SEMESTER
NATIONAL MUSIC THEATER INSTITUTE SEMESTER
NMTI
Become a versatile, multi-hyphenate music theater performer and creator.
20 Credit Hours
As an National Music Theater Institute student, you’ll train with professional artists to hone your skills in all facets of creating, performing, and staging musical theater.
In addition to courses in singing, dancing, and acting, your schedule will include playwriting, composing, directing, choreographing, and so much more. You’ll gain exposure to a wide range of material as you perform pieces from the music theater canon alongside your classmates in weekly Theater Labs. You'll also get experience writing and performing new work in development during our Playwrights and Librettists week and through creating your ensemble’s Company Project.
When you leave NTI, you’ll not only be a better musical theater performer, but also a confident, multi-hyphenate theater artist.
COURSE CREDITS
The National Music Theater Institute Semester confers credit for the following academic courses totaling 20 hours:
Acting for Music Theater (NMTI-301)
Students are given specialized actor training in a wide variety of scene work and music theater styles by core instructors and visiting artists. Classes concentrate on improving the student’s craft as an actor and on strengthening their intelligence and imagination as a vocal artist and actor/dancer/storyteller. In-depth scene study in the weekly lab in a variety of musicals from RENT to Oklahoma! to Funked Up Fairy Tales and Hello Again.​
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Singing/Voice (NMTI-311)
Students train in singing as well as vocal technique, production, and care. In addition to singing classes–using songs from classic and contemporary American musicals, songbooks, and pop music–there are speech and voice classes in a variety of techniques and styles (Linklater, Fitzmaurice Voicework, etc.).
Dance/Movement (NMTI-312)
Students train in a variety of dance and movement techniques for the musical actor, including: modern, jazz, ballet, hip-hop, street dance, modern, yoga, stage combat and acrobatics. Guest artists teach specific workshops in choreography and new dance forms, looking at the movement languages being employed and invented for the modern musical.
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​Directing for Music Theater (NMTI-202)
Working on classic and contemporary musicals, students learn not only the basic skills of directing through table work and practical exercises, they also practice being a confident artistic leader that is able to pull together the complicated threads of a musical collaboration, table work, music direction, intimacy direction, and choreography into a unified artistic vision.
Writing the Musical (NMTI-203)
Through a variety of assignments reflecting the range of contemporary musicals, students develop skills as lyricists, book-writers, and composers. The course culminates in the sharing of original songs, and Playwrights and Librettist’s week, which is dedicated to the development, reading, and staging of new 30-minute musicals created by students during the NMTI semester. Classes include composing, lyric writing as a team and writing for an ensemble.
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Connecticut College is the founding partner and the college of record for the National Theater Institute programs.
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SAMPLE SCHEDULE
Every week at NTI looks a bit different as schedules are worked around our incredible faculty and artists. Scroll through to see what your week could look like as a National Music Theater Institute student.