thing. But Emily Morgan is our director of dance shoes and absolutely lovely human being and she would be glad to talk to you an answer any of your questions about what your opportunities are to participate in the dance program. and I will tell you with all of these things, music, Theatre and dance, we have a lot of students who start out as non majors. And before you know it, you know they are asking us.
I'm really into this. What does it look like to do a second major in dance or and those things are doable? If I had to take a guess just an off the cuff across all of our majors, Music, Theatre, and dance about a third of our students are doing double majors, so it is possible and and.
You know what it takes is very dependent on what your other degree is as far as how many credits will ultimately take all the specifics. But those are things that we can help you figure out. So if you want to talk to us about that again, I would encourage you to use our SMTP email and just say, hey, I'm thinking about maybe doing this. Can you help me figure out what it would look like? How many extra classes it might be and we have folks that can help you with that.
Alright, let's see what we've got here on the old presentations on. Just like with theater, those assessments for joining the classes are going to take place that first week of class. So if you just dying to take a certain dance class, you may want to try to leave a hole for it in your schedule. You can rearrange your schedule through the first week of class, but I know that people feel better if they're not trying necessarily to make last minute last minute changes.
See if there's anything else.
We also have a dance visit day where we have students come and they take master classes. If that's the kind of thing that you'd like to join us for. We usually have about 3 or 4 current CSU students that do at each semester. There folks are usually thinking about adding dance as a second as a second major, so that's a day where you take class and then you will dance back what you've been taught in our in our master classes, you will give a little solo if you are trying to audition, and we even put on sort of a mini dance concert just for you.
So if that's near and dear to your heart, know that you can do that as well.
Here are the classes in dance that are open to non majors that you can sign up for without an override without talking to the instructors. So as I said, it's those introductory technique courses, modern one ballet one there the D one 20s A and BD110 understanding dance. That's of course that's a lot like music appreciation or introduction to theater. It's kind of a broad here as the entire world of dance, but it does. It does contain a movement component. It's not just a lecture class.
I'm you'll spend about half your time in the dance theater getting to do some, you know, getting to do some actual physical dancing as well. We also have jazz jazz one, and then the improvisation, an practicum courses the D186 production practicum. That's again, if you're going to be in a concert or helping out behind the scenes, those kinds of things, so that isn't one that I would register for just blindly. That's one that will help you. Register for if it's appropriate for you to do so.
But it's not restricted. It wouldn't kick you out. The problem is is you'd register for it and we get to the end of the semester and say if we don't know who this person is or what they did, and so you know will tell, you will tell you if you're supposed to do it.
Sorry guys, I get a little punchy. It's strange just looking into a camera and knowing that you're talking to 15 or 16 people, but unlike a zoom meeting or FaceTime, you know I can't see you guys, so I just assume that you're completely enraptured, so I want to go ahead and open it up to questions. My colleague Jennifer will start approving your questions and they'll come into my feed and I will talk about whatever you want to talk about.
Jennifer made a good point that our rehearsal schedules are also shared online for whatever the play is going to be. So as you're thinking about if you want to audition, you're going to have that information so you can sort of make an educated decision, and I'll tell you just on that topic.
You know the tough thing about music, Theatre and dance in general is that.
Things happen at night. It's one of the only majors where academic things happen at night, and what you will find as far as conflicts and things like that is everybody is very understanding and very willing to work with you as long as you're on top of things from the beginning. So in of course at CSU and virtually any University on the first day of class, you're going to be given a syllabus which is just a summation of. This is all the things this class is going to teach. These are the dates that it meets. These are the dates that we have exams.
Jennifer Clary
02:52:34 PM
While we're waiting for questions, would you touch on marching band: https://music.colostate.edu/bands/marching-band/
Sarah Withey
02:52:41 PM
Are all the plays musicals?
These are the dates that you need to show up at the astronomy tower to observe the Stars, whatever it might be. Those syllabi are like contracts between you and the professor, and so.
Molly Loman
02:53:12 PM
Are there any opportunities for student-directed shows?
You'll have that information to see. Gosh, the same night there's a choir concert. My geology class is supposed to be on a weekend trip to the, to the quarry or whatever it is. How we going to resolve that. And if you're resolving that in August in early September for a date that's in November, you're going to find everybody cooperative and really easy to work with. Just like real life. If it's two days before the choir concert and you tell doctor Kim. Gosh, I can't be here and he'll say, that's really unfortunate.
And you know, unfortunately, it's going to. It's going to cost a letter grade.
And the arts we all depend on each other to be at performances. So in the end, as long as you're on top of things and there won't be any surprises, you'll be able to workout conflicts that you have.
OK, Sarah is asking are all the plays musicals usually. Certainly at least one of them is in a typical season of four or five shows. One of them is going to be a musical, and sometimes it's more than that as well. Sometimes are opera theater class will present as an opera a show that's really a musical, like a like Sweeney Todd. Really? Any Stephen Sondheim show or something like lame is where there's a lot of rest it.
Uh, in it, but it's not really truly an opera, so they're not all musicals. There's usually one or two a year, and they are again available for everyone to audition for. We also often hire student musicians to play in the pit for those various shows, and again, that's the kind of thing where you have to look at your schedule and say, well, gosh, just playing in the pit for cabaret. Does that gel with the concert? So I have to do for symphonic band because I can't clone myself and be in two places at once.
Luna Li
02:54:49 PM
Are there Shakespeare productions?
On Mali is asking are there opportunities for student directed shows? Yeah there are, so we have a Group A student group. It's called the young producers organization and how activity is in any given semester is sort of based on the students that are wanting to do things that particular semester. We have three theater performance spaces in the University Center for the arts and we have a small black box space that seats about 80 people during the day. It functions as an acting class room are large acting lab.
But at night, if you can get a professor to sponsor your project, we will turn that space over to you and we have productions that are entirely student done. Their student cast. They do all the costumes, they do, the lights, they do, the sound on them. We don't do anything except provide the space. But that's the kind of thing where you know. Before it professor is going to sign off on sponsoring you first show they're going to want to know that you've taken a directing class or that you have the right background and skills to pull it off.
Because, you know, we will. We will include it. You know with our events, and publicize it. And so we just need to make sure it's not your first first day on the job.
Are there Shakespeare productions? Yes, absolutely there are. So the way that they choose shows within a four year cycle which we hope in plan is the average amount of time that you'll be with us that you are exposed to major pieces from each important area of theater. So you're going to see in your time as an undergrad, it's virtually guaranteed you're going to see a Shakespeare tragedy. You're going to Shakespeare. Comedy on you might see a history. You're going to see more year, and you're going to see Aristophanes.
Elaine Jackowski
02:56:34 PM
Typically is the musical in the fall or the spring?
Uh, and you know you're gonna see modern things are going to see Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams and you'll see what ever play Neil La Bute just wrote last week. So the idea is that you get exposed to all the different genres that are important for theater artist to know about and have and have done.
So there is Shakespeare. I'm sure you'll do. You know, Romeo and Juliet and it'll be. It'll be set on the moon.
And instead of swords, everyone will have lightsabers.
Typically is the musical in the fall or the spring is a question from Lane, and typically it's in the spring.
It's not always the case, but typically it's in this bring. It moves around. This time we did cabaret in the fall and spring. It was our entry into Casey, a CTF. But it really just depends on the production staff. We have six different venues and we have a staff of professionals that are supporting. We do like 250 events a year and so a lot of it is actually just dependent on the technical needs. As far as when shows run.
If I had to guess, like if you were going to depose mean alot case, I would temper eyes and say Well you just it depends but my my memory tells me in the past Seven or eight years that it's usually in the spring.
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Elaine Jackowski
02:58:11 PM
For there opportunities for tech theatre too?
Opportunities for technical theater. Yeah, there are. There's actually several different ways you can do that, and if you're interested in it, I encourage you to send us a note to our email address and will connect you with the right shot manager to get you started. But here are the ways that students participate in Arsene shops 1. They're taking a class or a practicum in lighting design in stage management in whatever and they'll be assigned to a show as part of their academic work in theater 2.
We have a lot of work study positions that we have where.
We literally employ a workforce of student labor to build sets to paint sets to help in the costume shop. We always have two or three students lighting sound. We have student assistance that record all of our productions, so there's a lot of potential work available to you in the UCA. If you have access to work study, and even if you don't have access to work study based on your financial situation, we often can get you a work study gig by making an argument.
To try to get you what we'd call Merritt work study, which is, Gosh, I'm going to use the same example. I'm a construction management major, so you know what working in the scene shop building sets is relevant to my career that I'm trying to achieve. Or for instance, if you want to be if you're taking our classes are minor and arts leadership and administration a job in the box office is going to be sort of directly applicable to your education experience, so we can sometimes get you merit work study that way. And if that's something that you're interested in.
On one of those gigs, let us know and we'll help connect you and talk you through the process. It's a little confusing when you get into bathtub. More study, but we do this every year all the time and we've learned to navigate it pretty well.
Elaine Jackowski
03:00:08 PM
Can you work study for theatre if you are not a major in that college?
Yep, check theater. All the shops. I think we covered that or might be looking back.
03:00:12 PM
How can a student musician get hired for pit? How do they find out about it?
Sarah Withey
03:00:23 PM
I know you said that the theater role goes to whoever fits it best, but is there a certain inevitable snowball effect that causes the more "well known" theater kids to get the larger roles after a certain amount of time?
Yeah, I'm pretty. I'm almost certain that every single shop has at least some student employees. The 3rd way that I forgot to say is you can just volunteer. You can just connect with us and say I really love doing this is their time that I can come in and volunteer and do something. And you know the answer is yes. I mean, we'd be glad to have any help that you can provide for a lot of people. As much as it's their academics, this kind of provides also like a social context for them.
On whether it's music, Theatre and dance like the people are the same and the environments the same, and if you feel at home doing these kinds of things now in high school, you're going to feel like the University Center for the Arts is your home too.
That can be nice. It's like a built in the built in Group of friends that already share your interests.
Can you work study for theater if you're not a major in the college? Yes, yes you can.
You can't, they might give a preference and to one of our students. If there is somebody because it is based on the merit, but if again you can make an ancillary argument that you know you're.
Marketing or whatever in the College of business and we have a worksite position in our publicity office. That's the kind of argument that we can make for a work study position. Even though you're not one of our students, so it's possible.
Is the answer yes. How can a student musician get hired for the pit? How do they find out about it? So the person who is the music director for the theater show will start asking all the different ensemble directors and the professors of those instruments if they know anybody. And so if you know if they need to trumpet soloist, they'll be asking doctor Curtis like do you know anyone in your studio could do this who isn't doing something else? So being involved in on the music side is a good way to just get.
Asked, but if you're just interested in making it known that you'd like to play from the theater pit, we can connect you with the music director. If you just send a note and you can send them, you can send your resume. Or if you have a tape of you, you know playing a Wayland clarinet solo.
You could forward that onto them and they'll have it in their brain, like Oh yeah, I need somebody and you know what about what about Sarah?
So I wouldn't say there's like an official. We're not running a website where you apply for it is somewhat word of mouth for that. But it's the kind of thing that if you know its existing and you ask us, we will always know who to connect you with to tell them that you're interested.
So serious asking the theater roles go to whoever fits it best, but is there a certain, inevitable snowball effect that causes the more well known Theatre kids to get the larger roles after a certain amount of time?
Well that I mean, that's an interesting. I guess that's an interesting question.
I don't know if it's, uh.
I mean, I see what you mean by a snowball effect. Like if someone is given a chance to do a role, you know where they just are.
Like give an amazing performance that certainly helps them the next time there looked at for another show that you know requires that same kind of thing.
But I don't. I don't think the fact that people who are getting cast again and again. I don't think it's because they were cast before one of the one of the things you'll find about music, theater, dance at the University is, generally speaking, weird. We are striving to do things at a higher quality and more professional quality than maybe you've done things before. And the bottom line is, if you don't audition well, it's not going to matter. It's not going to matter if you were brilliant in the last.
In the last thing, the directores job at the University is to put together the very best show that they can.
And so that's why you know we actually sometimes the theater major struggle with the fact and they get upset that we will see non majors who are cast over and over again. But it's 'cause they bring a lot of heart to the role and a lot of talent and so.
It's pretty much just like it is in real life. If you're the best person for the part, you'll you'll be cast.
Elaine Jackowski
03:04:41 PM
Is there an after school type theatre club that participates in the plays and musicals?
You know we do a lot of things where there's a lot of rules. If you're talking about leading roles, and then we always have some other opportunities as well. You know with the student produce group, young producers on, there's a second set of opportunities going around. There's an improv. There's theater student groups, so.
Macey Boren
03:04:55 PM
Can you talk more about jazz related music opportunities?
I don't think you'll be shot out, but that's a hard question to answer. I hope I've modeled my way through it sufficiently.
So let's see, is there an after school type theater club that participates in the plays and musicals? Well, there is no after school and school is school is from 8:00 AM to midnight in the in the theater Department.
And it's just the same pool of kids, otherwise would be auditioning. It's a pretty small. We have about 120 theater majors, so it's a pretty small group of students within the large University, and so we do. We do use a lot of a lot of non majors, and you do get to know those folks pretty well, but it's not an official club or anything like that, and there's no class that you can take that guarantees you a roll. A really good way to perform is our students who are taking directing.
Molly Loman
03:05:59 PM
If we are interested in participating in tech theatre who should we get in contact with?
Are they often need volunteers to do the scenes that there directing and so that's also a good way to kind of become known to some of the professors when they see you performing in the directing classes. Again, this is the kind of thing that takes place on a bulletin board, and we have different areas in the UCA where the students kind of hang out the theater offices and area is kind of in the center of the building on the 2nd floor, and so you'll see it on the board there. You know students needed for directing or theater will post it to their Google Classroom.
So a lot of a lot of this stuff, just like with rigorous, is kind of about being connected to the community. There isn't always an official mechanism to send you 2.
Jazz related music opportunities. Yeah, So what we have at CSU is instrumental jazz. We don't have vocal and so we have two jazz big bands there. About 20 pieces of peace and then we have three jazz combos that range between 3 to 7 players of semester. Just kind of depending on what the instrumentation needs are and who we have available to play. So jazz auditions kind of function the same way you can find the information on our website. You can always reach out to.
Will swimmer who is the director of jazz and let him know, kind of what your interests are?
And we have a lot of majors in those in those courses as well. One of the jazz ensembles I feel like meats.
I'm going to say it's like 110 on Tuesdays and Thursdays or it might be 1:00 o'clock Monday, Wednesday, Fridays and then the second one meets in the evenings. So the other thing to know is that a lot of times your schedule plays a factor. It isn't just necessarily all the best players are in jazz one because sometimes you have to take a chemistry class for your major and that's the only time that classes offered and so.
There is just because it's, you know.
Jennifer Clary
03:07:48 PM
A theatre interest meeting is held the first day of the fall semester, Monday at 5:30 p.m. in the University Theatre in the University Center for the Arts located at 1400 Remington Street. It's a great way to get connected.
Sarah Withey
03:08:03 PM
As far as music technology goes... what grounds does that course cover? Are there opportunities to use the skills you learn out in the public or with an artist?
Elaine Jackowski
03:08:07 PM
What do auditions look like at CSU for musicals?
Jazz Ensemble One Jazz Ensemble. Two or chamber singers versus University singers or something? It isn't. It isn't necessarily a status of greatness that is confirmed appan you because you're in one or the other. But That being said, You know we really do have non majors. We have people as freshman that are placed into chamber singers 'cause they just they have the skills and they bring them with them.
If we were interested in producing in Technical Theatre, who should get in contact with Molly? Send us an email to smtd@colostate.edu and just make sure. It says I'm a stage manager or my background is in draping or costuming or whatever it is an will connect you with the right person so you can start that dialogue and figure out how to participate.
Ogens making a great point.
If you're into theater, even if you're not a major, we have a meeting on the very first day of class the fall semester. It's at 5:30 in the UCA. the University Center for the arts, and that is where they would go over all of this stuff, except instead of me, it's the actual theater professors and our technical director, Steven Workman, in our shop managers, and so that's that's when. Like if you have nitty gritty questions like what kind of light board do you use? I'm proficient in this programming language, but not this one. Can I still help?
That is a place to be on that first day, and you're welcome in that meeting, even if you're not a theater major, they go over all things, all things theater, and I think they have like a barbecue or cookout afterwards. Burgers or something.
Alright music technology? What does that course cover?
Not that one you stumped me. I don't think I've seen the syllabus for it and I haven't been in the Class. I know that in general, I mean it's covering general recording technology. It's covering things like Sibelius and finale that you can use to compose music. It's covering mixing it's covering streaming in the aggregate, but as far as the actual specific things, I don't know. This is a case where if you're into that course, they'll be a description published, but if you want to see the syllabus from a previous semester, that kind of contract that says.
Here's all the subjects are going to be taught. Send us an email to SMTD and say I would like to see the syllabus for such and such a course and I can dig it out of the computer archives and send it to you.
Jennifer Clary
03:10:44 PM
Sarah - here is a story about music technology that mentions the technology course: https://theatre.colostate.edu/audition-for-a-play/
That goes for any of these courses guys. If you're curious what it really entails and what's covered, you can always contact the Department and ask to see the syllabus. And this isn't just us. You can contact the psychology Department and say I want to know you know what are we talking about in abnormal psychology? 'cause I really think My Sisters Crazy and I need to know nothing. Humor just crashing.
The auditions for the musicals. What do they look like?
Molly Loman
03:10:51 PM
Are the Directing classes open to non-majors as well?
Nothing. OK, it depends on the director, but usually they ask for 16 or 32 bars of a song. Usually it's not from the show though. Once in a blue moon directores will say I actually want to hear a specific song. If you're interested in a specific character.
Just like you're used to now. Usually something in the style of the show or in the.
Style of the character role that you're wanting to do is a good choice. Usually it doesn't include dancing until the callback auditions for a specific part, and that's often the same case with the cold readings, but it just depends on the director, so sometimes in that very first audition, you'll have cold readings. Sometimes they'll publish the readings ahead of time, and so you can prepare them. Every director sort of has their own way of doing things. Kind of just like in real life.
Oh story about music Technology. I'll have to read that myself.
On the directing classes open to non majors as well, asks Molly, they are, but typically as a prerequisite for that course we would have introduction to theater and one of our one of our acting courses, and so that's the kind of thing where if you're wanting to go right to directing, you meet with the professor. It's probably well Jones or one of our other theater faculty, and they'll ask you what your background, what have you done, and then from there they can make a determination on if you're ready to act. Sorry, directing.
Um, or if they say well, we want you to go through acting one and two. There's a lot of synergy in theater, because even when you're in acting one and two, you're working with the students who are indirecting
Jennifer Clary
03:12:38 PM
Elaine - the details Tom mentioned about auditions can be found here: https://theatre.colostate.edu/audition-for-a-play/
And so you're sort of learning both skills at once, just from different sides of the table, and that's one of the really neat things about our theater curriculum. Is is all of our students are exposed to all the different areas of theater. No matter what your specialty is, you get exposed to everything, and along the way, a lot of people find out.
It turns out there only in OK costumer, which is what they thought they were super into. But there are really great scenic designer.
And they only came to know that because they were sort of steered in that direction.
Ah Gosh, Jennifer is on top of this link posting link posting thing. So then hopefully you see there's a little thing in the chat to steer you towards a little bit more information.
You guys are awesome if you need to go or anything, you're not hostage here and I'm not. I'm not like making notes on who leaves the presentation. You know 'cause they want to catch another thing? That's another thing that's going on, but you're also welcome to stay. I'm going to stay here and answer questions until until you guys are all question now.
And the nice thing is, since I can't see you, there's no pressure.
I don't stare at you like sex would have any question.
We are over there and were available off summer and so if you want to talk to someone you know that email box is the best way to start a conversation. But I can have a private chat with you about whatever you want if you want to dive into the nitty gritty tales on almost anything. I'm never the final authority. I'm more like a facilitator because Jennifer and I have to know a little bit about everything so that we can communicate that to you. But really, you know if you want to talk to the people in charge will be able to do that.
It's a little harder over the summer. Most of the faculty are around, you know, their nine month, their nine month folks. But when classes start, you know when we get to August, we can connect you with those folks so you can get your questions answered.
Jennifer Clary
03:14:59 PM
If you're interested in marching band, there is a session tomorrow at 3:30.
Alright, I'm gonna put you on the Clock, the Jeopardy Jeopardy Clock for more questions. Bye see him come through. So just hear the song playing in your head. I'll just tell you guys, I'm delighted that you're in this webinar and if this is if this is it. If this is your passion. If this is you know what sings to your heart as it might be, you're going to find this really, really satisfying and one of the great things about CSU is we do allow everyone to participate, which is not necessarily a given thing at other schools.
And you know when you're part of something that really works.
I I always felt like in high school sometimes that.
We didn't really have the tools to reach our potential like sometimes we had great students. We had great parents helping, but we didn't have a good facility or we couldn't get a band or we didn't have a good, you know, a good drop or or whatever it might be. The resources that we have, the production values of what we're able to do. Our shows look like they are in the Denver Center. I mean in the pictures you can see everybody's 20 so that gives it away a little. But as far as the production values.
Music, Theatre and dance are pooling their resources, and they really put on high quality shows that you will be proud to be in. The same goes for the music ensembles and the dance concerts.
Ginger minding you if you're interested in marching band, there's one of these sessions tomorrow at 3:30 specifically for marching band, so talk that in your brain.
And if there are no final questions, I will. I will bid you guys. All a Jew. Just remember if you need us, you know we're waiting to hear from you. SMTD at colostate.edu.
Jennifer Clary
03:16:31 PM
SMTD@colostate.edu
Any last questions? I'm looking at the chat in 321. Alright guys, thanks for checking in with us today. Will talk to you soon and if you need anything in the mean time drop us a line.