Musical Theatre Classes

Musical Theatre Classes (ages 7-adult)

About the Musical Theatre Program

Musical Theatre classes at LAAPA are offered at the Mandeville School of Music & Dance, and River Ridge School of Music & Dance campuses. Level I classes are held for students ages 7-10 and Level II are held for students ages 11-18.

Musical Theatre Teachers

In our program, students have the unique opportunity to study with not one but two instructors each week! All of our classes are taught by a vocal/music instructor as well as a dance instructor. Students receive 30 minutes of music instruction and 45 minutes of dance instruction weekly with industry professionals.

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What Happens During Musical Theater Classes

Students will explore a variety of broadway style showtunes both contemporary as well as classics. The curriculum combines jazz technique with other varieties to create a “Broadway” style of dance. Classes include vocal warm ups, vocal technique, singing melodies, singing harmonies in a group, games, center floor work and combinations that combine some acting with dance. Students will explore creativity and use their imaginations to create expressive performance art as well as learning basic dance and vocal techniques and harmonization.

Individual Attention & Small Class Sizes

Our musical theatre classes have an enrollment of 15 students or less to ensure that each student receives the maximum amount of individual attention possible from both their music and dance teachers. This class structure has afforded many of our students to be regularly cast as leads and/or hold substantial roles in various productions in their school drama club, in local community theatres, as well as our own mainstage productions!

Performance Opportunities

All of our students have the opportunity to participate in 2 mainstage full production musicals each year in August and January with additional smaller showcases held on campus each Fall. A few recent past performances have included, "Annie JR.", "Cinderella", "Into the Woods", Between the Lines", and a LAAPA original, "The Night Before New Years". All students with lead roles during our mainstage performances are miced using professional wireless systems so that they can be properly heard. Whenever licensing permits, performances are additionally recorded by our in house media team so that after the performance, students are able to listen back to their performance, evaluate, hear their mistakes and tweak their parts for an even stronger performance in the next show!

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Watch our musical theatre students perform "Stick to the Status Quo" from High School Musical in a recent on-campus showcase!

Performance of "I Just Wanna Swim" from the LAAPA original Musical, "The Night Before New Year's"

Registration for Musical Theatre Classes:

Musical Theater students who are are welcome to enroll at any time during the year with the exception of June due to recital preparation. During the month of June we are happy to pre-register you for the next session!

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